Week 8 Derek Schaffner

Review the virtual memory configuration for the Windows 11 system shown below. Which configuration change could you make to the paging file to BEST increase system performance given that this Windows 11 system has 16 GB of system RAM and three hard disks installed?

Add paging files to the E: and F: volumes.

Which tool would you use to configure the paging file location and size on a Windows system?

Advanced System Settings in Control Panel

You want to improve the performance of your virtual memory in Windows. Which of the following is a step you can take to do this?

Configure the paging file to be divided between two drives.

Drag each definition on the left to its corresponding Task Manager performance counter on the right. (Each definition may be used once, more than once, or not at all.)

Disk queue length: The number of read and write requests that are waiting to be processed. Processor utilization The amount of time the processor spends performing non-idle tasks. Commit charge The amount of memory that has been assigned to running processes. Disk time The amount of time that the disk subsystem is busy reading from and writing to disk. Memory pages per second The number of hard faults that occur each second.

Which type of contract are you typically required to accept when obtaining a proprietary software license?

EULA

After upgrading to the newest version of Windows, an important application is no longer running. Which of the following is the BEST option for troubleshooting the problem?

Enable Hyper-V to run the program on the previous version.

Which of the following is a software license that allows 100 or more activations?

Enterprise license

Where in Windows can you allow an application to use the computer's location?

In Settings under Privacy (Windows 10) or Privacy and security (Windows 11).

You notice that your applications are loading and running slowly when you switch between them. You also notice that your hard disk drive light is constantly lit. Which of the following is the BEST option to stop this problem from happening frequently on your system?

Install more physical RAM.

Don is an accountant in the finance department. For the last several months, he has been testing an online accounting program. After speaking with his manager, Don receives permission to download a streamlined version of the software, which requires a local installation. Don downloads the application and tries to install it, but the operating system will not allow him to. Out of frustration, he calls the help desk. The help desk sends a technician to Don's machine while Don is out to lunch. The technician installs the application without issue.Which of the following is the MOST likely reason Don could not install the application?

Insufficient permissions

You have been having trouble with your laptop crashing. You would like your computer to create a memory dump file when it crashes. Where should you place the paging file?

On the system volume

Which of the following is the generally accepted rule for manually setting the initial and maximum paging file size?

One and a half times the size of the physical RAM for the initial size and three times for the maximum size.

One software license model allows software to be freely distributed, downloaded, and installed without paying a license fee, but often requires a fee for support, training, or added functionality. What is the name of this model?

Open source

Which tool can you use to gather data and display statistics (in counters) that help you monitor the operation of a Windows system?

Performance Monitor

You are an IT technician for your company. Rachel, who works at the receptionist desk, thinks her Windows 10 machine is running slowly today and calls you to see if you can speed it up.None of the other employees have called regarding any related issues, so you suspect it is an issue with Rachel's computer, perhaps a malfunctioning application. To help troubleshoot Rachel's computer, you run Task Manager.Which of the following tabs would be the MOST helpful in determining any issues with how the computer is running? (Select two.)

Performance/Processes

A software vendor has had recurring problems with customers misusing their proprietary software. Which of the following technologies can give them the MOST control in regulating who, how, and when their software is being used?

Persistent license activation

Your financial investment company has recently completed development of a custom application for maintaining customer portfolios. You want to install this application on each Windows laptop that was assigned to each investment advisor. Which of the following Windows 11 settings do you need to configure to sideload this custom app?

Privacy & security > For developers > Develop Mode: On

Your organization has 75 workstations that each need a software program installed. Which of the following is the BEST choice to accomplish this?

Purchase an enterprise license for the software program and reuse the activation code for each workstation.

Cindy wants to install a new application on her computer. This application requires the operating system to have 1 gigabyte in working memory to function properly. Which of the following system requirements does Cindy need to check for compatibility?

RAM Capacity

You are a network engineer for a large financial institution. While monitoring a server on your WAN network, you notice that it is experiencing a bottleneck, slow cursor movements, and lagging application function. You want to determine if a particular process is causing the problem. Which of the following tools would BEST help you troubleshoot an issue with a process by providing information such as process ID, status, and threads, as well as how much CPU is being used in real time and the 60-second average of how much CPU utilization is being consumed by each process?

Resource Monitor

Jodie's computer is acting unusually sluggish today. She calls you, an IT technician, to see if you can find out what's going on and how to improve her computer's performance. You run Task Manager on Jodie's computer and find that a suspicious application has nearly 90% CPU utilization. Which of the following actions can you take from Task Manager to immediately stop the application from running?

Right-click > End task

You have just completed installing an application from the Microsoft Store on your Windows 11 workstation. Which of the following can you use to access and manage your newly-installed application? (Select two.)

Right-click Start and select Apps & Features./Right-click the Start menu's application tile

You manage Windows desktops for your organization. You recently updated all of your workstations to Windows 10. Your organization relies on a particular application, which worked correctly on Windows 7, but now does not run on Windows 10.You have checked the application vendor's website, but they do not provide a Windows 10 update.

