International Academy of Design & Technology

IT IT110

Chapter 13

REVIEWING THE BASICS

1)What are the two basic differences between the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard and the USMT utility?

2. What are the two commands in the USMT?

 

 

3. When is the local user profile created?

 

 

4. How are a roaming profile and a mandatory profile the same? How are they different?

5. What are two important criteria that make for a good password?

 

6. What can a user do to keep from having the administrator reset a forgotten password?

 

 

7. Which user group has more rights, Power Users or Administrators?

 

 

8. When using Group Policy on a computer in a workgroup, which type of configuration do you use?

 

9. What do you implement to control how much disk space a user can take up?

 

 

10. What is the difference between a cross-linked cluster and a lost cluster? What can cause them?
11. What Windows 2000/XP utility program checks for cross-linked and lost clusters?

 

 

12. What file system is necessary to use if a volume is to be compressed under Windows 2000?

 

13. What is the difference between an incremental backup and a differential backup?

14. What must you do before you can use the Windows Backup utility on a Windows XP Home Edition PC?

 

15. Why should you create a disaster recovery plan? What type of information would you include in it?
16. List three third-party utility programs used to support hard drives.

 

 

17. When Windows XP is first installed, what two built-in user accounts are also installed?

 

 

18. If you want to log onto a Windows XP system using the administrator account, what keys do you first press?

 

19. How do you change the way a user can log onto Windows XP?

 

20. The                  command erases files or groups of files.

 

21. What command is used to create a subdirectory? To change the current directory? To remove a subdirectory?

 

22. The                command displays or changes the read-only, archive, system, and hidden characteristics of files.

 

23. What is the command to check drive C for errors, repair these file system errors, and recover data from bad sectors?

 

24. What is the command to move data on drive C so that all clusters of a file are in contiguous locations on the drive?

 

25. What is the command to format drive D, using the NTFS file system?

 

 

THINKING CRITICALLY

 

1. Your Windows XP system locks up occasionally. What are some probable causes and solutions? Note: This question combines skills learned in this and other chapters.
   1. The hard drive has errors. Run            to correct file system errors.

 

1. 2. An application might not be compatible with Windows XP. To find out if you have applications installed that are not certified by Microsoft for Windows XP, run the        utility.
   3. The hard drive might be full. To find out, use                     .

 

1. 4. The system might have a virus. To eliminate that possibility, use                        .

 

 

2. You have an important FoxPro database stored on your hard drive. The drive has been giving bad sector errors for several weeks. You kept meaning to back up the data, but have not gotten around to it. Now you attempt to access the database and FoxPro tells you it cannot open the file. What do you try first? Second? Third?
   1. Reenter all the data and promise yourself you’ll be more faithful about backups.

 

1. 2. Use SpinRite software to attempt to recover the file.

 

1. 3. Use Chkdsk to recover data from bad sectors.

 

2. 4. Change the file extension of the database file to .txt and tell FoxPro to attempt to open the file as an ASCII text file.
3. A virus has attacked your hard drive and now when you start up Windows, instead of seeing a Windows desktop, the system freezes and you see a blue screen of death (an error message on a blue background). You have extremely important document files on the drive that you cannot afford to loose. What do you do first?

1. Try a data recovery service even though it is very expensive.b. Remove the hard drive from the computer case and install it in another computer.

c. Try GetDataBack to recover the data

 

d. Use Windows utilities to attempt to fix the Windows boot problem.