CIST 2411 Final Exam

A feature update includes new capabilities and improvements. What is the maximum number of days you can defer feature updates?

365

You have a Windows 10 system. You have used the Settings app to access Windows update. From this location, how long can you pause updates?

7 days

What is Windows Action Center?

A central location for managing system messages and resolving issues within your system.

What is WindowsUpdate.log?

A log file that can be created and saved and can be used to locate errors or problems.

Which of the following describes a system image backup? (Select two.)

A system image backup consists of an entire volume backed up to .vhd files. A system image contains everything on the system volume, including the operating system, installed programs, drivers, and user data files.

You need to configure Remote Assistance on your Windows system so that invitations can only be used from computers running Windows Vista or later. Click the System Properties option you would use to do this.

Advanced

You have 400 Windows 10 workstations and a Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) in your office. Which option would you use to stop the workstations in your organization from using Microsoft's servers for system updates?

Allow downloads from other PCs

When do you need to use the full path to a script in order to run it in PowerShell?

Always.

You need to interactively access Command Prompt on a remote Windows system named WS1 from your Windows workstation. Which command should you use to do this?

psexec \\WS1 cmd

Why is command history so useful in PowerShell?

Because it allows you to use the up arrow key to select a previously used command instead of retyping it.

You install a new graphics application on your Windows machine. During installation, the computer reboots, but hangs during startup. Pressing F8 has no effect. To fix your computer so it will start, what should you try first?

Boot from the installation disc and restore to a restore point.

You have recently made some changes to your Windows system. Things seemed to run fine for several days. Today, however, your computer has started to be unstable. Shortly after you log on on, the system crashes and hangs. Which of the following will most likely correct the problem in the least amount of time?

Boot into Safe Mode and restore to a restore point

One of the users you support, VKumar, has just turned on File History and selected the internal D: drive as the location to which his files will be copied. By default, which directory does File History copy files from to save on the D: drive?

C:\Users\VKumar

You use a Windows 10 system with File History running. Currently, File History is configured to save copies of files every hour. However, you've been assigned to work on a high-profile project, and you would like File History to save copies of files every 15 minutes. What should you do? (Select two. Each answer is part of the complete solution.)

Click Advanced settings and then set Save copies of files to Every 15 minutes In Control Panel, click System and Security > File History

Next You were having trouble with your Windows system, and you initiated a Remote Assistance session with a Help Desk technician. The technician has taken control of your system to perform several checks. She has now asked you to take back control of the system. What should you do? (Select two. Each answer is a complete solution.)

Click Stop sharing. Press Esc.

While managing the available memory for applications on your Windows system, you discover that the paging file is set below the recommended size. Which answer is a common recommendation for setting the size of the paging file?

Configure the paging file to one and a half to two times the amount of physical RAM.

When should you start monitoring system performance?

Immediately after the system is set up. Monitoring system performance is very important. You should start monitoring immediately after a system is set up in order to create a baseline that you can use for comparison later on. This allows for monitoring comparisons after the system has been in use for a while, has more hardware devices attached to it, has different applications installed on it, and so on

Which application would you use to include device updates with Windows Update?

Control Panel

Your Windows system has two volumes defined. The C: volume contains the Windows system and is formatted with NTFS. The D: volume is formatted with FAT32. Which action must you take to create a system image backup with the D: volume as the destination?

Convert the D: drive to NTFS

Your Windows computer has system protection enabled on the system drive. By default, restore points are only created when a Windows update occurs. In the last week, since the last Windows update, you have installed a video editing application that you use every day. Today you installed a new sound card with the driver that came with it. Your system started behaving erratically after you rebooted. You tried updating to the latest driver for the sound card, but that didn't help. So you used System Restore to get your computer back to the state it was in before you installed the sound card. After you reboot your computer, you realize you have to install your video editing application again. Which action would have helped you avoid having to reinstall the application?

Creating a manual restore point just before installing the sound card.

Consider the Reliability Monitor output shown below. What does the red circle with the letter x represent?

