3.5.2 The Windows Operating System Quiz

How much RAM is addressable by a 32-bit version of Windows? -32 GB -4 GB -8 GB -16 GB

4 GB

Which user account should be used only to perform system management and not as the account for regular use? -power user -administrator -standard user -guest

Administrator

What would be displayed if the netstat -abno command was entered on a Windows PC? -Only active UDP connection in an LISTENING state. -All active TCP and UDP connections, their current state, and their associated process ID (PID). -A local routing table. -Only active TCP connections in an ESTABLISHED state.

All active TCP/UDP connections, their current state, and their associated PID.

What is the purpose of the cd command? -Changes directory to the root directory -Changes directory to the previous directory. -Changes directory to the next lower directory. -Changes directory to the next highest directory.

Changes directory to the root directory.

A security incident has been filed and an employee believes that someone has been on the computer since the employee left last night. The employee states that the computer was turned off before the employee left for the evening. The computer is running slowly and applications are acting strangely. Which Microsoft Windows tool would be used by the security analyst to determine if and when someone logged on to the computer after working hours? -Task Manager -Event Viewer -Performance Monitor -PowerShell

Event Viewer

For security reasons a network administrator needs to ensure that local computers cannot ping each other. Which settings can accomplish this task? -MAC address settings -smartcard settings -firewall settings -file system settings

Firewall settings

What contains information on how hard drive partitions are organized? -CPU -BOOTMGR -MBR -Windows Registry

MBR

What term is used to describe a logical drive that can be formatted to store data? -Volume -Sector -Track -Partition -Cluster

Partition

When a user makes changes to the settings of a Windows system, where are these changes stored? -boot.ini -win.ini -Control Panel -Registry

Registry

What utility is used to show the system resources consumed by each user? -Event Viewer -User Accounts -Task Manager -Device Manager

Task Manager

Which Windows version was the first to introduce a 64-bit Windows operating system? -Win 10 -Win NT -Win XP -Win 7

Win XP

Which net command is used on a Windows PC to establish a connection to a shared directory on a remote server? -net start -net share -net session -net use

net use

Which command is used to manually query a DNS server to resolve a specific host name? -net -tracert -nslookup -ipconfig/displaydns

nslookup