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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Figure 19-26 Windows logon screen

NOTE The distinction between identification and authentication is not

important for the CompTIA A+ exams, though it becomes important for

Network+ and Security+. Good to learn it now!

The user names and their passwords are stored in an encrypted format on

your computer. User names have a number of jobs on your computer, but at

this point the job most interesting to us is to give a user access to the

computer. User names work well when you access your own computer, but

these same user names and passwords are used to access shared resources on

other computers in the network—and that’s where we run into trouble. Let’s

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