WGU D317 - IT APPLICATIONS
CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Programs and Features.
Answer: Control Panel applet allowing management of Windows Features
and third-party software.
◍ A security analyst baselines web activity and notices several caveats with
browsers. For example, they notice that when a user types in a query, a
query is actually made after every typed key. The analyst is trying to group
browser activity together. Which browser is based on the same code as
Chrome?.
Answer: Edge
◍ A threat actor recovers some documents via dumpster diving and learns that
the system policy causes passwords to be configured with a random mix of
different characters that are only five characters in length. To what type of
password cracking attack is this vulnerable?.
Answer: Brute force attacks are effective against short passwords.
Dictionary attacks depend on users choosing ordinary words or phrases in a
password.
◍ You want to execute a block of statements based on the contents of an
inventory list. What type of code construct is best suited to this task.
Answer: You can use any type of loop to iterate through the items in a list or
collection, but a For loop is probably the simplest.
◍ cd command.
Answer: Command-line tool used to navigate the directory structure.
◍ Root access.
, Answer: Gaining superuser level access over an Android-based mobile
device.
◍ Resource Monitor (resmon.exe).
Answer: Console for live monitoring of resource utilization data for the CPU
and GPU, system memory, disk/file system, and network.
◍ A server administrator helps the human resources department network a new
internal website for their new training platform that needs to remain secure.
What will the administrator need to do to ensure the web page shows up as
secure?.
Answer: Add trusted certificates.
◍ A company's threat intelligence team determines that one of a threat actor's
techniques is to perform a denial of service against the Remote Desktop
Protocol (RDP) functionality in servers. What can the company enable to
help prevent this?.
Answer: NLA
◍ Disk Utility.
Answer: macOS tool for disk and file system support tasks.
◍ digital certificates.
Answer: Identification and authentication information presented in the
X.509 format and issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) as a guarantee that
a key pair (as identified by the public key embedded in the certificate) is
valid for a particular subject (user or host).
◍ Which Linux command allows a user to run a specific command or program
with superuser/root privileges?.
Answer: sudo
◍ Palmprint scanner.
Answer: Biometric camera-based scanner that uses unique features of a
palm shown by visible and infrared light.
◍ A user is experiencing issues on their iPhone. What troubleshooting option
, should the user initially try?.
Answer: Perform a power cycle.
◍ Retina scanner.
Answer: Biometric scanner based on analysis of the unique pattern of blood
vessels at the back of the eye.
◍ image deployment.
Answer: Deployment method where the target disk is written with an image
of the new OS.
◍ lighting.
Answer: Physical security mechanisms that ensure a site is sufficiently
illuminated for employees and guests to feel safe and for camera-based
surveillance systems to work well.
◍ reservation (DHCP).
Answer: DHCP configuration that assigns either a prereserved or persistent
IP address to a given host, based on its hardware address or other ID.
◍ Windows Security.
Answer: Touch-enabled app for configuring features such as firewall and
antivirus.
◍ Time & Languagesettings.
Answer: Windows Settings pages allowing configuration of default data
formats (date, currency, and so on), location information, and keyboard
input locale.
◍ asset.
Answer: Thing of economic value. For accounting purposes, assets are
classified in different ways, such as tangible and intangible or short term and
long term. Asset management means identifying each asset and recording its
location, attributes, and value in a database.
◍ A network administrator wants to remotely deploy firmware updates to their
managed devices. This type of update usually occurs overnight while
, devices are turned off. Which of the following tools should the administrator
set up in order to facilitate these updates..
Answer: WOL
◍ Usage and notice that it often jumps to 100% and then falls back. Does this
indicate a problem?.
Answer: Probably not—CPU Usage usually peaks and falls. If it stays over
80-90%, the system could require a faster CPU, or if it spikes continually,
there could be a faulty application.
◍ After downloading a new application from the internet, a user drags the .app
directory from their Downloads folder to their Applications folder on their
Mac. What action did the user most likely perform?.
Answer: The app has been installed.
◍ While you are assigning privileges to the accounting department in your
organization, Cindy, a human resource administrative assistant, insists that
she needs access to the employee records database so that she can fulfill
change of address requests from employees. After checking with her
manager and referring to the organization's access control security policy,
you discover that Cindy's job role does not fall into the authorized category
for access to that database. What security concept are you practicing in this
scenario?.
Answer: The principle of least privilege
◍ Secure Erase (SE).
Answer: Method of sanitizing a drive using the ATA command set.
◍ expiration requirement.
Answer: ules designed to enforce best-practice password use by forcing
regular selection of new passwords.
◍ standard operating procedure (SOP).
Answer: Documentation of best practice and work instructions to use to
perform a common administrative task.
