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Chapter 16: Working with Windows XP Flashcards

1
Q

What do you use in Windows XP to create a recovery disk?

A. Automated System Recovery (ASR)
B. RDISK.EXE
C. Enhanced Startup Disk (ESD)
D. Emergency Recovery System (ERS)

A

A.

Windows XP uses Automated System Recovery (ASR).

It makes a backup of your system partition and creates a recovery disk.

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What is the first file used in the boot process of Windows XP?

A. NTOSKRNL.EXE
B. CONFIG.SYS
C. AUTOEXEC.BAT
D. NTLDR
E. NTBOOTD.SYS
A

D.

The first file used in the Windows XP boot process is NTLDR.

Both the NTOSKRNL.EXE and NTBOOTDD.SYS files are used in the boot process, but neither is the first file run.

Neither AUTOEXEC.BAT nor CONFIG.SYS is involved in the Windows XP boot process.

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What does Safe Mode allow you to do?

A. Run Windows without processing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS.
B. Boot the system without scanning drives.
C. Start Windows using only basic files and drivers.
D. Skip loading the Registry.

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C.

Safe Mode is a good option to choose to restore files that are missing or to fix a configuration error.

With only basic files and drivers loaded, you can more easily identify the
source of the problem.

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Q

Which of the following is an Ethernet standard implemented via a card that allows a
“sleeping” machine to awaken when it receives a wakeup signal?

A. Sleep timer
B. WEP
C. Wake on LAN
D. WPA

A

C.

Wake on LAN is an Ethernet standard implemented via a card that allows a “sleeping”
machine to awaken when it receives a wakeup signal.

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What is the quickest solution to fixing a corrupted NTOSKRNL.EXE file?

A. Reinstall Windows.
B. Replace the corrupted file with a new one.
C. Modify the BOOT.INI file to point to the backup NTOSKRNL.EXE file.
D. Boot from a startup disk and replace the file from the setup disks or CD.

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D.

The solution to a corrupted NTOSKRNL.EXE file is to boot from a startup disk and
replace the file from the setup disks or CD.

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During what type of installation must a user be present to choose all options as they appear?

A. Attended
B. Existing
C. Bootstrap
D. Denote

A

A.

In an attended installation, a user must be present to choose all of the options when the
installation program gets to that point.

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Q

In Windows XP, how do you access advanced startup options?

A. By pressing the spacebar when prompted to do so
B. By holding down Ctrl+Alt+Del after the Windows logo displays for the first time
C. By pressing Esc after the OS menu displays
D. By pressing F8 during the first phase of the boot process

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D.

Pressing F8 during the first phase of the boot process brings up the Advanced Startup
Options menu in Windows.

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In Windows XP, which of the following utilities is responsible for finding, downloading,
and installing Windows service packs?

A. Update Manager
B. Service Pack Manager
C. Windows Update
D. Download Manager

A

C.

Windows Update is responsible for finding updates, patches, and service packs, downloading them, and installing them on your computer.

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In Windows XP, which of the following files is specifically responsible for enabling communication between the system hardware and the operating system?

A. NTDETECT.COM
B. NTOSKRNL.EXE
C. NTBOOTDD.SYS
D. HAL.DLL
E. NTLDR
A

D.

HAL, or the Hardware Abstraction Layer, is the translator between the hardware and
the operating system.

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10
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Which of the following is a replacement for RIS?

A. STIR
B. UAC
C. WDS
D. SIR

A

C.

Beginning with Windows Server 2003, RIS was replaced by Windows Deployment
Service (WDS).

This utility offers the same functionality as RIS.

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11
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What is the first step when installing Windows onto a system that doesn’t already have a
functioning operating system?

A. Formatting
B. Partitioning
C. Redirecting
D. Installing the OS

A

B.

New disk drives or PCs with no OS need to have two critical functions performed on
them before they can be used: partitioning first and then formatting.

These two functions are performed by two commands, FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM, or by the Windows installation program itself.

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Which of the following is/are performed by formatting the hard drive? (Choose four.)

A. Formatting scans the surface of the hard drive platter to find bad spots and marks the
areas surrounding a bad spot as bad sectors.
B. Formatting lays down magnetic tracks in concentric circles.
C. The tracks are split into pieces of 512 bytes called sectors.
D. Formatting creates a File Allocation Table that contains information about the location
of files.

A

A, B, C, D.

Formatting performs all of the listed processes.

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13
Q

After installation of the operating system, what does Windows XP require in order to curb
software piracy?

A. Certification
B. Confirmation
C. Activation
D. Substantiation

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C.

Windows XP requires the installation to be followed by a process known as product
activation to curb software piracy.

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Windows XP includes a feature called a _________, which is a copy of your system configuration that can be used to roll back the system to a previous state if a configuration error occurs.

A. Restore point
B. Repair point
C. Roll back point
D. Registry

A

A.

Windows XP automatically creates restore points, which are copies of your system
configuration.

You can also create them manually through the System Restore utility.

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15
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Which utility is the System Configuration tool in Windows XP?

A. MSINFO32.EXE
B. MSCONFIG.EXE
C. SYSCONFIG.CPL
D. CONFIG.CPL

A

B.

The System Configuration tool is MSCONFIG.EXE, and in Windows XP it includes a
number of tabs and options not present in subsequent versions of Windows.

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16
Q

If Plug and Play does not work with a particular device on a Windows XP machine, what
Control Panel applet can you use?

A. Update
B. System
C. Add/Remove Hardware
D. Add Hardware

A

D.

When Plug and Play does not work, the Add Hardware Wizard applet in Control Panel can
be used.

There is not an Add/Remove option with hardware, but Add or Remove Programs is
used with software.

17
Q

Which utility that comes with Windows XP Professional is used to prepare a machine that
can then be used to create an image to use for network installation?

A. Ghost
B. Sysprep
C. Sysimage
D. RIS

A

B.

The Sysprep utility comes with Windows XP Professional and is used to prepare a machine so that an image can then be created of the computer.

Ghost is a third-party utility made by Norton that can be used to create images.

Sysimage is not a known Windows utility, and RIS comes only with Windows Server operating systems.

18
Q

Adding which option to the operating system option in the BOOT.INI file will show the
drivers as they’re loaded in Windows XP?

A. /show
B. /sos
C. /all
D. /flag

A

B.

Adding the /sos option to the operating system option in the BOOT.INI file will show
the drivers as they’re loaded in Windows XP.

19
Q

Setup Manager is used to create answer files for automatically providing computer or user information during setup.

These files are also known as what?

A. UDFs
B. INIs
C. DLLs
D. BTKs

A

A.

Setup Manager is used to create answer files (known as uniqueness database files [UDFs]) for automatically providing computer or user information during setup.

20
Q

Where would you configure a workstation to boot from the USB drive first and the hard
drive only if there is not a bootable USB device attached?

A. NTLDR
B. C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\1st.txt
C. BOOT.INI
D. None of the above

A

D.

Boot order is configured in the BIOS of the workstation and not in a Windows-related file.

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