| Coverage : Basic DOS Commands
Windows XP Features
Windows 2000 Functionality
Windows 98 Maintenance
DOS Configuration Essentials
The File System
Troubleshooting Windows 2000
Networking with Windows XP
Introduction to the Windows 9x Family of Products
Troubleshooting Windows XP
Windows 2000 Features
Windows 98 Features
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| 1. | Typing DIR/A/P at the command prompt will result in: |
| a. | | A list of files in sorted order, using wide list format |
| b. | | A list of files in all directories and subdirectories, pausing after each screen of information |
| c. | | A list of files with specific attributes, using the wide list format |
| d. | | A list of files with specific attributes, pausing after each screen of information
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| 2. | All versions of Windows use virtual memory. |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False
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| 3. | Which two among the following Windows programs can be used to edit the registry? |
| a. | | Control Panel |
| b. | | Command Prompt |
| c. | | Device Manager |
| d. | | System Tools
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| 4. | Which of the following OS requires that SYSTEM.INI exist? |
| a. | | Windows 2000 |
| b. | | Windows NT |
| c. | | Windows 9x |
| d. | | Windows 3.x
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| 5. | Which OS uses WINIPCFG to display TCP/IP options? |
| a. | | Windows NT/2000 |
| b. | | Windows 3.x |
| c. | | Windows 9x |
| d. | | All of the abve
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| 6. | Which version of Windows introduced the ability to support dual monitors? |
| a. | | Windows 95 |
| b. | | Windows 2000 |
| c. | | Windows 98 |
| d. | | Windows ME
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| 7. | The first physical sector in any bootable hard disk contains which of the following? |
| a. | | File structure |
| b. | | Data structure |
| c. | | MBR |
| d. | | LBR
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| 8. | What is the command syntax for assigning the "Hidden" attribute to file c:\myfile? |
| a. | | ATTRIB +R C:\MYFILE |
| b. | | ATTRIB +H C:\MYFILE |
| c. | | ATTRIB -H C:\MYFILE |
| d. | | ATTRIB H C:\MYFILE
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| 9. | You have loaded Windows 3.1 into the primary partition on your computer, and made it the default Operating System. You have formatted one of the logical drives in the Extended partition. Which file system would have been installed? |
| a. | | FAT16 |
| b. | | FAT32 |
| c. | | VFAT |
| d. | | NTFS
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| 10. | Which are the two files that the Windows 95 Registry is composed of? |
| a. | | SYSTEM.COM |
| b. | | SYSTEM.DAT |
| c. | | USER.DAT |
| d. | | IOSYS.COM
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| 11. | Which of the following files is not required for DOS to boot? |
| a. | | COMMAND.COM |
| b. | | MSDOS.SYS |
| c. | | IO.SYS |
| d. | | AUTOEXEC.BAT
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| 12. | Which function key is pressed to bypass CONFIG.SYS, and AUTOEXEC.BAT during the DOS boot process? |
| a. | | F6 |
| b. | | F8 |
| c. | | F4 |
| d. | | F5
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| 13. | When Windows 95/98 boots successfully, it creates two back up files for the Registry. Which are those two back up Registry files? |
| a. | | REG0.DAT, REG1.DAT |
| b. | | REG_BACK.DAT, REG_SYS.DAT |
| c. | | USER.DAT, SYSTEM.DAT |
| d. | | USER.DA0, SYSTEM.DA0
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| 14. | You recently installed a new hard drive into your computer and removed the old hard drive. What is the first activity that you need to perform before starting to use the hard disk? |
| a. | | Format the hard disk |
| b. | | Scan the hard disk |
| c. | | Run NDD |
| d. | | Partition the hard disk
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| 15. | Which of the following tabs are available when you open the System applet in the Control Panel? |
| a. | | General |
| b. | | Device Manager |
| c. | | Hardware Profiles |
| d. | | Performance
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| 16. | Which of the following Registry keys stores the entire system settings? |
| a. | | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
| b. | | HKEY_PC_SETTINGS |
| c. | | HKEY_LOCAL_COMPUTER |
| d. | | HKEY_LOCAL_USER
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| 17. | What is the hard disk partition size that MS-DOS and Windows 95 Version A supported? |
| a. | | 1MB |
| b. | | 2MB |
| c. | | 2GB |
| d. | | 2TB
