Windows Tools Flashcards

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Windows tool that is used to monitor the computer’s key resources, like processing, memory, storage, and network capacity

A

Task Manager

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Windows tool used for investigating and troubleshooting system hardware, components, and peripherals

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Device Manager

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Windows tool that provides a summary of all the fixed and removable disks on the system, including HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives

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Disk Management Console

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4
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What Windows tool can Format disk drives, Create partitions, Shrink volumes, and Create RAIDs

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Disk Management Console

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5
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Disk fragmentation can only truly affect/benefit what kind of drives?

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Hard drives (HDD) because of the way data is written.
Disk fragmentation will shorten the lifespan of Solid State (SSD)

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6
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What are the 2 Disk Maintenance tools?

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) Disk defragmenter
2) Disk cleanup utility

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Windows tool used to run commands and scripts automatically in the background at any given interval.

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Task Scheduler

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8
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What do these switches do?
xcopy /s
xcopy /e
xcopy /h

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/s - copies the directories & subdirectories
/e - copies everything even if it’s empty
/h - copies hidden files and system files

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Windows tool used to run commands and scripts automatically in the background at any given interval.

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Event Viewer

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10
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Windows tool that provides the ability to create, modify, disable, and delete user accounts along with the setting or resetting of passwords.

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Local Users and Groups

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Windows tool that provides real-time information about system resources by keeping track of what things are happening in the operating system.

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Performance Monitor

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12
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Windows tool that provides a way of configuring different Windows settings across all machines in the network.

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Group Policy Editor

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Windows tool that looks at the different digital certificates installed on the system and provides a way of requesting and importing new certificates.

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Certificate Manager

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14
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Windows tool that produces a comprehensive report on the different pieces of hardware and software inside a Windows system.

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System Information

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15
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Windows tool that gives a better version of the type of monitoring provided by the task manager

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Resource Monitor

Resmon.exe

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16
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Windows tool used to modify various settings and files that affect the way a computer boots up and loads Windows

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System Configuration

MsConfig

17
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Windows tool that is a database which has all the different settings and configurations across the entire operating system.

A

Registry Editor

regedit

18
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Windows tool that is a container for plugins or snap-ins that can be used to create custom admin tool to configure a system

A

Microsoft Management Console