Chapter 12.3.5 Practice Questions

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 disk 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.

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.

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.

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

File History backups use Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) to take snapshots of files and folders File History only works on NTFS partitions File History can be used to recover offline OneDrive files.

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:

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.

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 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.