I just checked yesterday’s contest, and we still don’t have a winner for Win2000. I guess I stumped you with question #1 in particular, but this is a great illustration of why we don’t use “choose all that apply” items in the MCP program anymore. Doing so, makes items more difficult by design rather than by content. I’ll give you some more hints as the day goes on until we have a winner. For now, let’s turn to the last contest in our series focusing on Exam 270: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
I know some of you are wondering…how can I be sharing content with you from an exam that is still available? The little psychometrician in me told me to go back to the beginning. So I have. [This is where I am, and this is where I ll stay. I will not be moved. Can you name the movie?] I identified items that were removed at beta, so they have never appeared on a live form of this exam. Jim Clark review them to be sure that they weren’t fundamentally flawed in some way since I don’t know why they were removed at beta, but I’d love to hear your guesses. I’m giving you three questions again today again today, but the last one is easy peasy.
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Question #1: You are the desktop administrator for your company. You are responsible for automating the deployment of Windows XP Professional to new computers in your company. You are preparing a Windows XP Professional computer, which you will use to test disk imaging.
You install Windows XP Professional on the test computer and run the Sysprep utility. You use a third-party software package to create a disk image. You apply the disk image to a new computer and then restart the computer.
Instead of completing the Windows XP Professional installation, the computer starts the Windows Welcome program, requiring you to enter additional setup information.
Because you will be deploying a large number of computers, you want to ensure that the disk image can be applied without additional user interaction. What should you do?
A. Use a network-based RIS server to apply the disk image to new computers.
B. On the test computer, run the Sysprep -factory command. Re-create the disk image by using the third-party software.
C. Use Setup Manager to create a Sysprep answer file. Copy the answer file to a floppy disk, and insert the disk into new computers when the disk image is applied.
D. Create an Unattend.txt answer file. Copy the file to the C:\Winnt\System32 folder on the test computer. Run the Sysprep utility and re-create the disk image by using the third-party software.
Question #2: You are the desktop administrator for your company. You have just installed Windows XP Professional on a portable computer for a user named Andrew. The computer is configured to have a modem and Ethernet PC card.
At the office, Andrew uses his computer in a docking station. At home, he uses his computer in an undocked state by using the power adapter.
Andrew travels to customer locations frequently. While traveling, he creates and edits documents. When he returns from a customer location, he informs you that the battery power in his computer had not lasted as long as he would like.
You need to configure Andrew’s portable computer to conserve battery power for his sales trips. What should you do?
A. Modify the Device Manager settings to disable all devices used by the docked hardware profile.
B. Restart the computer in the undocked profile. In Control Panel, disable the Server service in the Services options.
C. Configure the hardware profiles so that the Undocked hardware profile is at the top of the list of available hardware profiles.
D. Create a new hardware profile named Remote. Use Device Manager to disable the modem and Ethernet PC card devices for this hardware profile.
Question #3: There is a quote from a movie in the second paragraph part of which is in brackets. Name the movie. If you’ve been paying attention, this should be easy.
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Be the first to answer all three questions correctly to win an exam voucher!