Perform User Account Management Phase 1 Practice Test

In access control, you first gain entry with certain privileges, then you’re kept from doing things unless the resource’s rules allow it. Rights are the privileges granted when you have access—entry-level capabilities like being allowed to log in or to a given system. Permissions are the specific, configured allowances on each resource that determine what you can do once you’re inside, such as reading, writing, or executing files or apps.

For example, you might have the right to access a server, but on a particular file the configured permissions decide whether you can read or modify it. Other statements blur this boundary or misplace where access versus action control occurs, whereas this view keeps rights about entry and broad privileges, and permissions about the exact actions allowed on resources.