Windows Tools Flashcards
Windows tool that is used to monitor the computer’s key resources, like processing, memory, storage, and network capacity
Task Manager
Windows tool used for investigating and troubleshooting system hardware, components, and peripherals
Device Manager
Windows tool that provides a summary of all the fixed and removable disks on the system, including HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives
Disk Management Console
What Windows tool can Format disk drives, Create partitions, Shrink volumes, and Create RAIDs
Disk Management Console
Disk fragmentation can only truly affect/benefit what kind of drives?
Hard drives (HDD) because of the way data is written.
Disk fragmentation will shorten the lifespan of Solid State (SSD)
What are the 2 Disk Maintenance tools?
1) Disk defragmenter
2) Disk cleanup utility
Windows tool used to run commands and scripts automatically in the background at any given interval.
Task Scedular
What do these switches do?
xcopy /s
xcopy /e
xcopy /h
/s - copies the directories & subdirectories
/e - copies everything even if it’s empty
/h - copies hidden files and system files
Windows tool used to run commands and scripts automatically in the background at any given interval.
Task Schedular
Windows tool that allows you to go through log files and see what has happened on a given Windows system.
Event Viewer
Windows tool that provides the ability to create, modify, disable, and delete user accounts along with the setting or resetting of passwords.
Local Users and Groups
Windows tool that provides real-time information about system resources by keeping track of what things are happening in the operating system.
Performance Monitor
Windows tool that provides a way of configuring different Windows settings across all machines in the network.
Group Policy Editor
Windows tool that looks at the different digital certificates installed on the system and provides a way of requesting and importing new certificates.
Certificate Manager
Windows tool that produces a comprehensive report on the different pieces of hardware and software inside a Windows system.
System Information
Windows tool that gives a better version of the type of monitoring provided by the task manager
Resource Monitor
Windows tool used to modify various settings and files that affect the way a computer boots up and loads Windows
System Configuration Tool
Windows tool that is a database which has all the different settings and configurations across the entire operating system.
Registry Editor / Windows Registry
Windows tool that is a container for plugins or snap-ins that can be used to create custom admin tool to configure a system
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
An employee at Dion Training is complaining that every time they reboot their Windows 10 workstation a music application is loaded. Which of the following commands would you use to disable the program from starting up each time Windows reboots?
a) System Information
b) Task Manager
c) User Account Control
d) Event Viewer
b) Task Manager
Which of the tools should a technician NOT use with a solid-state device on a workstation?
a) Disk defragmenter
b) Performance monitor
c) Device manager
d) Disk cleanup
a) Disk defragmenter
A customer is complaining that there is are intermittent problems with their PC. As a technician, you don’t know exactly what the errors are, so which tool should you use to determine what errors have previously occurred?
a) System Information
b) Event Viewer
c) Device Manager
d) Performance Monitor
b) Event Viewer
What are the 4 main types of logs within Event Viewer?
1) System
2) Security
3) Application
4) Setup
Hierarchy order of log level severities from least to most critical
(Critical, Warning, Error, Verbose Information)
1) Information
2) Warning
3) Verbose
4) Error
5) Critical
