OS question



WIN XP Booting Process& Features

10. What is booting?
11. What is bootstrapping?
12. Who conduct bootstrapping?
13. What is boot loader in XP?
14. What is Kernel?
15. What is the kernel file in XP?
16. While booting which file Detect hardware?
17. What is HALL.DLL file use?
18. Which file start Graphical environment while booting?
19. What is SMSS?
20. What are the functions of SMSS while booting?
21. What is difference between COLD booting and WARM booting?
22. What is the difference between WIN 98 and XP?
23. What is mean by ‘XP’?
24. What are the different editions of Win XP?
25. What are features of Win XP?
26. How many service packs available for XP?
27. What is Service Pack?
28. What are the two logon options on the window XP?
29. To up grade Windows NT 3.x to XP pro, first it should be up graded to__?
30. What are the two files that make up USMT? 
31. How many ways we can install XP?
32.  What is meant by RIS?
33. What type of NIC required for install XP through RIS?
34. What is file name length in XP?
35. Multiple display feature of win XP supports how any monitors?
36. What is the default value of stacks?
37. What is the booting files location in Win XP?
38. What is the hard disk space required for new installation of Win XP?           
39. What is a minimum requirement for windows XP?
40. Abbreviation of VMM?

WIN VISTA Booting process & Features
41. What is the boot loader file in vista?
42. What is the kernel file vista?
43. What is the difference between Win XP and  Win VISTA?

Disk Management

44. How many permanent partitions we can create in a single harddisk?
45. Partitions how many types?
46. How many logical partitions we can create?
47. how many Extended partitions we can create/
48. What is volume?
49. How many volumes support XP? What are they?
50. What is spanned volume?
51. How to write data on the disk in spanned volume?
52. Using which tool to convert basic disk to dynamic disk?
53. What is RAID?
54. How many types RAID levels available?
55. Win XP support how many RAIDS’?
56. Win 2K3 support how many RAIDS’?
57. Win XP support how many types of disks?
58. In which edition of win XP, dynamic disks and volumes are not available?
59. What is the initial size set to page file during installation?
60. As whom, the user should log on to enable disk quota?
61. Which command line utility is used to troubleshoot volume problems?
62. In how many ways the CHKDSK utility can be used in commend line version?
63. What is the cluster size of XP?
64. How to trouble shoot volumes problems?
65. What is a paging file?
66. What is the name of the paging file created during the installation ?
67. What is the minimum value of page file?


Device Management
68. What is virtual memory?
69. What is the max size of virtual memory?
70. Which process involves verification of device drivers?
71. Automatic installation of devices without user intervention is called as?
72. Which will contain all the list of installed hardware in a pc?
73. The tool which is used troubleshoots the multimedia related issues in a pc
74. Can u merge a partition in a win XP?
75. What is disk management?
76. What is partition magic pro utility?
77. What is mapping?
78. Win XP supports what type of disk drives?
79. What are the type of partitions that can be created on new disk ?
80.  What is mean by volumes?
81. How many types of volumes are they?
82. What is simple volume?
83. What is spanned volume?
84. What is Stripped Volume?
85. How many user profiles have win2k3 server support?
86. Does win XP home edition support Dynamic disk?
87. What we have to implement Dynamic storage?
88. On check disk which parameter is used to locate & fixes errors on volume?
89. Which command line utility to troubleshoot volume problem?




Antivirus Software

90. What is anti virus software means?
91. How many types of computer viruses?
92. How many companies manufactured the anti virus software?
93. What is polymorphic virus?
94. What is macro virus?
95. What is the worm virus?
96. What is the Trojan virus?
97. What is the anti virus scanning check?

Registry Management

98. What is registry?
99. How many hives in registry?
100.  What are the tools available for repairing the registry?
101.  Which hive store all hardware configuration information?

Services Management

102.      Using which tool we can manage services?
103.      Using which service remote desktop work?
104.      What is the use of Client DNS service?
105.      What is the use of ICS service?
106.      What is the use of NETLOGON service?
107.      What is the use of NTLM service in XP?
108.      What is the use of DHCP client service?
109.      What is the use of RPC service?
110.      What is the use of Telnet service?


