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Lesson 

• Early versions of UNIX were available only with a command-driven interface. In more recent years, graphical user interfaces have become popular. Explain in your own words why these GUIs made an impact on the popularity of this operating system.
• Assume that you are a systems administrator. Explain why you might want to change the permissions on some of your directories to make them invisible to users.
• Administrators sometimes find that when they deploy Windows in a multilingual environment, some languages require more hard-disk storage space than others. Why might that be the case? Explain your answer and give an example of one languages that could be expected to require more space.
• Windows features Kerberos authentication. Describe the role of the ticket granting ticket to authenticate users for network access.
• Identify at least five major types of threats to systems running Windows and the policies that system administrators must take to protect the system from unauthorized access. Compare the practical problems when balancing the need for accessibility with the need to restrict access, and suggest the first action you would take to secure a Windows computer or network if you managed one.