In today’s installment of our tribute to Win7 (are you getting excited yet? I am—I plan to be first in line on Thursday morning to buy it for my home computer), I have selected a few questions from Exam 063: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft® Windows® 95. In honor of this exam, we searched the archives for some of the publicity that coincided with the release of the exam and courseware, and I thought it might be fun to share a quick glimpse into the past with you.
Some quick announcements before we get into the exam questions. First, I was able to track down the Window NT exam (thanks to robhagman for the exam number) and will have a few items from that exam tomorrow, which will push Win2000 to Thursday and WinXP to Friday. Second, we are trying to find a way for you to experience our early exams in a way that will be more fun than reading them in a blog post. Erwin is working on doing this for Exam 001, and I suspect that I will be able to leverage that same tool to share more of the early exam content with you; so, stay tuned. Finally, to keep things interesting, let’s limit the free exam voucher to one per person during this series, so we’ll have five different winners by the end of the week.
Now, on with our show. The first person to answer these questions correctly with a brief explanation will win a free exam voucher!
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Question #1: Nelson’s Windows 95 computer has a LaserJet printer that is connected to LPT1 and set up as a local printer. The computer also has a PostScript printer on a Windows NT server set up as a network printer. Nelson runs a Microsoft MS‑DOS–based application, installs the correct PostScript drivers for the network printer, and attempts to print a two-page document. Twenty pages of PostScript commands are printed on his local printer.
What should Nelson do to enable the MS‑DOS–based application to print to the network printer?
A. In the Details tab on the network printer’s property sheet, click Spool Settings, and then change the spool data format from EMF to RAW.
B. Right-click the local printer, and pause the printer from the context menu.
C. In the Details tab on the network printer’s property sheet, click Capture Printer Port, and then assign the path of the network printer to LPT2.
D. In the Device Options tab on the local printer’s property sheet, set Printer Memory Tracking to the maximum at the Aggressive end of the scale.
Question #2: You are running two 16-bit Windows-based applications on a Windows 95 computer. You are also running 32-bit Windows-based application X. You then open 32-bit application Y, which is designed to test system reliability by generating general protection faults.
Application Y generates a general protection fault, and Windows 95 displays a dialog box that informs you that the application has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
Which action can you take next? (Choose two.)
A. Click the Close button on the dialog box, and then continue working with the 16-bit applications and application X.
B. Click the Close button on the dialog box, and then continue working with the 16-bit applications. Application X will close.
C. Click the Close button on the dialog box, and then continue working with application X. The 16-bit applications will close.
D. Examine the contents of the registers and the current stack dump before closing application Y, and then continue working in the other applications.
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So, what do you think of these items? I can’t believe how many items in this pool included the word “not”…such a bad idea psychometrically speaking. Anyone want to share stories about taking this exam?
I hope you’re having as much fun as I am with this!