Operating Systems Chap 9 Study Guide

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What is a common term for a component in a PC or network that is the slowest component causing other components to slow down also?

A Bottleneck

I built a pc with all new components with the exception of the network card which is from my previous build. I noticed the PC performs will with the exception on things I am downloading on the internet. What type of bottleneck could this be?

A Network Bottleneck

Running fewer applications at once is a way to resolve which type of bottleneck?

A memory bottleneck

Which of the following bootable media can be used used to repair or reinstall Windows 10?

A recovery drive

Which of the following data will the Reliability Monitor collect?

Application failures Windows failures Miscellaneous failures Software installs and uninstalls

An office worker uses a Windows 10 PC for order processing. The PC recently crashed, so he wants to use the Reset this PC option to recover his PC.Which of the following items will the office worker be unable to restore with the Reset this PC option?

Apps that she installed on the PC after purchasing it

Which backup and restore function can you use to create a system image that includes the apps you have installed?

Backup and Restore (Windows 7)

A network technician is configuring File History for the first time on an employee's computer. She attaches an external hard drive and configures it as the drive for File History. Which of the following is most likely to occur in this scenario?

Backup data will be added to the free space on the hard drive

Which of the following PowerShell commandlets can be used to create a new restore point?

Checkpoint-Computer

A sales person is using Steps Recorder to capture the steps that are causing an application to malfunction. After capturing the necessary steps, he can send the report to the IT team so that they can troubleshoot the issue. He is not sure if Steps Recorder will capture all of his actions that are causing the application to fail.Which of the sales person's interactions with the application will be captured by Steps Recorder?

Closing the application, Scrolling within the application, Using arrow keys to navigate the application

Which Event Viewer feature should you use to view events in multiple logs?

Custom View

Which processor feature monitors the memory spaces to ensure malware can not access any unauthorized memory space?

DEP

Identify the tuning process components.

Establishing a baseline, Tuning performance, Recognizing bottlenecks

Which of the following is part of the performance tuning process?

Establishing a baseline, Tuning performance, Recognizing bottlenecks

A network administrator configures File History on a sale person's Windows 10 laptop because she often works while traveling. The sales person often works from remote locations without access to charging points for her laptop. She wants to know the minimum amount of time that can be configured with File History so that files will be backed up frequently. Which of the following is the minimum time interval that can be set with File History for backup frequency?

Every 10 minutes

A network administrator configures File History on a sale person's Windows 10 laptop because she often works while traveling. The sales person often works from remote locations without access to charging points for her laptop. She wants to know the frequency with which her laptop can back up files with the default settings.How often are files being backed up on sales persons laptop?

Every hour

A home user downloaded software from the Internet and installed it on her computer. She suspects that the software has also installed malware onto her computer. She uses the Autoruns application to look for malware on her computer.The Autoruns application is installed as part of the Windows 10 Enterprise x64 installation.

False

Disk bottlenecks occur when Windows 10 and running applications want to read and write information to the physical disk in the system faster than the disk can manage. For desktop computers running Windows 10, disk bottlenecks are very common.

False

File History cab perform a complete system backup

False

File History is enabled by default.

False

If you create a recovery drive from a 64-bit version of Windows 10, then that recovery drive can be used to repair a 64-bit version of Windows 10 or a 32-bit version of Windows 10.

False

A system admin is troubleshooting an issue on a Windows 10 computer using Event Viewer. In the application log, she can find several entries for several events. She wants to limit this and only see errors.Which of the following filter options should the system admin use?

Filter by Event level

Which of the following can Task Manager monitor?

GPU utilization for each process, CPU utilization for each process, Disk utilization for each process, Network utilization for each process, Memory utilization for each process

When a system has insufficient memory, what other physical symptom occurs?

