Windows Under the Hood

Question 1

What tool enables programmers to share objects between apps and computers?

Answer 1

Component Services

Question 2

If you need to register an important .DLL file as a command component in the registry, what command-line tool should you use?

Answer 2

regsvr32

Question 3

Which of the following root keys contains the data for a system’s non-user specific configurations?

Answer 3

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Question 4

Which of the two following are organized inside the Registry’s root keys?

Answer 4

1. Subkeys

2. Values

Question 5

What’s the name of the program that boots Windows?

Answer 5

Bootmgr

Question 6

How do you start up performance monitor?

Answer 6

perfmon.msc

Question 7

How do you open up services?

Answer 7

Services.msc in the search bar

Question 8

What is the name of the command line version of Task Manager?

Answer 8

tasklist

Question 9

How does Windows boot?

Answer 9

Bios looks for the MBR, which finds the boot code that launches bootmgr

Question 10

What are two ways to open the registry editor from the command prompt?

Answer 10

1. regedit

2. regedt32

Question 11

What’s the ODBC data source?

Answer 11

A protocol that you can use to connect a Microsoft Access database to an external data source- Such as Microsoft SQL Server

Question 12

When using performance monitor, which two settings are defined to track resource usage?

Answer 12

1. Objects

2. Counters

Question 13

Which of the following resources can be used by an Operating System (OS) to communicate with hardware?

Answer 13

1. System BIOS

2. Device Drivers

Question 14

What is the term that refers to a group of bits processed as a unit?

Answer 14

Word.

Question 15

1. What root key contains the current user settings, 2. And the personalized info for each user?

Answer 15

1. HKEY_CURRENT_USERS

2. HKEY_USERS