Use Management Consoles

Question 1

Microsoft Management Consoles (MMCs)

Answer 1

provide a standard interface for advanced
configuration and management of Windows desktops and servers.

Question 2

Device Manager (devmgmt.msc)

Answer 2

allows you to view and edit the properties
of installed hardware.

Question 3

Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc)

Answer 3

console displays a summary of any
fixed and removable disks—hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), and
optical drives—attached to the system.

Question 4

hard drive

partition

Answer 4

is a logical section of storage space that acts like a separate, independent drive.

Question 5

volume

Answer 5

is a logical storage area that’s a part of a physical disk and can be made up of one or more partitions.

Question 6

Disk management console

Disk 0

Answer 6

• system volume-used boot OS, called extensible firmware interface (EFI).
• boot volume-Operating system files(drive C)
• Recovery partitions-factorystate (recovery) vendor or Microsoft’s Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)

Question 7

Disk Management console supports

Answer 7

• Initializing disks- (MBR),(GUID),(GPT) how it’s stored.
• Partitioning- allocating disk space
• Formatting- file system: NTFS/FAT32
• Repartitioning- editing disk space
• Configuring dynamic disks- use multiple devices to implement RAID.

Question 8

Disk Maintenance Tools

Answer 8

*Fragmentation— non-contiguous clusters, reducing read performance.
* Capacity—boot volume has less than 20% free space, performance can be impaired.
* Damage—If the disk does not
recognize that a sector is damaged, files can become corrupted, by heat, power cut, impacts.

Question 9

Defragment and Optimize Drives tool (dfrgui.exe)

Answer 9

Can be done weekly:
* HDD-rewrites file data so that it occupies contiguous clusters
* SSD-stored in blocks that is TRIM by optimizer tool

Question 10

Task Scheduler

Answer 10

Windows can automatically schedules the disk optimizer to run

Question 11

Disk Clean-up (cleanmgr.exe)

Answer 11

tool tracks files that can be safely erased to reclaim disk space and can reclaimed by recyclable bin/cache/ temp files.

Question 12

Task Scheduler (tasksch.msc)

Answer 12

Windows’s processes come with predefined schedules

Question 13

Local Users and Groups (lusrmgr.msc)

Answer 13

provides an advanced interface for creating, modifying, disabling, reset passwords, permissions and deleting user accounts.

Question 14

Certificate Manager console (certmgr.msc)

Answer 14

shows which certificates have been installed/ provides a mechanism for requesting/
importing new certificates.

Question 15

Certificate Manager

digital certificate

Answer 15

means of proving the identity of a subject, such as a user, computer, or service.

Question 16

Certificate Manager

certification authority (CA)

Answer 16

The validity of each certificate is guaranteed by the issuing

Question 17

Encryption

Certificate Manager Subfolders

Answer 17

• Personal folder-stores the certificates that have been issued to the user account.
• Trusted Root Certification-Authorities contains a superset of the certificates of
  all issuers that are trusted
• Third-party Root Certification-contains trusted issuers from providers other than Microsoft or a local enterprise.

Question 18

Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)

Answer 18

is a Microsoft tool that allows administrators to configure settings for users and computers. These settings are called Group Policy Objects (GPOs).

Question 19

Registry Editor (regedit.exe)

Answer 19

Windows registry provides a remotely accessible database for storing operating
system, device, and software application configuration information.

Question 20

registry

Answer 20

is structured as a set of five root keys that contain computer and user databases.

Question 21

Registry Keys

Answer 21

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM)-governs system-wide settings.
• HKEY_USERS-individual user profiles.
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER-settings for logged in user.
• ETC

Question 22

registry database is stored in binary files called

Answer 22

hives

Question 23

A hive comprises

Answer 23

• single file (with no extension),
• .LOG file (containing a transaction log)
• a .SAV file (a copy of the key as it was at the end of setup).
• .ALT backup file

Question 24

hive (registry database)

C:\Windows\System32\Config
folder

Answer 24

Most of these hive files are stored in the

Question 25

Hive (regristry database)

(NTUSER.DAT)

Answer 25

hive file for each user profile

Question 26

Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

Answer 26

allows you to perform MMC customization and create a console with a personal selection of snap-ins. Ex. Device manage/Group policy are snap-ins.