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1. What is WinRS?
It is a command-line tool which relies on Windows Remote Management (WinRM) to execute remote commands. The basic syntax for WinRS commands is as follows: winrs -r:target command - where target is the name (NetBIOS or FQDN) of the remote computer tha
A file that is loaded when a DNS server starts up and populate the root hints.
It is the max size is expressed in megabytes.
Does not have

2. What do DFS nameservers need to do to obtain the most current namespace data?
Pool Active Directory.
For the drive that Windows is installed on. System protection can only be turned on for drives that are formatted using the NTFS file system.
Create persistent connections to computers with POWERSHELL
You setup one the DHCP server with the same option settings and non-overlapping scopes. Make sure to duplicate any reservations.

3. How many bits are in the GLOBAL/UNIQUE LOCAL prefix?
Configure the primary zone to transfer to only DNS servers listed on the names server tab or by ip address.
They are in the first 48 bits /48
Netsh add dnsserver. Example netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name="Local Area Connection" 192.168.0.1 index=3
Use the BCDEDIT.EXE command

4. What is the default Install image from a Windows 7 Setup DVD?
Command line equilivant of Server Manager. You can install/remove roles and features on server 2008?
It is the max size is expressed in megabytes.
All Programs - Windows Virtual PC - Windows XP Mode Applications. To run your application directly from the Windows 7 desktop - just go to your Start menu.
A OOBE ready and will be booted into Windows Welcome

5. What does Cipher /X do?
Streamline and simplify user state migration during large deployments of Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. USMT captures user accounts - user files - operating system settings - and application settings - and then migrates them to a new
Use it to can backup certificates to a .PFX file that is password protected.
ISATAP Routers within an orginization - 6TO4 routers to transverse the internet - and TEREDO to traverse a NAT devise.
Set IE back to its default settings

6. How can you can upgrade an offline image's Windows 7 edition?
If your computer is running slowly or isn't working properly - you can use System Restore to return your computer's system files and settings to an earlier point in time using a restore point. For more information about System Restore - see System Re
It is a network health policy defines the minumum level of client health required to connect to the network.
You need to specify the files on both command lines using the /i option. Unlike previous versions of USMT - the .xml files are not copied to the store. Because ScanState and LoadState need the .xml files to control the migration - you should specify
By using the DISM command with a /Set-Edition option: Example: DISM /IMAGE:C:SAMPLE.WIM /Set-Edition:Ultimate

7. What does DRIVERQUERY /SI do?
Enterprise and Ultimate versions. The limitation refers only to the ability to enable protection on a removable storage device. Once BitLocker To Go is added to a storage device - that device can be used normally with any version of Windows 7. It can
ISATAP - Teredo and 6to4
It will display driver signing status
Specify this file with both the ScanState and LoadState commands to migrate application settings to computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7.

8. What event viewer log is the Radius server (NPS) logs stored?
Restrict when a child can logon to a computer.
It is the max size is expressed in megabytes.
It is a network health policy defines the minumum level of client health required to connect to the network.
The local security logs.

9. What is Aero Snap?
Use your computer's zone ID at the end of the destination address. The zone ID of an IPV6 address is locally significant.
dynamic drives
Clicking and dragging a window to the right or left side of the desktop causes the window to fill the respective half of the screen. Snapping a window to the top of the desktop maximizes it. Resizing a window to touch the top or bottom edge of the sc
By using the dnscmd /zoneexport command.

10. What is a HOSTS file?
It is a network health policy defines the minumum level of client health required to connect to the network.
This happens because the zone records expire. This occurs because the secondary zone has not successfully zone transferred before the "Expires After" SOA.
ISATAP - Teredo and 6to4
A file that can be used to perform FQDN name resolution in the absence of a DNS server.

11. How do you setup a remote site that resolves names even when there is no connectivity to the main site?
Use dnscmd /recorddelete
The import and export affects the entire policy. For example - if you export a policy - all of the rules from all of the rule collections are exported - including the enforcement settings for the rule collections. If you import a policy - the existin
Deploy a secondary zone.
One of the tunnels if DirectAccess by using both a computer certificate and user credentials. This tunnel authenticates the user and provides access to intranet resources and application servers.

12. If you wanted to encrypt the connection between a client PC and the WSUS server what would you use?
SSL
Updates the master boot code for hard disk partitions to switch between BOOTMGR and NTLDR. You can use this tool to restore the boot sector on your computer. This tool replaces FixFAT and FixNTFS.
It designates an authoritative DNS server - not the soa record.
At the volume level - not the drive level.

