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You have a workstation running Windows 10 Home. However, you want to install Windows 11 Professional as a separate instance in order to boot into either operating system.

Which of the following installation types will meet your needs?

• Upgrade installation

• Repair installation

• In-place installation

• Custom/clean installation

You are in the process of preparing to install Windows 11 on your Windows 10 computer.

Which of the following pre-installation steps are critical to complete if you are performing a clean installation? (Select two.)

• Gather any third-party installation media

• Obtain hardware drivers

• Create a system image

• Verify software compatibility

• Back up existing data

You have a workstation running a 64-bit version of Windows 10 Professional that you would like to upgrade to Windows 11 Professional. You want to preserve the existing data, settings, and applications.

Which of the following would be the BEST installation methods to use to install Windows 11?

• Repair

• In-place

• Upgrade

• Custom/clean

You want to upgrade your Windows 10 Professional computer to Windows 11 Professional. You begin by checking the hardware and discover that it has 2 GB of RAM, a 2.0 GHz dual-core processor, a 256 GB solid-state drive, and a video adapter with 128 MB of RAM and DirectX 12 support. You want to install the 64-bit version of Windows 11.

What should you do?

• Upgrade the video adapter

• Upgrade to a faster processor

• Upgrade a processor with at least four cores

• Add more memory

You are an IT administrator for a large company that is doing very well in their business endeavors. As a result, the company is hiring new employees on a regular basis.

In addition to your normal workload, you have been asked to install and configure the new employees' computers with a Windows operating system and the applications that your company uses to do their business. To make this process easier, you only give new employees the choice of one of two laptops.

Which of the following installation types would be the BEST use of your time in this scenario?

• Image deployment

• Upgrade

• Recovery partition

• Clean installation

You begin the installation process and discover that you need to load additional drivers to support your storage controller so that Windows can write to that disk.

What should you do?

• Load the necessary drivers from a USB drive

• Insert or connect to the installation media and boot from that media

• Remove all drivers and restart

• Allow Windows to find the necessary drivers

You are an IT administrator for your company. You have been tasked with installing 300 copies of Windows 11. You need to finish this task as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Which of the following boot methods would be the BEST method for installing Windows under these circumstances?

• DVD

• PXE

• USB

• Solid-state/flash drives

Match the followingMatch each cloud computing definition on the left with the appropriate characteristic on the right. Each characteristic may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

• Private cloud

• Provides resources to a single organization. Keeps an organization's data separate and secure from any other organization using the same service provider.

• Hybrid cloud

• Designed to be shared by several organizations.

• Community cloud

• Provides computing resources that are accessible to the general public.

• Public cloud

• Combines public, private, and community cloud resources from different service providers.

Which of the following BEST describes a community cloud implementation?

• Designed to be used by a single organization

• Designed to be shared by several organizations

• Designed to be a combination of public and private cloud resources

• Designed to be access by the general public

Your company currently has an on-premises cloud solution that provides services to its employees. However, the company would like to begin offering some services to the public from the cloud.

Which of the following cloud computing solutions would BEST meet your company's new cloud computing requirements?

• Private cloud

• Community cloud

• Public cloud

• Hybrid cloud