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Question 1

What do we call booting from a network ?

Answer 1

PXE booting (Pre executionable enviroment)

Question 2

What is PXE ?

Answer 2

Pre executionable enviroment, booting from a network.

Question 3

What is a recovery partition used for ?

Answer 3

If your Windows installation becomes corrupted, you can use the recovery partition to restore Windows back to its original state.

Question 4

When would an image deployment be useful adn why ?

Answer 4

Enterprise. Many computer, so you can use an install proccess copy or image on multiple devices and automate the proccess.

Question 5

What do we call the division of logical drives on a physical disk ?

Answer 5

Partitions

Question 6

Where can you find an operating system’s boot files ?

Answer 6

Primary partition

Question 7

What does an MBR do ?

Answer 7

Identifies where the operating
system’s boot files are located and boots the computer.

Question 8

What supports MBR and GUID ?

Answer 8

MBR BIOS
GUID UEFI

Question 9

Difference between MBR and GUID ?

Answer 9

GUID has theoretical unlimited size

Question 10

Difference between quick format and full format ?

Answer 10

Full format is a complete wipe. Writing all zeros to the disk. Data uncrecoverable.
Quick format data is recoverable

Question 11

What command is used to Fully format a disk ?

Answer 11

Diskpart

Question 12

What must be used for partitions greater than 2TB ?

Answer 12

GUID partition table

Question 13

What is a repair installation ?

Answer 13

Reinstall the operating system without losing
personal data files, application settings, or applications you’ve installed

Question 14

What is the stub OS that’s used to boot a PC over a network ?

Answer 14

Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE)

Question 15

Which installation type should you choose if you want a clean installation of Windows?

Answer 15

Custom

Question 16

What is the name of the pass that detects hardware and installs drivers?

Answer 16

Generalize

Question 17

What is the name of the pass where the operating system is configured during setup ?

Answer 17

Specialization

Question 18

What is the name of the pass that starts the procedure of installing the operating system ?

Answer 18

WinPE

Question 19

Which partition contains the recovery utility in the event of a problem?

Answer 19

WinRE partition

Question 20

What is located on the system partition ?

Answer 20

The Kernel of the OS

Question 21

Which tool is used to create an operating system image for deployment?

Answer 21

Windows Deployment Service (WDS)

Question 22

What is the old way windows updates were labelled ?

Answer 22

Windows X Version YYMM

Question 23

What is the new way windows updates are labelled ?

Answer 23

Windows X Version YY01(02)
Where 01 designates the first release usually spring and
02 designates the secons release usually Autumn.

Question 24

Which command will allow you to check a volume for corruption?

Answer 24

Chkdsk

Question 25

What is the name of the pass that configures and creates the user environment during the setup process?

Answer 25

Out of box experience.

Question 26

When installing Windows, you can control telemetry data. In which step during setup is this configured?

Answer 26

Privacy settings

Question 27

Where is the Boot Configuration Data stored on a Windows installation utilizing EFI?

Answer 27

EFI System Partition

Question 28

What is a partition ?

Answer 28

A place where you define such things as OS's, swap files and recovery partitions.

Question 29

In windows how do partitions manifest ?

Answer 29

A drive letters e.g. C: D: etc

Question 30

In linux and Mac OSX, how do partitions manifest ?

Answer 30

As folders.

Question 31

What is an extended partition wrt to MBR ?

Answer 31

MBR has a limit of 4 partitions. We extend the 4th "Space" and inside that space continue partitioning.

Question 32

What do we call the drives within a extended partition ?

Answer 32

Logical drives.

Question 33

How many volumes will GPT allow for on a partition ?

Answer 33

128

Question 34

You are partitioning a 1 TB hard drive on a new workstation. The hard disk has been partitioned into four different partitions with 100 GB, 150 GB, 250 GB, and 500 GB. How many different file system types could you support on this 1 TB hard drive?

Answer 34

4 N partitions = N files systems

Question 35

Which type of installation would require an answer file to install the operating system?

Answer 35

uUattended installation

Question 36

When using an MBR, which of the following types of partitions can only have up to four partitions?

Answer 36

Primary

Question 37

What is required for a OS deployment install ?

Answer 37

Windows Deployment service.

Question 38

MBR size limitations ?

Answer 38

2.2TB limit

Question 39

Guid partition table partition limit ?

Answer 39

128 partitions.