Windows XP Professional1. Match the following logon types with their descriptions: Interactive, Network, Service, Batch.
B. Interactive - 2, Network - 4, Service - 3, Batch - 1 C. Interactive - 2, Network - 3, Service - 1, Batch - 4 D. Interactive - 3, Network - 1, Service - 4, Batch - 2 E. Interactive - 4, Network - 3, Service - 2, Batch - 1
2. Your company just purchased a brand new Hewlett Packet HP 8150MFH network printer-it's sweet! After playing with all morning, you decide to finally turn it loose on the network. Almost immediately, the Trolls in accounting start printer Annual Reports for the board meeting next week. Two hours later, the printer is still spitting out paper at the astonishing rate of 32 pages per minute. Your boss, Mr. Smiles, is not amused. It seems that he sent a three page document to the printer and it still hasn't printed. After his 42nd phone call, you decide to put your network game of Diablo II on hold and change the printer settings. You want to ensure that documents Mr. Smiles send to the printer always get first consideration above all others. You decide to perform the following actions:
A. Create two separate logical printers that both point to the same physical printer. B. Name one printer 'Smiley' and configure it with the following options: Always available, Priority of 99, Print directly to printer. C. Name the other printer 'Trolls' and configure it with the following options: Available from 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm (you don't much like the Trolls), Priority of 1, Spool documents and start printing after last page is spooled. D. On 'Smiley' you set all permissions for the 'Everyone' group to DENY and set all permissions for Mr. Smiley to ALLOW. E. On 'Trolls' you remove the 'Everyone' group and grant the 'Trolls' group ALLOW permissions for 'Print' and 'Manage documents'.
3. Match the following types of Security Groups with their descriptions: a. Computer Local Group b. Domain Local Group c. Global Group d. Universal Group 1. Used for combining users who share a common access profile based on job function or business role. They can contain user accounts from the same domain and other global groups from the same domain, and can be granted permissions to any Windows 2000/XP computer in any domain in a forest. 2. Can be given permissions and user rights only to objects on computers within the domain. 3. Security groups that are specific to a computer and are not recognized elsewhere in the domain. 4. Used where there is a need to grant access to similar groups of accounts defined in multiple domains in a forest. Used only in multiple domain trees or forests that have a global catalog. They can contain groups from any domain, and can be used to grant access on any Windows 2000/XP computers in any domain in the forest. A. a - 3, b - 2, c - 1, d - 4 B. a - 4, b - 2, c - 1, d - 3 C. a - 2, b - 3, c - 4, d - 1 D. a - 1, b - 4, c - 3, d - 2
4. You are working with a computer that has had a catastrophic failure. You have already tried to use the Last Known Good configuration that that did not fix the problem. You tried to use the Recovery console, but you were not able to fix the problem using the Recovery Console either. Your last chance to get the system running again is to use the Automated System Recovery procedure. You start the computer and press the F2 key to get the ASR process going. When you attempt to restore the volumes, you find that the procedure does not succeed. What is the most likely reason for the problem? A. If Last Known Good does not work, the ASR procedure will not work B. The ASR .bkf file was on the C: drive C. You have to run ASR from the Recovery Console D. The backup file was not created within the last 10 days
5. After starting your Windows XP computer you noticed that it is not able to communicate with other computers on the network. You open a command prompt and type ipconfig /all and press ENTER and find that the computer is assigned the autonet address 169.254.0.25. You call up the network services manager and he tells you that the DHCP for your network segment was down a few minutes ago, but is now up. How can you immediate obtain a valid IP address for your computer? A. Use the ipconfig /displaynds command B. Use the ipconfig /flushdns command C. Use the ipconfig /renew command D. Use the ipconfig /showclassid command
6. You want to install Windows XP. You have selected a 3 GB partition onto which you will install Windows XP. The computer has 1 GB of RAM. After installing Windows XP, you notice that you have less than 800 MB of disk space on the partition. What is the most likely reason for the low amount of disk space? A. The default Windows XP installation takes about 3 GB of disk space B. The driver cache on this machine is inordinately large C. The page file accounts for 1.5 GB of disk space on this volume D. Windows XP always copies the installation files to the boot partition and leave them there for later use
7. Match the following types of built-in local security groups with their descriptions: a. Administrators
B. a - 6, b - 2, c - 3, d - 9, e - 5, f - 1, g - 10, h - 8, i - 7, j - 4 C. a - 6, b - 2, c - 7, d - 9, e - 5, f - 1, g - 10, h - 8, i - 3, j - 4 D. a - 6, b - 2, c - 3, d - 9, e - 4, f - 1, g - 10, h - 8, i - 7, j - 5
8. You want to take advantage of the multiple monitor feature in Windows XP. The computer has an AGP video card installed. You power down the computer and add a PCI video card. When you restart the computer and attempt to configure the second video card, you notice that it doesn't work at all. What can you do to fix this problem? A. Put the PCI card in the AGP slot B. Make the PCI card the primary adapter in the system BIOS C. Disable the AGP card and restart the computer D. Reinstall Windows XP
9. Concerning nesting of groups, which of the following statements are true?
B. 1, 3, 4, 6 C. 1, 4, 6 D. 1, 3, 5 E. 2, 3, 5, 6 F. None of these statements are true.
10. You are the network administrator for a small real estate company. The company recently purchased new computers that have Windows XP Professional preinstalled. The company does not have a domain controller and runs a workgroup environment. The users in the office need to share files over the network and be able to apply granular access permissions to files and folders on their computer. You begin to apply NTFS permissions to the files and folders and notice that there is no security tab in the folder's properties dialog box. Why? A. Windows XP does not support NTFS B. File sharing is supported only on FAT32 volumes C. You cannot apply NTFS permissions on shared folders and files D. Simple File Sharing is enabled
11. Your boss, Mr. Smiles has directed you to create network shares out of some existing folders on some of your network file servers. You decide to research the task before you begin. Which one of the following items do you not learn during the course of your research? A. You can share folders, but not files. Files located in shared folders inherit the permissions of the folder. B. Share permissions are added to NTFS permissions to determine the final permissions on a share during over the network access. C. If you copy a shared folder, the copy will not be shared. D. If you move a shared folder, it will remain shared. E. In order to be able to share a folder, you must be a member of the Administrators, Power Users or Server Operators group or have been granted the Create Permanent Shared Objects right. F. In order to be able to share a folder, you must have at least READ permission on the folder.
12. OK, so it's Thursday now and you've managed to make it this far through the week, although you have no idea. Today you have to make a Power Point presentation to the Executive Board as to why you need an OC-12 fiber line put in just for the IT department. You've spent all morning finishing up your presentation and have now transferred it to your laptop. The board room where you will be giving your presentation is an odd one at that. There is only one power outlet in the whole place. One plug on the outlet is taken up by the projector you will be hooking your laptop up to, the other plug is currently in use by the most important piece of hardware your company owns (at least in the mind of the boss), the Sub Zero refrigerator. You will not be using your laptop display screen at all during the presentation and you will be using your USB Microsoft optical mouse. What is the best way to configure your laptop to ensure that you have enough to power to complete the entire presentation without limiting your ability? A. Select the 'Max Battery' setting in Power Options and configure nothing more. B. Select the 'Always On' setting in Power Options and configure nothing more. C. Select the 'Presentation' setting in Power Options and change the settings as follows: Turn off monitor - 5 minutes. D. Select the 'Portable/Laptop' setting in Power Options and configure nothing more. E. Select the 'Always On' setting in Power Options and change the settings as follows: System hibernates - 30 minutes. F. Select the 'Presentation' setting in Power Options and configure nothing more.
