MCSA 70-270 XP Exam Prep - Question List

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31. David has just installed a second IDE slave hard drive on the primary controller on his Windows XP system. However, he cannot find the hard drive when he clicks the My Computer icon. What could be the possible cause of this problem?
  1. Hard drive drivers are not loaded.
  2. Hard drive is not partitioned.
  3. The floppy drive is not connected.
  4. Appropriate drivers are not loaded.
32. You have purchased ten new laptops for your employees. When you try to install Windows XP Professional on the laptops, you keep getting an error that the hard drive cannot be accessed. You restart the installation and get the same error. What action should you take?
  1. Install the disk drivers using an XP driver from the hard drive manufacturer during the text-mode of the installation.
  2. Enter the BIOS and verify that the UDMA for the hard drive is enabled.
  3. Enter the BIOS and verify that the APM for the hard drive is disabled.
  4. Allocate an IRQ for the hard drive in the system BIOS.
33. Your team has scheduled a specific program on a server to run as a scheduled task every day. When you log on as administrator, you can run the task, but when the scheduled task is supposed to run, it does not run. The server is configured with different user accounts and most of the users are also facing this issue. You have already verified that the Task Scheduler task is running. How should you fix this problem?
  1. Verify if the Task scheduler is configured to run in unattended mode.
  2. Make sure the users who are facing issues with the scheduled task have appropriate permissions to run the scheduler.
  3. Make sure that all users have the time synchronized on their computer.
  4. Make sure that all users have administrator rights to run Task scheduler.
34. You are hired as a security advisor in an organization. At this point in time, employees can connect to the network without having to enter a password. Passwords are automatically entered. In an attempt to mitigate a possible security breach, you want to ensure that an employee enters a valid password when he or she connects to the network-not use a stored password. Which of the following security options should you ask the IT team to configure?
  1. Configure Do Not Allow Use of Cached Credentials in Security Policy Options.
  2. In the Local Users and Groups utility, configure Tools, Security to disallow the use of cached credentials.
  3. Open Internet Options, click the Security tab, and configure Content Advisor.
  4. Configure Do Not Allow Stored User Names and Passwords to Save Passwords or Credentials for Network Authentication in Security Policy Options.
35. Jack has configured his computer with two hard drives, disk 1 and disk 2. He has configured a logical drive C: on disk 1 and D: on disk 2. He wants to install Windows 98 on C: and Windows XP on D:. Windows 98 allows him to install some of his favorite applications that will not run under XP and Windows XP allows encryption and compression. Which of the following specifies the right way of formatting the C: and D: drives?
  1. Format logical drive C: as FAT32 and logical drive D: as NTFS.
  2. Format both logical drives as FAT32.
  3. Format both logical drives with NTFS.
  4. Format logical drive C: as NTFS and logical drive D: as FAT32.

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