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| 18. | Which DOS device driver manages the extended memory? |
| a. | | EMM.EXE |
| b. | | EMM386.EXE |
| c. | | HIMEM.SYS |
| d. | | COMMAND.COM
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| 19. | Which level of security provides better control over resources? |
| a. | | Share level |
| b. | | User level |
| c. | | Resource level |
| d. | | Read-only
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| 20. | Which of the following commands is used to scan a disk in a Windows 95 computer, and also fix the errors? |
| a. | | ScanDisk |
| b. | | ScanDisk/f |
| c. | | CHKDISK |
| d. | | CHKDISK/f
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| 21. | In Windows 9X, which of the following keys must be pressed to view the start menu? |
| a. | | <CTRL> <ALT> |
| b. | | <CTRL> <ESC> |
| c. | | <ALT> <ESC> |
| d. | | <ALT><SHIFT>
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| 22. | Miller is trying to install Win 95. However, he is not able to install the Windows 95 Operating System. Which file contains the information for troubleshooting? |
| a. | | CONFIG.SYS |
| b. | | BOOTLOG.TXT |
| c. | | SYSLOG.TXT |
| d. | | SETUPLOG.TXT
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| 23. | How do you install a printer in a Windows 95 computer? |
| a. | | Start ->Program Files -> Printer |
| b. | | Start -> Printers |
| c. | | Start -> Program Files -> Control Panel |
| d. | | Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Double click on Printers
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| 24. | Which of the following operating systems can be upgraded directly to Windows XP? |
| a. | | Windows 95 |
| b. | | Windows 98 |
| c. | | Windows NT 3.51 |
| d. | | Windows NT 4 Workstation |
| e. | | Windows 2000 Professional
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| 25. | You just upgraded all client computers in your company from Windows ME to Windows XP. A user in the Finance department complains about not being able to start an application that ran fine on Windows ME. You need to get this application up and running as quickly as possible. Which of the following could allow you to run the application on Windows XP? |
| a. | | Run the application in Windows 98 / Windows ME Compatibility Mode |
| b. | | Reinstall the application in Windows XP |
| c. | | Run the application in a Virtual Dos Machine |
| d. | | Run the application in Exclusive Memory Mode
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| 26. | Alice, a user in the Sales department, started her computer running on Windows XP, but it failed to start. She had informed that she temporarily installed a new application a week back and uninstalled it a couple of days later and everything was working fine till now. You try to boot using the Last Known Good Configuration but Windows XP still fails to start. You want to bring this computer back to a working state as quickly as possible. Which of the following should you try next? |
| a. | | Boot in Safe Mode and revert to a previous System Restore Point |
| b. | | Use the Recovery Console and revert to a previous Recovery Point |
| c. | | Use Windows Backup to restore the System State Data |
| d. | | Use Automated System Recovery (ASR)
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| 27. | You want to upgrade a computer running Windows NT 4 to Windows XP. Which of the following will start the upgrade process? |
| a. | | Booting from the Windows XP installation CD |
| b. | | Running Winnt.exe from the Windows NT 4 command prompt |
| c. | | Running Winnt32.exe from within Windows NT 4 |
| d. | | Running Upgrade.exe from the Windows XP installation CD
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| 28. | Your company recently added a Linux server to the network, and you need to setup connectivity to a text-based application running on the server for 5 Windows XP clients. Which of the following would allow the clients to connect to the Linux server application? |
| a. | | IMAP |
| b. | | FTP |
| c. | | SSL |
| d. | | TELNET
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| 29. | One of your Windows XP clients is not able to connect to the corporate network. You verify the IP configuration and notice the client has been configured with the IP address 169.254.6.19. Which of the following statements are true? |
| a. | | The client is configured to receive IP addressing information from a DHCP server |
| b. | | Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) assigned the IP address to the client |
| c. | | The client was able to receive IP addressing information from a DHCP server |
| d. | | The client was not able to receive IP addressing information from a DHCP server