High levels of disk activity

A help desk ticket comes in from an administrative assistant stating that web sites are slow to open. When accessing network shares, file downloads also take an extended amount of time. You are tasked with identifying the performance issues. You launch the Resource Monitor on the administrative assistant's Windows 10 system and begin to monitor the network subsystem to determine if it is a bottleneck. Which of the following would indicate that the network connection between the local address and a remote address is oversaturated?

High packet losses

If a PC is using a lot of page files, what is likely the bottleneck you are experiencing?

Increase the amount of physical memory

A systems administrator is changing the default configuration in Event Log to manage the logs that are created. She is leaving the Log behavior set at defaults for when maximum log size is reached which is to overwrite events. Which of the following is true of this scenario?

Older events will be replaced by new events.

Which is the best solution for backing up user data?

OneDrive

If Backup and Restore (Windows 7), has been configured to protect data, that data can be recovered using which feature?

Previous Versions

If File History, has been configured to protect data, that data can be recovered using which feature?

Previous Versions

Which tool can you use to identify the point in time at which a computer running Windows 10 started to become unstable?

Reliability Monitor

Which of the following recovery options will set your computer back to the state of a newly installed instance of Windows 10.

Reset this PC (Remove everything)

Which term best describes a snapshot of system files and settings created when an application or operating system update is performed?

Restore Point

Which of the following are valid methods for entering the Windows Recovery Environment?

Right click the start button, click shutdown or sign out, hold down the shift key and click restart. Boot to the Windows 10 sign on screen, click the power button on the lower right corner. hold down the shift key and click restart. Boot from a Windows 10 installation disk, click next, click Repair your computer, click Troubleshoot. From an administrative command prompt type shutdown /r /o. Click the Start button and then click Settings, In the Settings window, click Update & Security and then click Recovery, Below Advanced startup, click Restart now.

You are working on a Windows 10 Pro x64 bit system that is infected with malware. You isolate the system from the network run an antivirus program to remove the malware. After removing the malware the system fails to boot. Which recovery option would you choose first to fix the boot issue?

Startup Repair

Homer is using a Camtasia program on his Windows 10 laptop to record a how to video. After completing this task, he switches to other tasks but leaves the Camtasia application open in the background. When he tries to record another video after a couple of hours, he is unable to interact with the Camtasia application. He opens Task Manager to check if the associated process for the application is still running or suspended.Under which header on the Details tab is Homer most likely to find this information?

Status

Which Windows 10 feature captures a screenshot each time the user clicks a screen item and saves the screenshots and user actions in a report that can be sent via email or saved to a shared storage location?

Steps Recorder

Tom uses a Media Player Classic app to play advertising video clips but the app continually hangs and appears to consume most of the resources on her Windows 10 system. Whenever multiple video clips are played, the computer slows down and the Media Player Classic app eventually crashes. To understand the underlying issue, Tom wants to test how the Media Player's processes are impacting the processor.Which of the following should Tom do?

Suspend the Media Player's processes using the CPU tab in Resource Monitor

You are a network administrator for the ABC company. The ABC company has a Windows 10 Enterprise system with a custom installation of Windows 10 and custom business software installed. You need to ensure you are able to recover this PC in the event of a hardware or software failure. Which recovery option will meet the needs in case of a failure.

System Image Recovery

You are working on a Windows 10 Pro x64 system for a customer. The customer has requested for you to install an older web cam for company Teams meetings. You install the camera and load the drivers, but the system is unable to boot back into Windows after the driver installation. Which of the following recovery option could be used to resolve this issue with the least amount of administrative effort?

System Restore

Which utility can be used to provide an overview of the current state of a computer?

Task Manager

A company supervisor has the latest version of Windows 10 installed on her laptop. She configures File History on her computer but wants to use Backup and Restore (Windows 7) to create a system image.Which of the following is true to using the System Image Backup option?

The System Image Backup option is deprecated beginning in Windows 10 version 1709.

An office administrator is using an external hard disk with File History to back up files from her laptop. She needs to detach the hard disk for another task, so she configures an external SSD to be used with File History.Which of the following is most likely to occur in this scenario?

