Win 7 Config Study Guide Chapter 2

Question 1

You are the network administrator for your organization. You have a reference computer that runs Windows 7. You need to create and deploy an image of the Windows 7 computer. You create an answer file named answer.xml. You have to make sure that the installation applies the answer file after you deploy the image. Which command should you run before you capture the image?
A. Imagex.exe/append answer.xml/check
B. Imagex.exe/mount answer.xml/verify
C. Sysprep.exe/reboot/audit/unattend:answer.xml
D. Sysprep.exe/generalize/oobe/unattend:answer.xml

Answer 1

D. You would use the Sysprep utility. The /generalize options prevents system-specific information from being included in the image.

Question 2

You have a Windows 7 Windows Image (WIM) that is mounted. You need to view the list of third-party drivers installed on the WIM. What should you do?
A. Run DISM and specify the /get-drivers parameter.
B. Run Driverquery.exe and use the /si parameter.
C. From Device Manager, view all hidden drivers.
D. From Windows Explorer, open the mount folder.

Answer 2

A. The DISM utility with the /get-drivers switch allows you to find out which drivers are installed on the WIM.

Question 3

You are the network administrator for a large organization. You are in charge of developing a plan to install 200 Windows 7 computers in your company's data center. You decide to use WDS. You are using a Windows Server 2008 domain and have verified that your network meets the requirements for using WDS. What command-line utility should you use to configure the WDS server?
A.	ImageX
B.	WDSUTIL
C.	Setup.exe
D.	The WDS icon in Control Panel

Answer 3

B. WDSUTIL is a command-line utility that can be used to configure the WDS server. Several other configuration options need to be specified on the WDS server, and you can set them using WDSUTIL.

Question 4

Will is the network manager for a large company. He has been tasked with creating a deployment plan to automate installations for 100 computers that need to have Windows 7 installed. Will wants to use WDS for the installations. To fully automate the installations, he needs to create an answer file. Will does not want to create the answer files with a text editor. What other program can he use to create unattended answer files via a GUI interface?
A.	ImageX
B.	Answer Manager
C.	Windows System Image Manager
D.	System Preparation Tool

Answer 4

C. Windows System Image Manager (SIM) is used to create unattended answer files in Windows 7. It uses a GUI-based interface to set up and configure the most common options that are used within an answer file.

Question 5

Bob is using WDS to install 100 clients that are identically configured. The first 65 computers are installed with no problems. When he tries to install the other 35, the machines all receive a 169.254. x.x number along with an error. Which of the following would cause this failure?
A. The WDS server has been authorized to serve only 65 clients.
B. The WINS server is no longer available.
C. The DHCP server does not have enough IP addresses to allocate to the WDS clients.
D. The network bandwidth has become saturated.

Answer 5

C. To access the WDS server, the WDS clients must be able to access the DHCP server. Each WDS client will use an IP address from the DHCP server’s scope, so you should ensure that the DHCP server has enough addresses to accommodate all of the WDS clients.

Question 6

You run a training department that needs the same software installed from scratch on the training computers each week. You decide to use ImageX to deploy disk images. Which Windows 7 utility can you use in conjunction with ImageX to create these disk images?
A.	UAF
B.	Answer Manager
C.	Setup Manager
D.	System Preparation Tool

Answer 6

D. Once you have a reference computer installed, you can use the System Preparation Tool to prepare the computer to be used with disk imaging. ImageX is a utility that can be used to create a disk image after it is prepared using the System Preparation Tool. The image can then be transferred to the destination computer(s).

Question 7

You are trying to decide whether you want to use WDS as a method of installing Windows 7 within your company. Which of the following options is not an advantage to using a WDS automated installation?
A. The Windows 7 security is retained when you restart the computer.
B. Windows 7 installation media does not need to be deployed to each computer.
C. Unique information is stripped out of the installation image so that it can be copied to other computers.
D. You can quickly recover the operating system in the event of a system failure.

Answer 7

C. Unique information is stripped out of the installation image when you use the System Preparation Tool to create a disk image—for example, the unique SID that is applied to every computer. Unique information is then generated when the target computer is installed.

Question 8

You are the network manager of XYZ Corporation. You are in charge of developing an automated deployment strategy for rolling out new Windows 7 computers. You want to install a WDS server and are evaluating whether an existing server can be used as a WDS server for Windows 7 deployment. Which of the following is not a requirement for configuring the WDS server?
A. The remote installation folder must be NTFS version 3.0 or later.
B. The remote installation folder must reside on the system partition.
C. RIS must be installed on the server.
D. The existing server must run Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 installed.

Answer 8

B. When you configure your WDS server, the remote installation folder should not reside on the system partition.

Question 9

You are using WDS to install 20 Windows 7 computers. When the clients attempt to use WDS, they are not able to complete the unattended installation. You suspect that the WDS server has not been configured to respond to client requests. Which one of the following utilities would you use to configure the WDS server to respond to client requests?
A.	Active Directory Users and Computers
B.	Active Directory Users and Groups
C.	WDS MMC snap-in
D.	WDSMAN

Answer 9

C. You enable WDS servers to respond to client requests through the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. In the PXE Properties dialog box, enable the option Respond To Client Computers.

