Chapter 16: Working with Windows XP

1. A. Windows XP uses Automated System Recovery (ASR). It makes a backup of your system partition and creates a recovery disk.

2. D. The first file used in the Windows XP boot process is NTLDR. Both the NTOSKRNL.EXE and NTBOOTDD.SYS files are used in the boot process, but neither is the first file run. Neither AUTOEXEC.BAT nor CONFIG.SYS is involved in the Windows XP boot process.

3. C. Safe Mode is a good option to choose to restore files that are missing or to fix a configuration error. With only basic files and drivers loaded, you can more easily identify the source of the problem.

4. C. Wake on LAN is an Ethernet standard implemented via a card that allows a “sleeping” machine to awaken when it receives a wakeup signal.

5. D. The solution to a corrupted NTOSKRNL.EXE file is to boot from a startup disk and replace the file from the setup disks or CD.

6. A. In an attended installation, a user must be present to choose all of the options when the installation program gets to that point.

7. D. Pressing F8 during the first phase of the boot process brings up the Advanced Startup Options menu in Windows.

8. C. Windows Update is responsible for finding updates, patches, and service packs, downloading them, and installing them on your computer.

9. D. HAL, or the Hardware Abstraction Layer, is the translator between the hardware and the operating system.

10. C. Beginning with Windows Server 2003, RIS was replaced by Windows Deployment Service (WDS). This utility offers the same functionality as RIS.

11. B. New disk drives or PCs with no OS need to have two critical functions performed on them before they can be used: partitioning first and then formatting. These two functions are performed by two commands, FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM, or by the Windows installation program itself.

12. A, B, C, D. Formatting performs all of the listed processes.

13. C. Windows XP requires the installation to be followed by a process known as product activation to curb software piracy.

14. A. Windows XP automatically creates restore points, which are copies of your system configuration. You can also create them manually through the System Restore utility.

15. B. The System Configuration tool is MSCONFIG.EXE, and in Windows XP it includes a number of tabs and options not present in subsequent versions of Windows.

16. D. When Plug and Play does not work, the Add Hardware Wizard applet in Control Panel can be used. There is not an Add/Remove option with hardware, but Add or Remove Programs is used with software.

17. B. The Sysprep utility comes with Windows XP Professional and is used to prepare a machine so that an image can then be created of the computer. Ghost is a third-party utility made by Norton that can be used to create images. Sysimage is not a known Windows utility, and RIS comes only with Windows Server operating systems.

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

19. A. Setup Manager is used to create answer files (known as uniqueness database files [UDFs]) for automatically providing computer or user information during setup.

20. D. Boot order is configured in the BIOS of the workstation and not in a Windows-related file.