Local Users and groups

111.      Domain user account helps to access which resources?
112.      Group is a collection of?
113.      The different type of accounts policies are?
114.      What is logon script?
115.      Who are the built in users?
116.      What is the use of power users?
117.      What do you mean by account lockout policy?
118.      What does user a profile contain?
119.      What is a group?
120.      What is a roaming profile?
121.      What defines the action that a user can perform after logging on to win XP?
122.      What are the two built in user account in win XP?
123.      What is a logon script?
124.      What is a roaming profile?
125.      Allow multiple users to change the login off or closing any program?
126.      What are the available two types of security policy?
127.      What are the user profile provide by win XP?
128.      What is the local profile?                                                                                                 
129.      What is Roaming profile?
130.      Name the default group in coin server 2003?
131.      What is the Home folder?
132.      What is the default Local user account in win 2ks server?
133.       

File system & Files and Folder Permissions

134.      Which file system has filed level & folder level security?
135.      When file system have encrypted data?
136.      The Minimum size of the partitions has to present in FAT 16?
137.      The Maximum size of the partitions has to present in FAT 32?
138.      The Maximum size of the partitions has to present in NTFS?                  
139.      Which file system does not support dual booting?
140.      Windows XP support how many file system? What are they?
141.      File names have how many characters long?
142.      How much capacity has recycled by default each drive?
143.      The default cluster size in WIN XP professional with out NTFS file system
144.      What is major different between FAT32 and NTFS files?
145.      What is different between Fat32 and NTFS?
146.      What are the files default permissions in the XP?
147.      Using which command we can convent FAT32 to NTFS file system?
148.      Default page size in Win XP professional is?
149.      Which command is used to verify the logical integrity of file system?
150.      Default shared permission?
151.      Default shared permission of everyone group in Win XP?
152.      Default shared permission of everyone group in Win 2003?
153.      Compressed files are possible to encrypt (yes/no)?



Network configuration in XP

154.      What is the full form of ACPI?
155.      What is the full form of ICF?
156.      Which server avoids broadcasting?
157.      What service that resolves the uniform resource location names?
158.      What is the full form of IP sec?
159.      What is VPN?
160.      What is the work of firewall?
161.      What is advantage of ICS?
162.      What is advantage of VPN connection?

System tools

163.      Which tool is used for system preparation?
164.      What are the product activations ports of windows?
165.      Which command is used to verify the logical Integrity of file system?
166.      Which utility is used to recover bad sector on your volume?
167.      How many days desktop clean up exists in XP by default?
168.      Which tool useful for cleaning all waste files in XP?
169.      What is the file manager in win XP?
170.       

Data Backups

171.      What is the extension of the back files?
172.      What enables to protect & easily back up data?
173.      Describe the types of backup in XP?
174.      What is Archivist in backup?
175.      What is shortcut command to open the backup utility?
176.      Name some backup device?
177.      Windows XP provides one option which enable you to restore any                                                 data, in case it is lost or damage?
178.      What is Normal backup? When we conduct.
179.      What is Incremental backup?
180.      What is Copy backup?
181.      What is Differential backup?
182.      What is ASR?
183.      What is use of ASR?
184.      What is system state backup?



Printing management

185.      What is printer?
186.      How many types we can configure printer in win XP?
187.      What is a printer spooler?
188.      What is Queue?
189.      What is a printer pool?
190.      What does a user profile contain?
191.      Printer classified in two groups, what are they?
192.      How much type of Impact Printers?
193.      What is Impact Printers?
194.      Non Impact printer?
195.      For configuring network printer in XP ____ path required?
196.      Which folder stores all printing pending jobs?


Troubleshooting Win XP

197.      On case of multiple programs the program currently interacts with the user is called as?
198.      Which parameter in check display the correct log files size?
199.      Which tools is used detecting the temporary files?
200.      A user can do the defragmentation True orb False?
201.      Several administrative activities are managed using?
202.      Which command is used to verify the logical Integrity of file system?
203.      What is Dip Switch?
204.      Which command line utility to troubleshoot volume problem?
205.       Windows XP professional detects new disk drive attached to the computer, using which file?


1.Edition of OS(XP,Vista& WIN 7)
XP
VISTA
WINDOWS-7
XP-Home
home basic
Starter
XP-Professional
home premium
home basic
Business
home premium
enterprise
professional
Ultimate
business
enterprise
ultimate
2.Min requirement to install operating system
RECOMDED
XP for all
VISTA for all
WINDOWS-7 for all
RAM
128MB
1 GB
1 GB
PROCESSOR
300MHz
1.0GHz
1.0GHz
HARD DISK
2GB
15 GB
15 GB

3.Types of user Accounts ?
Administrator, standard and guest.

