Windows Mid Term
What filename extension is applied by default to custom consoles that are created for the MMC?
.msc
You have an extremely large database that needs to be stored on a single partition. Your boss asks you about the maximum capacity for an NTFS partition. Assuming you are using 4 KB clusters, what is the correct answer?
16 TB
What are the minimum numbers of disks required for configuring RAID-5?
3
Your network administrator has provided you with a new laptop with Windows 7 installed on it. You are using Internet Explorer. When typing search phrases into the Instant Search box, you discover that search results are being displayed only for Amazon.com. You want search phrases to search the Web, not just Amazon.com. What should you do?
Add additional web-based search providers in the Manage IE Add-ons section.
Denise is using a laptop computer that uses ACPI. She wants to see what percentage of the battery power is still available. She also wants to know if hibernation has been configured. Which of the following utilities should she use?
Battery meter
You are a help desk technician for your company. You are configuring Internet Explorer, and you want to ensure that cookies that are stored on the computer are not accessible to any websites. Which privacy setting should you configure to accomplish your goal?
Block All Cookies
Will has installed Windows 7 on his Windows XP computer. The machine is now a dual-boot computer. He has FAT32 for Windows XP and NTFS for Windows 7. In addition, he boots his computer to Windows XP Professional for testing an application's compatibility with both operating systems. Which of the following file systems will be seen by both operating systems?
Both the FAT32 partition and the NTFS partition will be seen by both operating systems.
A new employee named Crystal has been supplied with a Windows 7 laptop computer. You have configured Crystal's computer with the Power Saver power plan, and you used the default options. Which of the following will occur after 20 minutes of inactivity on Crystal's computer?
Both the hard disk and the display will be turned off.
You are the network administrator for a manufacturing company. You are configuring several Windows 7 computers for a group of newly hired engineers. You want to optimize the new computers to use the Windows Aero theme. How can you accomplish this task?
By right-clicking an empty space of the Desktop, selecting Personalize, and then choosing your theme
You are configuring a computer to be deployed to another network administrator. You want to allow the other administrator to quickly access the Administrative Tools options available with Windows 7. How can you accomplish this task?
By right-clicking an empty space of the Taskbar, selecting Properties, and clicking the Customize button on the Start Menu tab
You are configuring an image of Windows 7 that will be deployed to a new office location for your company. You are configuring the Desktop. You want to automatically hide the Taskbar when it's not being used. You also do not want the Taskbar to be moved by the users. How can you configure these options?
By right-clicking an empty space of the Taskbar, selecting Properties, and configuring the Taskbar tab
Which of the following authentication protocols CANNOT be used to connect to an IKEv2 VPN?
CHAP
You are using Windows 7 Home edition, and you have an XP application that worked well with XP but is having issues running on Windows 7. What steps can you take to help solve this issue?
Change the application's compatibility mode to Windows XP.
Maggie wants the highest level of security possible for her data. She stores the data on an NTFS partition and has applied NTFS permissions. Now she wants to encrypt the files through EFS (Encrypting File System). Which command-line utility can she use to manage data encryption?
Cipher
You work on the help desk for a large company. One of your users calls you and reports that they just accidentally deleted their C:\Documents\Timesheet.xls file. What is the easiest way to recover this file?
Click the Recycle Bin icon on the Desktop and restore the deleted file.
Which of the following statements is NOT true of Encrypting File System (EFS)?
Compressed files and folders can be encrypted by EFS.
Dennis has a new display adapter and monitor. He wants to set display properties for his Desktop. Which of the following options are not set through the Personalization dialog box?
Contrast and brightness of the monitor
Kayla is dissatisfied with the configuration of her keyboard and mouse. She wants to reset the keyboard speed and the mouse pointer rate. Which utility should she use to configure the keyboard and mouse properties?
Control Panel
Which of the following Diskpart commands will convert an MBR disk to a GPT disk?
Convert GPT
Which of the following diskpart commands will you use to convert a GPT disk to an MBR disk?
Convert mbr
What Windows 7 feature can be utilized for the purpose of storing credentials?
Credential Manager
You have downloaded and installed several Internet Explorer add-ons. You want to view the add-ons that have been used during your current browsing session. Which option of the Manage Add-ons dialog box should you select to view this information?
Currently Loaded Add-ons pull-down option in Internet Explorer
Which of the following utilities is described in the statement below? "It is a Windows utility used to manage devices on a computer. It provides a graphical view of the hardware installed on a computer and marks the malfunctioning devices or hardware."
Device Manager
Which of the following utilities is used to manage all the installed hardware in a computer?
Device Manager
You are the network administrator for a large organization. One of your users calls you and states that they think they are having issues with their network card. What tool can you use to see if the hardware is working properly?