Critical Event

You manage several Windows systems that are members of a domain. Your company uses Remote Assistance to help diagnose user desktop issues. All computers are configured to allow Remote Assistance. One day, you receive a Remote Assistance request from someone you don't know using an invitation file you created several weeks ago. What can you do to prevent this from happening again? (Select two.)

Decrease the timeout for invitation files. Require a password on invitation files.

Using the Settings app, you have accessed Windows Update > Delivery Optimization. What function does this option provide?

Delivery Optimization provides you with Windows and Store app updates and other Microsoft products.

What are two ways you can run PowerShell cmdlets remotely?

Directly from the command, use the computername parameter. Use invoke-command followed by the name of the remote computer and then the PowerShell cmdlet within brackets.

What is it called when the hard drive light on your PC is staying on constantly, and the applications have slowed down significantly?

Disk thrashing

Which Group Policy setting, when disabled, forces users to update their system before the system is shut down?

Do not display Install Updates and Shut Down option in Shut Down Windows dialog box

For several months, your Windows computer acted like a server in the workgroup. It was optimized to share files and folders to the other computers. You no longer need the computer to act like a server. Now, you want the computer to focus on applications. After installing the applications, you believe the computer is not reacting quickly enough while using the applications. You know the machine has enough video memory and physical memory to handle the applications. What should you do?

Edit the Processor Scheduling settings.

You are configuring file backups using Backup and Restore (Windows 7) in Control Panel on a Windows system. Which information can be included in the backup? (Select two.)

Files on user desktops Files in user Documents libraries

Your Windows computer has two hard drives, both formatted with NTFS. You have enabled system protection on both disks. How do you delete all restore points while keeping system protection enable on both drives?

Edit the System Protection configuration in System Properties, and delete the restore points.

You have configured scheduled backups in the Backup and Restore console to take a backup each week. You save the backups to a network location. You find that backups are not being completed because the destination computer is asleep when the schedule time starts. The destination computer is not waking up to perform the backup. How can you make sure the backup destination device is awake and available?

Edit the backup task in Task Scheduler.

Which action can you take to see disk activity performance for an application running on your Windows system?

Filter by the application in Resource Monitor.

You want to see memory statistics for a specific process running on your Windows system. What do you need to do to view the working set, shareable, and private memory for the process?

Filter by the process in Resource Monitor

You need to be able to remotely execute commands on a Windows workstation named WS1. Which commands can be used to enable remote management on this system?

Enable-PSRemoting winrm quickconfig

Which of the following are types of operating system updates for Windows 10 provided by Microsoft? (Select two.)

Feature updates Quality updates

Match defs to OS

Feature updates Quality updates Quality updates Feature updates Quality updates

What are some security measures Microsoft has implemented to protect your system against users trying to use PorwerShell for malicious purposes?

File extension, script's full path, and execution policies

How do you manage the items in the Windows Action Center?

From the Settings app.

Your Windows system is a member of a domain. Windows Update settings are being controlled through Group Policy. How can you determine whether a specific security update from Windows Update is installed on the computer?

Go to Programs and Features in Control Panel.

Which tool can you use to remotely manage a system using a graphical user interface?

Graphical Microsoft Management Console

While working with a new application on your Windows system, the application stops responding. How can you analyze the application and its associated processes to identify which processes the application is waiting on?

In Resource Monitor, analyze the wait chain for the process.

You have a computer running Windows 10. The C: drive holds all system files and is the boot volume. The D: volume holds only user data files. You want to schedule a backup that includes everything on the C: and D: drives so you could restore your entire computer if necessary. How do you configure the backup to run on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday?

In Windows Task Scheduler, create a task to run wbadmin

You need to connect to a remote Windows system using Remote Desktop. How can you copy files from your local hard drives to the remote computer with the least amount of effort?

In the Remote Desktop Connection options, edit the local devices and resources options.

How should cmdlets in a PowerShell script be organized?

