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 requires 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 answer compares to the authors’, refer to Appendix B.

You have been told that a number of workstations in your department may be upgraded in the near future and you’ve been assigned the task of locally logging on to each and collecting basic data on them. All workstations on this floor run Windows 7. How would you most efficiently collect the following information?

Windows Edition:

Service Pack installed:

Processor:

Installed Memory:

Total paging file size for all drives: