Troubleshooting Flashcards

1
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Troubleshooting

A

Attempting to determine the root cause and solution to a problem.

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2
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BSOD

A

Blue Screen of Death

Windows fails to boot properly or quits unexpectedly

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3
Q

Inoculating

A

Running antivirus program on a computer

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4
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Boot.ini

A

Displays a menu of operating systems during startup.

Located in root directory of primary hard disk

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5
Q

Dr. Watson

A

Application debugger included in Windows

Detailed logs of errors

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6
Q

UAC

A

User Account Control

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7
Q

GPF

A

General Protection Fault

Occurs when an application attempts to use a portion of memory that is in use or not valid.

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8
Q

Minimum free disk space require to run Windows Disk Defragmenter

A

15%

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9
Q

Utility you use to clear system log when it becomes full

A

Event Viewer

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10
Q

Executive Subsystem

A

Software component that parses Registry for configuration information and starts services / drivers

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11
Q

Recovery Console

A

Start / stop services
Read / write data on local drive
Repair MBR
Format drives

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12
Q

IRP

A

incident Response Policy

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13
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Windows Update

A

Utility responsible for finding, downloading, and installing Windows service packs

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