Operating Systems Fundamentals (CINS-120) UNIT 1 Exam 1-3 Practice
You are having trouble with a printer installed on your system. The network administrator in your organization asks you to remove the device so that he can reinstall the printer. Which of the following categories will you select to follow the recommendation made by the administrator?
Devices
Which profile is stored in a network location rather than on the local hard drive?
A roaming profile
If you want to configure authentication to Windows 10 or create and manage local user accounts, which Settings category should you open?
Accounts
What does Windows need to manage and communicate with hardware components?
Device drivers
Which account is the most powerful local user account possible?
Administrator
Identify the file extension used to save Windows PowerShell scripts.
.ps1
After credentials are cached locally, you can sign in to a computer using a domain user account. By default, how many user sign-ins are cached?
10
How much RAM is supported by the 32-bit version of Windows 10?
4GB
Which of the following accounts will you create during the installation of Windows 10?
An initial account
Which of the following options in the Settings window must be selected to view speech recognition settings?
Apps
Members of which of the following groups can back up and restore all files and folders on the computer?
Backup Operators
Luis, a computer support specialist of a small tax consultancy, is manually installing Windows 10 on all the new computers in the company using the DVD boot installation method. At what point during the installation should Luis insert the installation DVD in the DVD drive?
Before starting the computer
You have installed new antivirus software in your Windows 10 computer. How will you ensure the service associated with the software is configured to start when Windows boots?
By checking if the startup type for the associated service is set to Automatic
Your organization has purchased a new printer. As the systems administrator, you need to ensure that the appropriate driver is automatically loaded whenever a Windows 10 computer in the organization is attached to the printer. However, the registry keys in the computers should not be modified. How will you do this?
By staging the driver in the driver store
Geeta downloads a free music player and installs it on her computer. The computer runs on a Windows 10 operating system. When she tries to play a song on her computer, the audio file opens in the audio player that comes with Windows 10 instead of the new music player. What should Geeta have done to avoid this issue?
Change the default apps settings
Mei, a system administrator, has installed Windows 10 on 15 computers in her company. She needs to activate the license using the Multiple Activation Key (MAK) activation method. However, the new computers do not have access to the Internet because of certain infrastructure issues. Which of the following methods should Mei use to activate the licenses without having to spend much time?
Configure proxy activation by using the Volume Activation Management Tool
Jack is looking to buy a new computer and asks his friend Antonio, a software developer, for advice. Jack wants to know if the choice of operating system will impact the applications he uses or whether he can ignore this aspect and focus on the other specifications. How should Antonio respond?
Different operating systems use different application programmer interfaces, so an application written for one operating system will not run on another operating system.
Martha works as a systems administrator in a multinational corporation. One of her colleagues is going on a sabbatical for six months. Martha must ensure that no one uses the colleague's user account until he returns.
Disable the account
Which of the following actions will you perform on the Windows sign-in screen if your organization uses a virtual smart card for authentication?
Enter a PIN on the sign-in screen.
Which tool in Administrative Tools should you open if you want to view messages to troubleshoot errors?
Event Viewer
Which of the following is a biometric authentication method supported by Windows Hello?
Facial recognition
Which of the following cmdlets can you use to check if the Windows event log is running?
Get-Service
A firm purchases five hundred computers for its new office. A system administrator installs Windows 10 on all the computers. The administrator wants all the computers in the new office to have a consistent configuration. A firm purchases five hundred computers for its new office. A system administrator installs Windows 10 on all the computers. The administrator wants all the computers in the new office to have a consistent configuration.
Group Policy
Igneta intends to install Windows 10 on her personal computer using a DVD boot installation. She wants to speed up the DVD boot installation process. How can Igneta do this?
Igneta can place the Windows 10 installation files on faster media such as flash storage.
Arun has purchased a new Windows 10 computer. He wants to create user accounts for his family members. Unlike previous versions of Windows, he is not able to use the User Accounts applet in the Control Panel to create new users.
In Windows 10, the User Accounts applet in the Control Panel does not have the option to create new user accounts.
In the context of management features included in Windows 10, which of the following statements is true of Active Directory?
It allows administrators to control authentication to Windows 10 clients without manually configuring user accounts.
