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Windows Final Exam

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

You are installing Windows 7 onto a computer currently running Windows XP. Which of the following are options you have with this type of installation?
a.
Clean Install
c.
Upgrade
b.
Pure Install
d.
Both A and C
 

 2. 

What are some of the advantages of NTFS over FAT32?
a.
Provides greater security
c.
Can be used for Dual Boot systems
b.
Provides more space
d.
There are no advantages
 

 3. 

Which of the following are required for making a Windows XP/Windows 7 dual boot system?
a.
Two CD ROM drives, one for each OS
c.
Two partitions, one for each OS
b.
A very large hard drive
d.
A toggle switch that allows you to boot either OS
 

 4. 

When installing Windows 7 you are asked to provide a password. What account is this password for?
a.
The local administrative account
c.
A guest account
b.
A general user account
d.
All of these
 

 5. 

Which of the following statements are true regarding a Windows XP/Windows 7 dual boot system?
a.
Windows XP should be installed on an NTFS partition
c.
Windows XP should be installed first
b.
The Windows XP OS will be able to read the Windows 7 files
d.
All of these are true
 

 6. 

Which if the following is NOT a printer access level that may be assign to a user?
a.
Print
c.
Manage Documents
b.
Manage Printers
d.
All of these can be assigned.
 

 7. 

What are the two types of printers that can be installed on a computer running Windows?
a.
A local printer or network printer
c.
A color or black and white printer
b.
A laser jet or ink jet printer
d.
None of these are correct
 

 8. 

What types of files should be compressed?
a.
System files
c.
Large files that are not used often
b.
Files you use frequently
d.
All files should be compressed
 

 9. 

To compress a file you right click on the file and select
a.
Compress
c.
Copy to
b.
Properties
d.
Properties and then Advanced
 

 10. 

When looking at a folder you can tell a file is compressed by the
a.
color of the file name (if this option has been enabled)
c.
by the size of the file
b.
by the extension of the file name
d.
you cannot tell if a file is compressed
 

 11. 

Which of the following hard drive features provides fault tolerance?
a.
Striping
c.
Mirroring
b.
Spanning
d.
Formatting
 

 12. 

A computer has two 500GB hard drives installed but when you open up My Computer only one 1000GB hard drive is shown. This is the result of which of the following?
a.
Striping
c.
Mirroring
b.
Spanning
d.
Formatting
 

 13. 

A compressed file is moved to an ucompressed folder on the same hard drive. Once the file is moved to this new folder it will be
a.
Compressed
c.
Cannot tell, not enough information
b.
Uncompressed
d.
Files cannot be compressed
 

 14. 

Teachers are given disk space on a web server but the administrator wants to make sure each teacher has the same amount of space on the server. Which of the following would the administrator implement in order to accomplish this?
a.
Passwords
c.
Disk Quotas
b.
Security
d.
Disk Mirroring
 

 15. 

Which of the following tools moves files that are spread out on a hard drive and makes them contiguous?
a.
Disk Management Tool
c.
Disk Scan
b.
Disk Defragmentor
d.
FDisk
 

 16. 

What type of program is found inside other programs that contain a lot of code and once executed by the host program usually self destructs?
a.
Virus
c.
Worm
b.
Tojan Horse
d.
Retrovirus
 

 17. 

Once you have installed your antivirus program the next step would be to
a.
Perform a full system scan
c.
Perform a Windows Update
b.
Upgrade your Operating System
d.
Update your virus definitions
 

 18. 

Which of the following would NOT be part of a regular system maintenance routine?
a.
System Updates
c.
Driver Updates
b.
Virus Updates
d.
All of these should be done on a regular basis
 

 19. 

A student opens a folder and finds several of the file names are blue and some are green. What does the green color of the file name indicate
a.
the file is sick
c.
the file is compressed
b.
the file is encrypted
d.
the file is infected with a virus
 

 20. 

Which of the following access levels would allow a user to restart, cancel, pause, and resume printing of their own documents and the documents of other users?
a.
Print
c.
Manage Printers
b.
Manage Documents
d.
None of these
 

 21. 

You want to install Microsoft Internet Information Services on your computer so you go to Add/Remove Software in the control panel. What do you do next?
a.
Select Add Windows Component
c.
Select Add New Programs
b.
Select Add New Installation
d.
IIS cannot be installed on XP
 

 22. 

Which of the following tools would you use to update a driver for video card?
a.
System Restore
c.
File Permissions
b.
Backup and Recovery
d.
Device Manager
 

 23. 

Which of the following is required to create a spanned volume?
a.
Two or more hard drives
d.
Drives must be formated using NTFS
b.
Hard drives must be dynamic drives
e.
All of these are required
c.
Must have windows 2000, XP or Vista
 

 24. 

Although striping does not increase storage space it does provide
a.
increased performance, faster performance
c.
less of a chance of losing your data
b.
increased reliability
d.
All of these are correct
 

 25. 

You are in charge of backing up the data on your workgroup server. When is the best time to perform a complete backup of the data on the server?
a.
8:00 AM
c.
12 NOON
b.
8:00 PM
d.
1:00 AM
 

 26. 

A technician wants to perform 30 clean XP installations. Which of the following methods would be the fastest?
a.
A  CD installation
c.
A DVD installation
b.
An automated installation
d.
Any of these would be fast
 

 27. 

Which of the following would you use to remove spyware from your computer?
a.
Spybot Search and Destroy
c.
Norton Antivirus
b.
Windows Defender
d.
Both A and B would work
 

 28. 

You open the run screen and type MMC. Once the MMC screen opens what do you have to do next to open the specific utilities you want to use?
a.
Just launch the utility you want
c.
Add the appropriate Snap-In
b.
Click Add New Software
d.
None of these will work
 

 29. 

RAID stands for
a.
Really Awsome Intelligent Design
c.
Rapid Array In Disk
b.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
d.
Redundant Access Intel Design
 

 30. 

The System Restore utility allows users to
a.
Undo system changes to a previous time
c.
Start up a machine that would not normally startup
b.
Restore all their data files
d.
All of these are correct
 

Matching
 
 
Match the correct operating system with the type of file system used by this OS. The same answer may be used more than once.
a.
FAT 16
c.
NTFS
b.
FAT 32
d.
CDFS
 

 31. 

Windows 98
 

 32. 

Windows NT
 

 33. 

Windows XP
 

 34. 

Windows 7
 



 
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