International Academy of Design & Technology

IT IT110

Chapter 11

REVIEWING THE BASICS

1)Name the five versions of Windows XP.

2. When installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 on a notebook computer, why is it important to use an AC adapter rather than a battery during the installation?

3. When you are trying to determine if your Windows 2000 computer can support Windows XP, list the steps to know how much RAM is currently installed.

4. Which version of Windows XP must be installed on a system that is using the Intel Itanium processor? Why?

5. How many processors in a system can Windows XP support?

6. How much free space on a partition does Windows XP require for installation? How much does it require for acceptable operation?

7. How much memory is required to install Windows XP? How much is recommended to run applications under Windows XP?

8. How long do you have to activate Windows XP? What happens if you don’t?

9. What is the first Microsoft product to use product activation?

10. What is the path for the report file created when you run the Windows XP Readiness Analyzer?

11. What is the difference between joining a workgroup and joining a domain?

12. What layer of Windows 2000/XP is most responsible for interacting with hardware?

13. What is one reason that interaction with hardware is limited to only one or two components of Windows 2000/XP?
14. What are the two modes of the Windows 2000/XP architecture?

15. Which of these two modes contains the NTVDM?

16. What is the name of the folder on the Windows 2000/XP CD where the installation files are stored?

17. Before you install Windows 2000/XP, how can you determine if the OS supports all the hardware on your PC?
18. What is one reason to use a clean install rather than an upgrade when migrating from Windows 98 to Windows 2000?

19. What file systems does Windows 98 support? Windows XP?

20. What is the file system that is common to DOS, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP?

21. Windows 2000 assumes a BIOS manufactured after what date is a good BIOS?

22. Which of the two Windows 2000 setup programs is a 32-bit program? A 16-bit program?

23. Windows XP is installed using a system partition and a boot partition. Which of these partitions must be the active partition of the hard drive?

24. In a Windows 2000/XP workgroup, where is access to an individual workstation on the network controlled?

25. In a Windows 2000/XP domain, where is access to an individual workstation on the network controlled?
26. What is required before Windows 2000/XP can provide full power management functionality?

27. Name three manufacturers responsible for the initial development of ACPI.
28. If you are installing Windows 2000 on a new hard drive and your system cannot boot from a CD, how do you begin the installation?

29. If you install Windows 2000 on an 8-GB hard drive, use a single partition for the drive, and choose not to use the NTFS file system, what file system will Windows 2000 automatically use?

30. What is the command to create a set of Windows 2000 boot disks?

31. If your BIOS is not ACPI-compliant, what should you do before you install Windows 2000?

32. If an administrator is concerned about security on a system, which file system is appropriate?

33. Can you perform an upgrade of Windows 2000 from a remote computer on the network?

Explain your answer.

THINKING CRITICALLY

1. You are planning an upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Your system uses a modem card that you don’t find listed on the Microsoft Windows XP list of compatible devices. What do you do next?

1. Abandon the upgrade and continue to use Windows 98.

2. Check the Web site of the modem manufacturer for a Windows XP driver.

3. Buy a new modem card.