◍ md command.
CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Programs and Features.
Answer: Control Panel applet allowing management of Windows Features
and third-party software.
◍ A security analyst baselines web activity and notices several caveats with
browsers. For example, they notice that when a user types in a query, a
query is actually made after every typed key. The analyst is trying to group
browser activity together. Which browser is based on the same code as
Chrome?.
Answer: Edge
◍ A threat actor recovers some documents via dumpster diving and learns that
the system policy causes passwords to be configured with a random mix of
different characters that are only five characters in length. To what type of
password cracking attack is this vulnerable?.
Answer: Brute force attacks are effective against short passwords.
Dictionary attacks depend on users choosing ordinary words or phrases in a
password.
◍ You want to execute a block of statements based on the contents of an
inventory list. What type of code construct is best suited to this task.
Answer: You can use any type of loop to iterate through the items in a list or
collection, but a For loop is probably the simplest.
◍ cd command.
Answer: Command-line tool used to navigate the directory structure.
◍ Root access.
, Answer: Gaining superuser level access over an Android-based mobile
device.
◍ Resource Monitor (resmon.exe).
Answer: Console for live monitoring of resource utilization data for the CPU
and GPU, system memory, disk/file system, and network.
◍ A server administrator helps the human resources department network a new
internal website for their new training platform that needs to remain secure.
What will the administrator need to do to ensure the web page shows up as
secure?.
Answer: Add trusted certificates.
◍ A company's threat intelligence team determines that one of a threat actor's
techniques is to perform a denial of service against the Remote Desktop
Protocol (RDP) functionality in servers. What can the company enable to
help prevent this?.
Answer: NLA
◍ Disk Utility.
Answer: macOS tool for disk and file system support tasks.
◍ digital certificates.
Answer: Identification and authentication information presented in the
X.509 format and issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) as a guarantee that
a key pair (as identified by the public key embedded in the certificate) is
valid for a particular subject (user or host).
◍ Which Linux command allows a user to run a specific command or program
with superuser/root privileges?.
Answer: sudo
◍ Palmprint scanner.
Answer: Biometric camera-based scanner that uses unique features of a
palm shown by visible and infrared light.
◍ A user is experiencing issues on their iPhone. What troubleshooting option
, should the user initially try?.
Answer: Perform a power cycle.
◍ Retina scanner.
Answer: Biometric scanner based on analysis of the unique pattern of blood
vessels at the back of the eye.
◍ image deployment.
Answer: Deployment method where the target disk is written with an image
of the new OS.
◍ lighting.
Answer: Physical security mechanisms that ensure a site is sufficiently
illuminated for employees and guests to feel safe and for camera-based
surveillance systems to work well.
◍ reservation (DHCP).
Answer: DHCP configuration that assigns either a prereserved or persistent
IP address to a given host, based on its hardware address or other ID.
◍ Windows Security.
Answer: Touch-enabled app for configuring features such as firewall and
antivirus.
◍ Time & Languagesettings.
Answer: Windows Settings pages allowing configuration of default data
formats (date, currency, and so on), location information, and keyboard
input locale.
◍ asset.
Answer: Thing of economic value. For accounting purposes, assets are
classified in different ways, such as tangible and intangible or short term and
long term. Asset management means identifying each asset and recording its
location, attributes, and value in a database.
◍ A network administrator wants to remotely deploy firmware updates to their
managed devices. This type of update usually occurs overnight while
, devices are turned off. Which of the following tools should the administrator
set up in order to facilitate these updates..
Answer: WOL
◍ Usage and notice that it often jumps to 100% and then falls back. Does this
indicate a problem?.
Answer: Probably not—CPU Usage usually peaks and falls. If it stays over
80-90%, the system could require a faster CPU, or if it spikes continually,
there could be a faulty application.
◍ After downloading a new application from the internet, a user drags the .app
directory from their Downloads folder to their Applications folder on their
Mac. What action did the user most likely perform?.
Answer: The app has been installed.
◍ While you are assigning privileges to the accounting department in your
organization, Cindy, a human resource administrative assistant, insists that
she needs access to the employee records database so that she can fulfill
change of address requests from employees. After checking with her
manager and referring to the organization's access control security policy,
you discover that Cindy's job role does not fall into the authorized category
for access to that database. What security concept are you practicing in this
scenario?.
Answer: The principle of least privilege
◍ Secure Erase (SE).
Answer: Method of sanitizing a drive using the ATA command set.
◍ expiration requirement.
Answer: ules designed to enforce best-practice password use by forcing
regular selection of new passwords.
◍ standard operating procedure (SOP).
Answer: Documentation of best practice and work instructions to use to
perform a common administrative task.
◍ md command.
