Test 1 Flashcards
What Operating System is produced by Microsoft?
Windows
What OS has a penguin for its main mascot?
Linux
What OS is represented by this “little devil”?
BSD
This is the “last version” of Win10 that will be released - the last Feature Update
Windows 10 22H2
What is the common name used for the current most popular PC 64-bit architecture?
X-64
What is the common name used for the original 32-bit PC architecture?
X-86
If you are running a 32-bit OS, you are only able to address this amount of RAM
4GB
What newer architecture are Apple’s M branded processors based off from?
Arm
With the advent of this OS version, Microsoft did away with 32-bit support on the server platform
Windows Server 2008 R2
This system can help you track requests and justift staffing needs
Ticketing system
Using this general process, one can make sure that all hosts are started in the same state and save time watching scroll bars
Imaging
This can help you save you time and free you up for major tasks by handling approx. 80% of requests that come in
Shield
When buying a UPS, make sure to check the …
Socket type
When is Sys Admin day?
Last Friday in July
This is the two letter acronym used to refer to an OS that runs on top of another OS, virtually
VM
This is what POST stands for
Power On Self Test
This virtual hard disk file takes up only as much space as what is stored on it, making it 150GB wont immediately take up 150 GB of hard drive space
Dynamic VHD
This software is embedded in hardware and tells it the parameters within which it should operate
Firmware
This is a piece of software [held in ROM] that is responsible for the POST behavior of a system
BIOS or UEFI
What term refers to when a company will no longer support its software?
End of Life [EoL]
Win10 “Service Packs” are actually called this, generically
Feature Updates
This type of license is required for connecting to Windows Servers on a network, even if you are running an alternative OS like Linux
Client Access License [CAL]
What is the name of the latest Win11 Feature Update that has been released?
Windows 11 23H2
In Microsoft terminology, this is when Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for a product, but no longer provides new features for it
End of “Main Stream” Support
Hyper-V is Microsoft’s version of this type of OS with virtualization built into its kernel
Hypervisor
This is volatile memory that, if power is lost, the contents of that memory is lost
RAM
When adding a pre-built feature set to a Windows serverm you are adding one of these. Under manager, it lists it as add _____ and Features
Roles
This term refers to a logical grouping of computers that have user and computer accounts centrally managed by a directory server
Domain
This is the general term for a server that is part of a domain, but not a domain controller
Member Server
This Windows Filesystem was introduced with Windows NT
NTFS
This older filesystem started with DOS, but newer revisions are still used today
FAT
This filesystem is the current, default for most Linux distributions.
EXT-4
This filesystem includes on-the-fly defragmentation of files less than 20 MB.
HFS+
This is Samsung’s proprietary filesystem they developed for Android devices.
RFS
What is the name of the window that automatically pops up when first logging onto a Windows Server?
Server Manager
What file type is used to store the complete contents of installation media?
ISO
This is the command that you can run from the command prompt to test your network connectivity.
Ping
Name 2 things that should be included in the metadata section of your documentation?
Authors name, contact information, edit date, and revision history
What essential service is tied tightly to Active Directory so you can resolve member server names as well as the domain controller?
DNS
This is the approach you should take when testing/deploying patches on your network.
One, some, many
What state is a workstation in once it is in the user’s hands?
Unknown
This term refers to the combination of a physical hardware offering and a particular operating system installed on it.
Platform
This Windows command can be used to prepare the OS to have an image captured from it.
sysprep.exe
You can use this powershell commandlet to obtain information about a particular user account or group of user accounts.
Get-ADUser
This OS now has the largest market share with over 40% of web clients running it.
Android
This is the largest file size that can be stored on a FAT-32 formatted volume.
4GB
This is how many virtual machines you are licensed for on a Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition install.
Windows Server 2016/2019 Datacenter Edition are licensed in this way
What day does Microsoft plan on for releasing its regularly scheduled security patches each month – I want the name and the actual day it happens.
Patch Tuesday – second Tuesday of the month
This is the most core component of an OS, allowing it to boot and function.
Kernel
This is the key combination that sends Ctrl, Alt, Delete to the virtual machine.
Ctrl Alt End
This is the name for Microsoft’s virtualization platform “in the cloud”.
Azure
This term refers to a specific flavor of Linux
Distribution
What major chip requirement did Windows 11 add?
TPM
This web based documentation repository can work well for a knowledgebase for your organization, containing features like search and versioning.
Wiki
This term refers to imaging many systems on your network all at once, it bombards all ports on that network segment with imaging data and can slow down other traffic if performed on the general network.
Multicast
This is Microsoft’s “next-gen” filesystem that offers features like storage pooling and storage virtualization
ReFS
This is the largest FAT-32 partition that Windows will allow you to create; other OSes will let you create larger ones.
32GB
Name 2 of the 3 features that the NTFS filesystem brought to Windows OSes.
File permissions, disk quotas, and encryption