13. What are some of the IPV6 transition technologies?
ISATAP - Teredo and 6to4
Can be configured through a GPO
It is where Internet access is direct and not routed through the VPN - configure advanced TCPIP network properties and uncheck the option "Use Default Gateway on Remote Network".
Use the "Connect to a Workplace" option

14. What should you do to provide redundancy in DNS dynamic updates?
Use the net sh command to configure the proper ports for remote management.
From the Network Policy Access Services role in system manager.
It can speed up your computer by using storage space on most USB flash drives and flash memory cards. ReadyBoost is designed to help when your PC's memory is running low. Low memory can make your computer sluggish because Windows - which needs a plac
Use AD integrated zones so the clients can update to more than one DNS server.

15. What is Touch UI?
ISATAP - Teredo and 6to4
Windows Aero was revised to be more touch-friendly.
Disable AutoComplete in Internet Explorer
WPA-Enterprise (radius authentication)

16. What is a reservation?
Run Disk Cleanup and click Clean up system files. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation - type the password or provide confirmation. Click the More Options tab - under System Restore and Shadow Copies - click Clean up. In
Who can shutdown a computer
To deploy the policy and understand its impact before enforcing it.
A way of assigning a staic address based on the mac address. This ensures each time the client receives the same address.

17. What is a ns record?
It designates an authoritative DNS server - not the soa record.
Subtract the number of bits in the mask from 32 bits (255.255.255.255). Take the result (x) and have 2 to the power of the result (2^x). Subtract that final result by 2 and that is the amount of host addresses available.
vssadmin.exe. This can view previous version files as well.
Client needs Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 or above - Client must use an os that supports CredSSP (Credential Security Support Providoer) - The terminal server must user windoes 2008 and above.

18. What is DHCP conflict detection?
Generates a space-estimate file called Usmtsize.txt. This option does not collect the user state. You must also specify /nocompress.
Send email notifications
All Programs - Windows Virtual PC - Windows XP Mode Applications. To run your application directly from the Windows 7 desktop - just go to your Start menu.
The DHCP server will ping an ip address before assigning it.

19. What drive is System protection is automatically setup on?
1723
Not supported
For the drive that Windows is installed on. System protection can only be turned on for drives that are formatted using the NTFS file system.
Netsh add dnsserver. Example netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name="Local Area Connection" 192.168.0.1 index=3

20. How can you removed a stale resource record from DNS?
Configure aging and scavenging.
It is a command-line tool which relies on Windows Remote Management (WinRM) to execute remote commands. The basic syntax for WinRS commands is as follows: winrs -r:target command - where target is the name (NetBIOS or FQDN) of the remote computer tha
Anew vpn protocol that uses SSL (port 443) for encryption.
Default Programs Control Panel applet

21. When you install an application in Windows Virtual PC - Windows XP Mode - where does it automatically creates a Windows 7 Start Menu Shortcut under?
All Programs - Windows Virtual PC - Windows XP Mode Applications. To run your application directly from the Windows 7 desktop - just go to your Start menu.
In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 it enhances the productivity of mobile workers by connecting them seamlessly and more securely to their corporate network any time they have Internet access—without the need to VPN. When your IT department enab
By using the dnscmd /zoneexport command.
Hovering over a taskbar icon shows thumbnail of that program. Hovering over the thumbnail shows a preview of that program in full view. Aero Peek also refers to the "Show desktop" button to the far right of the new taskbar.

22. What does netsh do?
Command to configure the TCP/IP settings.
Forward to another DNS server
Does not
4 (bits 49 - 52) /52 Allows for 16 regions.

23. What is the responsible person on a SOA records field?
A file that can be used to perform FQDN name resolution in the absence of a DNS server.
Perform an offline migration
an email address where the @ is replaced with a period.
Configure a GPO to modify the computers location to look for updates.

24. What does "Create System Repair Disk" option do?
Only Windows Vista can be directly upgraded to Windows 7 and only if you upgrade within the same processor architecture (X86 or X84).
It designates an authoritative DNS server - not the soa record.
Creates a bootable CD that runs the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE)
Ping the Link Local Address (FE80 Address)

25. What does the Hosted Cache mode do?
Use the route delete command.
A WDDM driver for the graphics card and a Windows Experience index of 3.0 or greater.
Windows Vista - Window 7 and Server 2008.
It operates by deploying a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host in the branch office. Clients are configured with the fully qualified domain name of the host computer so that they can retrieve content from the Hosted Cache - when

26. How do you need to configure the NAP enforecment points if using in conjenction with NPS?
Configure the enforcement points as RADIUS clients.
Run slmgr.vbs -ato and then open up 3389 on windows firewall using netsh.
A collection of logs created by computers fowarding events. Viewed on the collecting computer.
The system will shut down. The next time you start this system (after cloning it) - it will install with the settings in the XML file. The Computer Name will be automatically generated.