Device Manager
Cindy is using Windows 7 on her laptop computer, and the C: partition is running out of space. You want to identify any areas of free space that can be reclaimed from temporary files. What utility should you use?
Disk Cleanup
Bruce frequently works with a large number of files. He is noticing that the larger the files get, the longer it takes to access them. He suspects that the problem is related to the files being spread over the disk. What utility can be used to store the files sequentially on the disk?
Disk Defragmenter
You create a text file that contains information regarding configuration of the disk where Windows 7 is to be installed through image. What is this text file called?
Disk configuration format
Which of the following tools is used to create and attach a VHD?
Diskpart
While working in Windows 7 environments, which of the following utilities can be used to convert a basic disk into a dynamic disk?
Diskpart
You are running a Windows 7 machine. You want to load a copy of Windows Vista on the machine for testing and training. How can you accomplish this?
Download Windows Virtual PC and create a Windows Vista virtual hard disk.
You are the network administrator for a large organization. You have a Windows 7 machine that is working fine, but you downloaded and installed a newer version of the network adapter driver. After you load the driver, the network device stops working properly. Which tool should you use to help you fix the problem?
Driver rollback
Paige is considering upgrading her basic disk to a dynamic disk on her Windows 7 computer. She asks you to help her understand the function of dynamic disks. Which of the following statements are true of dynamic disks in Windows 7?
Dynamic disks support features such as simple volumes, extended volumes, spanned volumes, mirrored volumes, and striped volumes.
You are the network administrator for a large organization. You have a user who needs you to connect and help them with a Windows 7 issue. You want to use Remote Assistance for the connection. Which of the following allows you to easily set up a Remote Assistance session?
Easy Connect
You are the network administrator for a small company. You have a laptop that you use to test an application that is deployed to several users who have access to only a Windows XP computer. To accommodate the testing of the application, you have a laptop that dual-boots between Windows 7 and Windows XP. You currently have Windows XP on the C: drive and Windows 7 on the D: drive. Both partitions are formatted with FAT32. You decide to convert the D: drive to NTFS so that you can apply additional security to some of the files. You use the Convert command-line utility to convert the D: drive. Before you reboot and convert the drive, you realize that you should not have converted the drive. How can you cancel the conversion process?
Edit the Registry setting for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager to autocheck autochk -0.
You have installed Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 9, and now some of the websites that you used to visit no longer display their content correctly. How can you solve this issue?
Enable IE9 Compatibility View.
You recently visited a website that automatically downloaded and installed spyware onto your computer. You want to prevent spyware from being installed in the future. You have enabled Pop-up Blocker. What else can you do to minimize your risk of downloading spyware?
Enable Protected Mode.
Will is the manager of Human Resources in your company. He is concerned that members of the Administrators group, who have implied access to all NTFS resources, will be able to easily view the contents of the sensitive personnel files. How can you apply the highest level of security to the payroll files?
Encrypt the files with EFS.
You are the network manager for a large organization. Your company is switching from Windows XP to Windows 7 and needs to have XP Mode automatically built into the operating system. Which Windows 7 editions can you use? (Choose all that apply.)
Enterprise edition Ultimate edition
Which versions of Windows 7 have XP Mode automatically built into the operating system? (Choose all that apply.)
Enterprise edition Ultimate edition Professional edition
You are the network administrator for a large company that has decided to use EFS. You have two Windows 7 machines, named machine1 and machine2. Both of these Windows 7 machines are part of a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain. From machine1, you can recover all EFS encrypted files for all users in the entire domain. You need to be able to do the same from machine2. How do you accomplish this task?
From machine1, export the DRA certificate and import that certificate onto machine2.
Which of the following partition types allows more than four primary partitions on a single disk?
GPT
You are administering a computer that is used by several customer-support representatives for your company. The support representatives use a custom application to report support incidents. After the application is updated, it stops functioning properly, and one of the programmers who wrote the application indicates that a Registry change needs to be made to the computer. You need to ensure that the change is applied for each user of the computer. Which Registry key should you modify?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
You have recently installed Windows 7 on your computer. You are configuring Internet Explorer, and you want to ensure that cookies are not saved from any website that does not have a compact privacy policy. Which privacy setting should you configure to accomplish your goal?
High
Which of the following protocol is used in Windows to support VPN Reconnect feature?
IKEv2
Which of the following information can be configured on a VPN client so that it can access a VPN server? (Choose two.)
IP address Domain name
You are the network administrator for your organization. You are asked by your manager to modify the associations of a few file extensions that are associated with Internet Explorer. How can you accomplish this task?
In Control Panel, open Default Programs and then click Set Associations. Set the proper file extensions.
