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MCDST Desktop Technician Exam Prep - Question List

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106. Your company has a volume licensing agreement with Microsoft for using Windows XP Professional on 50 client computers. You receive a volume license product key from Microsoft that must be used to install Windows XP Professional on the computers.

Since you have lost the Windows XP Pro CD that was sent by Microsoft, you must purchase a new copy of the installation disc. During the Windows XP Pro setup using the attended installation method, you type the volume license key and the setup displays an error message that states “Invalid product key.”

How should you proceed?
  1. Use the product key at the back of the retail copy of the CD.
  2. Contact Microsoft for a volume license version of the CD-ROM and use the key that comes with it.
  3. Contact a Microsoft Activation center to obtain a product activation key.
  4. Create an unattended installation answer file with your company's volume license product key and continue the installation.
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107. You are working as an administrator at an organization. All users have video capture cards and USB-connected digital video cameras connected to their computer. They have used the built-in Windows XP Professional drivers to install these devices. Last week one of the users updated her drivers from the manufacturer’s website. After the drive update, she rebooted the computer and received an error message stating that a service or driver failed to start. Once logged in, the user noticed that the video capture card and digital video camera was inaccessible. What should be your first step to get the devices to work?
  1. Restart her computer using the last known good configuration.
  2. Restart her computer by using the Recovery console and disable the new set of drivers.
  3. Select the Roll Back Driver option in the device’s properties in the Device Manager.
  4. Reseat the devices.
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108. Jack is an administrator at an organization that has a number of branch offices around the world. One of the employees has recently traveled to Germany. Jack had configured the employee’s laptop to display German date and time settings. When the employee returns to the main office in New York, all of his e-mail messages display German date and time settings. What should Jack do to change the settings to the ones that will suit New York?
  1. In the Regional and Language Options, apply the English user interface.
  2. In the Regional and Language Options, apply the English input language keyboard.
  3. In the Regional and Language options, apply English (United States) Standards and Formats.
  4. In the date and time options, change the Time Zone to Eastern Time (US & Canada).
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109. You want to view the IP address to NETBIOS name-mapping on your Windows XP computer. Which of the following files should you access?
  1. HOSTS
  2. Boot.ini
  3. Config.sy
  4. LMHOSTS
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110. On a Windows XP computer, an Enforce Password History option is configured with a value of 7. What does this option do?
  1. Specifies that a user's password must be 7 characters in length. No other password lengths are accepted.
  2. Restricts the user to log into his account with that password 7 times before the system requires him to change it.
  3. Restricts a user’s password length to less than 7 characters. Higher password lengths are not accepted.
  4. Restricts the user from re-using an old password that was used in the last 7 password changes, including the current one.
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