Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

A) FAT32 
B) FAT16 
C) CDFS 
D) NTFS

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Go to System Information-Hardware Resources and disable the hardware devices for the hardware profile. 
B) Go to System Information-Software Environment and disable the hardware devices for the hardware profile. 
C) Go to Storage and disable storage devices for hardware profile. 
D) Go to the Device Manager to disable the hardware devices for the hardware profile.

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

A) The files are uncompressed. 
B) The files are compressed. 
C) The move operation returns an error since compressed files cannot be moved until they are decompressed. 
D) The move operation returns an error since compressed files cannot be moved until the compression status of both files are the same.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A) The memory should be optimized for system cache so that the OS has more RAM available for paging files. 
B) The memory should be balanced between programs and system cache. 
C) The memory should be fully allocated to programs and the system cache should be turned off. 
D) A minimal amount of memory should be given to programs, but the majority of the memory should be devoted to system cache.

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

A) CONFIDENTIAL # 
B) $ CONFIDENTIAL 
C) # CONFIDENTIAL 
D) CONFIDENTIAL $

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Disable the APM features in the system BIOS. 
B) Restart Setup and install the driver for the SCSI adapter while initially copying the files. 
C) Reserve an IRQ for the ISA SCSI adapter in the system BIOS. 
D) Set the system BIOS boot device option to boot from the SCSI hard disk.

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Use the XCOPY command with the /Comp switch to copy the files. 
B) On the Windows Explorer of the Windows 98 computer select Keep Existing Attributes. 
C) You cannot copy files in the compressed state to the Windows 98 computer. 
D) On the destination folder of the Windows 98 computer, make sure that the folder's properties are configured to Compress Contents to Save Disk Space.

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Restore your computer's configuration with your last backup. 
B) Boot your computer to the Last Known Good Configuration. 
C) Boot your computer to the Safe Mode. 
D) Re-install Windows XP Professional.

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Files copied between volumes are always written as uncompressed, regardless of the compression state of the source file or the destination folder. 
B) Files copied between volumes are first written to the disk uncompressed. NTFS compresses the file only if the destination folder is compressed. 
C) Files copied between volumes inherit the compression state of the base volume, not the destination folder. 
D) Compressed files must be written to unfragmented areas of the disk. Although the destination disk might have sufficient free space, the free space is fragmented and therefore unusable for compressed files.

Question 10

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Jack's system is not connected to the network. 
B) Jack's system is using a Windows 98 operating system. 
C) The browser on Jack's system is not working properly. 
D) Nothing concrete can be inferred from the image.

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A) ping 
B) tracert 
C) ipconfig 
D) pathping

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A) The data is saved by default. 
B) Data will be lost if a power failure occurs while the computer is in Standby. 
C) Data can be recovered from the temporary files. 
D) Data will be saved if a power failure occurs while the computer is in Standby.

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Internet Explorer security is configured to block cookies from the forum. 
B) Appropriate file permissions are not granted to allow the forum to store your user name and password. 
C) Windows Firewall is blocking authentication requests from the website. 
D) The SSL certificate on the forum is invalid.

Question 14

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Hard drive drivers are not loaded. 
B) Hard drive is not partitioned. 
C) The floppy drive is not connected. 
D) Appropriate drivers are not loaded.

Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Portable/Laptop 
B) Presentation 
C) Always On 
D) Max Battery

Question 16

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?

Accepted Answer

A) http://192.168.10.2/80 
B) ftp://192.168.10. 2:80/ 
C) http://www.192.168.10. 2/ 
D) http://192.168.10.2:80/

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Move the current paging file to the system drive. 
B) Increase the Buffers setting in the Config.sys file. 
C) Enable the Adjust for best performance of: System Cache Memory Usage option. 
D) Increase the initial size of the paging file.

Question 18

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Open Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and open the Local Users And Groups snap-in located in the Computer Management console. 
B) Open Control Panel, click User Accounts, and specify the failed logon attempts before the account is locked out. 
C) Open Control Panel, click Accessibility Options, click Accessibility Options again, and click the General tab when the Accessibility Options program window appears. 
D) Open the Local Security Policy console, expand the Account Settings folder, select the Account Lockout Policy folder, and configure the appropriate settings.

Question 19

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Lower the resolution of the monitor. 
B) Lower the refresh rate to one that is compatible with the legacy application. 
C) Change your monitor. 
D) Run the Program Compatibility Wizard to configure the legacy applications display settings.

Question 20

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Arp 
B) Tracert 
C) Ping 
D) Ipconfig

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