User and Permission Management Questions

Administering user identities and access controls across servers and directory services. Topics include the account lifecycle of creating modifying disabling and deleting accounts, group membership and policy based access controls, file and directory permission models and ownership on Linux and Windows file systems, configuring privilege escalation mechanisms for administrative tasks, role based access control patterns, authentication options including multi factor authentication and single sign on, audit logging and access review practices, and implementing the principle of least privilege to limit blast radius. Interviewers may probe directory services integration and reporting for compliance.