UGRD-CS6206 Principles of Operating

Systems and Its Applications

(All Quizzes, Lab & Exams)

By: DARKX

Which of the following is not the common network architecture types?

ANSWER: WiMax

Which of the following is not a Wireless LAN Standards?

ANSWER: 802.11 h

It is a group of services hosted on a network which is a private structure and has the internet-
like service provision.

ANSWER: Intranet

It is a device that provides wiring concentrator functionality like a hub but it also enables
network traffic management, performs firewall functions and makes routing decisions based
upon traffic priority.

ANSWER: Switch

It is a device that converts instructions from the network protocol stack into electric signals.

ANSWER: Network Adapter

Which of the following is not a Physical WAN Components?

ANSWER: Network Adapter

Which of the following is not a LAN Physical Topology?

ANSWER: Crown

It is the most common form of computer network.

ANSWER: Local Area Network

It enables you to manage network traffic, group physically dispersed nodes into logical area
networks and isolate network traffic.

ANSWER: Virtual Local Area Network

What is the IEEE 802 Standards for Local Wireless Networks?

ANSWER: IEEE 802.11

It is the foundation of the Internet naming scheme and it supports accessing resources by using
alphanumeric names.

ANSWER: DNS Server

It reduces the complexity and amount of administrative work by using automatic TCP/IP
configuration.

ANSWER: DHCP Server

Which of the following is not a Server Role of Windows Server 2008 R2?

ANSWER: Windows Power Shell

It a server that is used to access the corporate resources from outside the corporate network.

ANSWER: Remote Access Server

It holds a copy of AD DS and responds to request for active directory information.

ANSWER: Domain Controller

It is a computer that is dedicated to running network-aware application software.

ANSWER: Application Server

It provides storage for the users' files and share folders that contain users' files.

ANSWER: File Server

It allows you to control which role functionality is installed and enabled.

ANSWER: Role Services

It is one of the Options for Installing Windows 7 where in you install Windows 7 on a new
partition and replace an existing operating system on a partition.

ANSWER: Clean Installation

It is a downloadable application that helps windows user identify which edition of Windows
7 meets their needs.

ANSWER: Windows Upgrade Advisor

Which of the following is not an advantage of installing a 64-bit edition of Windows 7?

ANSWER: It supports 16-bit Windows on Windows (WOW) environment

It is one of the Considerations on why using the option of Upgrade rather than Migrate.

ANSWER: Does not require the reinstallation of applications

Which of the following version of Windows are allowed for Upgrade?

ANSWER: Windows Vista SP1

It is a tool used to remove system-specific data from the Windows operating system,
configure windows to start in audit mode, configure the windows operating system to start
the Windows Welcome phase and reset Windows Product activation.

ANSWER: Sysprep

This are point-to-point connection across a private or public network. It uses special
protocols, called tunneling protocol to make a virtual call to a virtual port.

ANSWER: Virtual Private Network

It is a method of turning a computer on or off wherein the system state is saved to memory.

ANSWER: Sleep or Standby

It provides transparent access to internal network resources whenever they are connected to
the Internet. It also enables the IT Professionals to manage remote computers outside of the
office and does not require a VPN connection.

ANSWER: DirectAccess

It is a windows 7 feature that enables support staff to connect to a remote desktop

computer.

ANSWER: Remote Assistance

It is one of the Options for Installing Windows 7 where in you replace an existing version of
Windows with Windows 7 but all user applications, files and settings are retained.

ANSWER: Upgrade Installation

Which of the following is not a Specialized version of Windows 7?

ANSWER: Windows 7 Professional

It is one of the Key Features of Windows 7 that simplify a user's ability to organize, search
for, and view information.

ANSWER: Usability

It is one of the Key Features of Windows 7 that takes advantage of modern computing
hardware, running more reliably and providing more consistent performance than previous
versions of Windows.

ANSWER: Reliability and Performance

Which of the following is not a Physical WAN Components?