13. You have a new computer that has four USB ports available on the motherboard. You have installed Combat Flight Simulator 2 and want to use a USB joystick with the application. You plug the USB interface of the joystick into the USB port on the computer and notice that the operating system does not detect a new Plug and Play device. You restart the computer and the joystick is still not recognized. What is the most likely reason for this problem? A. The joystick should be plugged into another USB port B. The USB interface has not been enabled in the BIOS C. You must use a USB hub for USB joysticks; they cannot be plugged in directly D. Windows XP does not support USB joysticks
14. You use an always-on cable modem connection and the Internet Connection Services (ICS) to connect your home network to the Internet. Because your work requires a lot of travel, you would like to be able to connect to your Remote Desktop over the Internet while you're on the road. What port number is used by the connection for inbound access to your Remote Desktop computer on your internal network? A. 119 B. 389 C. 829 D. 3389
15. In planning for the deployment of Windows XP across your organization, it has become apparent to you that some form of automated installation could benefit you by speeding up the process and ensuring a consistent deployment across all machines. Which of the following statements about Windows XP automated installation processes is not true? A. When using SYSPREP, the source and destination computers must have compatible Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs). B. To use Remote Installation Services (RIS), you require the following on the network: a DHCP server, a DNS server, Active Directory, and a RIS server with at least two FAT partitions. C. Windows XP Product Activation can be accomplished during an unattended installation by the use of an answer file and a Uniqueness Database File. D. Windows XP Product Activation can be accomplished during an unattended installation by the use of an answer file and a Uniqueness Database File.
16. While upgrading one of your Windows 2000 Professional machines to Windows XP Professional, you get a dialog box with the following text: 'The currently installed driver for the NETBEUI Transport Protocol is not compatible with Microsoft Windows XP and will be uninstalled during the upgrade. This protocol is removed from this new version of Windows.' This comes as quite an upsetting bit of news to your boss, Mr. Smiles as he's real big on sticking with the tried and true protocols-despite the obvious drawbacks. How will you go about installing the NetBEUI protocol back onto your Windows XP Professional machines so you can get Mr. Smiles off your back and get back to your real reason for being at work: playing network games of Quake III Arena? A. Install it from the Windows 2000 Setup CD-ROM. B. Um, you can't! Duh, that's why they took it away after all. C. Download and install it from the Windows Update web site. D. Install it from the Windows XP Setup CD-ROM.
17. You have a couple of workstations that seem to constantly wind up corrupted all on there own. Since you have recently installed Windows XP on all workstations in your company, you decide to look into using the System Restore feature of Windows XP to help alleviate this problem, or least save you time recovering these workstations. Which of the following is not true about System Restore? A. During a System Restore, personal files such as those in the My Documents folder are not overwritten. B. System Restore can be turned off on only the system volume in a multi-volume machine, if desired. C. System Restore points can be created manually in addition to those created on a daily basis. D. System Restore points are created automatically upon the installation of an application that uses the Windows Installer or Install Shield Pro version 7.0. E. System Restore can be used in Safe Mode. F. System Restore can be managed via Group Policy Object settings.
18. You have decided to implement roaming profiles with folder redirection on your network. Which of the following statements is not true concerning roaming profiles and folder redirection in a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain with Windows XP Professional clients? A. A user profile contains a portion of the Registry that contains settings such as those for Windows Explorer, taskbar settings, network printer and application settings. B. User profiles, by default, are located on a network server. C. User profiles, when used with folder redirection, provide an effective and transparent way to ensure all user data is backed up regularly. D. Roaming profiles can be prevented from propagating back to the network server, if desired by the Administrator to ensure consistency. E. The Application Data, Desktop, My Documents, and Start Menu folders can all be redirected using folder redirection.
19. Windows XP Professional is the BEST thing to ever come to your help desk. Your help desk personnel absolutely love it. Why? Remote Assistance. Now instead of having to generate a trouble call ticket to be attended to later, in person, they can simply generate the trouble call (for tracking purposes, of course) and connect to the users machine via Remote Assistance and solve most problems. Which of the following statements about Remote Assistance are true?
B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 C. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10 D. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 E. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10
20. The Trolls in accounting have a problem. Who would have figured that would happen? They have a super-secret database that only the department manager (affectionately known as 'Troll Superior') and his assistant ('Mini Troll', of course) can be allowed to access. The Trolls are keeping the database on a local machine, which is running Windows XP Professional. They have also mentioned that file encryption would be nice to have. Which of the following actions will is not a good part of the solution? A. Place the database file in a special directory and name it something like 'TrollSecure$'. B. On the new directory, remove the 'Everyone' group and add the 'TrollBigWig' group with full control permissions. C. Using the account of 'Troll Superior', set the Advanced properties of the folder to encrypt the folder, subfolder and files. D. Tell the Trolls you cannot encrypt the folder or file because then they would have to both use the same logon credentials, which makes 'Troll Superior' cringe. E. Using the account of 'Troll Superior', add the user certificate for 'Mini Troll' to the encryption details for the database file.
21. Dynamic Disks are your bread and butter. Around the office, you've acquired the name 'Dynamic Dirk' due to love of Dynamic Disks. Your newest junior Administrator, in an effort to impress you (it's performance review time), comes running up to you in the hallway outside your hot tub room (it's been a good year) and wants to tell you all about Dynamic Disks. Which of the following things that she tells you is wrong? A. Dynamic Disks are supported under all versions of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. B. Dynamic Disks are not supported on portable computers that are ACPI compliant. C. Dynamic Disks are not recommend or supported on non-ACPI compliant portable computers. D. Dynamic Disks are not available on hard drives with sectors larger than 512 bytes. E. Windows 2000 Servers running with Dynamic Disks can take advantage of mirroring.
22. One of your older desktop machines (OLD_MAN_42) has been experiencing a lot of problems lately. It seems to spontaneously slow down to a crawl, sometimes stopping services altogether and other times it appears to have no problems at all. You would like to configure the Performance monitor to track items that you are interested in. You suspect that the problem with the machine is either memory or processor related. What counters should you add to best troubleshoot and diagnose the problems with OLD_MAN_42?
B. 1, 3, 4, 5 C. 1, 2, 6 D. 1, 3, 4, 6 E. 2, 4, 5, 6
23. You are the forgetful type sometimes. As if that weren't bad enough, you have a bad habit of taking naps while using your laptop. Last time you take a nap, you were on a plane flying cross-country. Needless to say, by the time you woke up your laptop had shut down and vaporized the Power Point presentation that you were to give the next morning-to your company's biggest customer, for what was to a be $42 gazillion order. To make a long story short, you didn't sleep much that night. You want to prevent this sort of 'thing' from happening again, so you ask your Network Administrator if he can help you configure some sort of option in your laptop's Windows XP setting to help you should you fall asleep again. Shrugging his shoulders as he puts his game of Diablo II on hold, he agrees to help you with your problem. After all, the more the company sells, the more toys he can buy for the IT department. Which of the following things would be the best that he could do to help you with your 'problem'?
B. 1, 2, 3, 4 C. 3, 4, 6 D. 1, 3, 6 E. 1, 2, 5 F. None of the above would be fine.
24. It's really been one of those weeks. On Monday your Porsche 911 got towed. On Tuesday your dog ran away. Today, Wednesday, finds you in you fetal position in the back corner of your office. The slamming of the door against the wall awakens you from your dream, where the answer was always 42 regardless of the question. You raise your head to see your Backup Administrator (who just hired last Thursday) standing over you with an unhappy face. You wonder if giving her the lint out of left pocket will make her go away, but decide against it as she tells you that the Accounting department file server just exploded (you really are beginning to hate those Trolls) and a replacement one is being sent up from the store room. You wonder who had the foresight to have a backup machine on hand while the Backup Administrator pleads with you to help her restore the system; she's new after all. You have a backup place in place and the last five backups have been done as follows:
A. 4, 5, 3, 2, 1 B. 1, 2, 3, 5, 4 C. 3, 5, 4 D. 4, 5, 3 E. 3, 1, 2, 5, 4
25. Having finally finished getting your Windows 2000 Active Directory domain up and running, you have been tasked with implementing software distribution via Group Policy. Which of the following software distribution methods does not exist? A. Assigning software to users. B. Publishing software to computers. C. Assigning software to computers. D. Publishing software to users.
