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Chapter 15/ Working with Windows Vista Flashcards

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Windows vista has 6 Editions

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Starter, home basic, Home premium, Business, enterprise and ultimate.

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windows Vista Editions and features.

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Edition max RAM in 64 bit Max CPU
home basic 8 GB 1
home Premium 16 GB 1
Business 128GB 2
Enterprise 128GB 2
Ultimate 128GB 2

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Installing Windows Vista

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Clean install

Upgrading

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can we upgrade to windows vista from any versions older then window XP
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NO

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Transferring to windows Vista by using what

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USMT (user state Migration Tool) more than 2 machin

WET (windows Easy Transfer) for 1 or 2 machins

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Windows vista boot process

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1-The system self checks, and the BIOS look for the Master Boot Record (MBR)
2- The MBR loads and find the valid boot Sector, MBR find the bootable partition and searches for the NT boot sector of the partition.
3- MBR determines the file system and loads BOOTMGR ( boot manager )
4- BOOTMGR check to see if WINRESUME is needed.
5- BOOTMGR processes BCD ( Boot Configuration Data)
6- BOOTMGR load and runs WINLOAD
7- WINLOAD loads NTOSKRNL ( the program used to boot windows vista, it loads the operating system Kernel
8- ?

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windows Vista features ; we need to know 4 of them

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System Restore, Window defender, Windows Firewall and security center.

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System restore

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it allow us to restore the system to a previous point in time.
Start- All programs- Accessories- system Tools- System Restore

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Windows defender

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it can identity spyware and unwanted software.

start- control panel- Windows defender

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windows firewall

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start- control panel- windows firewall

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in window vista the windows firewall is turned on by default ( Yes or No)
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Yes

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windows firewall is found where

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security center

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firewall has 3 tabs name them

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general, exception and Advance.

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Security center

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start- control panel- security center

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security center has 4 categories

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windows firewall
Automatic update
malware protection
other security setting

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some of Windows Vista Administrative tools are

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1- Users and Groups
2- Local security policy
3- system configuration
4- component services
5- data Sources
6- Print management
7- windows Memory Diagnostics
8- windows Firewall
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Users and Groups

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we get accesses to it from MMC
we find the local users and Groups in windows vista business, enterprise and Ultimate.
in the other editions we need to manage the user accounts throw the User Accounts Applet.

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can we create a manage Group in windows vista Starter, home basic, Home premium or not?
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No we can not manage groups but we can create users throw the user account applet.

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local security policy

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start- enter secpol or
stare - control panel- administrative tools- security policy
this feature is only available in the top three editions of windows vista.

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some of the choices in the local security policy are

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1- account policy

2- local policy settings

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1- account Policy

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1-1 password policy

1-2 account lockout policy

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1-1 password Policy

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Enforce password policy 
Maximum password age
minimum password age
minimum password length
password most meet complexity requirements
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Enforce password policy

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This setting ensures that a given password can not just be re-used. Set this policy to force a wider variety of passwords and make sure that the same password is not re-used over and over. it can be set from 0 to 24

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maximum password Age

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This setting basically sets an expiration date for user passwords. The policy can be set for anything between 0 and 999. Setting the policy at 0 is equivalent to setting the passwords to never expire. the default is set at 42

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minimum password Age

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The Minimum Password Age can set 0 to 999

the default is 0

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The Minimum Password Age can never be higher than the Maximum Password Age. yes or No
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Yes

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minimum password length

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The number can be anything from 0 to 14

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1-2 account lockout policy is divided in to 3 values

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Account lockout Threshold
account lockout duration
reset Account lockout counter After

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2-2- local policy setting has 3 subsections

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audit policy
user Rights assignment
security options

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audit policy contains 9 setting

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we need to ??????

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3- system configuration

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it is used to control the way the system behaves at the startup it includes the following tabs
General
Boot
services
startup
tools
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Components services

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it is in MMC

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data Sources

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Start-control panel- administrative tools-Data sources ( ODBS)
one of the tabs is Drivers were we find all the database drivers there are on the OS

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Print management

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start-control panel-administrative Tools-print managements

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Window memory diagnostics

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start-control panel-administrative Tools-print managements

check for memory problems it has 2 options restart now or wait and check for problems on the next restart

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networking and windows vista

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Start- control panel- network and sharing center

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Network connection options

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Connect to the internet
set up a wireless router or access point
manually connect to a wireless network
set up a wireless Ad hoc ( computer to computer) Network
set up a dial up connection
connect to a work place

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Network discovery is in turned on in which type of network Home, Work or public?
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Network discovery is turned on in Home and work an it is turned off in public.

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for devices to be able to communicate on the network with TCP/IP it need 4 things?
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IP address for the host
subnet mask to function
gateway address
DNS information

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Network card properties is done through the properties dialog box for each card
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1 the speed at which the card need to communicate and we need to know if it is a full duplex, a half duplex or an automatic.
2 walk on LAN
3 QoS

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Wake On LAN

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WOL, or Wake On LAN, is a software and hardware feature that enables one computer to turn on another over a network. For this feature to work, the receiving computer requires a network card (NIC) that supports WOL and the sending machine needs a software program capable of generating the wake up signal.

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Quality of Service

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short for Quality of Service, QoS is an ability of a product to provide a certain service by the settings within the product. For example, a user could assign different levels of QoS on a network router, allowing certain users or network traffic to have more or less priority than other users. In other words, an administrator may set a higher priority on internal network traffic opposed to external traffic.

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Vista system Performance and optimization

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Aero
User account control
Indexing (NTFS) ? 738 and 653
sidebar

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Aero

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Windows Aero (Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open) is a new graphical user interface (GUI) first introduced with Windows Vista.
Windows Flip and Flip 3D, which allows you to visually flip through each of the open windows displaying each of the windows and not a simple icon like previous versions of Windows. When minimizing windows the window will visually shrink to the Taskbar. Finally, Aero provides a support for higher DPI and smoother performing windows.

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