27. How are RRAS/NPS policies evaluated?
It is the max size is expressed in megabytes.
Ina periority orderd based on the permission in the priority list. The first policy that is marked True from the conditions is selected. This order of policies can affect weather or not a user can remote access (dialup - vpn - wireless).
Boot the computer with a WINDOWS PE disk that contains a copy of IMAGEX.
To perform very fast searches of the most common files on your computer. The easiest way to add something to the index is to include a folder in a library. When you do that - the content in that folder is automatically indexed.

28. How can you secure file transfers across a network?
Either by placing data on a web server and enforcing ssl to be used to download or by using IPSEC on a file share.
Install and run many Windows XP productivity applications directly from your Windows 7-based PC. It utilizes virtualization technology - such as Windows Virtual PC - to provide a virtual Windows XP Professional SP3 environment for Windows 7 so that o
You create an answer file and place it on removable media. By default - Windows Setup will search the root directory of all removable media for an answer file called Autounattend.xml.
Enabled searching for content on remote locations right from the Explorer itself. Integrating federated search into Windows gives users the benefits of using familiar tools and workflows to search remote data. This enhanced integration provides the a

29. How do you decrease zone transfer traffic?
Increase the SOA refresh interval parameter.
To will ensure the clients download the appropriate printer driver.
ISATAP - Teredo and 6to4
By creating or modifying a wireless connection in Network and Sharing Center.

30. What does the Ping -6 option do?
Add an AD integrated zone
A feature that regularly creates and saves information about your computer's system files and settings. System protection also saves previous versions of files that you've modified. It saves these files in restore points - which are created just befo
Using wecutil -cs in an xml file.
It pings with IPV6

31. How do you install RRAS?
The DHCP server will ping an ip address before assigning it.
From the Network Policy Access Services role in system manager.
8 (bits 57 - 64) /64 Allows for 256 subnets in each site.
Run: Cscript slmgr.vbs /dl

32. What can administrators due with file server resource manager?
They are written in XML and be created using the Windows System Image Manager or a text editor like notepad.
They can place quotas on folders/volumes - activity screen files - and generate comprehensive storage reports. This assists in not only monitoring existing resource but helping on future planning.
NMCAP. You can initiate a packet capture and make a .cap file to replay later. It allows you to accept a .cap files as input useful in parsing traffic by different ports or ip address. Example: NMCap /inputcapture test.cap /capture IPV4.Address ==10.
It is a advertisement of a service. The record is configured with the service provided - a port number and weight?

33. What must you do if you have a static ip address assigned?
A roecord to indicate the smtp server.
ISATAP Routers within an orginization - 6TO4 routers to transverse the internet - and TEREDO to traverse a NAT devise.
Verify that they are not within the scope of the dynamically assigned DHCP addresses.
They relay the status on polices to the Security center for NAP to validate the system to use the network.

34. What do you modify to define CD Autoplay settings and file associations?
It is a temporary wireless profile that doesn't validate the certificate of the remote authentication dial-in user service (RADIUS) server.
You will be prompted to reconnect online. To disable offline mode - select it from the Tools menu.
Default Programs Control Panel applet
Suggested Sites

35. What do NAP clients do?
They relay the status on polices to the Security center for NAP to validate the system to use the network.
They can place quotas on folders/volumes - activity screen files - and generate comprehensive storage reports. This assists in not only monitoring existing resource but helping on future planning.
Using wecutil -cs in an xml file.
Yes

36. What is s stub zone?
Contains a list of dynamically updated list of authorities for the zone.
It is the authentication header protocol and digitally sign packets but not encrypt them.
Using wecutil -cs in an xml file.
If your computer is running slowly or isn't working properly - you can use System Restore to return your computer's system files and settings to an earlier point in time using a restore point. For more information about System Restore - see System Re

37. What does Aero require?
Prevents the server from performing Internet name resolution.
A WDDM driver for the graphics card and a Windows Experience index of 3.0 or greater.
Writes changes to a mounted WIM file - DISM /UNMOUNT-WIM /DISCARD will roll the changes back
It insert drivers into the Windows Driver Store so that users can add the associated PNP hardware without having to provide the driver or administrator credentials

38. How do you setup DNS single label (unqualified) name resolution?
ISATAP - Teredo and 6to4
Setup a GlobalNames zone.
Create a customized shell
Can be used to create virtual hard disks

39. What does the max=32000 mean in 'create vdisk file = c: vhd windows 7 vhdfilename.vhd max = 32000'
Disable AutoComplete in Internet Explorer
Problem Steps Recorder in the Windows 7 operating system is a feature that enables users to record their interactions with an application and provide a detailed screen-by-screen view with accompanying information including mouse clicks and keyboard i
It is the max size is expressed in megabytes.
Print services for unix can be configured to share out with the LPD (Line Printer Daemon) and clients send print jobs to LPD using LPR (Line printer remote) client software.

