Question 5

System Administrators play a major role in every IT department. Their responsibilities range from planning, developing, installation, configuration, and 3 maintenance of corporate hardware, software, and any related IT infrastructure. Their lives revolve around diagnosing and resolving performance issues to ensure optimal performance and reliability in a company. For smooth operations, System Administrators use various tools for configuration, troubleshooting, and diagnosis.

c) What is the relevance of placing users in groups as far as user management is concerned? [5 marks]

d) For security reasons, password length is amongst others one of the fundamentals password setting that administrators take into account when creating user accounts. Name and explain six other password essentials that administrators should consider when creating users and groups? [12 marks]