Exam 1: Mcsa -Xp

You need to perform an unattended installation from a Windows XP Professional CD-ROM on a computer that does not currently have an operating system. You want to provide the computer name and Administrator password on a floppy disk. Which of the following would be your answer file name?

You are hired as a security advisor in an organization. At this point in time, employees can connect to the network without having to enter a password. Passwords are automatically entered. In an attempt to mitigate a possible security breach, you want to ensure that an employee enters a valid password when he or she connects to the network-not use a stored password. Which of the following security options should you ask the IT team to configure?

You are trying to make the Hibernation option available on your laptop computer. A technician had suggested a BIOS update to enable this option and you have now updated your BIOS. After the update, a STOP error is displayed every time you attempt to restart the computer. How should you fix this problem?

You have created a local profile on a Windows XP computer that now contains some corrupt settings. You want to look at this profile folder and delete the corrupted information. The computer was initially installed with Windows XP Professional. Which of the following indicates the location where the user profiles are stored by default?

Which of these features enables Microsoft to track interoperability errors related to the Windows XP operating system?

Your company has a volume licensing agreement with Microsoft for using Windows XP Professional on 50 client computers. You receive a volume license product key from Microsoft that must be used to install Windows XP Professional on the computers. Since you have lost the Windows XP Pro CD that was sent by Microsoft, you must purchase a new copy of the installation disc. During the Windows XP Pro setup using the attended installation method, you type the volume license key and the setup displays an error message that states "Invalid product key." How should you proceed?

You need to install Windows XP Professional on a computer that does not have a CD-ROM drive. The computer has a network card installed in the ISA slot. A RIS bootable floppy disk is used to start the installation however, you are unable to connect to the RIS server. What should you do?

Mark has recently updated a display driver. When he restarts the computer, the video display doesn't work. In an attempt to fix this problem, he wants to load a generic video driver. Which of the following configuration files includes an option that will allow him to load a standard VGA display driver?

You are trying to install Window XP Professional on a computer. After several failed attempts, you determine that you need to examine a debug log for the setup routine. You want the setup routine to create the most detailed debug log possible. Which of the following commands would you use?

You want to move the location where offline files are stored from the C: partition to the D: partition, because the C: partition is running out of disk space. The D: drive has plenty of free space available to accommodate offline file-caching requirements. Which of the following methods should you use to accomplish this?

You are constantly dumping your computer with new training videos and other learning content. Your hard drive is an 80 GB ATA and in the last couple of weeks you have added 45 GB of data. Now, the computer takes a long time to open files. Which of the following utilities should you use to arrange the files sequentially on the hard drive?

Jack wants to install Windows XP Professional on forty computers in the Sales department. He wants to use RIS for the installation and fully automate the installation using an answer file. Which of these programs can be used to create an answer file via a GUI interface?

A user in your organization is facing some performance issues on his computer, so you set a performance monitor that monitors memory, processor, disk, and network. To monitor his computer memory, you are monitoring the Memory > Available MBytes counter. The Memory > Available MBytes counter averages 8 MB over a typical sampling period. What should you do now?

Joe, Jane, and Jack work as teachers at a school. They have been assigned one laptop computer, which they need to share among themselves. The laptop has Windows XP installed. What should be done so that each of them has their data and user preferences stored and maintained separately from one another?

After installing new device drivers, you have encountered problems with a computer and the computer will not boot properly. You believe the new hardware drivers are the cause. Using Windows XP Professional, what can you do to verify this?

You are an administrator for a medium-sized network. You recently purchased a network printer that has an Ethernet card installed. The network uses TCP/IP. Which of the following port options do you need to configure for this printer?

You are listening to an audio CD on your desktop computer at work, like all the employees do. One morning, all employees receive an e-mail from the corporate services asking not to play loud music on the desktops. However, no restriction is placed on listening to music using a headphone. You plug your headphones into the jack on the front of the CD-ROM drive, but you hear no sound. You adjust the volume control on the front of the CD-ROM drive, but still hear no sound. You turn the speakers back on and can hear the music again. Which of the following could be the likely cause of this issue?

On a Windows XP computer, which file provides the list of hardware and software on the computer to ntldr.exe during the boot process?

You want to track system performance for a baseline over a period of three days. You want the data to be collected every ten minutes. Which of the following logs would you create through Performance Logs and Alerts?

You have purchased ten new laptops for your employees. When you try to install Windows XP Professional on the laptops, you keep getting an error that the hard drive cannot be accessed. You restart the installation and get the same error. What action should you take?