Performance-Based Question

On the A+ exams, you will encounter performance-based questions. The questions on the exam require you to perform a specific task, and you will be graded on whether you were able to complete the task. The following require you to think creatively to measure how well you understand this chapter’s topics. You may or may not see similar questions on the actual A+ exams. To see how your answers compare to the authors’, refer to Appendix B.

You are working on an older Windows XP workstation that seems to be exhibiting some trouble every now and then and you aren’t sure what is causing it. You want to configure the machine such that when a system failure occurs, it writes an event to the system log, sends an administrative alert, and automatically restarts. The debugging information should be configured so that it writes a complete memory dump (overwriting any existing file) to %SystemRoot%/TROUBLE.DMP. What steps would you take?