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| 30. | You want to boot Windows 98 with Windows 2000, each OS on a 3 GB partition. You also want to access both volumes from either OS. Which file system should you use? |
| a. | | FAT16 |
| b. | | FAT32 |
| c. | | NTFS |
| d. | | CDFS
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| 31. | You want to upgrade Windows NT 4 Workstation to Windows 2000 Professional. Which of the following commands should you run to start the upgrade? |
| a. | | Setup.exe |
| b. | | Winnt.exe |
| c. | | Upgrade.exe |
| d. | | Winnt32.exe |
| e. | | Update.exe
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| 32. | How can you create an Emergency Repair Disk in Windows 2000? |
| a. | | Click Create an Emergency Repair Disk on the Tools menu in Backup |
| b. | | Copy the content of the \%Systemroot%\Repair folder to a floppy disk |
| c. | | Run the ERD.EXE command-line utility with the /s switch |
| d. | | Click Create an Emergency Repair Disk on the Advanced tab of the System Properties
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| 33. | Which of the following utilities can be used to set permissions on individual registry keys on a Windows NT/2000 computer? |
| a. | | Regedit.exe |
| b. | | Regedt32.exe |
| c. | | Sysedit.exe |
| d. | | MSconfig.exe
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| 34. | Which utility allows you to view the Application, Security and System log on a Windows NT 4 Workstation? |
| a. | | Computer Manager |
| b. | | Event Viewer |
| c. | | SYSEDIT |
| d. | | Dr. Watson
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| 35. | Which Windows 98 diagnostic tool provides color-coded information to identify values or issues with hardware devices or software? |
| a. | | MSCONFIG |
| b. | | MSD |
| c. | | HWINFO |
| d. | | Device Manager |
| e. | | SYSEDIT
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| 36. | You wish to speed up disk-drive access in DOS by reserving a block of RAM and using it to swap data from the hard disk to RAM. Which of the following allows you to accomplish this? |
| a. | | Virtual Memory |
| b. | | MSCDEX |
| c. | | DriveSpace |
| d. | | SMARTDRV
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| 37. | Which of the following is true concerning the FAT16 file system? |
| a. | | The maximum number of clusters are 65,525 |
| b. | | The maximum number of clusters are 268,435,456 |
| c. | | It supports long file names when using the VFAT extension |
| d. | | It supports File Compression |
| e. | | It supports File Encryption
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| 38. | Which command prompt utility allows you to display the versions of the current OS running? |
| a. | | SYS |
| b. | | VER |
| c. | | SETVER |
| d. | | COMMAND.COM
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| 39. | You are installing Windows 2000 on a computer installed with Windows 95. During the installation, setup copies the bootsector found in sector 0 of drive c: to a file. What is the name of this file? |
| a. | | Bootsect.dos |
| b. | | Bootsect.win |
| c. | | ntldr |
| d. | | Boot.ini |
| e. | | ntbootdd.sys
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| 40. | Which of the following Windows 2000 startup files are located in the root of startup disk? |
| a. | | ntldr |
| b. | | Bootsect.dos |
| c. | | Boot.ini |
| d. | | ntoskrnl.exe |
| e. | | ntdetect.com |
| f. | | Hall.dll |
| g. | | Hyberfil.sys
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| 41. | During which phase of a Windows 2000 installation are networking components installed and configured? |
| a. | | Setup Loader |
| b. | | Text-Mode Setup |
| c. | | GUI-Mode Setup |
| d. | | Bootstrap
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| 42. | Which of the following commands can be used to remove a folder, on a Windows XP computer, including the subfolders and files in it? |
| a. | | Deltree Foldername |
| b. | | Rd /s Foldername |
| c. | | Rm /All Foldername |
| d. | | Del /s Foldername
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| 43. | Which of the following networking utilities sends out an echo message to a remote host and waits for a response confirming the remote host is reachable? |
| a. | | Ipconfig.exe |
| b. | | Ping.exe |
| c. | | Nslookup.exe |
| d. | | Echo.exe |
| e. | | Arp.exe |
| f. | | Netstat.exe
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| 44. | Which of the following file systems introduced the support of the Encrypted File System to encrypt data at the file and folder level? |
| a. | | FAT16 |
| b. | | FAT32 |
| c. | | NTFS v4 |
| d. | | NTFS v5
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| 45. | At the end of a workday, you install an unsigned driver for a mass storage device on a Windows XP client. When the computer restarts you get a blue screen with Stop 0xc0000218 (0xe11a30e8, 0x00000000, 0x000000000, 0x00000000) UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR. What should you do? |
