6.2 ~ Windows Installation

You are an IT administrator for a large company that is doing very well in their business endeavors. As a result, the company is hiring new employees on a regular basis. In addition to your normal workload, you have been asked to install and configure the new employees' computers with a Windows operating system and the applications that your company uses to do their business. To make this process easier, you only give new employees the choice of one of two laptops. Which of the following installation types would be the BEST use of your time in this scenario? a. Image deployment b. Clean installation c. Recovery partition d. Upgrade

a. Image deployment

You need to install Windows 11 on a new computer system that uses a SATA SSD device to store data. Which of the following is the BEST method for installing Windows 11 on this system? a. Install Windows the same way you would install a system that uses a standard hard disk drive. b. Set the SATA configuration in the UEFI firmware to RAID. c. Load the drivers for the SSD device during the initial phase of the Windows installation. d. Add a standard hard disk to the system and install Windows on the disk instead of the SSD device.

a. Install Windows the same way you would install a system that uses a standard hard disk drive.

You are an IT administrator for your company. You have been tasked with installing 300 copies of Windows 11. You need to finish this task as quickly and efficiently as possible. Which of the following boot methods would be the BEST method for installing Windows under these circumstances? a. PXE b. Solid-state/flash drives c. USB d. DVD

a. PXE

You have just upgraded your motherboard. Several weeks later, you suddenly start having issues with accessing Windows features on your computer. Which of the following will BEST resolve this issue? a. Reactivate your copy of Windows. b. Perform a Startup Repair from the Advanced Startup Options menu. c. Disable your antivirus software. d. Boot into Safe Mode and revert to a prior restore point.

a. Reactivate your copy of Windows.

Your supervisor recently purchased 100 desktop computer systems and 100 new Windows 11 licenses for your organization's accounting department. She received a single Windows 11 installation disc with the licenses. Which of the following would be the BEST installation methods to use? (Select two.) a. Copy the installation media to 10 flash drives and install 10 systems at a time. b. Install one system and image it to the other systems. c. Use a network installation. d. Burn 50 copies of the installation disc and install 50 systems at a time. e. Use the installation disk to install Window on each system individually.

b. Install one system and image it to the other systems. c. Use a network installation.

You begin the installation process and discover that you need to load additional drivers to support your storage controller so that Windows can write to that disc. What should you do? a. Remove all drivers and restart. b. Load the necessary drivers from a USB drive. c. Insert or connect to the installation media and boot from that media. d. Allow Windows to find the necessary drivers.

b. Load the necessary drivers from a USB drive.

You recently purchased a copy of Windows 11 from a retail store. The system that you want to install Windows on does not have an optical drive. What is the BEST option for installing Windows in this scenario? a. Install the system over the network from a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) server. b. Install Windows on a system that has an optical drive and then create a disk image and copy it to the system that you originally wanted to install Windows on. c. Download an ISO copy of the installation files to a USB flash drive. d. Perform a reset installation.

c. Download an ISO copy of the installation files to a USB flash drive.

You have just purchased a new Windows 11 computer for creating and editing animations. You install a new high-end video adapter to handle the animation creation requirements. However, when compiling and running the animations, the computer seems sluggish, and the compilation takes longer than expected. Which of the following would be the BEST first step to resolve this issue? a. Update the animation software to the latest version. b. Add more RAM to your computer to improve performance. c. Install the adapter driver from the manufacturer instead of using the Windows driver. d. Purchase and install a video adapter with more onboard memory.

c. Install the adapter driver from the manufacturer instead of using the Windows driver.

You want to install Windows from optical media on a mirrored RAID disk array. You run the motherboard disk configuration utility and create the RAID 1 array. Then you configure the system to boot from the Windows installation optical media. The Windows installation starts, but does not detect the RAID array. Which of the following will MOST likely allow the RAID array to be detected? a. In the UEFI configuration, configure the boot order to boot from the hard drive instead of the optical drive. b. In the UEFI configuration, set the SATA mode to IDE. c. In the UEFI configuration, set the SATA mode to AHCI. d .During the installation, browse to and select the appropriate drivers for your RAID controller when prompted.

d .During the installation, browse to and select the appropriate drivers for your RAID controller when prompted.

Which of the following tasks are part of configuring the user environment after you successfully install a Windows system? (Select two.) a. Activate your Windows system. b. Install and configure your firewall. c. Configure Windows Update. d. Configure accessibility options. e. Add or remove apps and folders from the Start menu.

d. Configure accessibility options. e. Add or remove apps and folders from the Start menu.