Chapter 17 - Working with Windows 10

Question 1

What is a Domain?

Answer 1

A network with rules and procedures that the admin is responsible for enforcing

Question 2

What is Active Directory?

Answer 2

Admin can create group policies →permissions the admin can give the users on the domain) and create permissions for other users

Question 3

What is an unattended install?

Answer 3

Uses a network distribution point that uses an answer file. Bypasses certain installation prompts for faster installation; completes without ever prompting you for anything

Question 4

What is an upgrade?

Answer 4

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)

Question 5

What is an in-place upgrade?

Answer 5

An install that maintains existing applications and data, keeps previous settings in files and folders

Question 6

What is a Image-based installation?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is PXE Boot

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

What is a clean install?

Answer 8

Downloading a brand new OS, no configured settings.

Question 9

What is a Basic disk?

Answer 9

A normal hard drive

Question 10

What is a Dynamic Disk?

Answer 10

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)

Question 11

What are the types of partitions?

Answer 11

Primary, Active, Extended, Recovery, Logical Drive

Question 12

What is Active Partition?

Answer 12

Partition that is booted up one at a time

Question 13

What is Extended Partition?

Answer 13

Partitions reserved for extra space *Logical drives are only within this type

Question 14

What is Recovery Partition?

Answer 14

Helps to restore the factory settings of an OS. *Especially useful when there is no disk to download OS from.

Question 15

What is Logical Drive?

Answer 15

It’s subdivisions only inside an extended partition

Question 16

What is MBR?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is GPT?

Answer 17

Guid Partioning Table- disk structure allows for a max of 128 primary partitions. Can support up to 256 TB partition sizes max

Question 18

What is a file system?

Answer 18

A system that allows an OS to read your files

Question 19

What are the different types of formatting?

Answer 19

Quick, Full, Low-level

Question 20

What’s a quick format?

Answer 20

Quick, the drive is not checked for bad sectors- part of the drive that can’t be read or has errors in it

Question 21

What’s a full format?

Answer 21

Runs additional steps that checks for an bad sectors

Question 22

What’s a low-level format?

Answer 22

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