Test 1

Question 1

What Operating System is produced by Microsoft?

Answer 1

Windows

Question 2

What OS has a penguin for its main mascot?

Answer 2

Linux

Question 3

What OS is represented by this “little devil”?

Answer 3

BSD

Question 4

This is the “last version” of Win10 that will be released - the last Feature Update

Answer 4

Windows 10 22H2

Question 5

What is the common name used for the current most popular PC 64-bit architecture?

Answer 5

X-64

Question 6

What is the common name used for the original 32-bit PC architecture?

Answer 6

X-86

Question 7

If you are running a 32-bit OS, you are only able to address this amount of RAM

Answer 7

4GB

Question 8

What newer architecture are Apple’s M branded processors based off from?

Answer 8

Arm

Question 9

With the advent of this OS version, Microsoft did away with 32-bit support on the server platform

Answer 9

Windows Server 2008 R2

Question 10

This system can help you track requests and justift staffing needs

Answer 10

Ticketing system

Question 11

Using this general process, one can make sure that all hosts are started in the same state and save time watching scroll bars

Answer 11

Imaging

Question 12

This can help you save you time and free you up for major tasks by handling approx. 80% of requests that come in

Answer 12

Shield

Question 13

When buying a UPS, make sure to check the …

Answer 13

Socket type

Question 14

When is Sys Admin day?

Answer 14

Last Friday in July

Question 15

This is the two letter acronym used to refer to an OS that runs on top of another OS, virtually

Answer 15

VM

Question 16

This is what POST stands for

Answer 16

Power On Self Test

Question 17

This virtual hard disk file takes up only as much space as what is stored on it, making it 150GB wont immediately take up 150 GB of hard drive space

Answer 17

Dynamic VHD

Question 18

This software is embedded in hardware and tells it the parameters within which it should operate

Answer 18

Firmware

Question 19

This is a piece of software [held in ROM] that is responsible for the POST behavior of a system

Answer 19

BIOS or UEFI

Question 20

What term refers to when a company will no longer support its software?

Answer 20

End of Life [EoL]

Question 21

Win10 “Service Packs” are actually called this, generically

Answer 21

Feature Updates

Question 22

This type of license is required for connecting to Windows Servers on a network, even if you are running an alternative OS like Linux

Answer 22

Client Access License [CAL]

Question 23

What is the name of the latest Win11 Feature Update that has been released?

Answer 23

Windows 11 23H2

Question 24

In Microsoft terminology, this is when Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for a product, but no longer provides new features for it

Answer 24

End of “Main Stream” Support

Question 25

Hyper-V is Microsoft's version of this type of OS with virtualization built into its kernel

Answer 25

Hypervisor

Question 26

This is volatile memory that, if power is lost, the contents of that memory is lost

Answer 26

RAM

Question 27

When adding a pre-built feature set to a Windows serverm you are adding one of these. Under manager, it lists it as add _____ and Features

Answer 27

Roles

Question 28

This term refers to a logical grouping of computers that have user and computer accounts centrally managed by a directory server

Answer 28

Domain

Question 29

This is the general term for a server that is part of a domain, but not a domain controller

Answer 29

Member Server

Question 30

This Windows Filesystem was introduced with Windows NT

Answer 30

NTFS

Question 31

This older filesystem started with DOS, but newer revisions are still used today

Answer 31

FAT

Question 32

This filesystem is the current, default for most Linux distributions.

Answer 32

EXT-4

Question 33

This filesystem includes on-the-fly defragmentation of files less than 20 MB.

Answer 33

HFS+

Question 34

This is Samsung’s proprietary filesystem they developed for Android devices.

Answer 34

RFS

Question 35

What is the name of the window that automatically pops up when first logging onto a Windows Server?

Answer 35

Server Manager

Question 36

What file type is used to store the complete contents of installation media?

Answer 36

ISO

Question 37

This is the command that you can run from the command prompt to test your network connectivity.

Answer 37

Ping

Question 38

Name 2 things that should be included in the metadata section of your documentation?

Answer 38

Authors name, contact information, edit date, and revision history

Question 39

What essential service is tied tightly to Active Directory so you can resolve member server names as well as the domain controller?

Answer 39

DNS

Question 40

This is the approach you should take when testing/deploying patches on your network.

Answer 40

One, some, many

Question 41

What state is a workstation in once it is in the user’s hands?

Answer 41

Unknown

Question 42

This term refers to the combination of a physical hardware offering and a particular operating system installed on it.

Answer 42

Platform

Question 43

This Windows command can be used to prepare the OS to have an image captured from it.

Answer 43

sysprep.exe

Question 44

You can use this powershell commandlet to obtain information about a particular user account or group of user accounts.

Answer 44

Get-ADUser

Question 45

This OS now has the largest market share with over 40% of web clients running it.

Answer 45

Android

Question 46

This is the largest file size that can be stored on a FAT-32 formatted volume.

Answer 46

4GB

Question 47

This is how many virtual machines you are licensed for on a Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition install.

Answer 47

Windows Server 2016/2019 Datacenter Edition are licensed in this way

Question 48

What day does Microsoft plan on for releasing its regularly scheduled security patches each month – I want the name and the actual day it happens.

Answer 48

Patch Tuesday – second Tuesday of the month

Question 49

This is the most core component of an OS, allowing it to boot and function.

Answer 49

Kernel

Question 50

This is the key combination that sends Ctrl, Alt, Delete to the virtual machine.

Answer 50

Ctrl Alt End

Question 51

This is the name for Microsoft’s virtualization platform “in the cloud”.

Answer 51

Azure

Question 52

This term refers to a specific flavor of Linux

Answer 52

Distribution

Question 53

What major chip requirement did Windows 11 add?

Answer 53

TPM

Question 54

This web based documentation repository can work well for a knowledgebase for your organization, containing features like search and versioning.

Answer 54

Wiki

Question 55

This term refers to imaging many systems on your network all at once, it bombards all ports on that network segment with imaging data and can slow down other traffic if performed on the general network.

Answer 55

Multicast

Question 56

This is Microsoft’s “next-gen” filesystem that offers features like storage pooling and storage virtualization

Answer 56

ReFS

Question 57

This is the largest FAT-32 partition that Windows will allow you to create; other OSes will let you create larger ones.

Answer 57

32GB

Question 58

Name 2 of the 3 features that the NTFS filesystem brought to Windows OSes.

Answer 58

File permissions, disk quotas, and encryption