OS chapter 5

Question 1

Which disk partition style is the legacy standard used for accessing hard disk data?

Answer 1

MBR (Master Boot Record)

Question 2

Which Windows system utility examines systems files for damage and allows you to reinstall Windows by installing only the files that are damaged?

Answer 2

SFC (System File Checker)

Question 3

Which type of partition stores files that are used to load an operating system?

Answer 3

Primary

Question 4

What was the major PC operating system from 1981 to 1995.

Answer 4

DOS

Question 5

According to the text, which Windows operating system was focused on improving the user experience on mobile devices?

Answer 5

Windows 8

Question 6

Which of the following modes does Windows NOT operate in?

Answer 6

shell

Question 7

According to the text, which of the following components is NOT part of the Windows Core?

Kernel
Registry
User
GDI

Answer 7

Rgistry

Question 8

Select the PowerShell cmdlet below that can be used to create a new volume or partition.

Answer 8

New-Partition

Question 9

_________ volumes exist on two or more dynamic disks and they link blocks of space from multiple dynamic disks.

Answer 9

Spanned

Question 10

What controls hardware devices in Windows?

Answer 10

Device Drivers

Question 11

Which of the following file systems is NOT supported by Windows 11?

Answer 11

HPFS

Question 12

Regarding both striped and spanned volumes, which of the following is the maximum number of physical disks permitted to create a volume?

Answer 12

32

Question 13

Which file system is able to utilize the Encrypting File System (EFS)?

Answer 13

NTFS

Question 14

According to the text, how much physical memory is supported by the 64-bit version of Windows XP?

Answer 14

16 GB

Question 15

According to the text, Windows 2000’s architecture is divided into which two modes?

Answer 15

user and kernel

Question 16

On a dynamic disk, the most common type of volume is a ________ volume

Answer 16

simple

Question 17

__________ are logical drives for storing data and other user files.

Answer 17

Storage spaces

Question 18

Which file system is used by Windows NT that supports file and directory security?

Answer 18

NTFS

Question 19

Win 9x for the most part uses ______________, where each competing process gets a slice of time for a predetermined amount of time.

Answer 19

preemptive multitasking

Question 20

Which Windows mode is used for running 32-bit applications?

Answer 20

protected

Question 21

What modes did Windows 95 operate in?

Answer 21

Protected, Real, Virtual 8088

Question 22

What is protected mode used for?

Answer 22

Running 32 bit applications.

Question 23

What is real mode used for?

Answer 23

It provides backwards compatibility for Windows 3.1 programs.

Question 24

Which disk virtualization technology in Windows enables a computer to concatenate storage space from individual physical disks?

Answer 24

Storage Spaces

Question 25

Which of the following statements identifies the difference between striped and spanned volumes?

Answer 25

With striped volumes, the system writes data equally across all disks in the volume at the same time.

Question 26

What makes up the Windows Core?

Answer 26

The user, the graphic device interface, and the kernel.

Question 27

What does the GDI (Graphic Device Interface) do?

Answer 27

handles screen drawing and printing. The screen or printer display what is to the GDI a graphic image

Question 28

What does the kernel do?

Answer 28

The kernel handles basic operating system tasks such as file I/O, task scheduling, virtual memory management, and exception (error) handling.

Question 29

How does the core communicate with the drivers?

Answer 29

via the Virtual Memory Manager (VMM), Installable File System (IFS), and the Configuration Manager (CM)