Which of the following statements is not true of the Administrator account?
It can be renamed.
Which of the following is a disadvantage of using the DVD boot installation method to install Windows 10?
It offers a low degree of customization.
Which of the following allows Windows to update in the background and place hardware devices in their lowest power states?
Modern Standby
Members of which group are able to monitor performance counters on the computer, but cannot access performance logs?
Performance Monitor Users
Which of the following cmdlets can be used to change the user account
Rename-LocalUser
Joanna uses a USB device to sign in to her Office 365 account. She can plug in the device on any computer with an Internet connection. However, in addition to the USB device she must also use a PIN for authentication.
She is using a security key.
The general settings for notifications, power, storage, and display are found in which category of the Settings tool?
System
You have bought a new Windows 10 desktop. While exploring your new computer, you notice that some of the visual effects that you expected to see on the computer are not being displayed. You browse the Internet to find out that Windows 10 could have disabled some of these effects as per the computer configuration. Which of the following options in Control Panel will you choose to enable them?
System and Security
The engineering department of a neighboring university is looking to upgrade the operating systems used in its laboratory computers. These computers have many 16-bit engineering applications installed. The university does not have the funding to replace or upgrade the existing 16-bit software. Which of the following versions of Windows 10 Pro should the university buy for the lab computers?
The 32-bit version
Marquez Consulting has a hiring plan for 20 software developers. To prepare for this, the IT team is tasked with procuring 20 new desktops. The vendor contracted by Marquez delivers 20 desktops without any operating system installed. The IT team considers using volume licensing to activate Windows 10 Pro on these laptops. What will be the outcome in this scenario?
The IT team will not be able to activate Windows 10 Pro.
Which of the following power states represents a fully functioning computer?
The S0 state
Lorena has multiple windows open on her desktop. She wants to minimize all the windows except the currently active window. Which of the following features of Windows 10 should Lorena use?
The Shake feature
Which Windows feature includes three columns and includes Live Tiles in the right-hand column?
The Start menu
Sara, a network administrator, downloads a Windows PowerShell script that can be used to delete user accounts. She tries to execute the script through Windows PowerShell. However, the script does not run. What do you think is preventing the script from running?
The execution policy was set as Restricted.
Your computer displays the date in the m/d/yyyy format. Which of the following options would you choose from the Settings window to change the format to dd-mm-yy?
Time & Language
Which feature in Windows 10 allows the user to create multiple desktops that can host different open windows?
Virtual Desktop
Which of the following is not one of the five mainstream versions of Windows 10?
Windows 10 Business
Trang wants to upgrade her personal computer to Windows 10 Pro. Trang completes the upgrade without doing an installation from DVD and only by entering the Windows 10 Pro product key. From which of the operating systems did Trang upgrade to Windows 10 Pro?
Windows 10 Home
Hung, a travel blogger, documents his travels across the world on his blog. On a trekking vacation in Europe, his Windows 10 laptop falls out of his backpack and breaks, so he buys a new laptop with Windows 10 preinstalled on it. When he tries to play a movie from his hard disk, the movie file does not open. He notices that the laptop does not have Windows Media Player. He's able to play the file after downloading and installing the Media Feature Pack from Microsoft. Which of the following editions of Windows 10 is most likely installed on this new laptop?
Windows 10 Home N
Leo, an engineer at a construction firm, installs Windows 10 Home on a new laptop. He wants to connect 4 physical processors to the laptop to meet the high-speed processing requirements of his work. However, when he tries to connect the processors, his operating system does not support all the processors. Which of the following is the most likely reason that the operating system does not support the additional processors?
Windows 10 Home provides for only 1 physical processor.
Josephine wants to upgrade the operating system on her personal computer to Windows 10 Home. Which of the following operating systems must be currently installed on her computer for the upgrade?
Windows 7 Home
Which tool in Administrative Tools allows you to configure IPSec settings?
Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security
Which tool should you use to configure computers to communicate with external disks over standard Ethernet networks?
iSCSI Initiator
Which type of network consists of multiple Windows computers that share information, but no computer on the network serves as an authoritative source of user information?
peer-to-peer