ANSWER: Network Adapter

It is one of the features of Mobile Computers wherein it synchronizes various content

including music, video, contacts, calendar events, web browser favorites and other files
between Windows Mobile devices and Windows 7

ANSWER: Windows Mobile Device Center

It caches content from remote and web servers in the branch location so users can quickly
access the content. This cache can be hosted centrally in the branch location or distributed
across user PCs.

ANSWER: BranchCache
This Power plan saves power on a mobile computer by reducing system performance. Its
primary purpose is to maximize the battery life.

ANSWER: Power Saver

It is a windows 7 feature that enables user to connect to their desktop computer from
another device.

ANSWER: Remote Desktop

You are the network manager for a small company. You have a junior IT administrator who
did some installations last week on a Windows 7 machine. How can you see what
applications were installed last week on the Windows 7 machine?

ANSWER: View the informational events of Reliability Monitor

You are a desktop administrator for an enterprise organization. A user applies a device
update from the manufacturer, and now the computer is displaying error messages. The
user has critical documents on the computer that need to be preserved. You need to restore
the computer to an operating state and preserve applications and data. What should you
do?

ANSWER: Restore Windows by using the most recent System Restore point

Alexandria is the payroll manager and stores critical file on her local drive for added security
on her Windows 7 computer. She wants to ensure that she is using the disk configuration
with the most fault tolerance and the highest level of consistent availability. Which of the
following provisions should she use?

ANSWER: Mirrored volumes

You are the system administrator for your company. You are configuring the services on a
Windows 7 computer. You want to ensure that if a service fails to load, it will attempt to
restart. Which tab of the service`s Properties dialog box should you use?

ANSWER: Recovery

You are the network administrator for Stellacon Corporation. User in the sales department
have been complaining that the Sales application is slow to load. Using Performance
Monitor, you create a baseline report for one of the computers, monitoring memory, the
processor, the disk subsystem, and the network subsystem. You notice that the disk
subsystem has a high load of activity. What other subsystem should you monitor before you
can know for sure whether you have a disk subsystem bottleneck?

ANSWER: Memory

It enables users to log on to the domain to gain access to the network resources and it is
reside in Active Directory.

ANSWER: Domain User Accounts

It is a dynamic volume that encompasses available free-space from single, dynamic, hard
disk drive.

ANSWER: Simple Volume

It contains the partition table for the disk and a small amount of executable code called as
the master boot code.

ANSWER: Master Boot Record Disk

It is a collection of user accounts, computer accounts, contacts and other groups that you
can manage as a single unit.

ANSWER: Groups
It enables IT Administrator to automate one-to-many management of users and computers.

ANSWER: Group Policy

It is a graphical user interface that is used to manage disks and volumes both basic and
dynamic, locally or on remote computers.

ANSWER: Disk Management

It is the non-contiguous storage of data on a volume

ANSWER: Disk Fragmentation

It is a collection of Domain Trees.

ANSWER: Forest

It is an object that contains all of the information that defines a user in Windows Server
2008 R2.

ANSWER: User Account

Which of the following is a main type of group?

ANSWER: Distribution

It is a dynamic volume that encompasses available free-space from single, dynamic, hard
disk drive.

ANSWER: Simple Volume

It contains an array of partition entries describing the start and end LBA of each partition on
disk.

ANSWER: GUID Partition (GPT)

It is a scriptable command line utility that create scripts to automate disk related task.

ANSWER: Diskpart

It is a dynamic volume that joins areas of unallocated space disks into a single logical disk

ANSWER: Spanned Volume

It enables the user to log on and access resources on a specific computer and usually reside
in SAM.

ANSWER: Local User Accounts

It is the process of verifying the identity of something or someone.

ANSWER: Authentication

It is the process of determining whether something or someone has permission to access

the resources

ANSWER: Authorization

It is a Windows Authentication Method that is used by windows 7 clients and server running
Microsoft Windows Server 2000 or later

ANSWER: Kerberos v5

It defines the type of access granted to a user, group, or computer for a file or folder.

ANSWER: NTFS Permission

It is a new authentication features that controls the ability of online IDs to authenticate to a
computer.

