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Microsoft Microsoft XP Professional

11. You have upgraded 10 laptops to Windows XP Professional.All users complain they experience problems when putting the computer in standby mode.You investigate and discover that the client computers' BIOS version does not support ACPI.What should you do to solve their problems?
    (Choose 2)
    1. Perform a complete re-install of Windows XP
    2. Disable Power Management
    3. Update the BIOS
    4. Perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP

    Answer: C, D

12. You are the desktop administrator for your company.Five users in the Marketing department use software that produces a large amount of graphics and video related files on their local hard disks.They want this data to be included in the daily backup, but you do not want to pull hundreds of gigabytes extra over the company's LAN.

    All their computers are connected to a single 100Mbps switch so you decide to add a tape drive to one of the Windows XP Professional desktops in the Marketing department.You create a share on each desktop computer, which contains the data that should be included in the backup.Because of the large amount of data, you want to use a backup method that takes the least amount of time to backup the data to tape.

    Which of the following backup methods should you use?

    1. Perform a Normal/Full backup every Monday and an Incremental backup for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
    2. Perform a Normal backup every Monday and a Copy backup for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
    3. Perform a Normal backup every Monday and a Differential backup for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
    4. Perform a Weekly backup every Monday.Create an Daily backup for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

    Answer: A

13. You are the desktop administrator for your company.All client desktop computers run Windows XP Professional and have one 80GB dynamic disk with 2 simple NTSF volumes.The C: volume holds the operating system and the user's applications.The D: volume contains only user data.

    One of the users in the Marketing department requires more disk space for user data.Instead of restoring the contents of both drives on a larger hard disk, you decide to add an additional hard disk.How should you configure the disks for the best performance and the most usable disk space?

    1. Create a spanned volume by extending volume D: to include the unallocated disk space of the second disk.
    2. Create a striped volume by extending volume D: to include the unallocated disk space of the second disk.
    3. Create a mirrored volume by mirroring the contents of volume D: to a new volume E: on the second disk.
    4. Create a new simple volume on the second hard disk and mount it to a folder on volume D:

    Answer: A

14. You are the network administrator at a small-sized company.Your workgroup became too large so you installed a Windows 2000 domain controller and turn the workgroup into a domain.You have successfuly joined all the Windows XP Professional clients to the domain and everything seemed to work fine.The next morning some of your users complain they are not able to switch users using the Fast User Switching feature.What should you do?
    1. Click User Accounts in the Control Panel, click Change the way users log on or off and enable the Use Fast User Switching option
    2. Click User Accounts in the Control Panel, click Change the way users log on or off and enable the Use Welcome Screen option
    3. Instruct your users to press the WIN-L button to switch users.
    4. Inform the users Fast User Switching is not available on computers that are joined to a domain.

    Answer: D

15. You want to reduce the amount of space used on one of your FAT32 drive fast, so you decide to compress a folder named Odata with user data such as Word and Excel docs.When you want to enable compression on the folders properties sheet you notice compression is not available.How can you compress the files with the least amount of administrative effort and still be able to read the files?
    1. Convert the drive to NTFS using convert.exe /fs:ntfs to enable NTFS File Compression
    2. Convert the drive to NTFS using fs.exe /ntfs to enable NTFS File Compression
    3. Create a new Compressed Folder and drag all the files from the Odata folder to the Compressed Folder and delete the original Odata folder
    4. Use NTbackup.exe to create a file backup with maximum compression and delete the original Odata folder

    Answer: C

16. You are the desktop administrator for your company.All client desktop computers run Windows XP Professional.A user in the Marketing department has a scanner connected to his client computer.This morning the user received a popup when he started the image scanning software asking him if he wanted to search the Internet for new software and drivers.The user accepts and the update utility downloads and installs an updated driver for the scanner.

    When the user attempted to use the scanner, the computer stopped responding.He calls you and explains the problem.He also informs you that he already rebooted the computer but when he tried to use the scanner again the computer stopped responding again.

    What should you tell the user to do?

    1. Restart the computer using the Last Known Good Configuration.
    2. Use the Recovery Console to disable the device and restore the previous driver.
    3. Configure the Driver Signing options to Ignore unsigned files.
    4. Use the Driver Roll Back option in Device Manager to restore the previous driver.

    Answer: D

17. You are the desktop administrator for your company.All client computers run Windows XP Professional and are members of a single Windows 2003 domain.You create a shared folder on one of the client computers and you assign the share permission Full Control to the Sales group and read to Everyone.You assign the share permission Change to Michael, who is a member of the Marketing group.You deny Full Control NTFS permissions for the Marketing group.

    What are Michael's effective permissions when connecting to the shared folder?

    1. Read
    2. Read and Execute
    3. Change
    4. Full Control
    5. No access

    Answer: E

18. You are the administrator for a small company with 15 clients.All client desktop computers run Windows XP Professional and are members of a single workgroup.One of the computers is equipped with a large and fast SCSI hard disk to allow for a centralized location for file sharing.The disk is still basic and contains one large FAT32 partition.Because this computer contains most of the company's critical data, you have been asked to implement a fault tolerant solution to protect the data.Although you perform a backup every night, the downtime to restore the data could have disastrous financial consequences, so you decide to add an additional SCSI disk and create a mirrored volume.

    What should you do to be able to implement the RAID 1 solution on the computer?

    1. Use Disk Management to convert the disk to dynamic.
    2. Use Disk Management to convert the disk to NTFS.
    3. Run Windows XP Setup and press F6 to install the Windows Mirrored Volume driver.
    4. Reinstall the computer with Windows 2000 or 2003 Server.

    Answer: D

19. You are the domain administrator for your company.All client computers run Windows XP Professional and are members of a single Windows 2003 domain.One of the users, Julia, created a shared folder on her computer and asks you to set the permissions.She wants everyone in the Sales department to be able to do everything except changing permissions for the shared folder.Nobody else in the company should be granted access of any kind.She wants to maintain Full Control over the shared folder's permission settings.

    How should you assign the permissions?

    (Choose 3.)
    1. Remove Everyone from the share permissions.
    2. Assign the share permission Full Control to the Sales group.
    3. Assign the share permission Change to the Sales group.
    4. Assign Full Control share permissions to Julia.
    5. Deny the share permission Full Control to the Sales group.
    6. Deny the share permission Full Control to Everyone.
    7. Assign the NTSF permission Modify to the Sales group.

    Answer: A, C, G

20. You are the desktop administrator for your company.All client computers run Windows XP Professional and are members of a single Windows 2003 domain.All clients use a single shared Internet connection.You want to install 20 new clients using an answer file and you are current testing out the image on a test client.You've added the following text to the unattend.txt file:

    [UserData]
    ProductID = ABCDE-12345-FGHI6-JKLM7-NOPQ8

    When you run the installation on the test computer, you notice that the Activation failed.What should you do to allow automatic product activation during setup?

    1. Open port 80 and 443 on the firewall.
    2. Add AutoActivate = Yes to the [Unattended] section of the answer file.
    3. Add the msoobe /a command to the autoexec.bat of each client.
    4. Add the /a and /ID parameters to winnt.exe when starting setup on the clients.

    Answer: B