Lesson 1: Configuring and Troubleshooting User Account Control

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Lesson Review

You can use the following questions to test your knowledge of the information in Lesson 1,

“Configuring and Troubleshooting User Account Control.” The questions are also available on

the companion CD if you prefer to review them in electronic form.

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Answers

Answers to these questions and explanations of why each answer choice is correct or incorrect are

located in the “Answers” section at the end of the book.

1. Ian McLean is writing Chapter 5 of a book about Windows Vista. He wants to generate

a figure that shows a UAC dialog box. He has not changed any UAC settings. He logs on

with the administrator account he created when he installed Windows Vista and

attempts to change the system time. When the UAC dialog box appears, he presses Print

Screen, and then clicks Cancel to close the box. He opens Microsoft Paint and selects the

Edit menu, but Paste is not available. What has he done wrong?

A. He should not have clicked Cancel on the UAC dialog box.

B. He should have disabled Secure Desktop.

C. He should have logged on as a standard user. UAC does not apply to administrators.

D. He should have logged on with another administrator account. UAC does not apply

to the administrator account that he created when he installed Windows Vista.

2. What setting disables UAC?

A. User Account Control: Run All Administrators In Admin Approval Mode is Disabled

B. User Account Control: Run All Administrators In Admin Approval Mode is Enabled

C. User Account Control: Behavior Of The Elevation Prompt For Administrators In

Admin Approval Mode is set to Elevate without prompting

D. User Account Control: Behavior Of The Elevation Prompt For Administrators In

Admin Approval Mode is set to Prompt For Credentials

3. You want to ensure that legacy applications that attempt to write to protected parts of the

registry or file system cannot run in Windows Vista. What UAC setting do you configure?

A. User Account Control: Only Elevate Executables That Are Signed And Validated is

Enabled

B. User Account Control: Only Elevate Executables That Are Signed And Validated is

Disabled

C. User Account Control: Virtualize File And Registry Write Failures To Per-User

Locations is Enabled

D. User Account Control: Virtualize File And Registry Write Failures To Per-User

Locations is Disabled