26. In your small office, you only have six machines, all workstations arranged in a peer-to-peer arrangement. Because money is tight you only have one Internet connection. You have a broadband connection to the Internet because your company does Web site design and often times transfers several hundred MB of data in a single day up or down. You would like to configure Windows XP to allow all six computers to be able to access the Internet without buying any extra hardware. You do have several extra network adapter cards sitting in the closet for a rainy day. All of your computers set up to obtain an IP address automatically, which results in them making use of APIPA and are connected to each other via an 8 port hub. Additionally, you would like to enable some sort of firewall protection for your network. How can you enable all six computers to connect to the Internet in the most economical and easy to administer way? A. Install Windows 2000 Server on one of the workstations and then install and configure NAT. Install a second network adapter card in the Server and connect one adapter to the hub and the second adapter to the broadband connection. Install and configure Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 on the machine. B. Move the CAT5 cable from the broadband modem to each computer as required to enable each one to connect to the Internet. C. Install a second network adapter in one of the workstations. Connect one adapter to the broadband modem and the other one to the hub. Configure Internet Connection Sharing on this computer. Configure Internet Connection Firewall on the ICS Host machine. D. Install a second network adapter in one of the workstations. Connect one adapter to the broadband modem and the other one to the hub. Configure Internet Connection Sharing on this computer. Configure Internet Connection Firewall on each machine in your workgroup. E. Sign up for six accounts on one of the 'Premier' free Internet dial-up companies. Connect all computers to the Internet via their dial-up accounts. F. Connect the broadband modem to the uplink port on the hub and then connect the six computers to six other ports on the hub.
27. You just installed an unsigned driver (shame on you!) and now your computer is acting like it has a hemorrhage. You have the following options available to you to correct the problem. Which one should you not use? A. Reboot the computer into Safe Mode and uninstall the driver that you know is causing the problem. B. Reboot the computer, log in and use the Driver Rollback feature of Windows XP. C. Reboot the computer into Safe Mode and use the Last Known Good Configuration option. D. Without rebooting the computer, use the Driver Rollback feature of Windows XP. E. Reboot the computer and apply the last backup to it. F. Reboot the computer and apply the last System Restore to it.
28. It's a tragedy-it really is. After working for Vogon Heavy Industries for 3 years straight (straight = no days off), your boss granted you two days of personal leave. It seems that over this time, your snow skiing skills have certainly degraded. While screaming downhill on the a double diamond run (doing your best imitation of Sonny Bono), you abruptly remember what it feels like to wipe out. Three days later you wake up in your bed, both legs in casts, and see your girlfriend shaking her head and muttering something about how is she supposed to make her Lamborghini payment now? The phone rings and you hear your boss, Mr. Smiles, saying that you have been granted permission to work from home via Remote Desktop-but only if you make it as secure as possible. You tell Mr. Smiles what you plan to do to make this happen. What do you not tell him? A. Set the 'Set client connection encryption level' Group Policy setting to HIGH LEVEL. B. Set the 'Always prompt client for password upon connection' Group Policy setting to ENABLED. C. Set the 'Do not allow clipboard redirection' Group Policy setting to ENABLED. D. Set the 'Do not allow keyboard shortcuts ' Group Policy setting to ENABLED. E. Set the 'Do not allow client printer redirection' Group Policy setting to ENABLED. F. Set the 'Do not allow driver redirection' Group Policy setting to ENABLED.
29. You want to optimize the security on your files and folders that are stored on a file server in your department so you encrypt the files using the encrypting file system. You want to work on these files at home, so you email them to your private email address so that you can pick up the mail when you get home. A couple days later your credit card company calls you about a number of unauthorized purchases that had been made with your credit card number. This number was included in the spreadsheets. How did the hacker access the information in your private files? A. The hacker intercepted the email message as it moved over the public network B. The hacker must have cracked the EFC algorithm C. Files with the .eml file extension cannot be encrypted D. You cannot email files that are encrypted, you must decrypt the file manually, and then attach the file to an email message
30. You like to spend your spare time reading (when your not playing network games of Quake III or sitting in your hot tub). Today, you've been reading about NTFS under Windows XP. Which of the following did you not read about? A. File encryption B. Multiple data streams C. File compression D. Sparse file support E. NTFS change journal F. Compatible with Windows NT 4.0 SP 3 G. Volume shadow copy
31. Your boss, Mr. Hand, has asked you to research how the uninstall feature of Windows XP Professional works. After you have completed your research for Mr. Hand, which item will you not be able to truthfully tell him? A. The uninstall feature works if the hard-drive has been converted to NTFS or to a dynamic disk. B. The uninstall feature is supported for Windows 98. C. The uninstall feature is supported for Windows Millennium Edition. D. The uninstall feature requires about 300 MB of free hard-drive space. E. If an application has been installed after the installation of Windows XP, it will have to be reinstalled following the restoration of the previous Operating System.
32. Between network games of Quake III Arena you decide to run to the employee lounge to get a caffeine fill-up. While there, you overhear someone talking about a new feature of Windows XP called 'Volume Shadow Copy'. You decide you should do some research on this topic as you must maintain the god-like appearance in the company. What information do you find out about Volume Shadow Copy during your research? A. A computer can be backed up while applications and services are running. B. Files are not skipped during the backup process as they are during a normal backup procedure. C. Files open at the time of the shadow copy appear closed on the shadow copy volume. D. The need for scheduling a backup window is eliminated. E. None of the above. F. All of the above.
33. Match the following access control terms with their definitions: a. Security Principal
B. a - 3, b - 6, c - 1, d - 5, e - 9, f - 7, g - 2, h - 4, i - 8 C. a - 1, b - 6, c - 5, d - 3, e - 9, f - 7, g - 2, h - 4, i - 8 D. a - 8, b - 7, c - 6, d - 3, e - 5, f - 6, g - 4, h - 2, i - 1 E. a - 3, b - 6, c - 5, d - 1, e - 9, f - 7, g - 2, h - 4, i - 8 F. 42. The answer is always 42.
34. You have installed Windows XP onto a FAT32 partition. You later decide to convert the FAT32 partition into an NTFS partition. The conversion to NTFS completes without incident. You want to apply high security to the computer by using security templates. Which template should you apply first? A. hisecdc.inf B. setup security.inf C. compatws.inf D. securedc.inf
35. You wish to use the Plus! Pack MP3 converter to convert some licensed music files in .wma format to the MP3 format. You also want to increase the bit rate from 128kbps to 64kbps during the conversation to reduce the files size, and place the new files in a different folder. However, as you attempt the conversion, you find that it fails. Why did the conversion of the files fail? A. You cannot convert files from .wma to MP3 format B. The licensed files cannot be copied to another files, regardless of conversion C. You cannot convert licensed files to a lower bit rate and place the converted files into a different folder D. The Plus! Pack converter only converts to higher bit rates
36. Which one of the computers below cannot be directly upgraded to Windows XP? A. Computer One: Pentium II 400, 128 MB RAM, 4.1 GB hard-drive with 2.4 GB free space, Windows Millennium Edition B. Computer Two: Pentium 233, 64 MB RAM, 2 GB hard-drive with 1.5 GB free space, Windows 98 C. Computer Three: Pentium II 450, 128 MB RAM, 6.4 GB hard-drive with 4.5 GB free space, Windows NT 3.51 D. Computer Four: Pentium 300, 64 MB RAM, 3.2 GB hard-drive with 1.8 GB free space, Windows NT 4.0
37. You are attempting to troubleshoot TCP/IP on your Windows XP desktop machine. Using the IPCONFIG command, what can be done?
B. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 C. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 D. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
38. You've been reading recently about the new security features of Internet Explorer 6.0. You are really interested in preventing your users from using ActiveX controls and also from downloading files from certain web sites. What configuration options do you have to prevent the downloading, installing and running of all ActiveX controls and also preventing your users from downloading files from web sites you specify?
B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 C. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 D. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 E. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
39. Your company sells construction equipment. It's not the normal, every day type of construction equipment that you can find everywhere else though. Your company sells specialty equipment used to build hyper-space bypasses, and thanks to the Vogons recent galactic expansion plans, business is good. Your bosses, Frankie and Benjy (their white mice, by the way), are security fanatics and have decided to implement Smart Card usage for all traveling sales people; after all, not all species take kindly to having their planet destroyed to make room for another hyper-space bypass. Which of the following statements are untrue when talking about Smart Cards?
B. 4, 7 C. 2, 3, 5, 6 D. 3, 4, 7 E. 5, 7 F. 1, 3, 6, 7
40. You are in the early stages of planning an upgrade from Windows 98 desktops to Windows XP Professional. You have done all of your homework and decided now is the time to upgrade; the Group Policy Objects are just to tempting to pass up. Besides you are past being tired when it comes to dealing with Windows 98's most famous feature: the Blue Screen of Death. A large part of the migration will be to migrate users settings over to the new Operating System. To do this, you decide to make use of the User State Migration Tool (USMT). Which of the following items is not true concerning USMT? A. USMT can be used to migrate settings from Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition. B. USMT can be used to migrate settings from Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. C. USMT cannot be used in command line scripts, as it is a GUI driven utility. D. USMT requires a network store to hold the temporary files created during the migration process. E. You can customize what files and settings USMT migrates.
