Windows 8 and 8.1

Question 1

Windows 8/8.1 Minimum Requirements (x86)

Answer 1

Processor/CPU: 1 GHz processor with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Free Disk Space: 16 GB
Video: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

Question 2

Windows 8/8.1 Minimum Requirements (x64)

Answer 2

Processor/CPU: 1 GHz processor with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Free Disk Space: 20 GB
Video: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

Question 3

Windows 8/8.1 Core Edition

Answer 3

Windows Media Player: √
EFS: X
Bitlocker: X
Domain Member: X
AppLocker: X
BranchCache: X
Max x86 RAM: 4 GB
Max x64 RAM: 128 GB

Question 4

Windows 8/8.1 Pro Edition

Answer 4

Windows Media Player: √
EFS: √
Bitlocker: √
Domain Member: √
AppLocker: X
BranchCache: X
Max x86 RAM: 4 GB
Max x64 RAM: 512 GB

Question 5

Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise Edition

Answer 5

Windows Media Player: √
EFS: √
Bitlocker: √
Domain Member: √
AppLocker: √
BranchCache: √
Max x86 RAM: 4 GB
Max x64 RAM: 512 GB

Question 6

PAE

Answer 6

Physical Address Extension is a memory management feature for the x86 architecture

Question 7

SSE2

Answer 7

Intel single instruction multiple data processor supplementary instruction set.

Question 8

NX

Answer 8

No eXecute technology used in processors to prevent execution of certain types of code