An Overview Of Windows 7( Comptia Objective 1.2)

Question 1

When did Extended support for Windows 7 end?

Answer 1

• Support ended January 14, 2020

Question 2

What were some new features that came with Windows 7?

Answer 2

• Libraries
• Homegroup
• Pinned taskbar.

Question 3

What are the 6 versions of Windows 7?

Answer 3

• Windows 7 Starter
• Windows 7 Home Basic
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• Windows 7 Ultimate
• Windows 7 Professional
• Windows 7 Enterprise.

Question 4

What was Windows 7 Starter primarily made for?

Answer 4

• Netbooks which came before tablets

Question 5

What were features not available with Windows 7 Starter?

Answer 5

• They typically weren’t able to provide DVD playback or Windows Media Center due to a lack of CPU and DVD hardware
• No Windows Aero( transparency through window borders)
• No Internet Connection Sharing( ICS)
• No IIS Web Server
• No Enterprise technologies( No domain controller, BitLocker, EFS etc.
• Only available as a 32 bit OS with a max ram capacity of 2GBS.

Question 6

Windows 7 Home Premium provided what features that Windows 7 Starter didn’t?

Answer 6

• Also known as the consumer edition provided :
• DVD playback
• Windows Aero
• Internet Connection Sharing
• IIS Web Server.

Question 7

What features of Windows 7 were unavailable to Windows 7 Home Premium users?

Answer 7

• No enterprise technologies such as:
• Domain connection
• Bitlocker( Full disk encryption), No EFS etc.

Question 8

What OS versions were supported by Windows 7 Premium?

Answer 8

• x64 bit OS version supporting 16GB of ram and 2 physical processors.
• Also available in 32 bit up to 4gbs of ram.

Question 9

Which version of Windows 7 was fully featured?

Answer 9

• Windows 7 Ultimate
• Had complete functionality
• Including;
• Domain support, Remote Desktop, EFS and Bitlocker
• Available in a 64bit OS and supporting 192 GBS of RAM.
• Same features as Windows 7 Enterprise but for the home user.

Question 10

In the Workplace which version of Windows 7 was commonly used?

Answer 10

• Windows 7 Professional
• Had the same features as Home premium plus ability to:
• Connect to a Windows Domain
• Remote Desktop Host and EFS but not Bitlocker which was only available in Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate.,
• 64 bit version available supporting up to 192GBS of RAM.

Question 11

What version of Windows 7 was only sold with volume licenses?

Answer 11

• Windows 7 Enterprise designed for very large organizations.
• Multilingual User Interface packages.

Question 12

What were the minimum hardware requirements of Windows 7 32bit OS?

Answer 12

• 1 GHZ CPU
• 1GB of memory
• Free disk space of 16GBs
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Question 13

What were the minimum hardware requirements of Windows 7 64bit OS?

Answer 13

• 1GHZ CPU
• 2GBs of memory
• 20GBS of free disk space
• Directx 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.