Chapter 16 ■ Operating System Administration

Question 1

1. Which of the following utilities is used to update Group Policy settings and replaces some
   of the functionality that previously existed with secedit?
   A. clobber
   B. gpupdate
   C. consolidate
   D. extract

Answer 1

B. gpupdate

Question 2

2. In Windows, which of the following is the filesystem of choice for CD media?
   A. NTFS
   B. EFS
   C. FAT32
   D. CDFS

Answer 2

D. CDFS

Question 3

3. Which utility can be used to schedule a remote shutdown?
   A. taskmgr
   B. kill
   C. shutdown
   D. netstat

Answer 3

C. shutdown

Question 4

4. You need to verify network connectivity for a host. Which tool should you use?
   A. ping
   B. net use
   C. sfc
   D. dism

Answer 4

A. ping

Question 5

5. Which of the following filesystems is a proprietary filesystem created by Microsoft for use
   with large flash drives?
   A. GPT
   B. NFS
   C. ext3
   D. exFAT

Answer 5

D. exFAT

Question 6

6. Which command terminates a running process at the command line?
   A. pskill
   B. ps
   C. kill
   D. taskkill

Answer 6

D. taskkill

Question 7

7. Virtual memory is configured through which system tool?
   A. Taskbar
   B. System Properties
   C. Memory Manager
   D. Virtual Configuration

Answer 7

B. System Properties

Question 8

8. Within the Services snap-in, services can be in any state except which of the following?
   A. Started automatically
   B. Started manually
   C. Disabled
   D. Detached

Answer 8

D. Detached

Question 9

9. What can you do if a program is not responding to any commands and appears to be
   locked up?
   A. Open the System Control Panel applet and choose Performance to see what process
   is causing the problem.
   B. Add more memory.
   C. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot the computer.
   D. Open Task Manager, select the appropriate task, and then click End Task.

Answer 9

D. Open Task Manager, select the appropriate task, and then click End Task.

Question 10

10. Which of the following commands can be used to configure a remote connection?
    A. regedit
    B. mstsc
    C. regsvr32
    D. spl

Answer 10

B. mstsc

Question 11

11. Which tool can be used to verify that a display driver is signed?
    A. dxdiag
    B. msinfo
    C. msconfig
    D. msinfo32

Answer 11

A. dxdiag

Question 12

12. Which type of resources do you configure in Device Manager?
    A. Hardware
    B. Files and folders
    C. Applications
    D. Memory

Answer 12

A. Hardware

Question 13

13. You believe that there are corrupt clusters on your disk. Which tool should you use?
    A. Disk Management
    B. sfc
    C. chkdsk
    D. diskpart

Answer 13

C. chkdsk

Question 14

14. You believe that your system files are corrupted in Windows. You run the System File
    Checker. Which command should you run in order to make the System File Checker
    automatically repair your system files?
    A. sfc /recover
    B. sfc /repair
    C. sfc /verifyfile
    D. sfc /scannow

Answer 14

D. sfc /scannow

Question 15

15. Which of the following partitions is specifically the partition from which the operating
    system boots?
    A. Primary partition
    B. Extended partition
    C. Dynamic partition
    D. Logical partition

Answer 15

A. Primary partition

Question 16

16. Which of the following Registry hives contains information about the computer’s
    hardware?
    A. HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE
    B. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    C. HKEY_MACHINE
    D. HKEY_RESOURCES

Answer 16

B. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Question 17

17. Which of the following replaces the MBR in 64-bit versions of the Windows operating
    system?
    A. LILO
    B. NFS
    C. GPT
    D. GRUB

Answer 17

C. GPT

Question 18

18. Which of the following utilities will rearrange the files on your hard disk to occupy
    contiguous chunks of space?
    A. Disk Defragmenter
    B. Windows File Explorer
    C. Scandisk
    D. Windows Backup

Answer 18

A. Disk Defragmenter