Exam 6: Other Operating Systems and Technologies

A customer calls you because he is running a large spreadsheet on his system and it is running unusually slow. He wants you to try to get his system moving faster again. Which Windows XP utility will give you a quick look at the performance of this system?

Which of the following actions should you take if you do not want your router to broadcast the name of your network?

You are troubleshooting a network problem and would like to know if a machine is able to contact the server. Which of the following TCP/IP utilities will allow you to find this information?

You discover that a WinXP computer has been corrupted by a virus on the boot block. Which of the following steps could you take to repair the machine? Choose two.

Can a 64-bit network card be used on a 32-bit PCI slot?

Which of the following devices is capable of providing infrastructure security and is used for packet filtering?

David has just installed a second IDE slave hard drive on the primary controller on his Windows XP system. However, he cannot find the hard drive when he clicks the My Computer icon. What could be the possible cause of this problem?

Which of the following tools can be run from the command line in Windows 7 to help repair startup issues?

Which of the following distinguishes a Firewire port from a USB port? (Choose all that apply.)

Overnight the DHCP server went down. The server provides dynamic IP address for the computers in the office network (using the IPv4 standard). You have the server backup but not all of the computers can connect to the network. What command/commands do you use to reconnect the computers to the server and obtain an IP address?

A new sales representative needs to transfer data from her Bluetooth PDA to her laptop, but the laptop is not able to connect to Bluetooth. What are two possible options to solve this problem?

David wants to use a media format that can store personal information and is difficult to copy or counterfeit. Which of the following devices should he use?

What does a red X next to a device in the Device Manager imply?

A customer wants to install a Blu-ray drive for watching movies. What is the required prerequisite to use a Blu-ray drive?

A user wants to change the printer settings on his Win XP computer from letter size to legal size prints. Where can you make these changes?

You are working as a network administrator in your organization. A user complains that he is not able to print to a network printer attached to the network. When you try to ping the printer with an IP address it gives a successful reply but the host name ping fails. What could be the most likely cause?

You need to make some adjustments to the User Account Control settings on a Windows 7 computer. You open Control Panel in Large Icons view and open User accounts. Of the following, which can you modify?

An employee shows you a crack about a half inch long next to the touchpad on his laptop. The laptop works fine and doesn't appear to have internal damage. What can you do to repair the problem? Choose all that apply.

"NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart" is the message you receive after rebooting a Windows Vista machine. You just performed a routine RAM upgrade and it is now likely the Ntldr file has been damaged or corrupted. You flash the BIOS to make sure it is the latest version for the motherboard. What option do you have to fix this problem?

Which of these utilities can be used to find the number of hops a packet takes from the source to the destination?