Configure BIOS/UEFI

Question 1

PC or system firmware provides low-level code to allow PC components installed on a particular motherboard to be initialized so that they can load the main operating system software.

Answer 1

BIOS/UEFI

Question 2

firmware only supports 32-bit operation and limited
functionality. Systems Setup can be accessed during PC booting by pressing Esc, Del, F1, F2, F10, or F12.

Answer 2

Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)

Question 3

Firmware provides support for 64-bit CPU operation at boot, a full GUI and mouse operation at boot, networking functionality at boot, and better boot security and legacy boot.

Answer 3

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Question 4

defines the order in which the system firmware searches devices for a boot manager

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boot options

Question 5

HDD Boot Options

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*SATA in the lowest port.
*HDD sequence if many fixed drives installed.
*SSD attached using SATA will be listed with SATA/AHCI devices.
*SSD installed as a PCIe Add-in Card (AIC) or on the M.2 interface will be listed under NVMe.

Question 6

Optical drive (CD/DVD/Blu-ray) Boot Option

Answer 6

If you are performing a repair install from optical media, you might need to make this device the highest priority

Question 7

USB Boot Option

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can boot from a USB drive that has been formatted
as a boot device.

Question 8

Network/PXE Boot Option

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Uses the network adapter to obtain boot settings from a
specially configured server.

Question 9

USB Permissions Boot Options

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On many systems, allowing the connection of USB devices is a security risk. The setup program might allow individual ports to be enabled or disabled.

Question 10

Fan can be controlled on System settings.

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Fan Boot Settings

Question 11

requires the user to authenticate before the operating system is
loaded.
* Supervisor/Administrator/Setup—Protect access to the system setup program.
* User/System—Lock access to the whole computer.

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Boot Passwords

Question 12

Secure boot

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is a UEFI feature designed to prevent a computer from being hijacked by malware. Which uses cyrptographics.

Question 13

is a specification for hardware-based storage of digital certificates, cryptographic keys, and hashed passwords.

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Trusted platform module (TPM)

Question 14

A secure USB key or thumb drive used to store cryptographic material can be referred to as a

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hardware security module (HSM).