7.12. Answers to Review Questions

  1. A. Windows XP uses Automated System Recovery (ASR). It makes a backup of your system partition and creates a recovery disk.

  2. D. The first file used in the Windows Vista (as well as 2000) boot process is ntldr. Both the ntoskrnl.exe and ntbootdd.sys files are used in the boot process, but neither is the first file run. Neither autoexec.bat nor config.sys is involved in the Windows Vista/XP/2000 boot process.

  3. C. Safe Mode is a good option to choose to restore files that are missing or to fix a configuration error. With only basic files and drivers loaded, you can more easily identify the source of the problem.

  4. C. Wake on LAN is an Ethernet standard implemented via a card that allows a "sleeping" machine to awaken ...

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