SANS 401 Windows
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1. Three Classes of Server Operating Systems Answer: 6 Client, Server,
Embedded
2. Windows Personal Editions Answer: 7 Starter, Home, Ultimate (AppLocker)
3. Windows Work Editions Answer: 7 Business, Pro, Enterprise (AppLocker)
4. Platforms Answer: 7 32-bit=x86, 64-bit=x64 AMD or Intell vs. ARM (in phones/tablets)
5. Windows 10 Pro for Workstations Answer: 8 Supports ReFS filesystem for large
arrays of drives <6TB of RAM, <4 Intel Xeon or AMD Opteon processors
6. "S Mode" Answer: 8 Safe Mode where users cannot install apps not from the MS Store, only Edge,
can't go back to Full Mode
7. Server Editions (Plus Core & Nano) Answer: 9 Datacenter, Enterprise (only until 2012),
Standard; For Small Business Answer: Essentials, Storage
8. Windows Version of VMware Answer: 9 Hyper-V
9. R2 Answer: 10 Second version of MS Server, supposed to have no new features
10. What's Windows Server used for? Answer: 11 Domain Controller, IIS, RDS, VPN,
DHCP, DNS, RADIUS servers
11. Windows Embedded, ARM Answer: 12. Windows IoT; Intended for appliances PoS,
MIR, SCADA, Raspberry Pi, Arduinoetc.
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12. Workgroups Answer: 15 "workgroup" admin has separate account on each machine
since each is local, <50
13. Computer Management Tool Answer: 19. CompMgt.msc (local users &
groups)
14. SID Numbers Answer: 20. Everyone =S-1-1-0, AU=S-1-5-11, Local Admin Grp. S-1-5-32-
544
15. SAT Token Answer: 21. Like ID, contains all your SID's, (Debug Programs to access raw
virtual memory)
16. Active Directory Domains, multi-master replications Answer: 25
Each change is automatically replicated to other domain controllers, in conflict, later overrrides
17. RODC, RegEdit.exe, Group Policy Objects Answer: 26 Read-Only Domain
Controller,
18. Four Parts of SAT Answer: 28 SID for user's accoutn, SID for domain groups, SID for
local groups, privileges on local server
19. Authentication Protocols - Kerberos Answer: 29 Uses Protocols Answer: SMB/CIFS,
RPC, LDAP, HTTP, DDNS, IPsec, IKE, PowerShell Remoting
20. "Golden Tickets" Answer: 30 Kerberos encryption keys shared among all DC's in the
domain, made with Mimikatz
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