What type of event is recorded when an application driver loads successfully in Windows?

Question breakdown

Tests

Windows event log types and event classification

Difficulty

Easy

Key idea: Windows records successful operations of applications, drivers, and services as Information events, and reserves Success/Failure Audit for security auditing.

How to reach the answer

1. The clue is 'driver loads successfully', which describes a normal, successful operation.
2. Error and Warning are for failures or potential problems, so neither applies.
3. Success Audit belongs to the Security log and covers audited security access such as logons.
4. A successful driver or service operation is therefore logged as Information.

Each option

• AIncorrect. Error events mark significant problems such as data loss or loss of functionality, not a successful load.
• BIncorrect. Success Audit applies to audited security access attempts in the Security log, not to driver loads.
• CIncorrect. Warning events flag conditions that are not critical but could cause future problems, and a successful load is not one of them.
• DCorrect. Information events record the successful operation of an application, driver, or service.

Common trap: The word 'successfully' tempts candidates toward Success Audit, but audit events are only for security-audited access.

In practice: When analysts triage System and Application logs, they filter on level (Information, Warning, Error) to separate routine activity from problems. Security audit events are a separate category and are reviewed for access monitoring.

Remember: A successful driver or service operation is an Information event; Success Audit is only for audited security access.

Drafted with AI assistance and checked against the answer key.