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Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

101. You are the administrator of your company's network.You install Windows 2000 Professional on 10 computers in the graphics department.The 10 computers have built in USB controllers.You physically install a USB tablet pointing device on each computer.You install the 32-bit manufacturer tablets software on each computer.A tablet icon appears in the central panel to configure the device but the device does not work.

     You want the USB tablets to work on 10 computers.

     What should you do?

     1. Enable the USB ports in the BIOS and reinstall the USB tablet device drivers.
     2. Enable the USB root hub controller and reinstall the USB tablet device drivers.
     3. Disable the USB error detection for the USB root hub controller and enable the USB tablet device in the hardware profile.
     4. Reinstall the USB device drivers and disable the USB error detection.

     Answer: A

     Explanation: On some older computers, the USB ports must be enabled manually in the BIOS.

102. You encrypt your files to ensure the security of the files.You want to make a backup copy of the files and maintain their security settings.You have the option of backing up to either the network or floppy disk.

     What should you do?

     1. Copy the files to a network share on an NTFS volume and do nothing further.
     2. Copy the files to a network share on a FAT 32 volume and do nothing further.
     3. Copy the files to a floppy disk that has been formatted by using Windows 2000 Professional.
     4. Place the files in an encrypted folder, and then copy the folder to floppy disk.

     Answer: A

     Explanation: Encryption security settings are retained when an encrypted file is moved or copied to an NTFS volume.

103. You are the administrator of your company's network.A user named Tom in the Art department wants to update his Windows 2000 Professional computer so that he can view graphics at the highest resolution. Tom downloads a video card driver from the Internet and then asks for your assistance in installing it. You are unsure of the source of driver.You want to ensure that Tom does not loose productive time because of the incompatible driver.

     What should you do?

     1. Install the driver in the computer.Save after installing the driver.Restart the computer, then use the last known good configuration to recover the original driver.
     2. Install the driver in the computer.Save after installing the driver, use hardware troubleshooter then use Recovery Console to recover the original driver.
     3. Display the advanced attributes of the video card driver file.Install the file, if the contents have been secured.
     4. Run a file signature verification survey to verify that the driver has a digital signature.Do not install otherwise.

     Answer: D

     Explanation: SIGVERIF.EXE is a file signature verification utility that can be used to quickly scan protected system files and verify that their digital signatures are intact.In the utility's advanced settings dialog box, you can set the program to scan non-system files in any location, including the downloaded driver in this scenario. You would click on Start, select Run, type sigverif in the dialog box and press Enter.This will bring up the file signature verification utility.You would then click the Advanced button, select Look for other files that are not digitally signed, and choose Browse, to browse for the folder that contains the downloaded driver.

104. You are the administrator of the desktop.com domain.You are configuring a roaming user profile for a user named Paul West.You create a user account named Paul West on the Windows 2000 server computer named server1.You define a network profile by entering the path \\server1\profile\%username% in Paul's user account setting.

     When Paul logs on to a Windows 2000 Professional computer he sees the following message. "Windows can not locate your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile which will not be propagated to the server."

     The details of network cannot be found.You want to configure the roaming user profile for Paul.

     What should you do?

     1. Create a home folder for Paul.
     2. Share the network profile directory.
     3. Map a device to the network profile directory.
     4. Use the %username% variable to allow access.

     Answer: B

     Explanation: Roaming profiles are used for users who log on to the network from different computers but who require the same desktop setting regardless of which computer they use to logon.Therefore, the roaming profiles must be stored on a network share and the user account must be given appropriate NTFS and share permissions to that folder.This will allow the user account to access that folder regardless of the computer that they use to logon to the network.In this scenario a network folder has been specified as the folder where the roaming profiles must be stored.However, Paul's user account cannot access the roaming profile therefore Paul's user account has probably not been given the appropriate permissions to the folder that is used to store the profiles.

105. You install Windows 2000 Professional on your portable computer.You install a SCSI PC card adapter, that you can use in the office to use color scanner.You use a docking station for your computer when you are in the office.You want to maximize the battery performance for your portable computer.You also want to prevent the driver from loading whenever you are away from the office.

     What should you do?

     1. When away from the office use Device Manager to remove the adapter.
     2. When away from the office configure the startup properties for the adapter to be automatic.
     3. Remove the computer from the docking station and start Windows 2000 Professional to disable the SCSI PC card adapter device for the current profile.
     4. Remove the computer from the docking station and start Windows 2000 Professional.Use Device Manager to remove SCSI PC card adapter device.

     Answer: C

     Explanation: The SCSI device should only be used when using the docked hardware profile at the office. Therefore the SCSI device must be disabled in the undocked hardware profile.

106. You install Windows 2000 Professional onto an NTFS partition on your computer.During the installation, you manually specify the OEM driver for the tape device SCSI controller.After the installation, you run the Winnt32 /cmdcons command.Then you successfully install the latest Windows 2000 service pack.

