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| What is the minimum RAM requirement for installing or upgrading to Windows XP Professional? |
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| What four new features does Windows Aero provide? |
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| Translucent Glass windows, Window Animation Effects, 3-D Windowing, and an expanded taskbar |
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| A ___________ next to a device name in Windows Device Manager indicates that the device is in a problem state. |
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| A system-defined database used to store configuration information |
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| Event Viewer keeps track of what three log files? |
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| System, Security, and Application |
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| What two things does the Local Security snap in allow you to modify? |
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| User Rights and Audit policies |
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| ____________, in Administrative tools, allows you to start and stop ___________ such as the print spooler ___________. (Same Word) |
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| A terminal emulation program that allows you to access a computer remotely |
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| What can you configure through the power options properties? |
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| Power management including timeouts for Standby and Hibernate |
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| What happens when a computer hibernates? |
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| All currently running applications and data in RAM are written to the Hard Disk |
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| __________ lets you encrypt files stored on the disk partition. |
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| How many extended partitions may be created on each hard disk? |
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| What do Driver Signing Options determine? |
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| What Windows XP does when a user attempts to install an unsigned driver |
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| What would you use to move user account settings from a Windows XP computer to a Windows Vista computer? |
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| What program allows you to set a restore point? |
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| What should you do before installing any application? |
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| _______________ is a set of recovery tools that you can access when booting from the Windows Vista installation DVD |
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| Windows Recovery Environment |
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| What key do you press to see a list of available startup options in Windows 2000 and Windows XP? |
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| _________ was the first operating system to introduce FAT32 |
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| ___________ is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical operating system |
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| What was the default browser on Windows 98? |
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| What was the first Windows OS to support DVD? |
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| What was the first Windows OS to support Internet Connection sharing? |
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| What version of IE was used in Windows 98 SE? |
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| _______________ 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. |
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| _____________ also introduced the "System Restore" logging and reversion system, which can be used to simplify troubleshooting and solving problems. |
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| Windows Me is also known as: |
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| 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. |
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| What does the NT in Windows NT stand for? |
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| What type of users choose NT systems? |
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| Businesses and Technical Users |
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| What is Windows 2000 also known as? |
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| What are the four versions of Windows 2000? |
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| Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Data Center Server |
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| What are the main advantages of Windows 2000? |
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| Stability, Intelligence, Security, Integrity, Familiarity |
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| What is Windows XP also known as? |
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| Windows XP will not allow the user to set a resolution lower than ____________ |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| What command allows you to edit the registry? |
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| ___________ Contains information needed by various file-class association data and OLE technologies. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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| ______________ 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. |
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| ___________ 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. |
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| The data that can be contained in a registry key or sub key is called as ___________. |
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| What are the three parts of entries? |
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| 1.the name of the value, 2.the data type of the value 3.the value itself |
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| 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 |
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| What are the four kinds of memory most computers posses? |
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| 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 |
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| a collection of information, such as text, data or images saved on a storage medium like a hard disk. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| What is a disk file system? |
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| a file system designed for the storage of files on a data storage device |
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| The file allocation table can be considered a ____________ of a memory card. |
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| What is a Network File System? |
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| a file system where the files are accessed over a network, potentially simultaneously by several computers. |
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| What is the primary function of NFS? |
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| to export or mount directories to other machines, either on or off a local network. |
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| The server program makes file systems available for access by other machines via a process called ____________. |
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| In a database file system, how are files organized? |
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| What two file systems are used by Microsoft OS's? |
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| What is the Control Panel used for? |
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| to change the settings in the operating system or computer |
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| What are the three categories of tools contained within computer management? |
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| Event Viewer, Shared folders tools, and Performance logs and alerts |
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| ___________ is used to manage and view the events in the application, security and system logs. |
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| ___________ is used to view the connections and resources in use on the system. |
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| _____________ collects the data about the computer's performance and alerts to the monitor when system performance falls below minimum settings. |
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| Performance logs and alerts |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| In Device Manager, what does a Red X mean? |
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| Indicates that the device has been disabled, removed or that Windows is unable to locate the device. |
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| What are the two registry sub-trees of Windows Server 2003 family operating systems? |
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| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS |
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| What Windows 98 utility would be useful to check a disk drive for disk-related errors? |
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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? |
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| ______________ It defines the basic input / output (I / O) capabilities for the system and helps in communicating with different peripherals. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| ______________ executes all commands before loading and initializing the Windows kernel. |
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| ___________ is a file that instructs the operating system to setup the computer. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| _______________ contains user and program settings. In Windows 9x systems, this file is required for backward compatibility with 16 bit applications. |
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| ___________ or the System Initialization File contains information about your computer's hardware settings. |
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| __________ file is located in windows directory. It loads all the system settings every time the system boots. |
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| What two files manage the registry in Windows 9x? |
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| ________ 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. |
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| All of the information that is displayed in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE within the Registry is actually stored in ___________. |
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| HKEY_CURRENT_USER stores user specific settings on your computer and this is stored as ____________ in the Windows directory. |
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| What are the boot files used by Windows NT based systems? |
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| BOOT.INI, BOOTSECT.DOS, NTDETECT.COM, and NTLDR |
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| 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. |
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| What are the two parts of the BOOT.INI file? |
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| Boot Loader and Operating Systems |
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| What are the two parts of the Boot Loader? |
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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 |
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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. |
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| ____________will list all the available operating systems and their paths. |
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| _______ 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. |
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| NTLDR need ___________ to boot an NT based operating system. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| What three files store the registry data in Windows 95, 98 and ME? |
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| SYSTEM.DAT, USER.DAT, POLICY.POL |
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| For Windows NT,2000 and XP what files which contain registry information? |
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* Security
* System
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* Software
* System.dat
* Ntuser.dat |
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| ______________ 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. |
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| You need to run a utility called _________, which is normally located in the boot disk to create partitions. |
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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.
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| __________ 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| _____________ Stores information about registered applications, file extension associations and OLE object class IDs. |
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| __________ stores settings specific to the logged in user. |
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| _______________ stores the general settings of all of a computer's users |
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| ____________ Stores the settings and information for each individual user on the machine. |
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| ____________ stores information gathered during system runtime temporarily |
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| The ____________ command is used to view files and subfolders in a folder |
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| The ____________ command is used to change active directories. |
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| The ____________ command is used to make folders |
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| The ____________ command is used to copy files and directories |
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| The ____________ command is used to remove and delete folders |
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| ___________ partition is the partition on which the main operating system is stored |
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| ____________ partitions are those which carry any disk space not assigned as primary |
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| __________ partitions are extra partitions made from the extended partition. |
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