The backed-up data on the hard disk will not be deleted

A system administrator has configured File History on his Windows 10 computer using an external hard disk. Some of the files on the computer that are selected for backup are EFS-protected. For the backup to proceed smoothly, which of the following conditions should be met?

The hard disk should be formatted with NTFS.

A home user downloaded software from the Internet and installed it on her computer. She suspects that the software has also installed malware onto her computer. She uses the Autoruns application to look for malware on her computer.Which of the following in Autoruns most likely indicates the presence of malware on her computer?

There is a file in a nonstandard location.

A recovery drive is bootable media that you can use to repair or reinstall Windows 10. When you boot from a recovery drive, you see the same WinRE interface as when you choose the Advanced startup option in recovery settings.

True

Which Performance Monitor component records log files?

True

Which of the following are true about System Restore and restore points?

When the storage space dedicated to restore points becomes too large, the oldest restore point is automatically removed.

Which Advanced startup option in recovery settings is a small instance of Windows 10 that includes several options for troubleshooting and repairing Windows 10?

Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)

Task Manager

allows you to quickly view system process information

Stacked Area

displays a combined total of the selected counters and each counter's portion of the total

Line

displays a line for each selected counter

Histogram

displays a vertical bar for the current value of each performance counter

Report

displays the current value of each performance counter in decimal format

Reliability Monitor

lets you monitor the events that contribute to system stability

Resource Monitor

provides more detailed information than Task Manager, such as the network utilization of each process

Performance Monitor

used to monitor system performance and reliability, create alerts, log performance activity, and generate reports

Which command do you need to run on the source computer to allow remote access to event logs for a subscription?

winrm quickconfig

File History content is compressed and encrypted on the external drive.

False

Your company has 15 Windows 10 Pro machines that are end-of-life. The company president has decided to donate the end-of-life PCs to a local charity that helps tutor struggling students. You have been tasked with preparing the PCs for donation. The PCs must not have any personal data on them but they must still be able to boot into Windows 10 Pro. Which recovery option would you select to complete the task?

Reset this PC (Remove everything)

Which of the following can be used to start Task Manager?

Right-clicking an empty area of the taskbar, Run taskmgr.exe from a command prompt., Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Ctrl+Shift+Esc

A help desk technician installs Windows 10 on a desktop computer with low-end specifications. The desktop computer does not have a dedicated graphics card as well. In order to improve the performance of Windows 10, she wants to adjust the appearance of Windows by reducing most OS animations.Which of the following options in the Performance Options dialog box should the help desk technician use to achieve this?

Select the Adjust for best performance option on the Visual Effects tab

A remote sales person's personal Windows 10 computer has slowed over time. She wants to enhance the performance of the computer by tuning her system. She begins by choosing to adjust the virtual memory settings in Performance Options. Her computer has two physical disks, and the paging file is currently placed on one of the disks on the same volume as the operating system and the disk is almost out of space. The second physical disk is an SSD with 1 TB of open space.Which of the following should the remote sales person do?

She should move the paging file to a volume on the second disk.

File History backs up data to an external hard drive or a network location.

True

If the external drive selected for File History runs out of space, backups stop.

True

The configuration of File History is user specific and is meant to backup only user data

True

The data displayed in Resource Monitor are updated in real time while monitoring is active. The constant updating sometimes makes it hard to read the data. Monitoring can be stopped to freeze the displayed values.

True

To start the Reliability Monitor from command line you would use the perfmon /rel command.

True

When you attach an external hard drive and configure it for use by File History, the drive does not get erased.

True

You can customize File History to include or exclude specific folders, but the default configuration includes libaries, desktop, contacts, and favorites.

True

You must configure both File History and Backup and Restore (Windows 7) to protect data, so that data can be recovered using a feature called Previous versions.

True

A baseline is a set of performance indicators captured when system performance is acceptable. When should a baseline measurement be taken?

Under normal operating conditions.


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