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04/05/2011

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What is the minimum RAM requirement for installing or upgrading to Windows XP Professional?
Definition
64 MB
Term
What four new features does Windows Aero provide?
Definition
Translucent Glass windows, Window Animation Effects, 3-D Windowing, and an expanded taskbar
Term
A ___________ next to a device name in Windows Device Manager indicates that the device is in a problem state.
Definition
Exclaimation point
Term
What is a registry?
Definition
A system-defined database used to store configuration information
Term
Event Viewer keeps track of what three log files?
Definition
System, Security, and Application
Term
What two things does the Local Security snap in allow you to modify?
Definition
User Rights and Audit policies
Term
____________, in Administrative tools, allows you to start and stop ___________ such as the print spooler ___________. (Same Word)
Definition
Services
Term
What is Telnet?
Definition
A terminal emulation program that allows you to access a computer remotely
Term
What can you configure through the power options properties?
Definition
Power management including timeouts for Standby and Hibernate
Term
What happens when a computer hibernates?
Definition
All currently running applications and data in RAM are written to the Hard Disk
Term
__________ lets you encrypt files stored on the disk partition.
Definition
EFS
Term
How many extended partitions may be created on each hard disk?
Definition
One
Term
What do Driver Signing Options determine?
Definition
What Windows XP does when a user attempts to install an unsigned driver
Term
What would you use to move user account settings from a Windows XP computer to a Windows Vista computer?
Definition
Easy Transfer
Term
What program allows you to set a restore point?
Definition
System Restore utility
Term
What should you do before installing any application?
Definition
Set a restore point
Term
_______________ is a set of recovery tools that you can access when booting from the Windows Vista installation DVD
Definition
Windows Recovery Environment
Term
What key do you press to see a list of available startup options in Windows 2000 and Windows XP?
Definition
F8
Term
_________ was the first operating system to introduce FAT32
Definition
Windows 95
Term
___________ is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical operating system
Definition
Windows 95
Term
What was the default browser on Windows 98?
Definition
Internet Explorer 4
Term
What was the first Windows OS to support DVD?
Definition
Windows 98 SE
Term
What was the first Windows OS to support Internet Connection sharing?
Definition
Windows 98 SE
Term
What version of IE was used in Windows 98 SE?
Definition
IE 5
Term
_______________ gives you the power to network your household computers, communicate more efficiently over the Internet, and work with rich multimedia content such as photos, videos, and music.
Definition
Windows Me
Term
_____________ also introduced the "System Restore" logging and reversion system, which can be used to simplify troubleshooting and solving problems.
Definition
Windows Me
Term
Windows Me is also known as:
Definition
Windows Millenium Edition
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_________ is a 32-bit Windows operating system, which is available in workstation and server versions with a graphical environment similar to Windows 95.
Definition
Windows NT 4.0
Term
What does the NT in Windows NT stand for?
Definition
New Technology
Term
What type of users choose NT systems?
Definition
Businesses and Technical Users
Term
What is Windows 2000 also known as?
Definition
Windows NT 5.0
Term
What are the four versions of Windows 2000?
Definition
Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Data Center Server
Term
What are the main advantages of Windows 2000?
Definition
Stability, Intelligence, Security, Integrity, Familiarity
Term
What is Windows XP also known as?
Definition
Windows NT 5.1
Term
Windows XP will not allow the user to set a resolution lower than ____________
Definition
800x600
Term
Which OS has Encrypting File System (EFS) which encrypts the files in the hard drive of the computer so that those files cannot be read by another user, even if they have the physical access to the computer.
Definition
Windows XP Professional
Term
What is Registry?
Definition
It is an operating system-defined database, which stores all the information and settings of all hardware, software, users and preferences for 32-bit Microsoft operating system only.
Term
What command allows you to edit the registry?
Definition
regedit.exe
Term
___________ Contains information needed by various file-class association data and OLE technologies.
Definition
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Term
___________ Contains the user profile for the current logged in user, including environment variables, network connections, desktop settings, printers, and program preferences.
Definition
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
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___________ Contains the user profile for the current logged in user, including environment variables, network connections, desktop settings, printers, and program preferences
Definition
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
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_____________ Contains information of the local computer system, including hardware and operating system information such as bus type, device drivers, system memory, and startup control data.
Definition
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Term
______________ contains information of the default profile and the actively loaded user profiles. This includes information that also appears in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Users who are accessing a server remotely do not have profiles under this key on the server; their profiles are loaded into the registry of their individual computers.
