Chapter 17 - Working with Windows 10 Flashcards
What is a Domain?
A network with rules and procedures that the admin is responsible for enforcing
What is Active Directory?
Admin can create group policies →permissions the admin can give the users on the domain) and create permissions for other users
What is an unattended install?
Uses a network distribution point that uses an answer file. Bypasses certain installation prompts for faster installation; completes without ever prompting you for anything
What is an upgrade?
When you want to download a higher OS. You can only upgrade one system higher and you can upgrade to a higher flavor (EX. Windows 7 to Windows 8)
What is an in-place upgrade?
An install that maintains existing applications and data, keeps previous settings in files and folders
What is a Image-based installation?
Uses Sysprep→(a command that allows us to prepare installation) and a disk imaging program that copies an (image →digital CD) of an OS directly to the hard drive with no user intervention
What is PXE Boot
Preboot eXecution Environment- Uses the NIC card to boot from the network. Uses a boot program and a client’s network card to access the setup files. Has an image file for the devices to load up. Grabbing an ISO/Image file and using it to boot to the computer. *Not related to any specific OS. PXE booting Linux is still called PXE boot.
What is a clean install?
Downloading a brand new OS, no configured settings.
What is a Basic disk?
A normal hard drive
What is a Dynamic Disk?
Provides features that basic disks do not such as allowing you to use the hard drive in a RAID setup (striping, mirroring, RAID 5, etc)
What are the types of partitions?
Primary, Active, Extended, Recovery, Logical Drive
What is Active Partition?
Partition that is booted up one at a time
What is Extended Partition?
Partitions reserved for extra space *Logical drives are only within this type
What is Recovery Partition?
Helps to restore the factory settings of an OS. *Especially useful when there is no disk to download OS from.
What is Logical Drive?
It’s subdivisions only inside an extended partition
What is MBR?
Master Boot Record- Allows 4 primary partitions, can support up to max 2 TB partition sizes.
*Can ONLY have 4 primaries, everything after that is extended
What is GPT?
Guid Partioning Table- disk structure allows for a max of 128 primary partitions. Can support up to 256 TB partition sizes max
What is a file system?
A system that allows an OS to read your files
What are the different types of formatting?
Quick, Full, Low-level
What’s a quick format?
Quick, the drive is not checked for bad sectors- part of the drive that can’t be read or has errors in it
What’s a full format?
Runs additional steps that checks for an bad sectors
What’s a low-level format?
The more in-depth way to erase data off a device. Is better than standard format since they wipe the drive multiple times (goes over the file and overwriting the file *for companies *Exam favors this to repurpose an HDD