41. Barney wants to add some old 2 GB hard drives to his existing Windows XP box, and would like to test out XP's software RAID capabilities. Which of the following commands should he use to make sure he has the right sized sectors when converting from a Basic disk to a Dynamic disk? A. autochk B. chkdsk C. diskpart D. fixprnsv
42. Kent has added a new 64MB AGP video card to his new Windows XP computer. He would like to tweak the setting for it and review the configurations. Where can he access this in Windows XP? (Choose all that apply) A. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface B. Device Manager C. Sound and Video Devices D. Advanced button on Display Properties Settings Tab E. Unknown Device Wizard
43. Abe has an Athlon 1.2 GHz / 512 MB RAM / 60 GB HDD machine with Windows XP. He keeps his PC running 24 hours a day as he keeps an erratic office schedule. He is constantly working on projects away from his desktop, and is sometimes on the road. Shutting off his PC completely is detrimental to Abe's work, as he is too much of a workaholic to wait for it to boot back up. However, since you are trying to keep costs down for the IT department, you'd like him to turn off the PC, as well as keep the PC from too much wear and tear. What is the most efficient solution for this issue? A. Use the Always On power scheme, and have Abe turn off the monitor when he is away from his desk. B. Set the computer on Standby so that the computer uses less power. C. Set the computer to hibernate automatically at midnight every day of the week so it consumes less power. D. Use the Minimal Power Management power scheme, so that the monitor will turn off, but the hard disk doesn't.
44. You are the network administrator at the headquarters for a toy manufacturer in Chicago, Illinois. The manufacturing plant is in South Bend, Indiana. You need to manage disks on a computer in the plant; so you must first create a custom console. What do you need to do in order to create a custom console? A. Start --> Run --> DISKADMIN B. Start --> Run --> DISKMAN C. Start --> Run --> MMC D. Start --> Run --> CON
45. A user calls the helpdesk complaining that their new installation of Windows XP has a "funny looking Start Menu" that is too big and that he can't find his programs. The user wants you to fix the problem so that his Start Menu looks like the one he had on his Windows 98 system. How would you fix it? A. Unlock the Taskbar B. Unpin extra items from the Start Menu to make it smaller C. Set the system to use the Classic Start Menu D. Set the system to use the Windows XP Start Menu
46. A user calls the helpdesk complaining that their clock has disappeared from their taskbar. They are running a Windows XP Professional desktop that is participating in Active Directory. When you take control of their desktop using Remote Assistance the clock is indeed missing. You try to restore it by right-clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Properties, but the option for "Show the clock" is missing from the Taskbar tab of the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog. A. The clock was not installed during Windows XP setup. Add the clock through Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel B. If the "Show the clock" option is missing the option has been disabled through Group Policy and cannot be enabled on the desktop C. This option can only be configured through the Date, Time, Language, and Regional problems applet in the Windows XP control panel D. The clock is not available in many Windows XP desktop themes - suggest to the user that they use the Windows Classic scheme instead
47. You are responsible for providing technical support for a publicly accessible computer lab at Springfield Community College. One evening a visually disabled student comes to you to ask for help. She has been using a Windows XP desktop that has been specifically configured with a high-contrast color scheme and enlarged text through Windows Accessibility Options. She is a diabetic and has to leave the computer occasionally to inject insulin or check her blood sugar. Her problem is that the computer seems to reset itself while she is gone and the Accessibility Options turn off. How can you stop the computer from doing this? A. Increase the amount of time before the Windows Screen Saver activates B. Increase the amount of time before the Accessibility Options are disabled through the Accessibility Wizard C. Increase the amount of time before the Accessibility Options are disabled through the Utility Manager D. Increase the amount of time before the Accessibility Options are disabled through the Accessibility Options in the Control Panel
48. You work for a company located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. While French is the official language where your company is located, the majority of your company's clients prefer to receive their business communications in English. You need to configure all Windows XP computers in the company so that they can be toggled back and forth between English and French easily depending on which language and keyboard the user needs at the time. Which approach is the least troublesome for your users? A. Install both English (Canada) and French (Canada) as input languages with English as the default. Place a language icon in the Notification Area and instruct your users to toggle between languages using this icon B. Install both English (Canada) and French (Canada) as input languages with French as the default. Place a language icon on the taskbar and instruct your users to toggle between languages using this icon C. Install both English (Canada) and French (Canada) as input languages with English as the default. Instruct your users to toggle between languages using the Regional and Language options applet in the Control Panel D. Install both English (Canada) and French (Canada) as input languages with French as the default. Instruct your users to toggle between languages using the Regional and Language options applet in the Control Panel
49. A user complains that every time she opens more than four or five Web browser windows at the same time they all group onto one button on the Taskbar. She wants to know how to stop the buttons from automatically grouping together on her Windows XP system as it makes it much harder for her to toggle between Windows quickly. What should you recommend to her? A. Unlock the Taskbar to prevent the buttons from "locking" to each other B. Choose the Windows Classic scheme to revert to pre-Windows XP desktop behavior C. Uncheck the "Group similar buttons" option in the Taskbar properties D. This is default behavior in Windows XP - it cannot be changed
50. Your manager has asked you to prevent the staff in your department from modifying their desktop settings. All desktops are running Windows XP Professional and are members of a Windows NT 4.0 security domain. Users all logon with their own accounts as each has varying levels of access to domain resources including a file server named FILE1. You want to put your new policy in place with the minimum amount of effort. What should you do? A. Force all users to login with the same account. Set the profile path on that account to \\FILE1\UserProfiles\%Username%. Login as a user and configure the desktop as desired. Next, rename the USER.DAT file you find in the profile path folder to USER.MAN B. Set the profile path on all user accounts to \\FILE1\UserProfiles\%Username%. Login as a user and configure the desktop as desired. Next, rename the USER.DAT file you find in the profile path folder belonging to the account you just used, rename it to USER.MAN, and copy it to the other user profile folders. C. Force all users to login with the same account. Set the profile path on that account to \\FILE1\UserProfiles\%Username%. Login as a user and configure the desktop as desired. Next, rename the NTUSER.DAT file you find in the profile path folder to NTUSER.MAN D. Set the profile path on all user accounts to \\FILE1\UserProfiles\%Username%. Login as a user and configure the desktop as desired. Next, rename the NTUSER.DAT file you find in the profile path folder belonging to the account you just used, rename it to NTUSER.MAN, and copy it to the other user profile folders.