Definition
HKEY_USERS
Term
___________ Contains information of the hardware profile used by the local computer system at startup, which is used to configure settings like the loading of device drivers and the display resolution to use.
Definition
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
Term
The data that can be contained in a registry key or sub key is called as ___________.
Definition
Entries
Term
What are the three parts of entries?
Definition
1.the name of the value, 2.the data type of the value 3.the value itself
Term
What is virtual memory?
Definition
Virtual memory is a design feature of the computer that permits software to use more main memory than the actual physical possessed by the computer by using empty sectors on the hard disk
Term
What are the four kinds of memory most computers posses?
Definition
1.registers in the CPU, 2.caches both inside and adjacent to the CPU, 3.physical memory, in the form of RAM which the CPU can write and read to directly and quickly; and 4.disk storage, which is much larger, but also much slower
Term
What is a file?
Definition
a collection of information, such as text, data or images saved on a storage medium like a hard disk.
Term
What is a File System?
Definition
A file system is the way in which an operating system manages a set of hierarchical files. It defines how files are named and where they are placed logically for storage and retrieval on storage devices.
Term
The most familiar file systems make use of an underlying data storage device that offers access to an array of fixed-size blocks, sometimes called __________, generally 512 bytes each.
Definition
Sectors
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What is a disk file system?
Definition
a file system designed for the storage of files on a data storage device
Term
The file allocation table can be considered a ____________ of a memory card.
Definition
Table of Contents
Term
What is a Network File System?
Definition
a file system where the files are accessed over a network, potentially simultaneously by several computers.
Term
What is the primary function of NFS?
Definition
to export or mount directories to other machines, either on or off a local network.
Term
The server program makes file systems available for access by other machines via a process called ____________.
Definition
exporting
Term
In a database file system, how are files organized?
Definition
By their characteristics
Term
What two file systems are used by Microsoft OS's?
Definition
FAT and NTFS
Term
What is the Control Panel used for?
Definition
to change the settings in the operating system or computer
Term
What are the three categories of tools contained within computer management?
Definition
Event Viewer, Shared folders tools, and Performance logs and alerts
Term
___________ is used to manage and view the events in the application, security and system logs.
Definition
Event Viewer
Term
___________ is used to view the connections and resources in use on the system.
Definition
Shared folders tools
Term
_____________ collects the data about the computer's performance and alerts to the monitor when system performance falls below minimum settings.
Definition
Performance logs and alerts
Term
What is a Command Line?
Definition
A function within Windows that executes individual commands typed in one at a time or one after the other if they are grouped in a text file with a .BAT extension.
Term
What is a CLI?
Definition
Command Line Interface
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What is the Systray?
Definition
An area on the right side of the taskbar on the Windows interface used to display the status of various functions, such as speaker volume and modem transmission
Term
In Device Manager, what does a Red X mean?
Definition
Indicates that the device has been disabled, removed or that Windows is unable to locate the device.
Term
What are the two registry sub-trees of Windows Server 2003 family operating systems?
Definition
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS
Term
What Windows 98 utility would be useful to check a disk drive for disk-related errors?
Definition
SCANDISK
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What command is used on Windows 98 computers to check the consistency of the Registry and to back up to registry?
Definition
SCANREG
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______________ It defines the basic input / output (I / O) capabilities for the system and helps in communicating with different peripherals.
Definition
IO.SYS
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What file determines whether the computer boots into DOS or into Windows 95/98. In DOS, it works with IO.SYS to start the boot process but in Windows 9x, it is a configuration-based file.
Definition
MSDOS.SYS
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___________ is a system file that is executed automatically when the system starts. This file is used in -DOS and early versions of Windows to run other programs that are listed in the file.
Definition
AUTOEXEC.BAT
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______________ executes all commands before loading and initializing the Windows kernel.
Definition
COMMAND.COM
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___________ is a file that instructs the operating system to setup the computer.
Definition
CONFIG.SYS
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___________ is a memory management utility that manages the memory in such a way that two applications or device drivers do not use the same memory locations at the same time.
Definition
HIMEM.SYS
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____________ is an extended memory manager. Without this file or any other extended memory manager, the computer would only able to use the basic 640KB.
Definition
EMM386.SYS
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_______________ contains user and program settings. In Windows 9x systems, this file is required for backward compatibility with 16 bit applications.
Definition
WIN.COM
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___________ or the System Initialization File contains information about your computer's hardware settings.
Definition
SYSTEM.INI
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__________ file is located in windows directory. It loads all the system settings every time the system boots.
