Assignment 9

You want to upgrade your Windows 10 Professional computer to Windows 11 Professional. You begin by checking the hardware and discover that it has 2 GB of RAM, a 2.0 GHz dual-core processor, a 256 GB solid-state drive, and a video adapter with 128 MB of RAM and DirectX 12 support. You want to install the 64-bit version of Windows 11. What should you do?

Add more memory.

You have just received a frantic call from a customer. She informs you that after turning her computer on, she received the following error: The SMART hard disk check has detected an imminent failure. Which of the following is the best FIRST step to take?

Back up all important data and files.

You are in the process of preparing to install Windows 11 Professional on your Windows 10 laptop. You have already verified that your laptop hardware is compatible with a Windows 11 installation. Which of the following pre-installation steps should you perform next?

Back up existing data.

While trying to start your Windows 11 system, you see the following error message: Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Which of the following will MOST likely fix the problem?

Boot into the recovery environment and run the bootrec /rebuildbcd command.

You have a computer with a 64-bit dual-core processor that runs the 64-bit version of Windows 10 Professional edition. You would like to upgrade to the 64-bit version of Windows 11 Home. You want to perform the upgrade with the least amount of effort possible. Which of the following installation methods do you need to perform?

Clean installation

You want to keep an existing operating system installed on a system and deploy Windows as a separate instance on the same device, creating a multiple-boot configuration. Which installation type should you use?

Clean installation

You are currently running a video editing application on your Windows 11 laptop. The laptop includes both an SSD drive and a traditional hard drive. You run the video application on the hard drive, but you would like to install and run the app from the SSD drive to enhance performance speed. Which of the following should you do to protect the video application and associated data files from drive failure when you move them to the SSD drive?

Configure an automatic backup to the hard disk drive.

You are in the process of preparing to install Windows 11 on your Windows 10 computer. Which of the following pre-installation steps is critical to complete (not optional) if you are performing a clean installation?

Create a system image back up existing data

You have a workstation running Windows 10 Home. However, you want to install Windows 11 Professional as a separate instance in order to boot into either operating system. Which of the following installation types will meet your needs?

Custom/clean installation

Which of the following disk maintenance utilities locates and disposes of files that can be safely removed from a disk?

Disk Cleanup

Which of the following disk maintenance utilities optimizes the performance of your hard drive by joining parts of files that are in different locations into a single location?

Disk Defragmenter

After upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on your laptop, everything seems to be going well until you start running a graphics editing program that you have used for years. The program keeps locking up after a few minutes. Which of the following pre-installation steps would have helped to resolve this issue?

Ensure that your software is compatible with Windows 11.

Lately, you hear a clicking noise when reading or writing data from the hard disk. What is the MOST likely cause of the clicking?

Failing hard drive

A series of used clusters on the hard disk drive that are not associated with a specific file. Lost clusters When two files claim the same cluster. Cross-linked file

Files that exist on the hard drive, but are not associated with a directory in the index. Orphaned files A portion of the hard disk that cannot be used. Bad sector

You have decided to optimize the hard drive on your Windows laptop by running the Error Checking utility. What are the things that you can expect the Error Checking utility to perform? (Select two.)

Fix lost clusters Fix cross-linked files

You have just finished upgrading the 250-watt power supply in your desktop computer to a 450-watt power supply. Now the BIOS does not recognize one of the hard disk drives in the system during POST. Which of the following troubleshooting steps is the BEST to try first?

Make sure that the hard disk is connected to the power supply.

You have just installed an SSD drive in your older Windows workstation. However, after you start Windows, you do not see the SSD drive listed in Windows Explorer. What should you do FIRST?

Make sure the power connectors on the SSD drive are plugged in all the way.

You notice that the hard drive on your iMac Pro is running slower than before. You decide to run the First Aid utility to optimize the drive. Which of the following is recommended to make sure that the First Aid utility is 100% effective?

Run First Aid by booting into Recovery Mode.

Which of the following can you do to disable defragmentation in Windows?

Select Change Settings from the Optimize Drive dialog. Then clear the Run on a schedule option.

You want to create a high-performance Windows laptop with both a 2-TB hard drive and a 1-TB SSD drive. Which of the following are data storage recommendations for your high performance system? (Select two.)

Store data that requires high performance on the SSD drive. Store heavily used information on the hard drive.

Your company's graphic designers were given laptop computers several months ago. The laptops have a 500-GB SSD drive for the operating system and applications and a 1-TB hard drive for storing media files. Now, a few of the graphic designers are complaining about slow performance on their SSD drives. What is the MOST likely cause of the slow performance?

The designers are storing media files on the SSD drive.

You have a workstation running a 64-bit version of Windows 10 Professional that you would like to upgrade to Windows 11 Professional. You want to preserve the existing data, settings, and applications. Which of the following would be the BEST installation methods to use to install Windows 11?

Upgrade

Your computer currently uses a 5,400 RPM hard disk. You want to improve your computer's overall performance by optimizing your hard disk performance. Which of the following would be the MOST effective means to optimize your hard disk performance? (Select two.)

Upgrade your hard disk interface to SATA 3. Upgrade to a 10,000 RPM hard disk

You are about to begin an upgrade of a Windows 10 workstation to Windows 11. What should you do before beginning? (Select two.)

Verify that the computer meets the minimum requirements. Create a system backup of the hard drive.

chkdsk

Which of the following utilities would you use to correct cross-linked clusters within the file system on a windows workstation

In which of the following situations would you use a custom/clean installation? (Select two.)

You want to preserve the existing operating system. There is no operating system installed on the computer.

You are an IT administrator who is troubleshooting a computer from within Windows Command Prompt. You are trying to execute the chkdsk command line tool, but it keeps failing. Which of the following command switches would give you the BEST information on how to run this command?

chkdsk /?

Which of the following Windows command line utilities would you use to realign the file structure on a disk to optimize performance?

defrag

Which of the following commands would you run on a Linux system to find out how much disk space is being used on each of the file systems?

df -h

After installing a new SSD drive on your Windows 11 system, you determine that the TRIM functionality has not been automatically enabled on the drive by the Windows operating system. You need to manually turn on TRIM from a Command Prompt. The drive's volume has been assigned a drive letter of E:. Which of the following commands MUST you use to enable this feature?

fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0