     Next, you install an updated driver for the tape device SCSI controller.When you restart the system and log on to the computer, you receive a stop error.

     You need to restore the functionality of the SCSI controller with the least amount of administrative effort.

     What should you do?

     1. Restart the computer in Safe Mode.Reinstall the functional SCSI controller driver.
     2. Restart the computer into Recovery Console.Replace the faulty SCSI controller driver with the functional one.
     3. Start the computer by using a Windows 2000 Professional disk.Replace the faulty SCSI controller driver with the functional one.
     4. Install a parallel copy of Windows 2000 Professional in a separate folder.Copy the functional SCSI controller driver into the original system folder, and restart the computer to the previous installation.

     Answer: A

     Explanation: The SCSI controller controls the tape device not any hard drives.This makes it possible to boot to Safe Mode and reinstall the functional driver.The SCSI driver could also be disabled in Safe Mode.

107. You need to create a web share on your Windows 2000 Professional computer named Admin01.You create a folder named reports.Then you configure web sharing on Reports.You name the share WebReports and allow Read permissions on the share.

     You test the web share by pointing to http://admin01/WebReports from another computer.You receive the following error message, 'You are not authorized to view this page.'

     You need to be able to access the folder.

     What must you do?

     1. Allow write permission on WebReports.
     2. Allow directory browsing permissions on WebReports.
     3. In the IIS console, enable anonymous access to WebReports.
     4. In the IIS console, set the execute permissions option to script and executables on WebReports.

     Answer: C

     Explanation: The proper NTFS permissions, read permission, have already been granted.To access the folder through Internet Explorer the folder must be published in Internet Information Services (IIS), and authentication through IIS must be provided.By enabling anonymous access in the IIS console the folder would be accessible through Internet Explorer.

108. You are the administrator of your company's network.Your company is based in Russia and conducts the majority of its business in Russian.Users in your company create, view, and edit documents in English (US), French, and Spanish to communicate with vendors internationally.

     Users run the Russian localized edition of Windows 2000 Professional on their desktop and portable computers.A user named Katrin wants to create word processing documents in both English and Spanish by using Notepad in Windows 2000 Professional.She requests your assistance in enabling English and Spanish on her computer.

     What should you do?

     1. Instruct Katrin to select the desired input locale for either English or Spanish within Notepad.
     2. Instruct Katrin to select the input locale indicator on the taskbar and select either English or Spanish.
     3. Instruct Katrin to use Regional Options in Control Panel to add input Locales and keyboard layouts/IME for both English and Spanish.
     4. Create a Local Computer Policy for Katrins computer to include both English and Spanish.

     Answer: C

     Explanation: Multiple input languages can be enabled on a Windows 2000 computer.An additional input language can be enabled by clicking on the Regional Options applet in Control Panel, selecting the Input Locale tab, then pressing the Add button, and selecting the desired input language from the drop down list.

109. You are the network administrator for Adroit and you support the portable computer users.An Account Executive named Hildegard frequently travels to meet with customers and uses her portable computer to demonstrate the company's new software products.Hildegard needs to update these products frequently so customers can evaluate the latest software releases.

     You need to allow Hildegard to install the product updates while limiting her ability to perform other administrative duties on her portable computer.

     What should you do?

     1. Add Hildegard's user accounts to the Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group.
     2. Add Hildegard's user account to the local Power Users group.
     3. Allow Hildegard's user account Full Control permission to the Program Files folder. Propagate the permissions to all the subdirectories and files in that directory.
     4. Allow Hildegard's user account Write permissions to the Program Files folder. Propagate the permissions to all the subdirectories and files in that directory.

     Answer: B

     Explanation: As a member of the local Power Users group, Hildegard would be able to install and update applications.

110. You are the network administrator.Two users named Eric and Julia share a Windows 2000 Professional computer.Eric's user account is a member of the local Administrators group.

     Eric needs to share files with Julia.Eric wants Julia to be able to change any of the shared files and to create her own files if necessary.Eric wants to prevent Julia from changing the permissions on files that Eric creates.

     To accomplish his goal, Eric creates a folder named C:\Data.He changes the NTFS permission on C:\Data to allow his local user account Full Control permissions and to allow Julia's local user account default permissions.Eric places 10 files in the folder.

     When Julia logs on to the computer using her local user account and opens a file in C:\Data, she cannot save the changes to the file.Julia also cannot create any new files in the folder.

     You need to help Eric configure the correct permissions of C:\Data.

     What should you instruct Eric to do?

     1. Add Julia's user account to the local Power Users group.
     2. Add Julia's user account to the local Administrators group.
     3. Allow Julia's user account Write permissions to C:\Data.
     4. Allow Julia's user account Full Control permission to C:\Data.

     Answer: C

     Explanation: Write permissions would allow Julia to save changes to files and create new files as is required. Furthermore, she would not be able to change any file permissions.