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Desktop Administration
Quiz 2
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 1
09/21/2010

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Term
What is the first step in the boot phase?
selecting a configuration / detecting hardware / POST / boot loader
Definition
Ans: POST
Term
What is it called when a computer is functioning as an old fashioned 8088 computer?
Definition
Ans: Real
Term
XP combined the boot and recovery options of Win NT and ____?
Definition
Ans: Windows 95/98
Term
What is the 3rd step of the boot phase
Definition
Ans: Boot Loader NTldr.exe
Term
How do you cause the boot process to send detailed info on activities to a companion system?
Definition
Ans: Debugging
Term
when you open IE what page appears automatically
Definition
Ans: home page
Term
What tab of IE options dialog box is used to set the homepage?
Definition
Ans: General
pg 187
Term
You just installed IE 6, and it combines all websites into which zone
Definition
Ans: Internet
pg 190
Term
What do webites use to maintain info and settings like the personal surfing preferences.
Definition
Ans: Cookies
pg 195
Term
What's the default primary protocol for most network operating systems?
Definition
Ans: TCP/IP
pg 328
Term
Active TCP connections can be listed using what command?
Definition
Ans: NETSTAT
pg 326
Term
if IPv4 is a 32-bit address space, and IPv6 is 4 times as big, how big is the IPv6 address space?
Definition
Ans: 128
pg 333
Term
What is it you're requesting if you email an invitation script to a person requesting help over the net?
Definition
Ans: Remote Assistance
pg 333
Term
Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance use Remote Desktop Protocol which uses what port number over TCP?
Definition
Ans: 3389
pg 334
Term
Which components are permitted to access system objects and resources directly, and provide the many services and access controls that allow Multiple users and apps to coexist and interoperate efficiently?
Definition
Ans: Kernel Mode
pg 513
Term
Each time a user launches an app or starts a system utility, This is created within the environment subsystem where that app or utility must run.
Definition
Ans: Child
pg 515
Term
Section of code that modifies data structures used by many threads.
Definition
ans: Critical section
pg 519
Term
If a DOS operating environment under Win XP occurs within a Win32 process, it's called ___
Definition
Ans: ntvdm.exe
pg 522
Term
The database that provides XP which has information about a systems configuration.
Definition
Ans: Registry
pg 551
Term
The registry is a ____ database.
Definition
Ans: hierarchical
pg 551
Term
What part of a value entry informs the registry how to store the value?
Definition
Ans: data type
pg 553
Term
if you want to see the registry subkey hive related to security? What's the hive named?
Definition
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SAM (Security Accounts Manager) pg 556
Term
How do you keep people out of the registry or a registry hive?
Definition
Ans: Assign permissions to subkeys
pg 572
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