51. A user phones the helpdesk to complain that icons keep appearing and then disappearing out of the bottom right-hand corner of her computer screen. She's worried that somebody may have slipped a virus onto her system and that it is doing things to her computer when the icons move around. What should you do? A. Run a virus scan on her system immediately B. Have her take notes on which program icons are appearing and disappearing to help you diagnose the problem C. Have her take notes on which programs are running when the icons appear and disappear to help you diagnose the problem D. Explain that Windows XP automatically hides the icons for programs that aren't being used in order to avoid cluttering up the Notification Area
52. You need to deploy Microsoft Excel to the Windows XP Professional desktops in your accounting department. It must be installed on each machine regardless of who is using it. All machines are members of a Windows 2000 domain and belong to the Accounting OU. How can you install the software with the minimum required effort? A. Make sure all computers that must receive the software are in the Accounting OU. Assign an .MSI installer package for Excel to all machines in the Accounting OU through Group Policy B. Make sure all users that must receive the software are in the Accounting OU. Assign an .MSI installer package for Excel to all users in the Accounting OU through Group Policy C. Make sure all computers that must receive the software are in the Accounting OU. Publish an .MSI installer package for Excel to all machines in the Accounting OU through Group Policy D. Make sure all users that must receive the software are in the Accounting OU. Publish an .MSI installer package for Excel to all users in the Accounting OU through Group Policy
53. The vice president of sales wants your help configuring his Windows XP Professional laptop to use the DualView feature so that he can expand his display across both the LCD projector in the meeting room and his computer laptop display. You configure DualView for the VP and see him off to his meeting. After the meeting he calls to ask if there is any way to set the LCD Projector as the primary display at the next meeting instead of his laptop display. What should you tell him? A. He can only choose the primary display when using DualView on a desktop computer B. He can only choose the primary display if both video adapters use the AGP interface C. He can configure the primary display through the Display applet in Control Panel D. He cannot configure a primary display when using DualView
54. Tori has XP Professional on her PC. She is the network administrator for a piano company with 236 clients: 100 Windows 2000, 10 Windows 95, 100 Windows 98, 20 NT 4 with SP6 boxes, and 6 XP machines. She would like to use Remote Desktop to manage end-user desktop issues without having to run all over the company. What is the most likely scenario? A. She will only be able to use Remote Desktop on the six XP clients B. She will have to install a Terminal Server to reach all the clients C. She can install the Remote Desktop Connection software from the XP CD but only on the Windows 98, 2000, and XP clients D. She can install the Remote Desktop Connection software from the XP CD to all the clients
55. You have a user that works at different computers in a department but requires the same desktop settings at each computer. What kind of profile would you create to allow the user to keep her settings regardless of which computer she uses? All computers run Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional. A. Roaming profile B. Mandatory profile C. Hardware profile D. Recognition profile
56. An arthritic user in your organization is having trouble logging onto his system because his condition makes it impossible to use the CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination. You want to configure his system to allow him to enter key combinations one key at a time. Which Accessibility Option feature should you configure? A. Mouse keys B. Sticky keys C. Filter keys D. On-screen keyboard
57. You are responsible for a Windows XP Professional computer. The computer is used by several users and belongs to a local workgroup. The system contains corporate information and you do not want the any users other than yourself to have access to network resources while using the system. What group policy can be used to restrict users from browsing the network and using My Network Places? A. No My Network Places B. No "Entire Network" In My Network Places C. No "Network Connections:" In My Network Places D. No "Virtual Private Network" in Network Connections
58. You are the network administrator for Burns Enterprises. You have been asked to setup a closed network that is not accessible from the Internet; you want to use a network protocol other than TCP/IP. There are only seven Windows XP Professional systems on the network and the users of this new network are in two different offices. Proposed Solution: Setup the network using the NetBEUI networking protocol Configure a Cisco 2600 router to connect the two groups of computers Which statement is true of the proposed solution? A. The proposed solution would not meet requirements B. The proposed solution will allow users to share files, but is accessible from the Internet C. The proposed solution meets the requirements D. The proposed solution would allow users on the far side of the router to browse the network only
59. You have one computer on your network that uses an unqualified computer name of Saturn in the primary domain. The fully qualified computer name doesn't exist in the parent domain of Sales.com. You must set your Windows XP systems to resolve the computer name of Saturn. What should be configured in the TCP/IP advanced settings on the Windows XP systems to do this? A. Append Primary And Connection Specific DNS Suffixes B. Append Parent Suffixes Of The Primary DNS Suffix C. Append These DNS Suffixes D. DNS Server Addresses, In Order Of Use
60. In TCP/IP, what are the numbers of bits used for the network and host portions of a Class B IP address? A. 8, 24 B. 24, 8 C. 16, 24 D. 16, 16
61. You are responsible for laptops on your corporate network. Your users work on laptop computers with Windows XP Professional at both their office and at home. Users often complain that when they get home the files that are setup for use offline are not the most current version. What can you do to resolve this problem? A. Create a local folder for synchronized files and use Windows Explorer to copy them before you go home each day. B. Use Offline Files and configure synchronization for full mode. C. Make sure the files you have setup to synchronize do so when you log on and log off. D. Use the Windows task scheduler the copy the files locally every day 15 minutes before you leave.
62. You need to install Windows XP Professional on a computer that contains Windows 98. You want to configure the system to dual boot both operating systems. What must you do to allow this? A. Install Widows XP Professional in a separate directory and do nothing. The computer will automatically allow a dual boot. B. Install Windows XP Professional in a separate directory and add the option to boot to Windows 98 in the boot.ini file. C. Install Windows XP Professional in a separate directory and delete the old boot.ini file. D. Create a new directory in the existing system folder called I386 and do nothing. The computer will automatically allow dual boot.
63. Your company, Krusty Enterprises, has purchased several new computers with Windows XP Professional. The computers are going to be stand-alone systems and are not going to be connected to the corporate network. When setting up the systems what should you choose to make the computers a member of when prompted? A. Domain B. Workgroup C. Peer to peer workgroup D. Local Domain
64. You are the administrator of a peer-to-peer network consisting of all Windows XP Professional computers. One computer is setup to store all your database files for the network. You will be adding 10 new users and are unsure how much drive space you will need to accommodate all the users. What is the best way to configure storage on the system that contains the database files? A. Install one or more new hard drives on the system and create a spanned volume. B. Create a RAID 5 and add additional hard drives when necessary. C. Create a RAID 0 and add additional hard drives when necessary. D. Create a new folder on the system and have all users copy their data to the new folder. When the data is copied compress the folder.
65. You need to move some files from one computer to another in a peer-to-peer network. Both systems run Windows XP Professional and both of the folders you are copying from are formatted in NTFS. What will happen to the NTFS permissions of the files moved? A. The original NTFS permissions will be retained until the administrator takes ownership of the file and removed the original permissions. B. All files moved will keep their original NTFS permissions. C. The files cannot be copied until all of the NTFS permissions are removed. D. All files moved will lose all of their original NTFS permissions and inherit all of the inheritable NTFS permissions from the new folder.
66. You are the administrator of a Windows 2000 network that uses static IP addressing. You want to modify your structure and have a DHCP server assign IP addresses automatically. How can you modify the workstations running Windows XP Professional in order to be configured to use the new DHCP server? A. Setup APIPA on each workstation. B. Right click on My Network Places icon and choose properties then choose the Local Area Connection icon and select Client for Microsoft Networks and choose properties; then check Obtain an IP address automatically. C. Logon to the DHCP server and force all clients to accept new IP address broadcasts. D. Use the ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew command from the command prompt. E. Right click on My Network Places icon and choose properties then choose the Local Area Connection icon and select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and choose properties; then check Obtain an IP address automatically.
67. You are the administrator of a network that runs Unix servers and Windows XP Professional workstations. You need to implement smart card logon process for the workstations that use dial-in connections. What is the appropriate protocol to use for your mixed network? A. TCPIP B. EAP-TLS C. PPTP D. SPAP
68. You are the administrator of a Windows XP Professional workstation and suspect that an unauthorized individual is trying to guess the passwords of your users. You want to setup your computers so if someone does not correctly logon to the system within the specified number of login tries they are locked out until the administrator unlocks the account. How should this be configured? A. Set the Account Lockout Duration policy setting to 3. B. Set the Account Lockout Time to 1. C. Set the Account Lockout Duration policy to NULL. D. Check the Account Lockout Reset only by Administrator check box in the Account Lockout Duration policy window.
69. You are the local administrator of a Windows XP Professional computer that is a member of a domain. You have configured a local security policy but the policy is not effective. What could cause this problem? A. The security policies of the domain are overriding the system's local security policy. B. You do not have the correct permissions to modify local security policies. C. Local security policies cannot be configured if the computer is part of a domain. D. The system must be rebooted for the new local security to take effect.
70. What address class would an IP address with a bit sequence in the first octet of 110 would belong to? A. Class A B. Class B C. Class C D. Class D
71. You run a Windows XP Professional computer. You have been asked to download some encrypted files form a third party FTP site that is outside of your network and are given a user name and password with appropriate permissions to download the files. You use Internet Explorer 6 with default settings and want to use it to download software from the FTP site. You connect to the FTP site at 192.92.140.84 but are unable to view the contents of the FTP site. What could correct this problem? A. You do not have the appropriate access permissions to access the FTP site. B. Your configure your Internet Explorer Internet options to enable folder view for FTP sites and configure browser security with user administration to prompt for user name and password. C. You must configure a custom security level for Internet Explorer to allow FTP use and configure Internet Explorer Internet options to enable folder view for FTP. D. The IP address of 192.92.140.84 is a private IP address and your computer must be setup as a SecureNat client for the third party's network.