4.What is kernel? What is the kernel file for windows?
Kernel is the interface between hardware and O.S
NTOSKRNL is the kernel files for windows.

5.What is shell?
Shell is the interface between kernel and hardware.

6.What do you mean by booting?
Booting is the process of downloading OS form hard disk to RAM.

7.What do you mean by cold booting and worm booting?
Cold booting: Starting the computer by turning power on is called cold booting.
Warm booting: Restarting the computer by performing a reset operation (pressing reset,    
Crt-Alt-Del, etc.) while the computer is still turned on



8.What do you mean by dual booting?
It is the process of selecting operating system is called dual booting if multiple O.S is installed.

9.What are the bootable files for XP, VISTA & WINDOWS-7?
XP: NTLDR, Boot.ini
VISTA & WINDOWS-7: Bootmgr, winresume.exe and winload.exe

10.How to update windows?
Control panel à security setting à windows update

11.What do you mean by updates?
Process of downloading new features is called updates.

12.What is the I.E version of XP, VISTA & WIN-7?
XP-6.0, VISTA-7.0 and WIN-7 8.0
13.What does u mean by service pack?
Service pack is a collection of updates and hot fixes.
A hot fix is code (sometimes called a patch) that fixes a bug in a product

a bug is a coding error in a computer program.
14.What is antivirus? Types of antivirus?
Antivirus is a program which is used to detect and delete the virus

15.What is the difference between remote desktop and remote assistance?
By using remote desktop only single user can interact with the desktop where as in remote assistance both users can interact with same desktop.

16.What is Backup? Types of backups?
Creating a duplicate copy of an existing data is called backup.
XP: normal backup, daily backup, copy backup, incremental backup and differential backup.
Vista/win-7: normal and incremental backup.

17.What is the difference between incremental and differential backup?
Incremental backup takes more time for backup and restoration is fast where as in differential backup it takes less time for backup and more time for  restoration.




18.What is the difference between backup and copy?
COPY
BAKCUP
size of data will be same
it will compress the size
modification is possible
it does not allow you to modified
copy cannot be schedule
backup can be schedule
automatic restoration is not possible to its original location
we can restore the data to its original location dynamically

19.What is re store point?
A restore point is a saved "snapshot" of a computer's data at a specific time
By creating a restore point, you can save the state of the operating system and your own data so that if future changes cause a problem, you can restore the system and your data to the way it was before the changes were made

20.What is last known good configuration?
The Last Known Good Configuration is basically a copy of a computer’s hardware configuration and its driver settings. It is taken from the system’s registry readings when a computer has a good, clean boot up.
This copy is made for whenever a computer fails to boot up successfully. When that happens, the system’s operating system is able to pull up the good copy and perform a successful startup.

21.What are the features of windows 7?
Windows aero, improved graphics, I.E version 8.0, virtual hard disk, windows power shell and bit drive locker.

22.What is bit locker drive?
It is a feature in win-7 which is used to protect the drive by assigning password

23.What is partition and types of partitions?
Logical division of an hard disk is called partition.
Partition are of three types. 1 primary partition 2. Extended partition 3. Logical partition.
Max we can create 4 primary partitions, 1 extended partition and n no of logical partition.


24.What is the difference between basic disk and dynamic disk?
By default every hard disk is basic disk. The main difference between basic disk and dynamic is we can combine space from multiple hard disks as single logic unit.
25.What is defragmentation?
The process of moving data to the adjacent cluster is called defragmentation.
Defragmentation improves the performance of the disk.

26.What is roll back drivers?
If the device fails after updating the driver, we can restore the old driver by using roll back option.
27.What is device driver? And types?
Device driver is the program or software which is the interface between computer and hardware.
Drivers are of two types. 1) signed drivers 2) Unsigned drivers
A signed driver is basically a digitally signed driver, which means that the driver software is associated with a digital certificate given by micro soft.
Run à sigverif is the command to verify list of signed and unsigned drivers
28.What is ICS?

ICS stands for Internet Connection Sharing which is used to share the internet.






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