Review Questions

The answers to the Chapter Review Questions can be found in Appendix A.

1. What do you use in Windows XP to create a recovery disk?

A. Automated System Recovery (ASR)

B. RDISK.EXE

C. Enhanced Startup Disk (ESD)

D. Emergency Recovery System (ERS)

2. What is the first file used in the boot process of Windows XP?

A. NTOSKRNL.EXE

B. CONFIG.SYS

C. AUTOEXEC.BAT

D. NTLDR

E. NTBOOTD.SYS

3. What does Safe Mode allow you to do?

A. Run Windows without processing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS.

B. Boot the system without scanning drives.

C. Start Windows using only basic files and drivers.

D. Skip loading the Registry.

4. Which of the following is an Ethernet standard implemented via a card that allows a “sleeping” machine to awaken when it receives a wakeup signal?

A. Sleep timer

B. WEP

C. Wake on LAN

D. WPA

5. What is the quickest solution to fixing a corrupted NTOSKRNL.EXE file?

A. Reinstall Windows.

B. Replace the corrupted file with a new one.

C. Modify the BOOT.INI file to point to the backup NTOSKRNL.EXE file.

D. Boot from a startup disk and replace the file from the setup disks or CD.

6. During what type of installation must a user be present to choose all options as they appear?

A. Attended

B. Existing

C. Bootstrap

D. Denote

7. In Windows XP, how do you access advanced startup options?

A. By pressing the spacebar when prompted to do so

B. By holding down Ctrl+Alt+Del after the Windows logo displays for the first time

C. By pressing Esc after the OS menu displays

D. By pressing F8 during the first phase of the boot process

8. In Windows XP, which of the following utilities is responsible for finding, downloading, and installing Windows service packs?

A. Update Manager

B. Service Pack Manager

C. Windows Update

D. Download Manager

9. In Windows XP, which of the following files is specifically responsible for enabling communication between the system hardware and the operating system?

A. NTDETECT.COM

B. NTOSKRNL.EXE

C. NTBOOTDD.SYS

D. HAL.DLL

E. NTLDR

10. Which of the following is a replacement for RIS?

A. STIR

B. UAC

C. WDS

D. SIR

11. What is the first step when installing Windows onto a system that doesn’t already have a functioning operating system?

A. Formatting

B. Partitioning

C. Redirecting

D. Installing the OS

12. Which of the following is/are performed by formatting the hard drive? (Choose four.)

A. Formatting scans the surface of the hard drive platter to find bad spots and marks the areas surrounding a bad spot as bad sectors.

B. Formatting lays down magnetic tracks in concentric circles.

C. The tracks are split into pieces of 512 bytes called sectors.

D. Formatting creates a File Allocation Table that contains information about the location of files.

13. After installation of the operating system, what does Windows XP require in order to curb software piracy?

A. Certification

B. Confirmation

C. Activation

D. Substantiation

14. Windows XP includes a feature called a _________, which is a copy of your system configuration that can be used to roll back the system to a previous state if a configuration error occurs.

A. Restore point

B. Repair point

C. Roll back point

D. Registry

15. Which utility is the System Configuration tool in Windows XP?

A. MSINFO32.EXE

B. MSCONFIG.EXE

C. SYSCONFIG.CPL

D. CONFIG.CPL

16. If Plug and Play does not work with a particular device on a Windows XP machine, what Control Panel applet can you use?

A. Update

B. System

C. Add/Remove Hardware

D. Add Hardware

17. Which utility that comes with Windows XP Professional is used to prepare a machine that can then be used to create an image to use for network installation?

A. Ghost

B. Sysprep

C. Sysimage

D. RIS

18. Adding which option to the operating system option in the BOOT.INI file will show the drivers as they’re loaded in Windows XP?

A. /show

B. /sos

C. /all

D. /flag

19. Setup Manager is used to create answer files for automatically providing computer or user information during setup. These files are also known as what?

A. UDFs

B. INIs

C. DLLs

D. BTKs

20. Where would you configure a workstation to boot from the USB drive first and the hard drive only if there is not a bootable USB device attached?

A. NTLDR

B. C:WINDOWSTEMP1st.txt

C. BOOT.INI

D. None of the above