Module 2

. You have been asked to sign into a Windows Server to create new user accounts for some of the company's new employees and configure security policies that will affect the new employees' client computers. What service will you use to perform these tasks?

Active Directory

Your boss is concerned about security on your Windows Server 2019 domain controller. He would like an alert sent to an administrator and the server to be locked down if an attack is detected. What do you suggest to meet this requirement?

Configure Exploit Guard.

What operating system is the basis of macOS?

Darwin

On your Windows Server system, you want to be able to assign permissions to files based on the content of the files as well as certain properties of user accounts. What should you deploy?

Dynamic Access Control

The first 32-bit operating system developed by Microsoft was Windows 3.1. T/F

False

Windows 98 was the first Windows OS to use the Kerberos authentication protocol

False

Which technology goes beyond virtual machines and extends to virtual storage networks and virtualized networking

HCI

You have been asked to ensure that data traveling between the accounting department client computers and the accounting server is authenticated and encrypted. What can you deploy to accomplish this?

IPsec

Which of the following is true about the Linux OS?

It is at the heart of many embedded and real-time systems.

Which of the following is true about the Linux operating system?

It is multiuser.

You want to learn more about cybersecurity and forensic tools. You would like to install an OS that specializes in cybersecurity tools and learning. What should you install?

Kali Linux

A software developer describes his computer which comes preinstalled with Python and a C compiler, along with several other programming tools. What OS is most likely running on his computer?

Linux

You are running an OS that allows you to switch between tasks loaded in memory but while one task is running, the other tasks cannot run. Which OS must you be running?

Mac OS 7

Which Windows Server installation option has a very small footprint, does not support a local logon?

Nano Server

A new member of your IT department asked when Windows 10 was first released and you tell her that it was released in July 2015. She suggests that Microsoft must not have made any big changes to their client OS since Windows 11 has not been released. Is she correct?

No, Microsoft makes major changes to Windows 10 periodically but calls them feature releases instead of changing the version number.

If you suspect that a Windows problem is related to the database that stores hardware and software configuration information, which Windows component should you investigate?

Registry

Which Windows Server installation option was introduced in Windows Server 2008 that has a limited GUI and smaller footprint?

Server Core

Which tool, first introduced in Windows Server 2008 but remains in Windows Server 2019, provides one location to set up, deploy, and manage servers and server roles?

Server Manager

Which Windows Server feature, first introduced in Windows Server 2012, provides administrators with the ability to manage storage of different sizes and interfaces, creating virtual disks that can be anything from a simple volume to a fault-tolerant RAID 5?

Storage Spaces

You are reading an old case study about an application running on Windows 95. The application became unresponsive and caused the OS to freeze, prompting a restart of Windows 95. What is the most likely reason Windows 95 froze and had to be restarted?

The application was 16-bit and used cooperative multitasking.

A colleague has downloaded a network interface driver and is trying to install it on her Windows computer to update the existing driver. Windows does not allow her to install the device driver. What is the most likely reason she cannot install the device driver?

The driver is not signed.

macOS allows multiple users to access the OS in their own workspaces

True

You have been asked to test a Linux application running on Fedora Linux. You don't currently have a Fedora Linux computer available, but you do have a computer you use for testing that runs Windows Server 2016. You want to be able to test the application without uninstalling Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2016 must continue to run while you are testing the application. What can you do?

Use Hyper-V to create a Fedora Linux VM and install the application in the VM.

You are the administrator for a company that has users that must access the network remotely on a regular basis. You want users to be able to access the company's network resources securely wherever they have an Internet connection. What should you deploy on your server?

VPN

. Which Windows 10 feature lets users better organize open applications, allowing them to switch between a set of open applications using the Windows+Ctrl+D key combination?

Virtual desktops

Windows 95 and Windows 98 suffered from occasional crashes and freezes due to misbehaving 16-bit applications. What feature, eventually added to Windows OSs, helped to solve this problem?

WOW

You need to set up a new network with 15 workstations. You must provide access to network services for all 15 stations simultaneously and you have been told to use Active Directory in this network. Which OS can provide Active Directory services?

Windows 2016 Server

Which of the following statements is true about Windows 3.1?

Windows 3.1 was built upon MS-DOS.

In which Windows client OS was the Start button replaced by the Start screen?

Windows 8

In which version of Windows did Microsoft first introduce Internet Explorer?

Windows 95

Which version of Windows set the standard of all Windows OSs to come with respect to the user interface, Plug and Play, and the registry?

Windows 95

What feature in Windows 10 allows you to expand your sign-in options by using your facial features or fingerprint if your hardware supports it?

Windows Hello

. You have three Windows servers running a directory service. Directory changes can only be made on one of the three services, while the other two serve as read-only backups. What version of Windows must you be running?

Windows NT Server 4.0

. You have been asked to test a new application on your Windows 10 computer but the application is experimental and you are unsure of its reliability. You don't want to risk damaging your existing Windows 10 installation and you don't have enough resources to use a hypervisor. What can you use to test the application?

Windows Sandbox

A new client needs to tightly integrate Linux into their Windows environment. What Windows Server 2019 feature can best support this requirement?

Windows Subsystem for Linux

What feature of UNIX provides the GUI and is network-enabled?

X Window

Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Windows NT security model?

all network data is encrypted

Your company is opening a branch office with twenty employees that require computers. The Windows 10 computers are joined to the company domain and authentication must occur within the branch office. You have been asked to configure a server to meet these requirements, but domain changes cannot occur on the server in the branch office. What should you deploy?

an RODC

With what technique are two or more servers linked to share the server processor load?

failover clustering

Your colleague who is a programmer has written an application that must be able to monitor several sensors while performing calculations on the data read from the sensors. Both parts of the application must run simultaneously. What CPU and OS feature is required to properly run his application?

multithreading

What operating system feature enables the OS to automatically detect newly installed hardware?

plug and play

Which CPU operating mode allows a process to execute restricted CPU instructions and access all memory locations?

privileged mode

Which of the following was a major change in macOS that first occurred with Snow Leopard?

support for only Intel-based processors

Which of the following is a feature first introduced in Windows 95?

the Start button

What is the primary goal of the Kerberos protocol?

to prevent unauthorized users from accessing resources