72. You are an administrator of a Windows XP Professional computer and your system receives its TCP/IP configuration information from a DHCP server. When receiving DHCP information you cannot connect to any host on a remote subnet. What could cause this problem? A. Your system has an incorrect default gateway specified. B. Your system is not configured to resolve NetBIOS names. C. Your system has incorrect WINS server specified. D. You system has incorrect DNS server specified.
73. You are manually configuring a Windows XP Professional system. The system has 1,024MB of RAM with two 4GB hard drives. How big should the paging file be? A. 512MB B. 1,024MB C. 1,536MB D. 2,048MB
74. You are the network administrator for Fife Security. There is a stand-alone workstation installed with Windows XP Professional that multiple users log in to. What is the best way to configure the system so that proxy settings are applied to all users of your system? A. Check for policy box in Group Policy settings. B. Set an additional policy that assigns proxy settings per user. C. Set an additional policy that assigns proxy settings per machine rather than per user. D. Give Proxy permissions to all accounts that log in to the stand-alone machine. E. Set an additional policy that assigns proxy settings per group.
75. You are using a multihomed Windows XP Professional box to share a broadband connection to the world wide web. You work for a small office that can't spend much money; however, you still want to protect your network from hackers and other malicious users on the outside. How would you configure the network to offer the most efficient protection? A. Enable the Internet Connection Firewall on the LAN NIC that is on your multihomed Windows XP Professional system. B. Enable the Internet Connection Firewall on the WAN NIC that is on your multihomed Windows XP Professional system. C. Enable the Internet Connection Firewall on the NICs of each of the systems that connect to your multihomed Windows XP Professional box. D. Enable the Internet Connection Firewall on all NICs in your network.
76. You are the IT director of Waterborne Distilleries. You want to allow certain employees telnet access to the server after business hours, so you add them to the TelnetClients group. The next morning you receive numerous complaints from users in this group stating that they were not able to connect. You test it yourself both from home as well as the office and can connect successfully. What is most likely the problem? A. The telnet server on Windows XP is limited to only 2 concurrent users. B. The telnet server needs to be configured to accept anonymous calls. C. The modem failed, and needs new drivers. D. You didn't configure port 25 for telnet access.
77. You are the System Administrator of MiniMoles, a small enterprise. You get home and realize that you needed to perform additional tasks on a XP Professional box you have as a server. You call into the office and ask one of your work mates to start the telnet service on the XP box. You tell him to go to Start, Run and type in ______. A. Net start remote B. Net start telnet C. Net start tlntsvr D. Net start telnet server
78. You are the IT Supervisor for New Ideas, Ltd. You decide that in order to make administrative tasks less cumbersome, you need to centralize all resources. Since this isn't really possible, (your resources are distributed over 10 different servers) you need to simulate a centralized environment. What should you implement? A. NDS B. Active Directory C. DFS D. Centralized Resource Manager
79. You are the IT Supervisor for New Ideas, Ltd. You currently have 11 Domain Controllers on your network. Controller #7 had problems and has gone down. What is the effect to the network and its users? A. The entire network will fail. B. All workstations that used controller 7 to access the rest of the network will be cut off. C. Nothing, all DCs in and AD environment are peers, therefore the network is fault tolerant. D. All users will receive a message stating that controller 7 has failed and its resources will be unavailable.
80. You are the IT Supervisor for New Ideas, Ltd. You are designing a scheme for password requirements. Which of the following is a characteristic of a strong password? (Choose all that apply) A. Passwords must be 8 to 10 characters long. B. Passwords must be changed every 90 days. C. Passwords must be greater than 15 character. D. No consecutive numbers or letters. E. Passwords should contain a user's first name. F. Passwords should contain a user's last name.
81. You are the IT Supervisor for New Ideas, Ltd. You designate a small group of people whose job will be to backup and restore data on workstations. Each user is responsible for a certain department. You want them to have ONLY the permission needed to carry out this task. What built-In local groups should they be a part of on each of the computers in their area? A. Administrators B. Power Users C. HelpServicesdGroup D. Backup Operators
82. You are the IT Supervisor for New Ideas, Ltd. You have implemented Group Policies on all workstations running Windows XP Professional. You have a handful of workstations that are using Windows 98. Can you apply those same policies to those machines? A. Only on the most basic level. B. You must manage polices using Poledit.exe. C. You will be able to manage the Group policies on the older system without any problems. D. Windows 98 doesn't support policies.
83. You are the System Admin of MiniMoles, a small enterprise. You have a Windows XP Professional box as a server. You want to configure the telnet service to only accept connections from you or your technicians. How do you configure the security settings of the telnet service? A. Run the tlntadmin admin tool. B. Run the telnet config tool. C. Run the telnet sec tool. D. Run the telnet services config tool.
84. What is the default cipher-strength of Internet Explorer 6.0 included with Windows XP in the U.S.? A. 32-bit B. 64-bit C. 128-bit D. 256-bit
85. You own a small business with a peer-to-peer network composed of 12 workstations, all running Windows XP Professional. One of the machines is multihomed as you have shared out a DSL connection with Internet Connection Sharing. You have activated the built-in firewall service, however, your employees are reporting that they cannot browse the internet or receive email. What should you do first? A. Make sure the required services are still running on the server. B. Ensure that POP3 and Web Server are selected in the services tab of the setting section of the Internet Connection Firewall page. C. Ensure the POP3 and Web Server are not selected in the block services tab of the setting section of the Internet Connection Firewall page. D. Ensure that all your LAN clients have the XP Internet Connection Firewall enabled.
86. You own a small business with a peer-to-peer network composed of 7 workstations, all running Windows XP Professional. One of the machines is multihomed as you have shared out a broadband connection with Internet Connection Sharing and enabled Internet Connection Firewall. You would like to enable ICF to log all unsuccessful connection attempts that come across the internet. How do you configure this? A. Under Network Tasks for the WAN connection click Settings under the Advanced tab; select Log dropped packets. B. Under Network Tasks for the WAN connection click Settings under the Advanced tab; select Log successful connections. C. Under Network Tasks for the LAN connection click Settings under the Advanced tab; select Log dropped packets. D. Under Network Tasks for the LAN connection click Settings under the Advanced tab; select Log successful connections.
87. You have enabled Internet Connection Sharing for your small network. You have implemented a VPN for users who will be on the road and need to connect to the network. Which protocol would provide the best level security? (Choose all that apply) A. L2TP B. PPTP C. SLIP D. CHAP
88. You administer a small office network in Columbus and have been sent to support one of the company's customers in Atlanta. You have set up a VPN for your office network, and need to access an XP workstation in order to download some files for the customer; however, the workstation you need to connect to doesn't have a share on its system folder. How do you access this machine remotely? A. Use the Admin# share B. Use the Admin$ share C. Use the Admin% share D. User the Admin! Share
89. You are the network administrator for Delicious Chocolates, Incorporated (DCI). You need to evaluate Windows XP to determine if DCI should migrate its existing desktops to it. You have a variety of Pentium-class, Pentium II class, and AMD K6s at your disposal, each with single 64 MB memory sticks in them. You decide to borrow a 64 MB stick from one of the machines so you can have 128 MB of RAM in the box you are building. Which of the following processors meets the minimum requirements for your evaluation box? (Choose all that apply) A. 486sx 133 MHz B. Pentium class 133 MHz C. Pentium class 233 MHz D. Pentium II 300 MHz E. AMD K6 233 MHz
90. You are working on your XP laptop in order to get a presentation done for the following morning. You have already ignored a previous system warning; suddenly, your computer shifts into hibernation mode because you computer's power levels are too high. Which of the following alarms has your computer used to inform you of high energy levels? A. Low Battery power scheme has put your laptop into hibernation. B. Max battery alarm has gone off and put your laptop into hibernation, as the maximum amount of battery power has been consumed. C. The Critical battery alarm has gone off and put your laptop into hibernation, as there is not enough battery power left for it to continue running. D. Min battery alarm.
91. You are the network administrator and have been asked by your CEO to evaluate Windows XP in-house in order to determine if the company should migrate to it. You have an existing Pentium III 500 that you can use. What is the minimum amount of RAM required for running Windows XP Professional? A. 32MB B. 64MB C. 128MB D. 256MB
92. You are the IT supervisor of Widgets, Incorporated. You are considering upgrading the workstations in your company to Windows XP. All workstations meet installation requirements, but you are still concerned about compatibility. How can you find any compatibility issues without actually installing the new system on the workstation? (Choose all that apply) A. Run upgrade advisor from the Win XP install disk. B. Run the Check Hardware utility included on the Win XP install disk. C. Check the HCL on Microsoft's web site. D. Run winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly from the command line. E. Run the chkupgrd.exe utility included on the Win XP install disk. F. Check the Device Compatibility List on Microsoft's web site.