Question 10

You want to install a group of 25 computers using disk images created in conjunction with the System Preparation Tool. Your plan is to create an image from a reference computer and then copy the image to all the machines. You do not want to create an SID on the destination computer when you use the image. Which Sysprep.exe command-line option should you use to set this up?
A.	/specialize
B.	/generalize
C.	/oobe
D.	/quiet

Answer 10

B. The /generalize option prevents system-specific information from being included in the image. The Sysprep.exe command can be used with a variety of options. You can see a complete list by typing sysprep/? at a command-line prompt.

Question 11

You are planning on deploying 100 new Windows 7 computers throughout your company. Each new computer is similarly configured. You want to create a reference image that will then be applied to the remaining images. Which of the following utilities should you use?
A.	WDSUTIL
B.	Setup.exe
C.	Windows SIM
D.	ImageX

Answer 11

D. ImageX is a command-line utility that can be used to create and manage Windows 7 image (.wim) files. You can configure a reference installation as desired and then use ImageX to create an image of the installation that can then be deployed to the remaining computers.

Question 12

You are a network technician for your company, and you need to deploy Windows 7 to multiple computers. You want to automate the installation of Windows 7 so that no user interaction is required during the installation process. Which of the following utilities could you use?
A.	Windows SIM
B.	ImageX
C.	System Preparation Tool
D.	WDSUTIL

Answer 12

A. SIM is a graphical utility that can be used to create an answer file. Answer files can be used to automate the installation routine so that no user interaction is required.

Question 13

You want to initiate a new installation of Windows 7 from the command line. You plan to accomplish this by using the Setup.exe command-line setup utility. You want to use an answer file with this command. Which command-line option should you use?
A.	/unattend
B.	/apply
C.	/noreboot
D.	/generalize

Answer 13

A. The /unattend option can be used with the Setup.exe command to initiate an unattended installation of Windows 7. You should also specify the location of the answer file to use when using the Setup.exe utility.

Question 14

You have manually created an answer file that you want to use to deploy an image that you have previously created. Before deploying the image, you want to ensure that your answer file will work with the image. Which of the following tools could you use to validate the answer file?
A.	System Preparation Tool
B.	Windows SIM
C.	ImageX
D.	WDSUTIL

Answer 14

B. You can use the SIM tool to validate an answer file, even if the answer file was manually created in a text editor.

Question 15

You have created a Windows 7 image that you will copy to a DVD and deploy to several new computers. You want to use an answer file to automate the setup process. Where should the answer file be located so that you can use it during installation?
A.	On a network share
B.	On a WDS server
C.	On a separate DVD
D.	At the root of the DVD

Answer 15

D. During a DVD-based setup, an answer file can be used to automate the installation process. The Windows Setup program implicitly searches for an answer file in several locations, including the root of the DVD.

Question 16

You are planning on deploying a new Windows 7 image to 100 client computers that are similarly configured. You are using the Windows SIM tool to create an answer file that will be used to automate the installation process. You want each computer to contain two partitions, one for the system partition and one that will function as a data partition. You need to modify the answer file to support this configuration. Which component of the answer file will you need to modify?
A.	oobeSystem
B.	auditSystem
C.	Windows PE
D.	specialize

Answer 16

C. You would configure formatting and partitioning information in the Windows PE component of the answer file. The options specified in this configuration pass will occur before the image will be copied to the local computer.

Question 17

Your company has recently hired a new employee. You need to deploy Windows 7 on the new employee's computer. You have previously created a Windows 7 image using the ImageX utility and have successfully deployed it to other computers. You want to use ImageX to deploy the image to the new employee's computer. Which ImageX option will you need to use?
A.	/apply
B.	/capture
C.	/mount
D.	/verify

Answer 17

A. To deploy the Windows 7 image using ImageX, you will need to use the /applyoption. This option applies the selected image to a specified drive volume.

Question 18

You are using WDS to deploy Windows 7 images across your organization, and you are using the WDSUTIL command-line utility to perform this task. You want to copy a previously created image from the image store using this utility. Which option of WDSUTIL should you use?
A.	/move
B.	/copy-image
C.	/get
D.	/enable

Answer 18

B. You should use the /copy option of the WDSUTIL utility to copy an image from the image store.

Question 19

You are using the Windows SIM tool to create an answer file to be used when deploying new Windows 7 images. You are editing the configuration passes too so that the desired settings are entered during the installation process. You are currently editing the specialized component of the answer file. Which of the following information should you include in this component of the answer file?
A.	Hard-disk partitioning information
B.	Product key information
C.	Windows Welcome screen settings
D.	Domain and network settings

Answer 19

D. The specialized component of the answer file will contain information specific to the target computer, such as domain information and network settings.

Question 20

You have recently installed Windows 7 onto a reference computer that will be used to create an image that can then be deployed to sales employees’ computers. You have installed and configured several proprietary sales applications on the computer. You have previously used the System Preparation Tool to remove any system-specific information from the computer, and you plan to use ImageX to create the image from this reference computer. Which option of the ImageX utility can you use to accomplish your goal?
A.	/apply
B.	/capture
C.	/mount
D.	/verify

Answer 20

B. To create a Windows 7 image from a reference computer using the ImageX utility, you should use the /capture option. This option captures the image into a new WIM file.