40. What does Parental Controls do?
It makes it easy to share your libraries and printers on a home network. You can share pictures - music - videos - documents - and printers with other people in your homegroup. The homegroup is protected with a password - and you'll always be able to
Issue a recovery agent certificate to a user and then import that certificate into a GPO that applies to the computer where that user will be allowed to recover any EFS encrypted files. EFS Data recovery agents are optional
By creating or modifying a wireless connection in Network and Sharing Center.
Restrict when a child can logon to a computer.

41. How do you create a subscription?
Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate Editions
For the drive that Windows is installed on. System protection can only be turned on for drives that are formatted using the NTFS file system.
A collection of logs created by computers fowarding events. Viewed on the collecting computer.
Using wecutil -cs in an xml file.

42. Does the Advanced Firewall already has a predefined Homegroup inbound rule?
Installing and imaging on hardware agnostic systems as long as the processor architecture is the same (32 or 64 bit)
Yes - it can be modified to apply to a network location.
This happens because the zone records expire. This occurs because the secondary zone has not successfully zone transferred before the "Expires After" SOA.
Plug in the drive and then select properties of the drive. You can make changes through the ReadyBoost tab.

43. What is Optimize for Consistency polling mode do?
Increase the SOA refresh interval parameter.
Only Business Track Windows 7 editions (Professional - Enterprise - Ultimate).
The DFS service attempts to keep the domain based namespace highly consistent by polling the pcd emulator after the namespace changes. This bypasses the needing to wait for the ad replication to update the namespace object. This can increase load on
They restrict disk space usage for users. If you modify the quota template it applies changes to all folders that the template is assigned.

44. What windows 7 OSs can join a domain?
Deploy a secondary zone.
Only Business Track Windows 7 editions (Professional - Enterprise - Ultimate).
The local security logs.
Clicking and dragging a window to the right or left side of the desktop causes the window to fill the respective half of the screen. Snapping a window to the top of the desktop maximizes it. Resizing a window to touch the top or bottom edge of the sc

45. You can configure process monitor alerts to _____.
It can add a driver to an offline WIM image with the /Add-Driver option
Run scripts
Modify the PE image using DISM by adding the WINPE-Scripting package to BOOT.WIM
It is a temporary wireless profile that doesn't validate the certificate of the remote authentication dial-in user service (RADIUS) server.

46. What do RRAS/NPS policys govern?
It governs remote access and a user must meet the conditions of at least one of the policies.
The command used to preform an offline defrag. Example: jetpack DHCP.mdb temp.mdb
Assign a ipsec policy to all computers - verify the computers can manually authenticate. Assign a client respond only IPSEC policy to the computers. Also either the request server or the security server need IPSEC polices assigned.
Boot to a Windows 7 setup DVD and run System Restore or boot to a System Repair Disk.

47. What is the command to add a DNS server?
A OOBE ready and will be booted into Windows Welcome
Conditional forward
Netsh add dnsserver. Example netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name="Local Area Connection" 192.168.0.1 index=3
Ping the Link Local Address (FE80 Address)

48. How do you configure client computers to use a WSUS server as the source for Windows Update?
When you plug a ReadyBoost-compatible storage device into your computer - the AutoPlay dialog box offers you the option to speed up your PC using ReadyBoost. If you select this option - you can choose how much memory on the device to use for this pur
You need to specify the files on both command lines using the /i option. Unlike previous versions of USMT - the .xml files are not copied to the store. Because ScanState and LoadState need the .xml files to control the migration - you should specify
Install and run many Windows XP productivity applications directly from your Windows 7-based PC. It utilizes virtualization technology - such as Windows Virtual PC - to provide a virtual Windows XP Professional SP3 environment for Windows 7 so that o
Modify/Create a GPO

49. What does sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:sysprep.xml?
Not supported
The system will shut down. The next time you start this system (after cloning it) - it will install with the settings in the XML file. The Computer Name will be automatically generated.
WSUS server configuration information - Metadata describing what each update is for - and general information about clients - updates and interaction.
You start by selecting Windows XP Mode from the Windows 7 Start Menu. You can install applications in Windows XP Mode just as you normally would on a physical PC. For example - you can install applications via web - from storage devices - or from phy

50. What is WPA-PSK?
By either using WSUS management console (server side targeting) or GPO (client side targeting).
Set IE back to its default settings
WPA-Personal (uses a preshared key)
You can allow by adding the device vendor's GUID to the allow list in a GPO.