You have just added a new disk to your computer that supports hot swapping. Your computer now has three physical drives. What is the fastest way to allow Windows 7 to recognize the new disk?
In Disk Management, select Action ' Rescan Disk.
A new feature that increases privacy by not storing history, cookies, temporary Internet files, or other data in Internet Explorer 8 is called ____.
InPrivate Browsing
Identify the IE feature described in the statement below? "It restricts what information about a browsing session can be tracked by external third parties."
InPrivate Filtering
Julie wants to allow her assistant, Tylor, access to several files that she has encrypted with EFS. How can she allow Tylor to access the files on her computer?
Julie should import Tylor's encryption key and add Tylor's certificate to each file to which Tylor should have access.
Which of the following is the default setting on the pop-up blocker?
Medium
Which of the following tools is used to ensure that the legacy applications will run on Windows 7?
Microsoft Shim
Alexandria is the payroll manager and stores critical files on her local drive for added security on her Windows 7 computer. She wants to ensure that she is using the disk configuration with the most fault tolerance and the highest level of consistent availability. Which of the following provisions should she use?
Mirrored volumes
RAID-1 refers to ____.
Mirroring
You are using Internet Explorer to access several RSS feeds that you subscribe to. One of the feeds stores only the 10 most recent updates. You want to ensure that the last 100 updates are stored. What should you do?
Modify the archive setting so that the last 100 items are stored.
Which of the following file systems supports encryption?
NTFS
You are installing a new hard drive into your computer, which dual-boots between Windows 7 and Windows XP. You will be storing large and sensitive files on this drive. You will need to access these files from either operating system. You need to determine the file system to use when formatting the disk. Which of the following should you use?
NTFS
You have a user with limited vision. Which accessibility utility is used to read aloud screen text, such as the text in dialog boxes, menus, and buttons?
Narrator
Which of the following features of Window client operating systems allows a client to locally cache files hosted in shared folders so that they are accessible when the computer is unable to connect directly to the network resource?
Offline Files
Which of the following statements are true regarding the creation of a group in Windows 7? (Choose two.)
Only members of the Administrators group can create users on a Windows 7 computer. Group names can contain spaces.
You are the network administrator for your company. Recently, one of your users in the Accounting department has reported that they were unsure whether a banking website was legitimate or not. You want to configure a utility that will verify whether a website is known to be fraudulent. Which utility should you configure?
Phishing Filter
Which of the following is used to block the windows that suddenly appear on the screen while a user is surfing the Internet?
Pop-up blocker
You need to determine which hardware devices can wake the laptop from sleep. Which of the following commands will you use to accomplish the task?
Powercfg -devicequery
Which of the following features is described in the statement given below? "They are copies of files and folders that Windows automatically saves as part of a restore point. These are very useful for retrieving accidentally modified or deleted files. They are sometimes referred to as shadow copies."
Previous versions
Which of the following permissions allow a user to manage his own documents, but not to manage other documents submitted to a shared printer?
When using Disk Management in Windows 7 to format a disk, what format type will not completely erase the volume but will only create a new file table?
Quick format
The system administrator of your network wants to edit the Registry, including setting security on the Registry keys. What primary utilities that support full editing of the Windows 7 Registry should the system administrator use? (Choose all that apply.)
REGEDIT REGEDT32
You want to speed up the resume time on your computer after it is put into hibernation mode. You have installed a hybrid hard-disk drive into your Windows 7 computer. Which technology should you use to accomplish your goal?
ReadyDrive
You are the system administrator for your company. You are configuring the services on a Windows 7 computer. You want to ensure that if a service fails to load, it will attempt to restart. Which tab of the service's Properties dialog box should you use?
Recovery
You are the network administrator for a large company. One of your users calls and states that they are getting an error every time they start an application. You want to see what the user is doing and what the error is. How can you accomplish this?
Remote Assistance
You are a consultant for a large organization. Some employees contact you at 11:00 p.m. and state that one of the servers is not working properly. No one is in the office to fix the problem. How can you connect to the server to fix the problem?
Remote Desktop
You are the network administrator for a medium-size company. You support all user Desktop issues. Gary is using the default Windows 7 Desktop on his laptop computer. Gary wants to change his Desktop settings. Which of the following options should Gary use to configure the Desktop in Windows 7?
Right-click an empty space on the Desktop and choose Personalize from the context menu.
You have a 10 MB image file that you want to email to another user in the Marketing department. Which of the following should you do in order to email the image?
Right-click the image file and select Send To ' Compressed (Zipped) folder.
You are the network administrator for your organization. You have been asked by the owner of the company to verify that all drivers installed on the Windows 7 machines are signed drivers. How do you accomplish this task?
Run Sigverif.exe at the command prompt.
