You’ve been having intermittent problems with an application crashing, and technical support has asked you to use a diagnostic utility to help understand more about what’s happening on your system when the crash occurs. What diagnostic utility would be the best choice?
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The Windows startup process can become slower as new applications are installed that launch automatically when Windows starts. Which utility can help you manage the applications that run during the startup process?
You’d like to rebuild the boot sector of a computer from a Windows XP recovery console. What recovery console utility can be used to rebuild the boot sector?
Your hard drive is getting a bit full, so you’d like to run the Windows Disk Cleanup program to remove some temporary files and other optional files. How can you start the Disk Cleanup utility from the command prompt?
During the normal use of a Windows system, one of your end users has found that it has become slower to load and save files on the hard drive. What Windows optimization technique can improve the access time of the entire hard drive?
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Which RAID type splits files, storing the file contents on separate drives?
You’ve been asked to install Windows XP on some older computers. How much RAM is required to install Windows XP Professional?
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During the boot process, the BIOS is responsible for looking at the storage device inside of the computer to find a bootable partition. Where does the BIOS find this information?
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The output from a graphics program to a laser printer shows a thin black streak that runs the length of the page. What’s the first thing you should do to troubleshoot this problem?
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You’ve been asked by the graphics department to provide them with a printer that will support PostScript. What is PostScript?
