Chapter 1 Flashcards
UAC prevents admin acct misuse by doing what?
…permission settings (like location) are adjusted in “Privacy”
flashing a consent dialogue or for a user to enter admin credentials
-app
Virtualization AKA hyper V can be enabled in Windows Features
Feature that speeds up booting of compute after shutdown.
-Fast shutdown
Drive= mapped to a letter in Windows
Partitions are configured on..while volumes are logical storage units made available to the OS
hdds and ssds
unformatted drives need to be….using either MBR or GUID/GPT
gives a partition a filesystem (ex. NTFS)
disk can be repartitioned to grow or shrink space
-initialized
-formatting
feature that configures redundant/RAID arrays. replaced dynamic disk feature
rewrites file data to occupy contiguous clusters. Boost disk reading speed. Done automatically by Task Scheduler.
-Storage Spaces
-defragmentation
system information (msinfo32.exe) shows what?
task manager allows viewing logged in user’s and sending them messages
report about system’s hardware/software, OS versions, enviroment variables etc.
The two Performance Monitor logs are counter logs (collects stats on resources, like memory/disk/processor) and…
-trace logs (collects stats on services)
%processor time= percentage of time processor executes non-idle thread
% privileged time= if high, means system can barely run Windows core processes
% Disk time= if high (85 percent or above), mean disk busy doing too much read/write. Pairs with Avg Disk Queue Length
Avg Disk Queue Length= if this and Disk time high, mean disk problem
What does paging do?
-uses secondary memory as primary memory. Called virtual memory too.
utility that allows changing how Windows boots? (Diagnostic, Selective, etc)
change drive in CMD by typing letter of drive with :
-System configuration utility
xcopy source dir destination dir (recommended to use robocopy now)
what makes a directory? Removes??
-copies from one place to another
-md, rmdir
diskpart utility manages disk. how to select a disk
detail disk shows info and health. if no partitions, means possible corruption
-select disk #
format command writes file system to a drive. format is format X: /fs: <filesystem></filesystem>
chkdsk X: /r/f ?
-f = attempts fix file sys error, -r= fixes and recovers bad sectors
have a BSOD? check where for changes?
how to get advice on how to use a command?
secpol.msc is local security policy. Can view/edit security settings
device manager
help <command></command> or <command></command> /?
Proprietary filesystem for Windows.
It also features journaling (verifying/logging written data), ….(allows for reverting changes and backups, indexing, and…
NFTS
-snapshots
dynamic disk (allows space on multiple disk to be combined into one)