You are the network administrator for your organization. Your organization has been using Windows XP, and you are now switching all users to Windows 7 Professional. Some of the XP applications do not run properly in Windows 7. How can you allow these applications to run on Windows 7?
Run the applications in XP Mode.
You are the network administrator for a large organization. You are in charge of implementing company policies. One company policy states that you have to prevent Internet Explorer from saving any data during a user's browsing session. How do you accomplish this?
Run the browsers in InPrivate sessions.
You are the network administrator for a large organization that wants to set up a secure VPN between two of the company's locations using the Internet. Both sides of the VPN use Windows Server 2008. What is the best protocol to use to set up the VPN?
SSTP
You have a manager who wants to be able to watch their stock quotes continually throughout the day. How can you set this up?
Set up a stock Web Slice.
Which Internet Explorer feature blocks browsing to Web sites that are known to host malware or be related to phishing?
SmartScreen Filter
You need to expand the disk space on your Windows 7 computer. You are considering using spanned volumes. Which of the following statements are true concerning spanned volumes? (Choose all that apply.)
Spanned volumes can contain space from 2 to 32 physical drives. Spanned volumes can be formatted as FAT32 or NTFS partitions.
Which of the following does RAID 0 provide?
Striping
You are the network administrator for a large organization. A user calls you and says that when they try to connect to the internal website, they are prompted for authentication. The user has the rights to access the internal site due to the fact that all users and computers are part of a domain and the internal website uses Integrated Windows Authentication. How do you make sure that the user is automatically authenticated when they connect?
The Local sites URL should be added to the Local Intranet zone.
You are configuring power settings on your laptop. You configure the laptop to enter sleep mode after a specified period of inactivity. Which of the following will occur when the computer enters sleep mode?
The data will be saved to memory, and the computer will be put into a power-saving state.
You have a user, Rob, who uses a laptop computer running Windows 7. You have configured the laptop to enter sleep mode after 30 minutes of inactivity. What will occur when the computer enters sleep mode?
The data will be saved to memory, and the computer will be put into a power-saving state.
You are an administrator for your company's network. You want to configure the clock and stock ticker to be displayed on the Desktop of your users' computers. How can you accomplish this task?
Through Control Panel → Desktop Gadgets
You sit in a busy area of the office. Sometimes you forget to log off or lock the computer when you leave your desk. How can you configure your computer so that it will become password protected if it is idle for more than 10 minutes?
Through the Screen Saver option on the Personalization dialog box
Identify whether the given statement is true or false. "Shadow copies are not available for offline files."
True
Identify whether the given statement is true or false. "Shared folder permissions provide less detailed security than NTFS permissions."
True
Identify whether the given statement is true. "A client computer running Windows 7 can function as a dial-up and VPN server."
True
Enabling which group policy will display all Web sites in compatibility view in Internet Explorer?
Turn On Internet Explorer 7 Standards Mode
Cathy is the payroll manager at your company. The day before the payroll is processed, Cathy is involved in a minor car accident and spends two days in the hospital. She has Windows 7 installed as a part of a workgroup and has encrypted the payroll files with EFS. All of the EFS settings for the computer are set to default values. How can these files be accessed in her absence?
Unless a DRA has been configured, there will be no access to the files.
You want to set up IE9 to prevent your eight-year-old daughter from viewing any website containing nudity. How do you accomplish this?
Use Content Advisor and block all sites with nudity.
You are configuring a Windows 7 computer that is going to be used by your children. You are configuring access restrictions using the Parental Controls feature of Windows 7. Which of the following can be configured by setting Parental Controls? (Choose all that apply.)
When your children can access the computer Which websites your children can view Which programs your children can access
Which of the following CANNOT be used to back up EFS certificates?
Windows Backup utility
You have a user, Jan, who suspects that her Windows 7 computer has been infected with spyware. You remove the spyware from her computer and want to prevent spyware from infecting it in the future. Which of the following Windows 7 utilities should you configure?
Windows Defender
Rob is using Windows 7 to store video files. He doesn't access the files very often and wants to compress the files to utilize disk space more effectively. Which of the following options allows you to compress files in Windows 7?
Windows Explorer
You are the network administrator for a large organization that is thinking of switching from Windows XP to Windows 7. Your manager is worried about applications not being compatible with Windows 7. What options do you have to make sure applications work with Windows 7? (Choose all that apply.)
XP Mode Shims Application compatibility mode
You have compressed a 4 MB file into 2 MB. You are copying the file to another computer that has a FAT32 partition. How can you ensure that the file will remain compressed?
You can't maintain disk compression on a non-NTFS partition.
Which of the following switches used with the powercfg.exe command lists all the current power schemes?
list
