Exam 2: Modern Client and Server Operating Systems

You are reading an old case study about an application running on Windows 95. The application became unresponsive and caused the OS to freeze, prompting a restart of Windows 95. What is the most likely reason Windows 95 froze and had to be restarted?

The first 32-bit operating system developed by Microsoft was Windows 3.1.

On your Windows Server system, you want to be able to assign permissions to files based on the content of the files as well as certain properties of user accounts. What should you deploy?

In which version of Windows did Microsoft first introduce Internet Explorer?

A new client needs to tightly integrate Linux into their Windows environment. What Windows Server 2019 feature can best support this requirement?

A new member of your IT department asked when Windows 10 was first released and you tell her that it was released in July 2015. She suggests that Microsoft must not have made any big changes to their client OS since Windows 11 has not been released. Is she correct?

Which Windows Server feature, first introduced in Windows Server 2012, provides administrators with the ability to manage storage of different sizes and interfaces, creating virtual disks that can be anything from a simple volume to a fault-tolerant RAID 5?

You are running an OS that allows you to switch between tasks loaded in memory but while one task is running, the other tasks cannot run. Which OS must you be running?

Which of the following was a major change in macOS that first occurred with Snow Leopard?

Which Windows Server installation option has a very small footprint, does not support a local logon?

You have three Windows servers running a directory service. Directory changes can only be made on one of the three services, while the other two serve as read-only backups. What version of Windows must you be running?

You have been asked to sign into a Windows Server to create new user accounts for some of the company's new employees and configure security policies that will affect the new employees' client computers. What service will you use to perform these tasks?

You have been asked to test a Linux application running on Fedora Linux. You don't currently have a Fedora Linux computer available, but you do have a computer you use for testing that runs Windows Server 2016. You want to be able to test the application without uninstalling Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2016 must continue to run while you are testing the application. What can you do?

Your boss is concerned about security on your Windows Server 2019 domain controller. He would like an alert sent to an administrator and the server to be locked down if an attack is detected. What do you suggest to meet this requirement?

Which Windows 10 feature lets users better organize open applications, allowing them to switch between a set of open applications using the Windows+Ctrl+D key combination?

Windows 98 was the first Windows OS to use the Kerberos authentication protocol.

With what technique are two or more servers linked to share the server processor load?

If you suspect that a Windows problem is related to the database that stores hardware and software configuration information, which Windows component should you investigate?

Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Windows NT security model?

What operating system feature enables the OS to automatically detect newly installed hardware?