LAN chapter 3

Which of the following are Registry elements? (Choose all that apply.)

-Keys -Values

What are the five root keys that exist in the Windows Server 2016 Registry, and what is a root key? What is a root key?

.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE • HKEY_CURRENT_USER • HKEY_USERS • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT • HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG Also called a subtree, the highest category of data cotained in a registry

Without the aid of APICs or special Intel features, what is the maximum number of IRQ lines available to a system?

15

The server you have just installed has 16 GB of RAM. What should the initial paging file size be set to when you manually configure it as a beginning tuning step before monitoring paging over time to fine tune it later?

24576MB

What is the maximum paging file size on a 64-bit server?

256 terabytes

On a typical x86 computer, what size is a single data page?

4KB

_________ enables you to determine if a server role is set up to follow best practices.

Best Practices Analyzer

Analyzes the installed server roles to report if they are set up to conform to Microsoft's best practices for roles.

Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)

What happens when two devices end up with conflicting IRQ assignments?

Both devices become inoperable until new IRQs are assigned.

You have noticed lately that your server is running very slowly, especially when switching between programs. You see that the C: partition is running low on space, limiting the size of your paging file. You have a second partition, D:, that has 100 GB of free space. How can you move the paging file from partition C: onto partition D:?

Configure it from the System window opened through Control Panel.

What feature is designed to foil malware, such as computer viruses, Trojan horses, and worms, by preventing programs from using system memory space?

Data Execution Prevention

A security feature that monitors how programs use memory and stops programs that attempt to use memory allocated for system programs and processes. This is intended to foil viruses, Trojan horses, and worms that attempt to invade system memory.

Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

You've obtained a new driver from the Internet for your server's NIC. What tool enables you to install the driver?

Device Manager

Your server keyboard sometimes hesitates or seems like it is disconnecting from the com-puter. Which of the following tools enables you to run a quick check on whether the key-board is working properly?

Device Manager

You have just taken over management of a server on which the previous server administrator has set up several server components including the hard drives to be hot swappable. However, you notice that server performance is slow and disk reading and writing sometimes is delayed. What step can you take to improve the performance of the disk drives?

Ensure file caching and flushing are enabled for all disk drives

As the server administrator for a hospital, you have received several notices about malware targeted at software applications used in hospitals. What server configuration step can you take to help protect applications from malware?

Ensure that Data Execution Prevention is turned on.

Any user can add system environment variables or change the values of existing ones

False

Server performance is improved if the paging file configured for the system is placed on the boot partition.

False

What Registry root key has information about the current hardware profile?

HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

What Registry key contains information about the desktop setup for the account presently signed in to the server console?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

What Registry key contains profile information for each user who has signed in to a computer?

HKEY_USERS

________ Protocol is used to bind virtual network services on a virtual machine to the NIC.

Hyper-V Extensible Virtual Switch

What is NOT one of the tasks that the Devices and Printers utility can be used for?

Identifying resource conflicts between devices.

By default on Windows Server 2016, what is the processor scheduling set to prioritize?

It is set to prioritize background services.

What option can you use in Server Manager to configure server properties, such as the computer name and the Ethernet connection, as well as view events, such as errors and warnings?

Local Server in the left pane

What statement regarding the placement of the paging file is accurate?

Paging files should be placed on the main disk in a mirrored set, not the backup disk.

Your company is working to save costs by conserving the power consumption of its servers. Which of the following default power plans should you select for Windows Server 2016 servers?

Power Saver

A data parameter in the Registry stored as a value in hexadecimal, binary, or text format.

Registry entry

A category of information contained in the Windows Registry, such as hardware or software.

Registry key

Used on Windows-based networks to facilitate multicast transmissions for multimedia communications.

Reliable Multicast Protocol

What protocol simplifies multicast communications by removing the need for a router to direct network traffic?

Reliable Multicast Protocol

Your organization has consolidated servers through virtualization and now needs to remove the Windows Deployment Services server role from one of its servers. Which of the following tools enable you to remove a server role?

Server Manager

A tool used to verify system and other critical files to determine if they have a signature.

Sigverif

Another way to protect against malware is to ensure the system and other essential files have a signature. What tool enables you to verify files for a signature and what tool enables you to run this tool

Sigverif that is started through Windows PowerShell

The power supply in your server has just been replaced because of power problems. Your server boots, but now there is a message that a Windows directory file is corrupted. You can use _________ as a tool to check and then restore system files that have been corrupted.

System File Checker

What statement regarding support of Plug and Play is not accurate?

The kernel requires a special flag to enable PnP.

A Server 2016 installation is crashing and failing to create a crash dump file. What is the most likely cause for the failure to create the dump file?

The paging file is disabled on the server

What is the general rule for configuring the initial size of a paging file?

The paging file should be 1.5 times the amount of RAM installed.

Each time that you access files on a disk, the monitor blinks or goes blank for several seconds. What might be the source of the problem and possible solution?

There is an IRQ conflict, and you need to use Device Manager to resolve the problem

The System File Checker is useful in recovering system files that have been corrupted because of a hardware power problem or power failure.

True

What is NOT one of the tasks that can be performed using the Device Manager?

Virtual devices can be installed.

What statement regarding the use of virtual memory in Windows Server 2016 is accurate?

Virtual memory usage involves a hit to performance.

Which of the following can be installed using the Add a device option? (Choose all that apply.)

a.Optical drive b.Keyboard c.Monitor d. Disk drive

A digital signature incorporated into driver and system files as a way to verify the files and to ensure that they are not inappropriately overwritten.

driver signing

The __________ cmdlet in Windows PowerShell is used to view which processes are running on a server

get-process

You are working in PowerShell and receive a call that users cannot use the print services through the server. What command can you run to quickly determine services that are run-ning or are stopped?

get-service

What are the interrupt request line (IRQ) and I/O address resources on a computer used for?

gives hardware devices inside of the computer a direct line to the microprocessor, and can tell the microprocessor to stop what is doing until further instructions

A hardware line that a computer component, such as a disk drive or serial port, uses to communicate to the processor that it is ready to send or receive information.

interrupt request (IRQ) line

Disk space, in the form of a file, for use when memory requirements exceed the available RAM.

paging file

Your server has a virus with elements of the virus embedded in the Registry. The virus checker has located these elements, but cannot delete them. What tool can you use to delete these virus elements in the Registry?

regedit

On a network, this refers to an object, such as a shared printer or shared directory, which can be accessed by users.

resource

A _________ variable is defined by the operating system and is applied to every user when signed in.

system environment