Run the application in Compatibility Mode./Create a virtual computer that runs Windows 7. Then run the virtual computer each time the application runs.

Which of the following does the GPL prevent you from doing with an open-source software program?

Sell a license to use the program

You recently installed several applications on a Windows system. After doing so, you notice that the system takes much longer to boot up. You suspect that the new applications include one or more helper applications that are automatically loaded when the system boots. To improve performance, you want to identify any such helper applications and disable them. Click on the tab in Task Manager that you would use to do this.

Startup

Your job functions have recently changed. As a result, you find that you need to work with more programs running on your Windows computer at the same time. As a result, you're now starting to receive error messages warning you of low virtual memory, but there's no additional RAM that can be added to your computer. Which of the following Control Panel utilities would BEST allow you to eliminate or reduce the number of error messages?

System

You have an application that you would like to run on your Windows workstation every Monday at 3:00 p.m. Which tool would you use to configure the application to run automatically?

Task Scheduler

Tyler has a computer with a Windows 32-bit operating system. He wants to install an application that requires a 64-bit operating system.

The installation will fail.

What happens in Windows when physical RAM is being used to its full capacity and a user runs a new application?

The kernel moves the data from an app not currently being accessed from RAM to a paging file.

Which aspects of virtual memory can you configure on a Windows workstation? (Select two.)

The paging file's maximum size The paging file's location

Jesse, a professional graphic designer, has just installed a new application on his system, which needs a lot of memory for timely processing and high-quality images. Jesse's computer has an integrated graphics card. Which of the following is MOST likely to happen when Jesse runs the application on his computer?

The whole system will run slowly.

Which of the following is true of the way many large digital media vendors use Digital Rights Management technology today? (Select two.)

They are adopting alternatives to DRM, such as encouraging customers not to illegally share digital files. They are moving away from DRM because of several key shortcomings in the technology.

Which of the following is one way that developers and organizations who produce open-source software can generate revenue from the software?

Training contracts

Your computer seems to be running slowly. In particular, you notice that the hard drive activity light stays lit constantly when running multiple applications and switching between open windows, even though you aren't saving large files.

Use Resource Monitor to monitor memory utilization./Use Task Manager to monitor memory utilization.

Your computer has a quad-core processor installed that supports multithreading. Given that the system is running Windows, how can you BEST use Task Manager to verify whether multithreading has been enabled?

Use Task Manager to display CPU utilization graphs for eight processors.

Which of the following is another name for the paging file?

Virtual memory

Which of the following is simulated memory that is created through a paging file on the hard drive?

Virtual memory

Which of the following is true of online software activation? (Select three.)

With personal software licenses, the limit is usually one to three online activations. Persistent activation may require the license to be continuously re-activated online at a preconfigured interval. Before running a newly installed application, the user must activate their license online on the software vendor's website.

Your organization has 20 employees who need an accounting software update installed. Due to a miscommunication, the purchaser only paid to update 10 licenses. The software company issued a paper license and a single key for updating 10 users. Since this is an enterprise paper license, there is no mechanism that enforces a limit to the number of times the key can be used, so you decide to go ahead and update all 20 users. What are the possible consequences of this decision? (Select two.)

You risk losing your job. You expose your company to litigation by violating the software license agreement.

On a Linux system using the Debian Package Manager, which of the following commands would you use to search online repositories for an installable Firefox package?

apt search firefox

Which of the following commands can you use to install updated packages (found in configured repositories) that are currently installed on a Debian Package Manager-based system? (Select two.)

apt-get dist-upgrade/apt dist-upgrade

You use a Linux distribution that employs Debian Package Manager (dpkg) for package management. Which command would you use to install httpd (the Apache HTTP Server package) and all its dependencies?

apt-get install httpd

You need to use Task Manager to analyze memory utilization on a Windows system. For example, you need to see how much system RAM is currently in use and how much is available. Click on the tab in Task Manager that you would use to do this.

performance

Which command would you use to display a simple list of all processes running on a Linux distribution that use either RPM or dpkg for package management?

ps -e

While working on a Linux system that has been underperforming, you notice that there is one process that is utilizing a significant amount of CPU time. The name of the process is "hidden.sh".Which of the following ps commands would you use to ensure that you can see who owns that process?

ps aux

During a routine audit of a web server running on an RPM-based Linux system, you notice a package that is not installed from the standard server template. This is an error. Before you do anything, however, you need to find the package's dependencies. The package's name is orleans. Which of the following commands lists dependencies?

yum info orleans

You use a Linux distribution that uses RPM for package management. Which command would you use to install httpd (the Apache HTTP Server package) and all its dependencies?

yum install httpd

You use a Linux distribution that uses RPM for package management. Which command would you use to display a list of all packages available for installation within the internet repositories configured on the system?

yum list availiable

You use a Linux distribution that utilizes RPM for package management. Which command would you use to verify that the httpd package (the Apache HTTP Server package) is installed?

yum list installed httpd

On a Linux system using RPM for package management, which of the following commands would you use to search online repositories for an available Firefox package?

yum search firefox