Chapter 3: Working with Windows 8

Question 1

BOOTMGR

Answer 1

Windows Boot Manager bootstraps the system (starts the loading of an OS on the computer)

Question 2

BCD

Answer 2

Boot Configuration Data holds information about OSs installed (such as location of the OS files)

Question 3

Winload.exe

Answer 3

Loads operating system kernel (NTOSKRNL.exe)

Question 4

Winresume.exe

Answer 4

If system is not starting fresh/resuming previous system this is called by BOOTMGR

Question 5

NTOSKRNL.exe

Answer 5

Windows OS Kernel

Question 6

System files

Answer 6

Windows needs a number of files from system directory

Hardware abstraction layer (HAL.dll)

Session Manager (SMSS.exe)

User session (winlogon.exe)

Security subsystem (LSASS.exe)