93. You are the IT supervisor of Widgets, Incorporated. The HR department has 12 identical workstations. Their specifications are as follows: Processor: 233 MHz Memory: 128MB Free HD space: 1GB You attempt to install Windows XP over the network, but it will not install successfully. What is most likely the problem? A. Insufficient memory B. Insufficient processor speed C. Insufficient hard drive space D. Incompatible network cards
94. You are the IT supervisor of Widgets, Incorporated. You have installed Windows XP on a workstation in a dual-boot configuration with Windows 98. How can you ensure that applications will work in both Windows 98 and XP? A. You must install each application twice. Once for each OS. B. You won't have to do anything. The applications will work on both systems automatically. C. You can't. The application will only work under one of the OSs. D. Install the application on a partition accessible by both OSs.
95. While performing a fresh install of Windows XP, you are prompted to input information pertaining to regional settings and system passwords. At which of the following Windows XP Professional installation stages are you? A. Post Installation B. Install Windows Networking C. Setup Wizard (graphical mode) D. Setup Program (text mode)
96. You started a new installation of Windows XP Professional from within Windows 2000. Which of the following switches is NOT part of the Modifying Setup using winnt32.exe? (Choose all that apply) A. /udf:id[,UDF_file] B. /cmd:command_line C. /s[:sourcepath] D. /m:folder_name E. /copydir:folder_name
97. You are a network administrator for an attorney's office and are installing Windows XP Professional on a new laptop for a partner who recently broke her hand. She will need some modifications made to the way the keyboard reacts when she types, so you will need to enable the XP accessibility tools. Which of the following winnt.exe switches enables accessibility options? A. /a B. /s C. /e D. /r E. /ao
98. You are the network administrator, and want to automate the addition of Indexing Services and Message Queuing to your Windows XP installation. Which of the following winnt.exe switches specifies optional software to be installed, but deletes the folder after installation? A. /m:folder_name B. /r [:folder] C. /copydir:folder_name D. /rx [:folder]
99. On a Pentium III 800 MHz PC, you boot from a boot disk and access the Windows XP Professional CD in order to perform a clean install of the operating system. You plan to alter installation specifics. Which of the following switches will not be available to you as part of your Modify Setup? A. /t [:tempdrive] B. /s:source_path C. /u [:answer file] D. /a
100. You are an administrator setting up multiple machines with XP Professional for offices in New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles. You have provided some details in an answer file for an unattended installation; however, you want each end-user to name her machine, provide her own login information, and set her own time zones. Which of the following interaction levels used during unattended installation of Windows XP Professional allows users only to interact with setup where the Administrator did not provide default information? A. Fully Automated B. Hide Pages C. Provide Defaults D. GUI Attended
101. You are receiving some OEM machines pre-installed with Windows XP Professional. The OEM configured the PCs so that Windows Product Activation doesn't reset the grace period after you have received and deployed the new machines. Which of the following Sysprep switches were used in order to keep Sysprep from resetting the grace period of WPA? A. -audit B. -activated C. -factory D. -reseal
102. You are receiving some OEM machines pre-installed with Windows XP Professional. Under Windows XP Professional, four modes were added to Sysprep; which mode is used by an OEM in order to prepare a system for delivery to a customer? A. Audit B. Factory C. Reseal D. Clean
103. You are the administrator for a large insurance company that runs an application that was written in-house for NT 4. The programmers for the company are updating the code since it was written specifically for use on NT 4. They want to test it out on Windows XP as the corporate group has approved a migration to Windows XP Professional for all desktops. In the interim, you will need to set up programmer's boxes to dual-boot Windows NT 4 with XP Professional, since you have limited equipment available. Which of the following statements is not correct when trying to dual-boot Windows XP Professional and Windows NT 4? A. All existing NTFS partitions will be updated to the version used by XP. B. Windows NT 4 must be running Service Pack 4 or higher in order to dual-boot with XP. C. Converted dynamic disks cannot be accessed by Windows NT 4. D. Partitions formatted as NTFS by XP cannot be accessed by the Windows NT 4 operating system.
104. Penelope is the system administrator for The Computer Group, Inc. She is planning to upgrade all the Windows 2000 Professional desktops to Windows XP Professional in the entire company. Which of the following steps is not part of the upgrade process for Penelope? A. Backup all files. B. Uncompress any compressed files. C. Use winnt/checkupgradeonly to run Windows Upgrade Advisor to make sure all hardware and software is supported on the system being upgraded. D. Scan for viruses and then disable virus software.
105. Arnold is upgrading 30 Windows 98 boxes to Windows XP Professional. He wants to enhance security and encryption as well as manage user quotas on each desktop. He would like to complete this project as efficiently as possible. Which of the following Windows XP Professional upgrade types is Arnold going to be able to best accomplish this with? A. Recommended upgrade B. Express upgrade C. Professional upgrade D. Custom upgrade
106. You are upgrading a Pentium III 450 from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. You don't have the latest drivers for the video card and NIC, but know that they are on the HCL. You decide to use the Dynamic Update download feature from within the XP desktop. Which of the following Dynamic Update components will allow you perform this operation most efficiently? A. Device Driver B. Dynamic Driver C. Replacement Driver D. Disables Driver
107. Joan is the system administrator at RIS, Incorporated. She administers a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain. Joan needs to upgrade several existing Windows 98 desktops to XP Professional; however, she needs to make sure to keep each user's settings and preferences without losing any of the information. What command line utility would she use to efficiently migrate all users' Windows 98 settings to XP Professional? A. ScanState.exe B. USMT C. LoadState.exe D. She will not be able to do this without performing a fresh install of Windows XP.
108. You are installing Windows XP for the accounting department. You decide to use the User State Migration Tool to prepare the desktops for this operation. You've created intermediate stores for your users' files on a server and configured a script that will deploy ScanState.exe at midnight, reformat the disks, and automate the installation of Windows XP images to your clients. What is the next step in the process? A. The script creates a sub-folder called Scanstate on each of your clients. B. The script invokes ScanState.exe again as the local administrator on the clients in order to complete the migration of users' settings and preferences. C. The users are given read access to USMT so that they can finish the migration of their settings and preferences the next time they log in. D. The script invokes LoadState.exe as the local administrator on the clients in order to complete the migration of users' settings and preferences.
109. You are using the USMT to migrate users from a Windows 98 PC to one running XP. There are five steps to scanning the source computer during system migration. Which of the following is a step in this process? A. Map the drive to the USMT folder on the client computer. B. From the command prompt, Go to the USMT/Scan folder on the server. C. Logon to the server once the program is finished. D. Logon as power user to complete the migration.
110. Maggie administers a network of 30 XP Professional machines. She would like to give each user file level security on each of their workstations, including the ability to encrypt files if needed. Which of the following provides optimum security with its ability to lock down individual files on a user-by-user basis and has advance features such as disk compression and encryption? A. DOS B. FAT32 C. FAT D. NTFS
111. Mary has installed a machine with Windows XP Professional to test out before upgrading her production workstation (currently running Windows 98SE). She has decided to format the XP machine with NTFS, since the hard drive is 40 GB. She creates a document, gives herself full permissions, removes permissions to all other users, and then copies it over the network to her production workstation. She logs in as Charlie at the production machine to see if she can access the document she copied over. What does she discover? A. The file she created on the XP machine has been corrupted when she tries to open it on the Windows 98SE box. B. Since the original format of the file is NTFS, she can't access it on the 98SE machine. C. She can open the file without any problems. D. She can't open the file as Charlie because she only gave the Mary account permissions.
