Day 11

Question 1

scheduling tasks

Answer 1

windows provides the ability to schedule scripts, applications, and system tasks for execution either locally or remotely.

Question 2

Task scheduler wizard

Answer 2

provides a point and click GUI interface for ease of use

Question 3

command line schedulers

Answer 3

AT and SCHTASKS

Question 4

AT

Answer 4

the original command-line scheduler introduced in the early days of MS-DOS.

the AT command uses the local SYSTEM account access token by default.

does not recognize jobs created by SCHTASKS

Question 5

SCHTASKS

Answer 5

introduced in WindowsXP.
recognizes jobs scheduled by AT.
can be used on a local or remote machine.
defaults to the credentials of the currently logged on user

Question 6

msconfig

Answer 6

a GUI utility that is a troubleshooting tool which is used to TEMPORARILY DISABLE OR RE_ENABLE software, device drivers or Windows services that run DURING STARTUP process to help the user determine the cause of a problem with windows

Question 7

MSINFO32

Answer 7

a GUI utility that displays Windows drivers/devices and software installed

Question 8

winmsd

Answer 8

a legacy version of MSINFO32.

run from CLI

Question 9

Systeminfo

Answer 9

command-line tool that can be used to query system configuration and hotfix installations (security patches)

Question 10

diskpart

Answer 10

a tool that can be used to determine disk, volume, and partition information

Question 11

support tools and resource kits

Answer 11

intended for use by administrators to streamline network management tasks

Question 12

Sysinternals suite

Answer 12

a collection of microsoft tools that provide numerous utilities to assist administrators in managing systems and the network