| a. | | Start Windows in Safe mode and reinstall the driver |
| b. | | Boot the computer from the Windows XP Professional installation CD and run Automated System Recovery |
| c. | | Start Windows using the Load Last Known Good configuration |
| d. | | Start Windows using the Recovery Console and restore the most recent full backup
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| 46. | Your Windows 2000 Professional computer is not booting correctly. You want to use the Recovery Console to troubleshoot, but you did not install it using the winnt32.exe /cmdcons command. How can you access the Recovery Console? |
| a. | | Use the Windows 2000 Advanced Options Menu at system startup |
| b. | | Press the F8 key at system startup |
| c. | | Use the Repair option when starting Setup |
| d. | | Add the /cmdcons switch to the Windows 2000 ARC path in the boot.ini file
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| 47. | Which of the following utilities on Windows NT, 2000, and XP starts automatically, detects information about system and program failures, and records the information in a log file? |
| a. | | CrashDump |
| b. | | Event Viewer |
| c. | | Task Manager |
| d. | | Dr. Watson
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| 48. | By default, what happens on a Windows XP computer when the Application event log becomes full? |
| a. | | New events will not be recorded |
| b. | | New events will overwrite older events |
| c. | | The logfile's size will increase |
| d. | | A second logfile will be created
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| 49. | You need to configure an Outlook Express client to allow it to use the mailbox on the server as the repository for all messages, and at the same time allow access to public folders stored on the mailserver. How should you configure Outlook Express? |
| a. | | Configure Outlook Express to use the IMAP protocol |
| b. | | Configure Outlook Express to use the POP3 protocol |
| c. | | Configure Outlook Express to use the SMTP2 protocol |
| d. | | Configure Outlook Express to use the NNTP protocol
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| 50. | You want to convert the FAT16 drives on 20 different computers to FAT32 using batch files. Which of the following command-line utilities can help you to achieve this? |
| a. | | Cvt1.exe |
| b. | | Convert.exe |
| c. | | Chkdsk.exe |
| d. | | Smartdrv.exe
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| 51. | You want your default Windows 98 installation to boot to the command prompt and not load Windows during every startup. What should you do? |
| a. | | Remove the win statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT |
| b. | | Remove the win statement in MSDOS.SYS |
| c. | | Set the BootGUI option to 0 in MSDOS.SYS |
| d. | | Set the BootMulti option to 0 in MSDOS.SYS
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| 52. | Which of the following is true concerning the Recycle Bin and deleting files? |
| a. | | Items deleted from a floppy disk are also sent to the Recycle Bin |
| b. | | The Recycle Bin can be bypassed by holding down the SHIFT key while deleting |
| c. | | Emptying the Recycle Bin permanently deletes all items in it |
| d. | | Items deleted from a network drive are also sent to the Recycle Bin
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| 53. | What is the name for the first 64 KB of Extended Memory? |
| a. | | Expanded Memory |
| b. | | Conventional Memory |
| c. | | High Memory Area |
| d. | | Shadow RAM
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| 54. | You suspect that a Windows 98 system file got damaged during a system crash this morning. What is the best way to replace this file? |
| a. | | You should re-install Windows 98 |
| b. | | You should restore the file from the most recent backup |
| c. | | You should use EXTRACT.EXE to restore the file from the Windows installation CD |
| d. | | You should copy the file from the Windows installation CD using the SYS.EXE command
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| 55. | You wish to make a backup of all the files on a Windows 2000 Professional computer but you do not want the files marked as backed up. Which backup type should you use? |
| a. | | Normal |
| b. | | Copy |
| c. | | Daily |
| d. | | Incremental |
| e. | | Differential
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| 56. | Which of the following file systems are supported by Windows 98? |
| a. | | FAT16 |
| b. | | FAT32 |
| c. | | NTFS 4.0 |
| d. | | NTFS 5.0 |
| e. | | CDFS
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