112. Travis has been reviewing disk storage systems and has asked you to explain the difference between the two systems offered by Windows XP Professional. You explain there is a system that can be composed of primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. That system is which of the following? A. Basic storage B. Logical storage C. Dynamic storage D. Active storage
113. Your Assistant Systems Manager, Beth, tells you she can't find a mirrored set in her Windows XP Professional computer. You explain to her that XP does not support multidisk basic volumes (stripe set, mirrored set). Windows XP Professional does support primary partitions on a basic disk which is the same as what on a dynamic disk? A. Active volume B. Simple volume C. Striped volume D. Spanned volume
114. You have been explaining disk storage systems to your co-worker Michael. He asks which Dynamic volume types contains free space from multiple disks in one logical drive. What do you tell him? A. Active volume B. Simple volume C. Striped volume D. Spanned volume
115. You have a new Windows XP professional workstation that you work on at home. Lately, your city has been experiencing unpredictable power outages, so you buy an Uninterruptible Power Supply. You would like to configure and manage the UPS from within the XP desktop; what would be the best way to achieve this? A. Windows XP will use Plug and Play technology to automatically detect and setup the UPS. B. You will have to run the Add New Hardware Wizard in order to setup the UPS. C. You will need to access the Power Option applet's UPS tab in order to configure and manage the UPS. D. Under the Power Schemes tab in the Power Options applet, choose Minimal Power Management in order to integrate the UPS into Windows XP for configuration and management.
116. Cynthia has just installed a new NIC into her Windows XP desktop, but is having some issues getting it to work; she believes it is a driver issue. How could she best troubleshoot driver problems? A. She should use the Driver Verifier. B. She should check her Device Manager. C. Reload the Driver.cab file. D. Configure Alarm settings for her NIC device and reboot so that XP can prompt her when it comes back up.
117. The tech group at WiseGuy Enterprises is migrating all machines to Windows XP (fresh installs); however, they won't be adding NICs for another week. Curly, the network administrator, wants to keep driver issues to a minimum for the machines, so would like the techs to monitor and be aware of any potential issues during installation. What should Curly tell his tech group to configure the Driver Signing option to? A. Ignore B. Advanced C. Warn D. Test E. Block
118. Hermione has been running Windows XP for the last few months without any issues, however, lately she has noticed some anomalies with her machine. She recented with some third-party software and now she suspects this may have affected some of her system files. Which of the following System File Checker (sfc.exe) commands should she use to scan all protected files at the next startup? A. She should run the System File Checker from the System Information interface and choose ScanOnce from the Tools menu. B. She should run System File Checker (sfc.exe) with the /scanonce command from a dos prompt. C. She should run the System File Checker from the System Information interface and choose Scanboot from the Tools menu. D. She should run System File Checker (sfc.exe) with the /scanboot command from a dos prompt.
119. Harry bought a 64 MB video card for his Windows XP computer installed it and loaded the default drivers; however, he decided to load up the latest drivers (which aren't XP certified). He has noticed some buggy behavior when running video intensive applications. What is the best solution for Harry to fix his issue? A. Access the Driver Manager applet under the Control Panel, click the Configure tab, and choose the Certified Driver option. B. Under Device Manager, access the Display adapter, choose the Driver tab and click Roll Back Driver. C. Run sigverif from the command line. D. Delete the driver from the \\winnt\system32\drivers\ directory and re-install the previous working version.
120. Jason is the network administrator for Crystal Lake Summer Camp. There have been problems with a few of the computers that he suspects could be linked to a bad memory chip. He would like be notified when any of the machines encounter a problem. How can he do this? A. In the MMC, create a customized system monitor with a counter for Available Bytes; have the log sent to the administrator every time the clients boot. B. Run bootcfg /query /s on the clients so they will notify the system administrator of issues at boot. C. He should create an alert under the Performance snap-in of the MMC. D. Run bootcfg /maxmem: n on the clients so they will notify the system administrator of memory issues at boot.
121. You are the IT Supervisor for Wassap Experiences, Incorporated. You have been tasked by your supervisor to install a brand new sound card into his XP machine, which has been running smoothly for the last two months. You install the card, but when you boot his computer up, you notice the only sound that comes out of the speakers is a high pitch whine. In order to troubleshoot the issue, what action would you take? (Choose all that apply) A. Log on as administrator and disable the sound card. B. Boot up off the Windows XP CD and run a repair. C. In the Resources tab check for conflicts. D. Disconnect the mouse; reboot. E. Check for new drivers on the Manufactures web site. F. Run the Device Driver Roll Back utility for the sound card.
122. Which of the following files used in the Windows XP boot process is NOT located in the system partition root? A. Hal.dll B. Ntldr C. Bootsect.dos D. Ntdetect.com
123. Albert has installed Windows XP on a computer with two SCSI drives with BIOS Enabled. He has had to start the Recovery Console and invoked the Map command. The following is displayed: multi(x)disk(x)rdisk(x)partition(x) Which of the following Advanced RISC Computing path components defines the disk that the OS resides in? A. multi (x) B. disk (x) C. rdisk (x) D. partition (x)
124. Archie has decided to install the Recovery Console as a startup option when he boots his XP box. He would like to create a directory and copy some startup files into it in case of emergency. Which of the following Recovery Console commands would he use to create a directory? A. dir B. md C. rd D. ren
125. Reggie works for Riverdale Enterprises as a PC technician. He has been testing his company's in-house applications on a Windows XP box; apparently, they cause the system to crash and he would like to review the problem. Where can he find some information regarding the state of the PC before it crashed? A. %SystemRoot%\winnt\recovery.log B. %SystemRoot%\kernel.dmp C. %SystemRoot%\memory.dmp D. %SystemRoot%\winnt\bootstat
126. Veronica loaded up some third-party software on her XP Professional system, and has been experiencing some problems. She suspects the software she installed is the culprit; however, she has uninstalled it and still has problems on her system. How can she best resolve this issue? A. Under System Tools, run the Backup Utility; choose Restore Wizard. B. Under System Tools, run the Backup Utility; choose Automated System Recovery Wizard. C. Under System Tools, run the System Restore wizard and choose Undo the last restoration to get her system back to a stable state. D. Under System Tools, run the System Restore wizard and choose a restore point prior to the addition of the errant software.
127. Frodo has an Athlon 1.5 GHz, 256 MB system with two 40 GB hard drives that he dual-boots with XP and Linux Red Hat. He has configured each hard drive with a separate OS. He would like to enable System Restore, but doesn't want any problems on his Linux partitions. What is the best option for Frodo to take? A. Because this is a dual boot machine and Linux uses a different file system, he cannot enable System Restore via XP. B. He will have to enable the XP Backup Utility and choose Automated System Recovery Wizard in order to restore his XP system only. C. He will have to access the System Restore tab, choose the drive he wants to exclude, and turn off system restore on that drive. D. He will have to access the System Restore tab, and configure the disk space usage to 40 GB only, the size of the XP drive.
128. Sam has upgraded his existing Windows 98 computer, a 550 MHz PC with 256MB of RAM and a 30 GB hard drive to Windows XP Professional. He has been using a PS/2 mouse, but it has been acting erratically lately. He decides to buy a new optical USB mouse to replace it, since he would simply have to plug it in to one of two available USB ports on the front of his computer. He plugs it into the bottom USB port and boots his PC up, however, his mouse isn't working, and it isn't showing up in the Device Manager. What could best solve his issue? A. He needs to go to the Control Panel and access the Add or Remove Programs applet in order to load up the software drivers for his new USB mouse. B. He needs to go to the Control Panel and access the Mouse applet; under the Hardware tab, click on the Properties button, and uninstall the present mouse under the Driver tab. C. He needs to restart his PC, go into the BIOS settings and enable USB. D. He needs to plug the mouse into the top USB port as that is the first available port.
129. You are the IT supervisor for Widgets, Incorporated. You currently have 100 workstations actively in use throughout the company. You are concerned that users may install software drivers that may cause their systems to be unstable. What can you do to ensure that this does not happen? A. Set the driver signing level on the hardware tab of the system properties utility to "stop" B. Set the driver signing level on the hardware tab of the system properties utility to "ignore" C. Set the driver signing level on the hardware tab of the system properties utility to "block" D. Set the driver signing level on the hardware tab of the system properties dialog to "restricted"
130. You are the IT supervisor for Widgets, Incorporated. You need to install a more reliable hardware driver onto you users' workstations. This particular driver is produced by a company you don't normally deal with but you have tested it thoroughly and find it to be sound. When you try to install it on your workstations, Windows XP will not allow it. What should you do? A. Set the Driver signing level to none. B. Set the driver signing level to Ignore. C. Set the driver signing level to Allow. D. Set the driver signing level to Low.
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