General Windows Vista Administration MCQs

1. Under the Event Properties tab, what does the term “Event Id” reveal?

2. Where do you repartition drives in Windows Vista?

3. What is the acronym for Microsoft Management Console?

4. What is a roaming user file?

5. How would you find and uninstall a program that you recently installed?

6. How do you add a new user in Windows Vista?

7. How do you see hidden tasks in the Task Scheduler?

8. How would a user delete a file permanently without having it go to the recycle bin?

9. How do you activate/deactivate the windows firewall?

10. How do you share the contents of a folder across a network?

11. What are themes used for?

12. How would you turn on or off the password requirement when the computer wakes from sleep?

13. How do you uninstall a program?

14. How must you log in to take full advantage of Print Management?

15. What is the difference between Group Policy and Local Policy?

16. How can you run a program that requires administrator rights?

17. How would you find large files that need to deleted?

18. How would you turn off Windows Aero styles?

19. What does the acronym, DNS stand for?

20. How do you clear the web cache in Internet Explorer?

21. How do you view a list of all installed programs?

22. What is does the command 'mmc' stand for?

23. What can happen to a system file that has been modified?

24. What type of file system is the default for Windows Vista?

25. How do you turn off User Account Control?

26. What is the easiest way to give a user access to all functions of Windows Vista?

27. What would the command: “sc \\%2 start spooler” do?

28. How do you connect to a specific wireless network?

29. How do you view a list of all drives including hard drives, cd drives, network drives, and removable media?

30. What is a superior encryption to WEP?

31. How do you install new device drivers?

32. Can any user besides Administrators make changes to devices?

33. Which of the following web browsers are not compatible with Windows Vista?

34. Which users do settings contained in the Local Group Policy apply to?

35. Which of the following is not a valid way to run a program?

36. What does the acronym DHCP stand for?

37. Which of the following functions can a guest account not perform?

38. Does Windows Vista allow setting multiple browsers as the default web browser?

39. Why would a Vista Administrator want to set up a custom event view?

40. How do you see all the computers on your network?

41. What does the shortcut 'Windows + e' do?

42. What do you have to use to view a system event log?

43. Does Windows Vista require manual defragmentation of hard drives?

44. Where would you change internet options?

45. Updates to Sysvol are replicated to which domain controllers?

46. Do tasks in windows Vista have more, or less functionality than in previous versions of Windows?

47. What is the default version of Internet Explorer that comes with Windows Vista?

48. ADMX files are based off of what file type?

49. Do you need to use Device Manager to uninstall plug-and-play devices?

50. In the Network Monitor, what is PID referring to?

51. Where do you monitor current network speed for each network connection?

52. What is the command to open the windows services console?

53. What command do you use to gather information about your wireless client configuration?

54. What are cabinet files responsible for?

55. What is PnPUtil.exe responsible for?

56. What command will open the device manager at a command prompt?

57. Under Resource View, what does “CPU” indicate?

58. How do you map a network drive?

59. What is the maximum amount of actions a task can have?

60. What is one file that cannot be encrypted under Microsoft's EFS?

61. What is a junction point?

62. What is the default DPI for Windows Vista for most computers?

63. Why does Group Policy increase productivity?

64. When manually starting the Wired AutoConfig service, what command do you use?

65. What is the command to open the remote desktop window?

66. What is another name for Wired AutoConfig service?

67. Where are log files for PushPrinterConnections.exe stored?

68. Which is a supported programming language for writing computer and user scripts?

69. What can Event Viewer not do?

70. Which users of Windows computers considered Administrators?

71. What type of event is Event ID 4000?

72. How do you disable a user in Windows Vista?

73. How many policy layers are there for Administrators and Non-Administrators?