Configuring And Installing The OS (Chapter 2)

Question 1

OS Installation Overview

Answer 1

1) Select installation method
2) Check Compatibility
3) backup existing files & settings (upgrading)
4) Choose Boot method to load OS setup file
5) Prepare fixed disk and copy setup files
6) Configure installation
7) Verify installation

Question 2

Attended Installation

Answer 2

An OS installation where the installation requires users to configure options

Question 3

Unattended Installation

Answer 3

An installation that grabs all installation configuration from an input file

Question 4

Clean install

Answer 4

Installing the OS, by replacing the previous OS.
- Deletes all apps, settings and data files.
- General more reliable than upgrading

Question 5

In-place Upgrade

Answer 5

Installing the OS on top of an existing version of the OS.
- Retains apps, settings & data files
- can be used to upgrade to a newer OS version or repairing installation files

Question 6

Compatibility

Answer 6

Windows Logo’d Product List (LPL) and Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) is a list of hardware that is compatible with the OS compatible.
- checks OS compatibility
- Upgrade path
- Hardware & application compatibility

Question 7

Installation Boot Method

Answer 7

How an OS installation program and settings are loaded onto a PC
- Optical disc
- External flash drive (media creation tool)
- Network boot (PXE)

Question 8

Secure Boot

Answer 8

A process during POST which checks that all components of the system has a digital signes driver certificate
- Available in UEFI
- Restricts OS installation to trusted software

Question 9

Installation Methods

Answer 9

• Windows EXE and MSI installer
• macOS DMG and PGK installer
• Linux APT (DEB) and YUM (RPM) package manager and formats
• ISO mountable
• physical media

Question 10

System Partition

Answer 10

The bootable partition on drive that is formatted with FAT32

Question 11

Boot Partition

Answer 11

The partition that contains the OS

Question 12

Multiboot

Answer 12

A system with multiple OS installed on separate partitions.
- asks which OS to open when the system boots up

Question 13

Account consideration

Answer 13

Workgroup
- a small group of computers on a network that share resources in a peer-to-peer fashioned
Domain
- a group of computers that share a common account database (directory)
Microsoft Account
- account that allows user to sync data across devices, download Microsoft apps
Local Account
- an account that is associated with computer

Question 14

Post-Installation Task

Answer 14

• All hardware have required drivers
• Check log files & device manager to ensure all hardware has been detected
• activation key

Question 15

Post-Installation Task

Answer 15

• All hardware have required drivers
• Check log files & device manager to ensure all hardware has been detected
• activation key

Question 16

Unattended Installation files

Answer 16

Answer Files
- files that contain all the answers that windows installation requires for configuring (product key, settings, disk partition,ect)
Image deployment
- a file that contains a clone of an already set up windows OS, contains apps, file data, accounts, settings

Question 17

Drive Cloning and Sysprep

Answer 17

• Dism tool reads the content of a drive and creates a Disk Image as a .WIM file format
• Sysprep is used to ensure that the disk image is unique

Question 18

Fragmentation

Answer 18

Occurs when data file are not stored to contiguous sectors on a disk, decreasing performance by making the read/write head move between fragments
Defragmentation tool
- reorders data files into contiguous sectors

Question 19

Linux Disk Management Tools

Answer 19

• df
• du
• Fsck

Question 20

Patch Management

Answer 20

Identifies, test and deploys OS and applications updats

Question 21

Scheduled backups

Answer 21

personal
- external harddrive/media
- cloud
Networks
- cost effective tap
- third party utilities

Question 22

Windows backup toold

Answer 22

• File History
• Windows Backup & Restore Centre

Question 23

Backup Frequency

Answer 23

Reflects how much lost work can be tolerated

Question 24

Backup Retention

Answer 24

The period of time that any given backup job is kept

Question 25

Backup Chains

Answer 25

Full
- backups all selected data regardless of when it was previously backed up
- high time & storage required
- single job recovery
- clear archive attribute
Incremental
- backups new and modified files since last backup
- low time & storage required
- multiple job recovery
- clears archive attribute
Differential
- New and modified files since last full backup
- moderate time & storage required
- two jobs recovery
- doesn’t clear archive attribute

Question 26

Synthetic Backups

Answer 26

Assembles a full back from other back up jobs (incremental/differential)
1) Starts with a full backup
2) makes chain backups jobs of either incremental or differential
3) next full back up is scheduled
4) last incremental/differential job is preformed
5) synthesis a full back up from all back up jobs

Question 27

GFS backups

Answer 27

“Grandfather-Father-Son” label media rotation scheme
Son
- most recent
- shortest retention period (1 week)
Grandfather
- oldest
- longest retention period (1 year)

Question 28

3-2-1 backup rules

Answer 28

• 3 copies of all data
• across 2 media types
• 1 copy held offline & off-site