Replacement employee / disable or rename acc?

Meeker

I am doing some Transcender tests and I do not agree with the answer. The question states that an employee leaves and is replaced by someone else. That new person needs access to the same resources and files. This task must be accomplished as quick as possible without there being any unauthorised access.

The possible answers are disable, lock, delete or rename the account. Transcender thinks its disable, I think its rename. If the new user takes this account with permission from the administrator, there is no unauthorised access.

Which is right?

Thacker

Meeker wrote:

I am doing some Transcender tests and I do not agree with the answer. The question states that an employee leaves and is replaced by someone else. That new person needs access to the same resources and files. This task must be accomplished as quick as possible without there being any unauthorised access.

The possible answers are disable, lock, delete or rename the account. Transcender thinks its disable, I think its rename. If the new user takes this account with permission from the administrator, there is no unauthorised access.

Which is right?

I haven't done the transcender tests... however I am assuming their answer is to copy the original AD account after disabling it...correct?

mattd75

I got that same question today in my Testout Examsim and the correct answer was rename the account. I think I may have had it in my MS Press stuff too and IIRC it was also rename.

sprkymrk

+1 for rename.

Daniel333

All the questions that read like that I have run into want you to rename the account. For the Microsoft test rename...

royal

Definitely rename only if you want the new coworker to be able to access the user's old documents, e-mail, etc... That is because the SID stays the same. Of course you could remove that account, create a new one, take ownership of the files, transfer files over to new user, have that user take ownership, import pst to the new mailbox, etc... Or you can just do 1 step and rename and it's all done.

Meeker

Thanks for the info so maybe Transcender needs to review their questions.