Exam 1: Mcsa -Xp

You are trying to access a server named design.newproduct.com. You can access the server by its IP address but not by its domain name. Which of the following configuration files should you check for to fix the problem?

You are on a routine business visit to one of your branch offices in India. You start your laptop, connect the network cable, and login. You open Microsoft Internet Explorer and receive a "Page cannot be displayed" error for any website you try to open. Upon checking the IP address, you notice that it is 169.254.0.3 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. Which of the following best describes why your laptop has 169.255.0.3 as the IP address?

When installing Windows XP on a system that recently had the hard drive replaced, you insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive and start the computer. The system displays an error that states "Operating system not found." How should you proceed?

You install a new driver for the network adapter card on your Windows XP Professional computer. When you restart the computer, the monitor displays a STOP error. Every time you restart the computer, a STOP error halts the start process. You need to correct the error without affecting the user data on the computer. You also need to restore the original network adapter driver. How should you fix this issue?

Which Windows XP Professional built-in user groups have permissions to create shared folders?

You are performing a clean installation of Windows XP Professional on a computer that currently runs on Windows 98. During the installation, the system hangs when the text-based portion ends and the GUI setup starts. On further analysis, you infer that there is a problem with a device driver. You want to view the list of drivers as they load. Which of the following should you do?

Jack has configured his computer with two hard drives, disk 1 and disk 2. He has configured a logical drive C: on disk 1 and D: on disk 2. He wants to install Windows 98 on C: and Windows XP on D:. Windows 98 allows him to install some of his favorite applications that will not run under XP and Windows XP allows encryption and compression. Which of the following specifies the right way of formatting the C: and D: drives?

Jack is purchasing five new computers for his graphic design team. He is planning to connect a number of peripheral devices, so he needs to make sure that the computers will support Windows XP Professional. What is the name of the list that shows the computers and peripheral hardware that have been extensively tested with the Windows XP Professional operating system?

You are managing mission-critical operations at your organization. All the mission-critical files are stored on your computer. You want to ensure that the hard drive configuration is fault tolerant and available at all times. Which of the following allows you to do so?

After configuring a compatible new display adapter, how do you configure multiple monitors for the same computer?

You are using a modem to dial into a VPN server. You want to hear what is happening when you try to establish a connection, as it could help you understand if the connection is established. Which of the following options should you set to be able to hear what is happening when you try to establish the connection?

Your team has scheduled a specific program on a server to run as a scheduled task every day. When you log on as administrator, you can run the task, but when the scheduled task is supposed to run, it does not run. The server is configured with different user accounts and most of the users are also facing this issue. You have already verified that the Task Scheduler task is running. How should you fix this problem?

Which of the following commands is used to create a RIS boot disk?

Your customer complains that the USB port never worked on his XP Home desktop computer with any USB device. You find that the USB port is present, but not working with any USB device. Which of the following could resolve the problem?

One of the users in your organization has damaged his laptop computer by dropping it on the floor. When he starts the laptop now, he gets an error message which states "System disk not found." Fortunately, the laptop has an Automated System Recovery backup of the original system state with a restore point created a couple of days ago. What should you do to get the user's laptop to use the Windows XP Professional on the hard drive?

Which of the below options in Driver Signing displays a message before installing an unsigned device driver?

You have a Windows XP computer that can support two processors. Which of the following should you do so that the second processor will be recognized when it is installed?

You have a placed a design.txt file in your shared folder. This file contains the design specifications of a product that your company is planning to launch. You are leading a team of design experts who are constantly updating this file with the results of their testing. You want to eliminate the possibility of two users editing the file at the same time. Which of the following options should you configure to do this?

Abc)com is your favorite social networking website. One day, the website developer's closed down the site for a few days to revamp it. When the web service resumed, you notice that the website uses ActiveX controls to present many of its functionalities. You are not able to see more than half the content on the website. Which of the following is the easiest way to enable all the functionalities on the website?

Jack is an administrator at an organization that has a number of branch offices around the world. One of the employees has recently traveled to Germany. Jack had configured the employee's laptop to display German date and time settings. When the employee returns to the main office in New York, all of his e-mail messages display German date and time settings. What should Jack do to change the settings to the ones that will suit New York?