Unit 5 Assesment 1
Assessment Worksheet
Managing Group Policy Within the Microsoft Windows
Environment
IS 3330
Course Name and Number: _____________________________________________________
Student Name: ________________________________________________________________
Instructor Name: ______________________________________________________________
Lab Due Date: ________________________________________________________________
Overview
In this lab, you created and linked Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO) to domain computers and used the Group Policy Manager Console (GPMC) to deploy security policies across the domain. You also generated policy audit reports from the
GPMC and the Windows Command Prompt to analyze the existence of and effectiveness of the GPO.
Lab Assessment Questions & Answers
1. Is using the option to Store passwords using reversible encryption a good security practice? Why or why not?
This information he need to be saved on text document and one of this risk is it for any situation you lost that you can't have access to all the password have this policy enable.
The only time you would want to change this setting is when your organization uses applications that need to read the password.
2. Compare the GPO Report and the RSOP Report.
GPO enables you to run a comparison or difference report for two RSoP analysis reports. This is similar to running a comparison or difference report for two. RSoP analysis reports is very useful in determining the source of differences in settings for different users on different computers
3. How often are GPO changes applied? Must the user be logged off the system?
That is depend of you configuration you can setup using the company needs. Is no necessary you can enforce the policy or wait the 90 minutes for refresh.
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4. Which GPO policy takes precedence in the case of a policy
Managing Group Policy Within the Microsoft Windows
Environment
IS 3330
Course Name and Number: _____________________________________________________
Student Name: ________________________________________________________________
Instructor Name: ______________________________________________________________
Lab Due Date: ________________________________________________________________
Overview
In this lab, you created and linked Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO) to domain computers and used the Group Policy Manager Console (GPMC) to deploy security policies across the domain. You also generated policy audit reports from the
GPMC and the Windows Command Prompt to analyze the existence of and effectiveness of the GPO.
Lab Assessment Questions & Answers
1. Is using the option to Store passwords using reversible encryption a good security practice? Why or why not?
This information he need to be saved on text document and one of this risk is it for any situation you lost that you can't have access to all the password have this policy enable.
The only time you would want to change this setting is when your organization uses applications that need to read the password.
2. Compare the GPO Report and the RSOP Report.
GPO enables you to run a comparison or difference report for two RSoP analysis reports. This is similar to running a comparison or difference report for two. RSoP analysis reports is very useful in determining the source of differences in settings for different users on different computers
3. How often are GPO changes applied? Must the user be logged off the system?
That is depend of you configuration you can setup using the company needs. Is no necessary you can enforce the policy or wait the 90 minutes for refresh.
Copyright © 2014 by Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, an Ascend Learning Company. All rights reserved.
www.jblearning.com
Student Lab Manual
4. Which GPO policy takes precedence in the case of a policy