ANSWER: Online Identity Integration

The operating system maintains a ______ table that keeps track of how many frames have
been allocated, how many are there, and how many are available.

ANSWER: frame

How many bits are there in an IP version 6 address?

ANSWER: 128 bits

It is one of the Options for Installing Windows 7 where in you install Windows 7 on a new
partition and replace an existing operating system on a partition.

ANSWER: Clean Installation

It is a downloadable application that helps windows user identify which edition of Windows
7 meets their needs.

ANSWER: Windows Upgrade Advisor

It is one of the Options for Installing Windows 7 where in you replace an existing version of
Windows with Windows 7 but all user applications, files and settings are retained.

ANSWER: Upgrade Installation

It specifies which part of an IPv4 address is the network ID and which part of the IPv4
address is the Host ID.

ANSWER: Subnet Mask

What is Dispatch latency?

ANSWER: the time to stop one process and start running another one

It is a device that converts instructions from the network protocol stack into electric signals.

ANSWER: Network Adapter

What is Response time?

ANSWER: the total time taken from the submission time till the first response is
produced

The _____ table contains the base address of each page in physical memory.

ANSWER: page

Operating System maintains the page table for ____________

ANSWER: each process

It is a type of IPv4 Address that is required by the devices and host that connect directly to
the Internet. This address must be unique, routable on the internet and must be assigned by
IANA.

ANSWER: Public IP Address

It enables you to manage network traffic, group physically dispersed nodes into logical area
networks and isolate network traffic.

ANSWER: Virtual Local Area Network

It is a device, usually a router, on a TCP/IP internet that forwards IP packets to other subnets.

ANSWER: Default Gateway 

Which of the following is not the common network architecture types?

ANSWER: WiMax

How many bits are there in an IP version 4 address?

ANSWER: 32 bits

What type of notation does IP version 6 address uses?

ANSWER: Hexadecimal

Which of the following is not a Physical WAN Components?

ANSWER: Network Adapter

Which module gives control of the CPU to the process selected by the short-term
scheduler?

ANSWER: dispatcher

Which of the following is not a LAN Physical Topology?

ANSWER: Crown

The size of a page is typically ____________

ANSWER: power of 2

It is the most common form of computer network.

ANSWER: Local Area Network

Which one of the following can not be scheduled by the kernel?

ANSWER: user level thread

It is a device that provides wiring concentrator functionality like a hub but it also enables
network traffic management, performs firewall functions and makes routing decisions based
upon traffic priority.

ANSWER: Switch

APIPA stands for:

ANSWER: Automatic Private IP Addressing

With paging there is no ________ fragmentation.

ANSWER: external

The switching of the CPU from one process or thread to another is called ____________

ANSWER: all of the mentioned

If the size of logical address space is 2 to the power of m, and a page size is 2 to the power
of n addressing units, then the high order _____ bits of a logical address designate the page
number, and the ____ low order bits designate the page offset.

ANSWER: m – n, n

Scheduling is done so as to ____________

ANSWER: increase the throughput

Scheduling is done so as to ____________

ANSWER: increase the turnaround time

Scheduling is done so as to ____________

ANSWER: decrease the waiting time

What is Turnaround time?

ANSWER: the total time from the completion till the submission of a process

Which of the following is not an IPv6 Address types?

ANSWER: Broadcast

Which of the following is not a Specialized version of Windows 7?

ANSWER: Windows 7 Professional

CPU fetches the instruction from memory according to the value of ____________

ANSWER: program counter

A process is selected from the ______ queue by the ________ scheduler, to be executed.

ANSWER: ready, short term

172.16.0.0 /12 is what type of IPv4 Address.

ANSWER: Private IP Address

What is the binary notation for the 255.255.255.0 subnet mask?

ANSWER: 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000
What is Waiting time?

ANSWER: the total time spent in the ready queue

In the following cases non – preemptive scheduling occurs?

ANSWER: When a process goes from the running state to the waiting state

Scheduling is done so as to ____________

ANSWER: increase CPU utilization

It is one of the Key Features of Windows 7 that takes advantage of modern computing
hardware, running more reliably and providing more consistent performance than previous
versions of Windows.

