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Chapter 13 - Understanding Windows
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1
The primary interface to the computer is the Windows ____.
A)mouse
B)keyboard
C)desktop
D)Control Panel
2
Any Windows session begins with _______.
A)rebooting
B)the desktop
C)login
D)the taskbar
3
One of the main jobs of the taskbar is to show the _______.
A)clock
B)Control Panel
C)Device Manager
D)Start button
4
What is the official name of the system tray (the area to the far right on the taskbar)?
A)clock
B)notification area
C)Start button
D)Start menu
5
Access to all drives and folders on the system is provided through _____.
A)Control Panel
B)services
C)My Computer
D)Device Manager
6
To access an extra menu in just about any view, you can _________ the mouse.
A)left-click
B)right-click
C)scroll
D)bang
7
Where can you find files that have been deleted?
A)My Computer
B)Control Panel
C)Recycle Bin
D)My Network Places
8
Windows ________ provides access to most of the maintenance, upgrade, and configuration utilities interface.
A)Administrative Tools
B)Control Panel
C)Device Manager
D)System Registry
9
Which key can you press to access help from just about anywhere?
A)F1
B)F3
C)F5
D)F10
10
System management utilities such as Disk Defragmenter can be accessed from the ____ menu.
A)File
B)Accessibility
C)System Tools
D)Communications
11
Which Control Panel applet is used to configure the overall appearance of the desktop?
A)Accessibility
B)Display
C)System
D)Multimedia
12
Which utility allows users to view and configure hardware and drivers in a Windows PC?
A)MSconfig
B)SysEdit
C)Device Manager
D)MSInfo
13
The icons in the Control Panel of a Windows system are links to files with the extension ____.
A).BIN
B).CPL
C).CPP
D).COM
14
Microsoft Management Console is a shell program that holds individual utilities called ____.
A)applets
B)batch-runs
C)snap-ins
D)binary executables
15
Windows 2000 and XP have combined almost all of the snap-ins into a new applet in the Control Panel called ____.
A)System
B)Device Manager
C)Administrative Tools
D)Scheduled Tasks
16
In Windows 2000/XP, where are hives stored?
A)\%SystemRoot%\System32\config
B)\%SystemRoot%\System32
C)Registry
D)\%SystemRoot%
17
Windows 2000 Registry Editor displays ____ main root keys.
A)three
B)four
C)five
D)six
18
In Windows XP, the ____ root key contains the system’s nonuser-specific configuration data.
A)HKEY_DYN_DATA
B)HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
C)HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
D)HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
19
____cache sets aside and uses a block of cylinders on a hard drive as virtual memory.
A)L2
B)RAM
C)L1
D)swap
20
Where can applets be found?
A)Control Panel
B)Device Manager
C)My Computer
D)Services program
21
What is the tool used to examine and configure the hardware and drivers within a system?
A)Control Panel
B)Device Manager
C)My Computer
D)Services applet
22
How is a problem shown in Device Manager?
A)Red exclamation point
B)Yellow “X”
C)Red “X”
D)Green check mark
23
Windows 2000/XP with symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) supports systems with up to ____ CPUs.
A)8
B)16
C)32
D)64
24
At system boot-up the master boot record (MBR) starts the____ program.
A)BOOT.INI
B)NTDETECT.COM
C)NTLDR
D)NTBOOTDD.SYS





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