Exam 5

What are two features of the active partition of a hard drive? (Choose two.)

The active partition must be a primary partition.*

The active partition may include the manufacturer recovery partition.

The operating system uses the active partition to boot the system.*

Which Windows administrative tool displays the usage of a number of computer resources simultaneously and can help a technician decide if an upgrade is needed?

Services

Performance Monitor*

Event Viewer

A Windows computer locks with a stop error during startup then automatically reboots. The rebooting is making it difficult to see any error messages. What can be done so that the error messages can be viewed?

View the error messages and recover the system using the System Image Recovery tool.

In Safe Mode use the Advanced Startup Options menu to disable the auto restart function*.

What are two functions of an operating system? (Choose two.)

Web browsing

Controlling hardware access*

Managing applications*

What two terms can be used to describe the Windows Virtual PC? (Choose two.)

Server consolidation

Hypervisor*

Virtual Machine Manager*

A technician has loaded an incorrect video driver on a Windows 7 computer. How can the technician revert to a previous driver?

Select the video adapter card Properties in Device Manager, select the Driver tab, and click Roll Back Driver.*

Use regedit to remove the information about the graphics driver from the registry.

Which two Windows utilities can be used to help maintain hard disks on computers that have had long periods of normal use? (Choose two.)

Disk Cleanup*

Disk Format

Disk Defragmenter*

Which command is used from the Windows command prompt to schedule a program to run at a specific time?

AT*

CMD

TASKLIST

A user notices that some of the programs that are installed before upgrading to Windows 7 no longer function properly after the upgrade. What can the user do to fix this problem?

Run the programs in Compatibility Mode.*

Lower the UAC setting in the Change User Account Control settings dialog box of the User Accounts control.

A technician notices that a program that is listed in the registry of a Windows computer is not found on that computer. What is a possible solution to the problem?

Restore the ntdetect.com file from the installation media.

Run fdisk /mbr from the command prompt.

Reinstall the application. Then, run the uninstall program.*

Which Windows 7 feature allows a user to view the contents of the desktop by moving the mouse to the right edge of the taskbar?

Aero Peek*

Shake

Snap

A computer with the Windows 7 operating system fails to boot when the system is powered on. The technician suspects that the operating system has been attacked by a virus that rendered the system inoperable. What measure could be taken to restore system functionality?

Use an incremental backup to restore the system.

Use a system image that was created prior to the failure to restore the system.*

After upgrading a computer to Windows 7, a user notices that the UAC (User Account Control) panel appears more frequently. How can the user reduce the frequency with which the UAC appears?

Lower the UAC setting in the Change User Account Control settings dialog box of the User Accounts control panel.*

Replace the graphics card with one that meets the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 7.

What is the term for the ability of a computer to run multiple applications at the same time?

Multitasking*

Multiprocessing

A Windows XP system is unable to boot properly. What is the procedure to use to boot this system into Safe Mode?

Reboot the system, press and hold F8 until a menu is displayed, and then choose Safe Mode.*

From the command prompt run the shutdown -r -s command.

A technician has installed a new video driver on a Windows XP computer and now the monitor shows distorted images. The technician needs to install a different video driver that is available on a network server. What startup mode should the technician use to access the driver on the network?

Debugging Mode

Safe Mode with Networking*

A technician needs to upgrade the file system on a Windows XP computer from FAT32 to NTFS without losing user data. Which course of action should be taken to upgrade the file system to NTFS?

Reformat all of the existing partitions and use the NTFS file system.

Run the CONVERT.EXE utility to convert the file system to NTFS.*

A college uses virtualization technology to deploy information security courses. Some of the lab exercises involve studying the characteristics of computer viruses and worms. What is an advantage of conducting the lab exercises inside the virtualized environment as opposed to using actual PCs?

Virus and worm attacks are more easily controlled in a virtualized environment, thus helping to protect the college network and its devices from attack.*

The virtualization environment has better tools to develop mitigation solutions.

What are two advantages of the NTFS file system compared with FAT32? (Choose two.)

NTFS supports larger files.*

NTFS provides more security features.*

NTFS is easier to configure.

Which two statements are true about restore points? (Choose two.)

They are useful to restore the computer to an earlier time when the system worked properly.*

They recover personal files that have been corrupted or deleted.

They contain information about the system and registry settings that are used by the Windows operating system.*

A user notices that a PC is running slowly and exhibits a delayed response to keyboard commands. What is a probable cause of this symptom?

A process is using most of the CPU resources.*

The video card does not support the resolution that is being used.

What would be the result of having a corrupt Master Boot Record?

The operating system will fail to start.*

The printer will function incorrectly.

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