Windows Settings Flashcards
What actions can be performed inside the disk managment applet?
formatting disk drives, creating partitions, shrinking volumes, creating RAIDS etc
What does disk fragmentation most affect?
the hardrive, and this is because of the way data is written.
What is capacity on a disk drive?
the cap of data you are able to have on your disk.
What is storage damage ?
it can happen when you cut off power to a disk being read or written, or if you drop the device.
What is the task scheduler?
used to run commands and scripts automatically in the background at any given interval.
what are the five different severities in the event viewer that you should be aware of?
information, warning, verbose, error and critical
what is the performance monitor?
provides real time information about system resources by keeping track of what things are happening in the operating system
what is the local users and groups tool?
provides the ability to create, modify, disable and delete user accounts along with the setting
what is a group policy editor?
provides a way of configuring different windows settings across all machines in the network.
what is the certificate manager?
looks at the different digital certificates installed on the system and provides a way of requesting and importing new certificates.
what is the system information tool?
produces a comprehensive report on the different pieces of hardware and software inside a windows system.
what is the resource monitor?
gives a better version of the type of monitoring provided by the task manager.
what is the system configuration tool?
used to modify various settings and files that affect the way a computer boots up and loads Windows.
what is the registry editor?
a database which has all the different settings and configurations across the entire operating system.
what is the microsoft management console?
a container for plug ins or snap ins that can be used to create custom admin tools to configure a system.