In the order that they should run

You use a Windows desktop system to edit and produce audio files. Your system has two hard disks installed. Your applications are installed on the C: volume on the first hard disk. Because of the size of the audio files you produce, you keep them on a separate volume (D:) located on the second hard disk. Your Windows desktop system has system protection enabled on the both drives. You need to configure system protection on this system to maximize overall protection. What should you do?

Increase the amount of disk space reserved for restore points on C:

You have a computer running Windows 10. You have just enabled Remote Desktop on the computer so you can connect to it using a low-speed broadband connection from home and run a few reports. You need to optimize the performance of your Remote Desktop session for your slow connection. Select the Experience setting(s) that will optimize performance.

Persistent bitmap caching

You have opened the Indexing Options dialog and navigated to Advanced > File Types tab. From this page, you can specify how the file should be indexed. Which of the following options are available? (Select two.)

Index Properties and File Contents Index Properties Only

A user calls to complain that her Windows system is running slowly. You launch Task Manager on her system and select the Processes tab. The output is shown in the image below. What should you do? (Select two. Each answer is a part of the complete solution.)

Install more RAM in the system. Install a faster CPU in the system.

Why does virtual memory play an important role in the Windows OS?

It allows you to run more applications on the system than you have physical memory to support.

What happens when you double-click a PowerShell script file?

It opens as a Notepad file.

What are the benefits of the Indexing Service on a Windows system? (Select two.)

It searches specified locations on the system's hard disk drives and catalogs all the files and programs it finds. It makes the search process much faster.

You manage a Windows system that is a member of a Workgroup. The computer is shared by three users. Each user has a standard user account. Mary is one of the three users of this computer. She wants to access the computer using a Remote Desktop connection. How do you allow Remote Desktop access for Mary while granting her the least amount of privileges possible?

Make Mary's user account a member of the Remote Desktop Users group.

You manage two Windows systems named Computer1 and Computer2. You need to use the command line to remotely manage Computer1 from Computer2. What should you do?

On Computer1, run winrm qc Authenticate Computer2 to Computer1

You manage a Windows 10 system, on which File History has been turned on. You want to keep all versions of your files until space on the hard drive is needed. You have used Control Panel to access File History as shown in the image. Click on the option which will let you configure the required setting.

Select "Advanced Settings"

How do you increase the size of the paging file on your Windows system?

Modify the Advanced system settings.

In the Windows Action Center, notifications are provided for which of the following? (Select two)

Network firewall Windows Defender

You manage two Windows systems named Computer1 and Computer2. Both computers are members of a domain. Which steps do you need to perform so you can remotely execute commands on Computer2 from Computer1?

On Computer2, run winrm qc

You manage two Windows systems named Computer1 and Computer2. Both computers are members of a domain. Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is enabled on both computers. Which steps do you need to perform so you can use Computer2 to create an additional disk volume on Computer1?

On Computer2, run winrs and then run diskpart

You are using a Windows desktop system to connect to a remote system using Remote Desktop. How do you prevent the desktop background on the remote computer from displaying on the local computer?

On the Experience tab of the Remote Desktop Connection, clear the Desktop Background checkbox.

When using the Indexing Service on your Windows system, how many directories should you typically catalog?

Only those containing data that is used often.

You are the desktop administrator for your company. You would like to manage the computers remotely using a tool with a graphical user interface (GUI). Which action should you take? (Select two. Each answer is a possible solution.)

Open Computer Management and connect to each remote computer. Establish a Remote Desktop connection to each computer.

You started using a new Windows server three months ago. Since that time, you have found that the system slows down and crashes from time to time. You want to look at a report that shows important events for the server since it was installed. You'd like to see when the software was installed and if there are any hardware or application failures. What is the simplest way to view this information?

Open Reliability Monitor

You have a Windows system that you would like to manage remotely. You enable Remote Desktop on the computer. While working from home, you find that your home firewall is blocking Remote Desktop. Using the port numbers assigned by default, how can you configure the firewall to allow a Remote Desktop connection to the system?

Open port 3389 in the network firewall.

There's a tool designed to collect data. It allows you to specify which counters you want to collect data for by clicking on the plus sign and adding the counters you want. What's the name of this tool?