Definition
WIN.INI
Term
What two files manage the registry in Windows 9x?
Definition
SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT
Term
________ is a file that contains all hardware configurations, plug and play settings, and also the application settings. It is a hidden file that is located in the root or c:\windows.
Definition
SYSTEM.DAT
Term
All of the information that is displayed in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE within the Registry is actually stored in ___________.
Definition
SYSTEM.DAT
Term
HKEY_CURRENT_USER stores user specific settings on your computer and this is stored as ____________ in the Windows directory.
Definition
USER.DAT
Term
What are the boot files used by Windows NT based systems?
Definition
BOOT.INI, BOOTSECT.DOS, NTDETECT.COM, and NTLDR
Term
The __________ file is located in the root directory of the primary boot partition. It holds the menu for the available operating systems for the user to choose from.
Definition
BOOT.INI
Term
What are the two parts of the BOOT.INI file?
Definition
Boot Loader and Operating Systems
Term
What are the two parts of the Boot Loader?
Definition
Timeout and Default
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__________ is the time given to the user to make the choice of booting the operating system other than the default one
Definition
Timeout
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____________ has the path of the default operating system. Incase the user does not make a choice within a specified time then the default Operating system is loaded up.
Definition
Default
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____________will list all the available operating systems and their paths.
Definition
Operating System
Term
_______ is the file responsible for booting the operating system from storage devices like CD-ROM, USB etc. It also helps in booting non-Windows based Operating System.
Definition
NTLDR
Term
NTLDR need ___________ to boot an NT based operating system.
Definition
NTDETECT.COM
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_________ is responsible for examining the hardware and building a list. It then passes this list to the NTLDR to build the hardware list in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Definition
NTDETECT.COM
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_________ is a device driver file will only be used on systems that boot from a SCSI disk on which the SCSI adapter BIOS is disabled.
Definition
NTBOOTDD.SYS
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______________ file contains information about the user's profiles and configurations. This file has a copy of the Windows NT registry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER sub-tree.
Definition
NTUSER.DAT
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What three files store the registry data in Windows 95, 98 and ME?
Definition
SYSTEM.DAT, USER.DAT, POLICY.POL
Term
For Windows NT,2000 and XP what files which contain registry information?
Definition
* Security
* System
* Default
* Sam
* Software
* System.dat
* Ntuser.dat
Term
______________ is creating logical divisions on hard disk, which allows you to install operating system and manage your data on the computer. It also lets you to install multiple operating systems in the logical partitions.
Definition
Partitioning
Term
You need to run a utility called _________, which is normally located in the boot disk to create partitions.
Definition
FDISK
Term
What File System is described below?
*It can support a maximum partition size of 2.1 GB in MS-DOS and 4.0 GB under Windows NT 4.0
*Each Partition contains a maximum files of 65,536.
*Restricted to 512 entries in the root directory of the hard drive and 128 entries in the root partition of a floppy disk.
*No build in support for long file names.
Definition
FAT 16
Term
__________ is capable of reading and writing 32 bits of information at a time. It supports a maximum partition size of 2048 MB. Each Partition can support a maximum of 2,097,152 files. It is restricted to 65,535 entries in root directory of the hard drive. It supports long file names.
Definition
FAT 32
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________ is a new technology file system that has evolved from HTPS , which was created by OS/2. It can support partition size of 16 GB . It also supports C2 level security and long file names.
Definition
NTFS 4
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_________ was launched along with Windows 2000. It has many more added features like Active Directory Support. It supports all the features of NTFS 4 along with support for encryption of data at volume, directory or file level.
Definition
NTFS 5
Term
_____________ Stores information about registered applications, file extension associations and OLE object class IDs.
Definition
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Term
__________ stores settings specific to the logged in user.
Definition
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Term
_______________ stores the general settings of all of a computer's users
Definition
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Term
____________ Stores the settings and information for each individual user on the machine.
Definition
HKEY_USERS
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____________ stores information gathered during system runtime temporarily
Definition
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
Term
The ____________ command is used to view files and subfolders in a folder
Definition
dir
Term
The ____________ command is used to change active directories.
Definition
cd
Term
The ____________ command is used to make folders
Definition
md
Term
The ____________ command is used to copy files and directories
Definition
copy
Term
The ____________ command is used to remove and delete folders
Definition
rd
Term
___________ partition is the partition on which the main operating system is stored
Definition
primary
Term
____________ partitions are those which carry any disk space not assigned as primary
Definition
Extended
Term
__________ partitions are extra partitions made from the extended partition.
Definition
Logical
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