Exam 1: Mcsa -Xp

You are installing both Windows Me and Windows XP Professional onto a system with a single 36 GB hard disk. You need to dual boot between the two operating systems. Which of these file systems should you use?

You work as the network administrator in your organization. All client computers run Windows XP Professional. You want to configure a new hardware profile on a client computer. You create a new hardware profile, reboot the client computer, and select the new profile. You want to indicate the components that should be disabled for the new hardware profile. Which of the following should you do to disable the devices?

You are moving files from the folder \BEFORE to the folder \AFTER on the same volume. The \ BEFORE folder is compressed using Windows XP NTFS compression, but the \ AFTER folder is not. What will the compression status of the files be after you have moved the folder?

John runs a variety of programs on his computer simultaneously. How should he configure his computer's memory usage?

You want to create a shared folder named CONFIDENTIAL on your Windows XP Professional system for your personal data. You do not want users who may be browsing the network to see this shared folder. How do you name a shared folder to ensure that it is not visible to other users through My Network Places?

You are the desktop administrator in your organization. You plan to install Windows XP Professional on a client computer. The computer contains a hard disk and a CD-ROM drive with a network card and a video card. After the installation begins, you receive an error message indicating that Setup cannot find a hard disk. You verify that the SCSI hard disk is connected and functional. However, the error message keeps coming up when you restart the setup. What should you do to complete the installation?

You have a set of files which scale up to 90 GB in size on a Windows XP computer. Using the compression utility, these are compressed to 40 GB. You want to transfer these files to a Windows 98 computer with an 80 GB hard drive. The Windows 98 computer has free space of 50 GB. How do you make sure that you transfer the set of files from the Windows XP computer to the Windows 98 computer with the files being compressed?

You have installed an SCSI adapter that supports an SCSI drive, containing your Windows XP system and boot partitions. After updating the SCSI driver, you restart your computer but Windows XP will not load. You need to get this computer up and running as quickly as possible. Which of the following options should you try first to fix this issue?

You need to copy a configuration file that is compressed using NTFS compression to another volume. The file size of the log file is 3 GB, however it consumes only 500 MB of the file system because it is compressed. The destination volume has 2 GB of available space, so you enable compression on the folder that will receive the log file. During the file transfer, you receive an error indicating that there is not enough space to complete the copy. Which of the following could have happened?

Jack is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue. His computer is not able to open any websites. He tries to ping his computer from another computer and gets an output like the one shown in the image below. Which of the following could lead to a ping-output as shown in the image?

You would like to look at the network configuration on a computer. Which of the following utilities should be used?

What will happen to any unsaved data on a computer in standby mode, when there is Power failure?

You are a member of a knowledge-sharing forum that discusses troubleshooting issues on Windows operating systems. The forum needs you to login every time you access content. While many other users state that their computer remembers their username and password, you need to enter it every time you login. What is the most likely cause of the problem?

David has just installed a second IDE slave hard drive on the primary controller on his Windows XP system. However, he cannot find the hard drive when he clicks the My Computer icon. What could be the possible cause of this problem?

You are a mobile user who wants to maximize the lifetime of the battery but needs the display to remain on at all times. Which of the following power schemes is optimal to serve this purpose?

You've installed and are attempting to share files with other computers on your local network. Although the Windows Firewall is enabled, it is configured to allow IIS traffic. Your IP address is 192.168.10.2. When another user on the network tries to access your computer, he receives an error message indicating that the server could not be found. If you've configured IIS using the default settings, which of the following is the URL that someone has to type to access your computer?

You are using a Windows XP Professional computer with a hard disk that has three volumes named C, D, and E. Each volume is 10 GB in size and has approximately 2 GB available space. The total physical memory of each computer is 256 MB in size. The paging file on each computer is located on the E drive. Every day, two hours after you start your computer, you get an error message that states "Virtual memory too low". Once the error message appears, the computer appears to perform very slowly for 30 seconds. You want to improve the performance of the computer without installing additional memory. What should you do?

You manage a handful of Windows XP Professional computers in a workgroup environment. You want to specify how many failed logon attempts are allowed before an account is locked out and how long before the account is automatically reset. Which of the following specifies the correct procedure?

You plan to upgrade your computer to Windows XP Professional. After the upgrade, you do not notice any device/device driver or display issues. However, one of the applications that was working well with the earlier OS is not working now. The display is garbled and the application window is not properly displayed. To add to your woes, no XP-compliant version has yet been released by the manufacturer. How would you fix this problem?

During a routine network bandwidth check at your office, you notice that performance is abnormally slow when connecting to some specific servers located in remote offices. Which of the tools included with Windows XP Professional can be used to investigate the cause of this problem?