Deck 11: Network Operating System Fundamentals

Question 1

What is a partial copy of a VM that is used to restore it to a previous state?

A) snapshot
B) clone
C) hypervisor
D) host computer

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What directory service protocol is used by Active Directory and also supported by Linux?

A) NFS
B) NIS
C) LDAP
D) LEAP

Answer 2

C

Question 3

One critical difference between a client OS and a server OS is the addition of directory services on some server OSs.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What is the native file-sharing protocol in Linux?

A) SMB
B) NFS
C) NSF
D) SMP

Question 5

Windows Server 2012 can be installed on a 32-bit system.

Question 6

Which of the following is a function typically provided by the centralized management of a server-based network? (Choose all that apply.)

A) account management
B) user authentication
C) security policy management
D) application development

Question 7

Virtualization is designed for testing and development purposes only.

Question 8

What type of multitasking did older OSs use,which allowed a process to monopolize the CPU's time until the process had completed its own task?

A) contextual
B) cooperative
C) preemptive
D) precocious

Question 9

Which Windows Server 2012 license provides unlimited virtual instances of the OS?

A) Foundation Edition
B) Standard Edition
C) Enterprise Edition
D) Datacenter Edition

Question 10

What method does the CPU use to divide its computing cycles between more than one process?

A) context switching
B) process switching
C) time slicing
D) thread slicing

Question 11

You are testing out a new DHCP server and want to make sure that it does not interfere with your current network.What option would you use to configure your network adapter using VMware workstation?

A) NAT
B) bridged
C) host-only
D) internal

Question 12

What is the process called that grants or denies a user's access to network resources?

A) authentication
B) acceptance
C) authorization
D) admission

Question 13

When a disk is formatted,it is impossible to recover the data that was on the disk.

Question 14

Which common e-mail protocol allows the user to access messages,yet still have them stored on the server?

A) SMTP
B) IMAP
C) POP3
D) SNMP

Question 15

Which part of the OS provides users and applications with an interface to manipulate files?

A) kernel
B) services
C) processes
D) file system

Question 16

What are the chunks called into which the available storage space on a disk drive is broken?

A) bytes
B) sectors
C) bits
D) segments

Question 17

In Windows,you use Task Manager to view the processes running on your computer.What do you use to view the running processes on some Linux systems?

A) resource monitor
B) terminal manager
C) performance manager
D) system monitor

Question 18

In Windows,you can start the Task Manager by simply right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Question 19

Which of the following virtualization products uses a type 2 hypervisor?

A) Citrix XenServer
B) VMware vSphere
C) Microsoft Hyper-V
D) VMware Workstation

Question 20

What storage solution involves a third-party company that provides off-site hosting of data?

A) network-attached storage
B) cloud-based storage
C) network accessed appliance
D) storage area network

Question 21

What is live migration with respect to OS virtualization?

Question 22

A ____________ file is simply a text file that contains a list of commands that you would normally enter in a command prompt.

Question 23

What is a server cluster and what is the difference between a failover cluster and a load-balancing cluster?

Question 24

How do you map a shared folder using the command prompt? Provide an example of mapping a drive letter H: to a share named myshare on a server named myserver.

Question 25

What is a hypervisor?

Question 26

Which of the following file systems supports file and folder permissions? (Choose all that apply.)

A) EXT3
B) FAT16
C) FAT32
D) NTFS
E) DOS

Question 27

What is a domain controller?

Question 28

Which of the following is a fault tolerant feature provided by a server OS? (Choose all that apply.)

A) RAID
B) resolver cache
C) SMTP client
D) server cluster
E) hot-swappable devices

Question 29

What is a hot-swappable device?

Question 30

A device that has no directly attached user interfaces and comes with specialized software designed to perform a specific task is called a network ____________.

Question 31

What are the two most common ways of accessing a network resource? (Choose two.)

A) entering an ARP path
B) mapping a drive
C) entering a SMB path
D) entering a UNC path

Question 32

With ___________ multitasking,either the user or the OS can terminate a process that is monopolizing the CPU's time.

Question 33

Which component of a file-sharing client intercepts requests for resources and determines if the resource is local or remote?

A) default gateway
B) resolver
C) UNC path
D) redirector

Question 34

Compare and contrast hosted virtualization versus bare-metal virtualization.

Question 35

What is the System Idle process,and what does its value mean?

Question 36

If you store mainly large files on a disk,should you use a smaller cluster size or larger cluster size? Why?

Question 37

What is a storage area network and why might you use one?

Question 38

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
the process of granting or denying access to a user

Question 39

When a user enters his username and password to log on to a machine,he is invoking the process of ____________.

Question 40

A ____________ is a program that runs in the background and provides support for other processes.

Question 41

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
a high-speed network storage solution for replacing locally attached drives on servers

Question 42

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
a program that is loaded into memory

Question 43

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
two or more threads being executed simultaneously

Question 44

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
runs in the background

Question 45

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
partial copy of a virtual machine

Question 46

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
identifying who has access to network

Question 47

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
files stored on the host computer that represent a virtual machine's hard disk

Question 48

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
smallest unit of software that can be scheduled

Question 49

Match each item with a statement below.a.authorization
b.authentication
c.multiprocessing
d.thread
e.process
f.service
g.NAS
h.SAN
i.snapshot
j.virtual disk
a dedicated server device designed solely for providing shared storage for network users