Chp 14 - Win OS

Question 1

Vista Minimum requirements

Processor

Answer 1

800 Mhz Processor

Question 2

Vista Minimum requirements

RAM

Answer 2

512MB

Question 3

Vista Minimum requirements

Free Disk Space

Answer 3

15GB

Question 4

Vista Minimum requirements

Video/Graphics device

Answer 4

DirectX 9 graphics using WDDM v1.0 or higher driver; 128MB of RAM

Question 5

Vista Minimum requirements

Other

Answer 5

DVD-ROM or

CD-ROM drive

Question 6

Win 7/8 Minimum requirements

Processor

Answer 6

1GHz Processor

Question 7

Win 7/8 Minimum requirements

RAM

Answer 7

1GB (32-bit)

2GB (64-bit)

Question 8

Win 7/8 Minimum requirements

Free disk space

Answer 8

20GB

Question 9

Win 7/8 Minimum requirements

Video/Graphics device

Answer 9

DirectX 9 graphics using WDDM v1.0 or higher driver

Question 10

Win 7/8 Minimum requirements

Other

Answer 10

DVD-ROM drive

Question 11

Primary Partition

Answer 11

Can contain only a single drive letter.
Only one can be active.
Used to hold the operating system.

Question 12

Extended Partition

Answer 12

Can contain multiple drive letters.

Cannot be bootable.

Question 13

MBR

Answer 13

Master Boot Record
Supported by ROM BIOS and UEFI.
Supports max drive size of 2TB
up to four primary partitions.

Question 14

GPT

Answer 14

GUID Partition Table
Supports up to 256TB drives.
128 primary partitions.
More reliable because of CRC(Cyclic Redundancy Check).
Requires 64 bit to be booted from.

Question 15

Partitioning using GPT

Answer 15

Creates one or more primary partitions.
Each can be assigned a letter.
Only one can be used at a time.

Question 16

Basic Disks

Answer 16

A basic disk cannot be used with another hard drive as one disk.

Question 17

Dynamic Disks

Answer 17

Can create a single Logical drive using multiple physical drives.
Cannot be used to boot.

Question 18

FAT32

Answer 18

32-bit file allocation table.
root directory can be located anywhere on the drive.
Uses 8KB allocation unit size for drives as large as 16GB.
Max logical partition size allowed is 2TB.

Question 19

exFAT

Answer 19

or FAT64
Supports 64 bit addressing
Support for volumes larger than 32GB
Max is Volume and file size 512TB 
but theoretical max is 64ZB

Question 20

NTFS

Answer 20

New Technology File System
The native file system of windows
Has many improvements over FAT32
Access Control
Built-in Compression
Individual Recycle Bins
Support for Encrypting File System(EFS)
Support for mounting a drive
Disk quota support
Hot-swapping
Indexing

Question 21

NTFS

Access Control

Answer 21

Different levels of access can be configured for files and folders

Question 22

NTFS

Built in compression

Answer 22

Files, folders, or the whole drive can be compressed without 3rd party software.

Question 23

NTFS

Individual Recycle Bins

Answer 23

Includes separate recycle bins for each user

Question 24

NTFS

Support for the (EFS)

Answer 24

Encrypting file system

Enables data to be stored in an encrypted form.

Question 25

NTFS

Support for mounting a drive

Answer 25

Allows you to address a removable media drives contents under the hard drives letter

Question 26

NTFS

Disk quota support

Answer 26

gives admin ability to enforce rules about how much disk space each user is allowed to use for storage.

Question 27

NTFS

Indexing

Answer 27

Helps users locate info faster with the search tool

Question 28

Convert.EXE

Answer 28

Command line program used to convert a drive from FAT file system to NTFS