ANSWER: Reliability and Performance

It is a small software program that allows a hardware device to communicate with a

computer

ANSWER: Drivers

It is a type of printing wherein it is used by legacy application in pre-vista version of

windows that uses enhanced metafile format (EMF) as the spool file format.

ANSWER: GDI based printing

It is the measurement on how quickly the computer completes a task.

ANSWER: Performance
It is the measurement of how a system conforms to expected behavior

ANSWER: Reliability

Which of the following is not a Performance Monitor tool?

ANSWER: Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool

It provides assistance in resolving network-related issues

ANSWER: Windows Network Diagnostics Tool

Which of the following is not a Boot-option for troubleshooting startup problems?

ANSWER: None of the choices

It is the built-in encryption tool for Windows file systems

ANSWER: Encrypting File Systems

It is a new Windows 7 security feature that enables IT professionals to specify exactly what is
allowed to run on user desktops.

ANSWER: Applocker

It is a security feature that simplifies the ability of users to run as standard users and
perform all neccessary daily tasks

ANSWER: User Account Control

It allows the administrators to identify which software is allowed to run and was initially
added to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

ANSWER: Software Restriction Policies

This are equivalents to door locks, employee badges and security systems. It protects the
computer and networks from intrusions.

ANSWER: Firewall

You are the system administrator for a large organization that uses Windows Server R2 and
Windows 7. You have a Windows 7 machine and have enabled System Protection. You want
the machine to retain only the last System Protection snapshot that was taken. What should
you do?

ANSWER: Run Disk Cleanup for System Restore and then run Shadow Copies

You are the network administrator for a large organization that uses both Windows Server
2008 R2 and Windows 7. One of the Windows 7 machines needs to be backed up daily. You
perform an image backup on the Windows 7 machine. The Windows 7 machine then gets
struck by a virus and will not start up properly. What can you do to get the Windows 7
machine up and running the fastest possible way?

ANSWER: Start the computer from the Windows 7 DVD and then use the System
Image Recovery tool

You are the administrator for a large organization with multiple Windows Server 2008
domain controllers and multiple domains. You have a Windows 7 machine that is set up for
all users to access. You have an application called StellApp.exe that everyone on this
Windows 7 computer can use except for the sales group. How do you stop the sales group
from accessing this one application?

ANSWER: Create an executable rule from the Application Control Policy

Kayla is dissatisfied with the configuration of her keyboard and mouse. She wants to reset
the keyboard speed and the mouse pointer rate. Which utility should she use to configure
the keyboard and mouse properties?

ANSWER: Control Panel

You are evaluating the purchase a netbook computer that has the following hardware:

1.6-gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit processor

1024-MB RAM

1 video card that uses shared memory

4-G8 solid state drive

You need to ensure that you can install Windows 7 Enterprise on the netbook computer.
Which hardware component should you change or add?

ANSWER: storage device

Your company network includes desktop computers that have Windows 7 installed.
Microsoft updates are applied automatically at a scheduled time. A use1- reports that a
proprietary application has stopped working. You need to uninstall the most recent update
from Microsoft. What should you do first?

ANSWER: From the Action Center, open the Windows Update window.

You manage a network device by using a web interface. You perform all critical Windows
updates so that the computer now runs Internet Explorer 10. After performing these
updates, the layout of the network device web page displays incorrectly. Other web pages
display correctly. You need to resolve this issue. What should you do?

ANSWER: Add the network device web page to the trusted sites zone

You have a computer that runs Windows 7. The computer is a member of a workgroup. You
use Encrypting File System (EFS) to protect your local files. You need to ensure that you can
decrypt EFS files on the computer if you forget your password. What should you do?

ANSWER: From User Accounts, Select Manage your file encryption certificates.
You install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows 7 on a computer
that runs Windows 7. You want to deploy a Windows image (WIM) file to other computers
in the domain. You need to capture the operating system, computer configuration, and
applications installed on the computer to a WIM file. What should you do before you
capture the image?

ANSWER: Run ScanState.exe