Guide 2

CT155 Guide 2

BIOS on the motherboard is assigned the top part of conventional memory.
Answer: False

The Scandisk command creates partitions and logical drives on the hard drive, displays partition information, and restores a damaged Master Boot Record. Answer: False
The Sys command copies the Windows 9x/Me system files needed to boot to a disk or hard drive.
Answer: True

If you receive the “No boot device available” error message, you should use Fdisk to examine the partition table on the hard drive.
Answer: True

Configuration data is primarily stored in the Windows 9x/Me registry. Answer: True The name of the swap file in Windows 9x/Me is Win386.swp.
Answer: True

After both a clean and an upgrade install, you must reinstall all hardware and applications. Answer: False

Safe Mode executes entries in the registry that load device drivers. Answer: False
The Windows 95/98 registry is contained in two files, System.dat and User.dat.
Answer: True

After POST, startup BIOS looks to ____ to know which storage media to search for an OS.
Answer: CMOS RAM

Once ____ is loaded into memory, the boot record program is no longer needed, and control is turned over to ____.
Answer: Io.sys

A ____ is a temporary holding area for files.
Answer: buffer

A(n) ____ is an area of memory that looks and acts like a hard drive, but because it is memory, it is much faster.
Answer: RAM drive

When booting from the Windows 9x/Me startup disk, DOS creates a ____ to hold files after they have been uncompressed.
Answer: RAM drive

A ____ file is a text file that contains a series of commands that are executed in order.
Answer: batch

The Path command of the Autoexec.bat file lists multiple paths, separated by ____.
Answer: semicolons

The ____ command of the Autoexec.bat file is used to create and assign a value to an environmental variable.
Answer: Set

The ____ command of the Autoexec.bat file turns on and off the displaying of commands and messages.
Answer: Echo

Memory addresses above 1024K are called ____ memory.
Answer: extended

____ is considered a device driver because it manages memory as a device.
Answer: Himem.sys

You can determine the amount of memory a device driver allocates for itself and its data by using the ____ command with the /M filename option.
Answer: MEM

A command prompt window is sometimes called a ____.
Answer: DOS box

Under DOS, a filename can contain up to ____ characters.
Answer: 8 The ____ is a wildcard for one character.
Answer: question mark (?)

The ____ is a wildcard for more than one character. Answer: asterisk (*)
A floppy disk with enough software to load an operating system is called a(n) ____ disk.
Answer: bootable A bootable disk with some utility programs to troubleshoot a failed hard

drive is called a ____ disk.
Answer: rescue

The ____ command creates a subdirectory under a directory.
Answer: Mkdir

The ____ is a component of the OS responsible for presenting the graphical interface to the user and providing graphics support to output devices.
Answer: GDI

Windows 9x/Me is a ____.
Answer: mix of 16-bit processing and 32-bit processing

The ____ is responsible for managing memory, virtual machines, and all the resources needed by each application.
Answer: VMM

The ____ takes care of all disk access.
Answer: IFS manager

The ____ driver manager, first used with Windows 98, is responsible for managing device drivers.
Answer: WDM

Applications call on the OS to access hardware or other software by using a(n) ____ call.
Answer: API

When applications are first loaded by Windows 9x/Me, the methods to access hardware and software are made available to the software through an interface called a ____.
Answer: virtual machine

____ memory is hard drive space that is made to act like memory.
Answer: Virtual

The VMM moves 4K segments, called ____, in and out of physical RAM. Answer: pages With FAT16, the smallest possible cluster size is ____ sectors.
Answer: four

In FAT 16, if a file contains fewer than 2,048 bytes, the remaining bytes in the cluster make up space which is called ____.
Answer: slack

Before installing Windows 9x/Me as an upgrade, you should run ____ to check and repair errors on the hard drive.
Answer: ScanDisk

You should choose the ____ installation option when installing Windows 9x/Me on a notebook computer.
Answer: Portable

You should choose the ____ installation option if you know you need components not normally installed under the Typical installation.
Answer: Custom

____ are updates and fixes to the OS released by Microsoft.
Answer: Patches

For a system to be truly Plug and Play, a ____-bit device driver must be available.
Answer: 32

Windows 3.x used ____ files to manage the virtual machine environment for DOS applications and provided a(n) ____ editor to alter these files.
Answer: PIF

If you want an application to ignore a line in a .ini file, you can turn the line into a comment line by putting a(n) ____ at the beginning of the line.
Answer: semicolon (;)

Names in the left pane of the Windows 9x/Me registry window are called ____.
Answer: keys

In Windows 9x/ME, you can get to Safe Mode either from the startup menu or by pressing the ____ key while Windows is loading.
Answer: F5

In Windows 9x/ME, you can force the startup menu to appear rather than the “Starting Windows” message by pressing the ____ key or holding down the ____ key during the boot.
Answer: F8, Ctrl