Ch. 1: Operating System

Question 1

Min. Requirements for Windows 10 (x86)

Answer 1

1 GHz processor or faster
1 GB of RAM
32 GB of free disk space

Question 2

Min. Requirements for Windows 10 (x64)

Answer 2

1 GHz processor or faster
2 GB of RAM
32 GB of free disk space

Question 3

FAT

Answer 3

File Allocation Table

Question 4

FAT32

Answer 4

File Allocation Table
Larger (2 TB) volume sizes
Max file size of 4GB

Question 5

exFAT

Answer 5

Extended File Allocation Table

flash drive file system
files can be larger than 4GB

Compatible across Windows, Linux and macOS

Question 6

NTFS

Answer 6

NT File System
improvements over FAT32

file compression, encryption, symbolic links, large file support, security, recoverability

Many OSes will read NTFS (but not write)

Question 7

ext3 / ext4

Answer 7

third extended file system / fourth extended file system

commonly used by Linux and Android

Question 8

PXE

Answer 8

Preboot eXecution Environment

perform a remote network installation
computer must support booting with PXE

Question 9

GPT partition style

Answer 9

GUID Partition Table
Globally Unique IDentifier

The latest partition format standard
Can have up to 128 partitions, max partition size is over 9 billion TB
Windows max partition size is 256 TB
requires a UEFI BIOS

Question 10

MBR partition style

Answer 10

Master Boot Record

Old way of partition

Primary - bootable partitions (max of 4)

Extended - used for extending max num of partitions