Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

A) HOSTS 
B) LMHOSTS 
C) dns.txt 
D) IPADD

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

A) TCP/IP is not installed on your laptop computer. 
B) NIC is faulty. 
C) Network cable is faulty. 
D) DHCP is not able to provide a valid IP address, hence an APIPA is assigned.

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Configure the CMOS setup to boot using the CD-ROM first. 
B) Get a new CD, since this one is corrupt. 
C) Reconfigure the Windows XP system to be PXE compliant. 
D) Replace the CD-ROM with one that is compatible with Windows XP.

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Restart the computer with the Last Known Good Configuration. 
B) Restart the computer by using the Recovery console and restart the Network Connections service. 
C) Restart the computer by using a Windows XP Professional CD and restore the computer to an optimal restore point. 
D) Restart the computer and enable the network adapter.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A) Administrators & Power Users 
B) Administrators & Users 
C) Backup Operators & Power Users 
D) Power Users & Users

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Modify the boot.ini file to include the /sos switch. 
B) Restart Setup by using the /dushare switch. 
C) Restart the computer and press F8 during the boot process. 
D) Restart the computer and select the Last Known Good Configuration.

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Format logical drive C: as FAT32 and logical drive D: as NTFS. 
B) Format both logical drives as FAT32. 
C) Format both logical drives with NTFS. 
D) Format logical drive C: as NTFS and logical drive D: as FAT32.

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Windows Compatibility List 
B) Hardware Compatibility List 
C) Peripheral Compatibility List 
D) Microsoft Compatibility List

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Disk striping 
B) Spanned volumes 
C) Mirrored volumes 
D) Consistent backup schemes

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) You do not need to do anything else. The new monitor will automatically be available to the computer. 
B) In the Display tab, click Settings and the new monitor icon. Select Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor. Configure the new display settings. 
C) In the Display control panel, designate the new monitor as your primary display and configure the display settings. 
D) In the Display control panel under Settings, click Identify and enter a number that will correspond to the monitor icon. Configure the monitor settings.

Question 11

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?

Accepted Answer

A) In the Modem tab of the modem's Properties dialog box, set the Speaker Volume option using the High setting. 
B) In the Advanced tab of the modem's Properties dialog box, set the speaker volume to high. 
C) In the modem adapter Properties dialog box, select the Audible Connection option. 
D) Use the volume command-line utility to adjust the volume.

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Verify if the Task scheduler is configured to run in unattended mode. 
B) Make sure the users who are facing issues with the scheduled task have appropriate permissions to run the scheduler. 
C) Make sure that all users have the time synchronized on their computer. 
D) Make sure that all users have administrator rights to run Task scheduler.

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A) PXEBOOT 
B) RIPREP 
C) RISBOOT 
D) RBFG

Question 14

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Enable USB in BIOS settings 
B) Use a USB hub 
C) Nothing. Win XP doesn't support USB 
D) Enable USB using Networking applet in Control Panel

Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Restart the laptop using the safe mode and restore it to the latest restore point. 
B) Restart the laptop with the Last Known Good Configuration. 
C) Restart the laptop using a Windows XP Professional CD and restore it to the latest restore point. 
D) Restart the computer by using a bootable floppy disk and restore it to the latest restore point.

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A) Remove 
B) Ignore 
C) Warn 
D) Block

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

A) In the Device Manager, access the computer's properties and enable the Allow Multiple Processors option. 
B) In the Control Panel, access System Properties, open the Advanced tab, and enable the Allow Multiple Processors option. 
C) Nothing needs to be done. It will be installed by default. 
D) Update the driver to support multiple processors.

Question 18

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Configure the User Limit to 1 in the Properties of the folder that you've shared. 
B) Configure the users to access the file at different times in the Properties of the folder that you've shared. 
C) Configure the shared folder so that users are not allowed offline access to the folder. 
D) A shared folder access cannot be limited to a specific number of users.

Question 19

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Add the social networking URL to the list of Trusted sites through the Security tab in the Internet Options program located in the Control Panel. 
B) Call the help desk and ask for help. 
C) Ask the help desk to e-mail the ActiveX controls to you so you can manually install them on your computer. 
D) Re-install the operating system.

Question 20

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?

Accepted Answer

A) In the Regional and Language Options, apply the English user interface. 
B) In the Regional and Language Options, apply the English input language keyboard. 
C) In the Regional and Language options, apply English (United States) Standards and Formats. 
D) In the date and time options, change the Time Zone to Eastern Time (US & Canada).

Exam 1: Mcsa -Xp