Performance Monitor

You want to enable Data Execution Protection (DEP) for all programs and services on your Windows system. Click the option you would use in System Properties to configure this function.

Performance settings

You have been having trouble with your Windows notebook system crashing. The support technician wants you to send him a memory dump that occurred when the computer crashed. You find that the computer did not create the memory dump file. How can you configure the system to create a memory dump file the next time it crashes?

Place the paging file on the system drive.

You suspect that a process on your Windows computer is causing a large amount of network activity. You would like to view the network activity on your computer filtered by specific processes. Which of the following tools will display the most detailed information about network activity?

Resource Monitor Resource Monitor displays additional information not found in Task Manager.

You are analyzing the CPU utilization on you system. Why would you use Resource Monitor rather than Task Manager?

Resource Monitor provides much more granular information than Task Manager.

As part of your regular system maintenance, you install the latest operating system updates on your Windows 10 computer. After several days, you notice that the system locks up and reboots from time to time. You suspect that a recent update is causing the problem. How can you quickly restore the computer to its state before the updates?

Restore the system using a restore point.

What are some of the execution policies that Windows has in place to protect PowerShell against malicious users? (Select two.)

Restricted and Unrestricted AllSigned and RemoteSigned

Your Windows 10 computer has two hard drives formatted with NTFS. You have enabled System Restore on both disks. How can you delete all restore points except for the last restore point?

Run Disk Cleanup.

You have just added a new 300 GB hard drive to a Windows computer. You create a single volume named Data and format the volume using FAT32. The volume is assigned drive letter D:. You copy several files to the new hard disk. Which action must you take first to include the disk in restore points created on the computer?

Run convert.exe to change the drive to NTFS.

You are the Windows desktop administrator for your company. You would like to manage your computers remotely using the Windows Remote Shell. You need to enable remote management on each target computer. What should you do?

Run winrm quickconfig

You use a Windows 10 system with File History enabled. You've been working on the index.html file in the HTML Files folder in your Temp\HTML library. You realized this evening that you've made many erroneous changes during the day that will require a great deal of work to correct. You decide that the best option is to restore the version of this file as it was this afternoon. You've used File History to identify the version of the file you want to restore. Click the option you would use to restore version 6 of the file shown.

Select the green button with the replay arrow

Match servicing channels to description...

Semi-annual Channel Long-term Servicing Channel Windows Insider Program (WIP) Long-term Servicing Channel Semi-annual Channel Windows Insider Program (WIP)

Where can you find the Windows Update settings in Windows 10?

Settings > Update and Security > Windows Update

Which path would you use to uninstall an update that was automatically installed by Windows Update.

Settings > Update n Security > View Update History > Uninstall Updates

What data on a Windows system is monitored to create the reliability and problem history chart in Reliability Monitor (select two.)

Software installs/uninstalls System memory failures

What tool can be used to automatically fix common startup problems?

Startup Repair

Which of the following are true about File History backups or restore points? (Select three.)

The following are true regarding File History backups or restore points: File History only works on NTFS partitions. File History is turned off by default and must be enabled to benefit from its functionality. The File History tool can be used without the involvement of IT workers. The users can easily restore their own files and folders. File History can be used to recover entire user folders, user libraries, desktop folders, and offline OneDrive files. File History backups use Volume Shadow Copy (VSS), which runs in the background and does not interfere with computer performance. When you view the history of a file, it is opened in read-only mode. You can browse through a previous version of a folder and navigate the directory structure. You can copy the previous version of the file to a new location or restore it to the same location. This overwrites the existing version.

Which of the following are true regarding Remote Assistance? (Select two.)

The helper cannot copy files from a user's computer. Invitations require a password and have an expiration date.

You are viewing the reliability and problem history chart in Reliability Monitor on a Windows system. Some sections of the graph are displayed with a dotted line. What does the dotted line indicate?

There is not enough data to calculate the stability index.

Drag each PowerShell feature or function on the left to the appropriate description on the right.

