IT Essentials V5 Chapter 5 Exam Answers2

IT Essentials v5 Chapter 5 exam answers

1

What are two features of the active partition of a hard drive? (Choose two.)

The active partition must be a primary partition.

Up to four primary partitions can be marked as active.

The operating system uses the active partition to boot the system.

The active partition may include the manufacturer recovery partition.

An active partition must be assigned C: as the drive letter.

2

Which Windows administrative tool displays the usage of a number of computer resources simultaneously and can help a technician decide if an upgrade is needed?

Services

Performance Monitor

Component Services

Event Viewer

3

A Windows computer locks with a stop error during startup then automatically reboots. The rebooting is making it difficult to see any error messages. What can be done so that the error messages can be viewed?

Use the Event Log and other diagnostic utilities to research the stop error messages.

View the error messages and recover the system using the System Image Recovery tool.

In Safe Mode use the Advanced Startup Options menu to disable the auto restart function.

Use the Last Known Good Configuration option to restart the operating system.

4

What are two functions of an operating system? (Choose two.)

web browsing

controlling the BIOS

controlling hardware access

managing application s

flow chart editing

program compilation

text processing

5

What two terms can be used to describe the Windows Virtual PC? (Choose two.)

system resource management

server consolidation

hypervisor

Virtual Machine Manager

operating system sharing

6

A technician has loaded an incorrect video driver on a Windows 7 computer. How can the technician revert to a previous driver?

Select the video adapter card Properties in Device Manager, select the Driver tab, and click Roll Back Driver.

Use the Devices and Printers control panel to right-click on the monitor, and select Properties.Select Roll Back Driver.

Select Create a Restore Point from System Tools.

Use regedit to remove the information about the graphics driver from the registry.

7

Which two Windows utilities can be used to help maintain hard disks on computers that have had long periods of normal use? (Choose two.)

Disk Cleanup

Disk Format

Disk Maintenance

Disk Partition

Disk Defragmenter

8

Which command is used from the Windows command prompt to schedule a program to run at a specific time?

TASKKILL

AT

CMD

TASKLIST

9

A user notices that some of the programs that are installed before upgrading to Windows 7 no longer function properly after the upgrade. What can the user do to fix this problem?

Run the programs in Compatibility Mode.

Lower the UAC setting in the Change User Account Control settings dialog box of the User Accounts control.

Use the System Restore utility.

Update the driver for the graphics card.

10

A technician notices that a program that is listed in the registry of a Windows computer is not found on that computer. What is a possible solution to the problem?

Restore the ntdetect.com file from the installation media.

Run fdisk /mbr from the command prompt.

Restore the boot.ini file from the installation media.

Reinstall the application. Then, run the uninstall program.

11

Which Windows 7 feature allows a user to view the contents of the desktop by moving the mouse to the right edge of the taskbar?

thumbnail previews

Search

jump lists

Shake

Snap

Aero Peek

12

A computer with the Windows 7 operating system fails to boot when the system is powered on. The technician suspects that the operating system has been attacked by a virus that rendered the system inoperable. What measure could be taken to restore system functionality?

Run chkdsk on the affected drive to restore system files to their post-installation state.

Use an incremental backup to restore the system.

Use a system image that was created prior to the failure to restore the system.

Use a differential backup to restore the system.

13

After upgrading a computer to Windows 7, a user notices that the UAC (User Account Control) panel appears more frequently. How can the user reduce the frequency with which the UAC appears?

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