Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Answer.txt 
B) Unattend.txt 
C) Winnt.sif 
D) Winnt32.sif

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Configure Do Not Allow Use of Cached Credentials in Security Policy Options. 
B) In the Local Users and Groups utility, configure Tools, Security to disallow the use of cached credentials. 
C) Open Internet Options, click the Security tab, and configure Content Advisor. 
D) Configure Do Not Allow Stored User Names and Passwords to Save Passwords or Credentials for Network Authentication in Security Policy Options.

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Use System Restore to restore the last restore point. 
B) Reinstall Windows XP Professional to enable ACPI and power management support. 
C) Restart the computer with the last known good configuration. 
D) Use the Recovery console to add the correct ACPI to the computer.

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

A) \WINNT\Profiles\username 
B) systemdrive:\User Profiles\username 
C) systemdrive:\Documents and Settings\username 
D) \WINNT\User Profiles\username

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A) Fault recording 
B) Error Reporting 
C) Error Sending 
D) Fault documentation

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Use the product key at the back of the retail copy of the CD. 
B) Contact Microsoft for a volume license version of the CD-ROM and use the key that comes with it. 
C) Contact a Microsoft Activation center to obtain a product activation key. 
D) Create an unattended installation answer file with your company's volume license product key and continue the installation.

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Move the Ethernet card to the first ISA slot. 
B) Replace the Ethernet card with one that is PXE compliant. 
C) Create a network bootable floppy disk. 
D) Insert the floppy disk and install Windows XP Professional from a shared location.

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Boot.vid 
B) Video.ini 
C) Boot.ini 
D) Config.sys

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Winnt32 /debug4:debug.log 
B) Winnt32 /debug0:debug.log 
C) Winnt32 /debug2:debug.log 
D) Winnt32 /debug6:debug.log

Question 10

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Move the C:\CSC folder to D:\CSC using Windows Explorer. 
B) Use the Cachemove command-line utility to move the CSC folder. 
C) Modify the location of the CSC folder in the Offline Files-Advanced Settings. 
D) Specify the new location of the Client Side Cache files in the Offline Files Wizard.

Question 11

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Disk Cleanup 
B) Disk Manager 
C) Disk Arranger 
D) Disk Defragmenter

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Device Manager 
B) Setup Manager 
C) Answer Manager 
D) FAST

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Add more RAM. 
B) Nothing needs to be done. No bottleneck issue. 
C) Increase the size of the page file. 
D) Split the page file over two physical disk channels.

Question 14

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Create three separate partitions and ask them each to use one. 
B) Use the msconfig tool to segregate their data. 
C) They should create separate hardware profiles and use them individually. 
D) They should create different local user accounts and use them individually.

Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Shut down the computer and reboot. Press F8 at the system prompt and select the Last Known Good Configuration. 
B) Log on to the computer if you are able and check your resource allocations for device conflicts. 
C) Roll back the driver to the previous version. 
D) Reload the device drivers you've just installed and reboot the computer.

Question 16

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Local port 
B) Network port 
C) URL port 
D) TCP/IP port

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

A) CD-ROM drive is defective. 
B) You cannot plug in your headphones and listen to music on a CD-ROM drive. 
C) The Hardware Sound Acceleration Level setting is not optimal on the Sound tab of the DirectX Diagnostics tool. 
D) Digital audio playback is enabled on the CD-ROM drive.

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A) Boot.ini 
B) Config.sys 
C) Ntdetect.com 
D) Boot.exe

Question 19

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Monitoring log 
B) Counter log 
C) Trace log 
D) Baseline log

Question 20

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Install the disk drivers using an XP driver from the hard drive manufacturer during the text-mode of the installation. 
B) Enter the BIOS and verify that the UDMA for the hard drive is enabled. 
C) Enter the BIOS and verify that the APM for the hard drive is disabled. 
D) Allocate an IRQ for the hard drive in the system BIOS.

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