These let you access data stores, such as the registry and certificate store, in a way similar to accessing the file system. Providers This is text-based and uses a simple command syntax. Command line interface You can use this to redirect the output of one PowerShell cmdlet to the input of another. Piping These contain one or more PowerShell cmdlets. Script files These are executed at a PowerShell prompt to perform system management tasks. Cmdlets

You run a regular file backup on your Windows 10 computer every Friday night, which also includes a system image backup. System Protection has been enabled for all drives on the system. On Wednesday, you receive a new version of a graphic editing application that you use regularly. You install the new application, but you find that the application does not work properly. When you try to run the original application, you find that the upgrade has deleted it from your system. You also find that some of the graphics files you had been working on yesterday have been deleted. What can you do to get things back to normal as quickly as possible? (Select two. Each answer is part of the complete solution.)

Use File History to restore the missing files. Use System Restore to revert to a restore point before you installed the application.

You have just read about a new security patch that has been made available for your Windows system. You install the patch as a Windows update. After you reboot and sign in, your computer appears to be unstable. Which action should you take? (Select two. Each answer is part of the complete solution).

Use Programs and Features to remove the update. Use the Setting app to uninstall the update.

You use an application on your Windows system that compresses videos used in your online business. You want to make sure that the application continues to run in the background even if you open other applications. How do you adjust the amount of attention given to that application?

Use Task Manager to modify the process priority. Use Task Manager to configure the process priority. Priority controls how the system can delay or switch between processes. By default, the system typically gives a higher priority to a process that has active user input or interaction. Processes can continue to run in the background. Virus scanners, video compression, and backups are examples of processes that run in the background while you continue working in a different application. If a background process has a priority that is too high, the system might seem slow and unresponsive when running other programs.

You have a Windows 10 computer configured with volumes C: and D:. You want to schedule backup jobs of the C: volume to include all user files on the C: volume as well as creating a system image of the C: volume. How do you configure the backup job and the schedule with a minimal amount of effort?

Use the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) console.

Which of the following syntax examples is used by a PowerShell cmdlet?

Verb - noun

Consider the Reliability Monitor output shown below. Which status does the yellow triangle icon with an exclamation point represent?

Warning

While deploying Windows updates, when would you use the critical update ring?

When deploying updates to machines (only after the update has been vetted).

Windows Update for Business (WUfB) lets you keep devices current with the latest security upgrades and features. Which operating system releases does WUfB support?

Windows 10

Which of the following is true about Windows Update?

Windows 10 does not allows the user to turn security updates off using the Settings app or Control Panel. By default, each client contacts the Microsoft website for updates.

What is the tool that queues messages, checks several security and maintenance-related items, and consolidates messages and status updates for several other tools called?

Windows Action Center

What tools or services rely on Security Center to be active and running to function well? (select two.)

Windows Action Center Network Access Protection

Which of the following channels are provided by microsoft to manage deployment of updates to your Windows 10 system? (Select three).

Windows Insider Program Long-term Servicing Channel Semi-annual

You have a Windows system that you would like to manage remotely. The computer connects to the network behind a firewall that blocks all but the most common ports. Which remote management solution does not require additional firewall ports opened?

Windows Remote Shell (WinRS)

Which of the following tools can be used to troubleshoot and validate Windows updates?

Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Windows Update Troubleshooter PowerShell

Which of the following are true about Windows Update for Business?

Windows Update for Business can be used with all versions of Windows 10 except Windows 10 Home. Windows Update for Business can be configured with Group Policy, Mobile Device Management, or Systems Center Configuration Manager. Windows Update for Business provides the latest features for your Windows 10 devices, including security upgrades.

You need to enable Remote Registry on your Windows desktop system. Click the Task Manager option you would use to do this.

You can use the Services tab in Task Manager to start, stop, or restart system services. In this example, you would go the Services tab, right-click the Remote Registry service, and click Start.

What are some of the resources you can look at first when troubleshooting startup issues with your PC? (Select two.)

msconfig Task Manager

The PowerShell command line interface (CLI) uses simple command construction. What is the typical form of a PowerShell command?

verb-noun -adverb