You want to capture your Windows installation as a system image. You need to remove any computer-specific information from the computer prior to capturing the image.

What should you do?

What is the name of the service included with the Windows Server operating system that manages a centralized database containing user account and security information?

You have several computers running Windows 10. The computers are members of a domain.

For all computers, you want to remove access to administrative tools from the Start menu and hide notifications from the System Tray.

What should you do?

Which of the following are networking models that can be used with the Windows operating system? (Select two.)

You are a contract support specialist managing the computers in a small office. You see that all the computers are only using local user accounts.

Which of the following models could this office be using? (Select two.)

You manage a group of twenty Windows workstations that are currently configured as a workgroup. You have been thinking about switching to an Active Directory configuration.

Which advantages would there be to switching to Active Directory? (Select two.)

You do not want any on-premises servers, and you want users to be able to sign in and access both internal and external resources.

Which option would you select for user accounts?

You want to allow non-administrative users to install devices that use third-party drivers. Users should be able to install the device without prompts for administrative credentials. Users should only be able to install devices that use the drivers that you specifically identify.

You copy the necessary drivers to the computer. You configure the DevicePath registry key to identify the folder where the drivers are located.

A standard user logs on and tries to install the device. They receive a prompt for administrative credentials.

What should you do?

You need to find out if there are any device drivers on your system that do not have a digital signature.

Which of the following tools should you use?

You need to see a list of third-party drivers on a Windows system.

What should you do?

You are only a standard user on a Windows computer that you use at work (you are not an administrator of the computer).

You connect your MP3 player to the computer. The computer is not able to play files from the device. You need to get information about the device to identify the problem.

What should you do?

After you upgrade a video driver on a Windows system, the screen becomes unresponsive. You need to get the system working properly with the least amount of effort and time.

Which of the following options can you use to get your Windows system back to a stable state? (Select two. Each option is a complete solution.)

Which command would you enter in Command Prompt to list all third-party drivers on a Windows system?

The audio card in your Windows system is working, but you learn about an updated driver that adds new features. You download and install the new driver.

After you restart and sign in to Windows, you can no longer play audio files. Using minimal administrative effort, you need to find a solution so you are able to play audio.

Which should you do?

You install a new internal sound card in your Windows system. After you reboot and install the driver, the device does not appear to be working. You need to view information for the device and perform troubleshooting steps.

What should you do first?

Two devices connected to your computer are not working properly. You suspect the devices are using the same system resources, and this is creating a conflict.

How can you verify whether or not the devices are conflicting with each other? (Select two. Each answer is a complete solution.)

You updated a driver from the manufacturer's website, and now it is making you system unstable. You have decided to restore your system to a restore point. Which two options allow you access the restore points on your system?

An employee in your organization has started to work from home two days a week. The employee uses the same company laptop at the office and at home. The laptop automatically connects to the wireless network in the office, but it does not automatically connect to the employee's home wireless network. The employee would like the laptop to connect automatically both at home and at work.

What should you do?

You manage a small network with Windows clients, multiple subnets, and servers. You want your computer to be able to resolve a hostname for a server on your network to its IPv4 address.

Which should you do? (Select two. Each answer is a complete solution.)

Which block of addresses is defined for use with Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)?

You have a Windows laptop that uses DHCP for IPv4 addressing information. You need to see the IPv4 address, subnet mask, and DNS server addresses that the network connection is currently using.

Which of the following actions should you take? (Select two. Each answer is a complete solution.)

You have a computer that runs Windows and is connected to a domain network with a DHCP server. One day you find that your computer cannot connect to any network resources. You run the ipconfig command and find that the network connection has been assigned the address of 169.254.12.155 with a mask of 255.255.0.0.

Which of the following actions should you take?

You have a computer running Windows that is connected to a domain network.

After reconfiguring the static address of an internal web server named WEB3, your computer can no longer connect to WEB3. But other users are still able to connect to the same web server. You need to be able to connect to the website on the WEB3 server.

Which of the following actions should you take?

Which of the following tools log significant events on a computer, such as when a process encounters an error?

Your Windows system has an application installed on it that you no longer need.

What should you do?

Several weeks ago, you installed a desktop application on your Windows system using the default parameters suggested by the application installer. After using the application for a time, you realize that you need an optional application feature that wasn't included in the default installation.

You have opened the Settings app and have navigated to the Apps & features page. You have also selected the application.

Using the least amount of effort, what would you do to add the optional features?

Several weeks ago, you installed a desktop application on your Windows system. Yesterday, you installed another desktop application on your system that was developed in-house. After doing so, you notice that the first application behaves erratically and frequently locks up.

You have opened Control Panel on your Windows system, accessed Programs and Features, and selected the application.

What should you do?

What are the most common types of files used to install Windows desktop applications? (Select two.)

How do you configure your Windows system to prompt for additional credentials whenever a sensitive action is taken?

Prior to installing some software on your Windows system, you turn off User Account Control (UAC), reboot the computer, and install the software. You turn UAC back on, but it does not prompt you before performing sensitive actions.

How do you make UAC protection work again?

In the User Account Control policy settings for Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users, which options can be configured? (Select two.)

Your office computer (from which you perform your day-to-day tasks) is a Windows system. You are currently signing into this computer using the account named Mary. However, this computer is also a member of the company's domain.

Using the least amount of effort possible, you want to ensure that every time you connect to a shared folder on Server1, you authenticate by using an account named Admin.

What should you do to accomplish this?

Which of the following terms is a collection of a user's personal settings and data files?

As an IT admin, you have 6 employees that all need the same level of access to the same resources.

Using the least amount of effort, which of the following can be used to accomplish this?

You are creating a new standard user on a Windows 10 system.

By default, to which of the following groups will that user be automatically added?

You are using Credential Manager to store usernames and passwords.

Which of the following protected areas is used to store this information?

An employee was just fired. Before he returned his Windows notebook, he assigned the Deny Full control permission to the group named Everyone. This affected all the files and folders on the system. All users, including you, are now blocked from accessing these important files.

As an administrator, what can you do to make these files available as quickly as possible?

You share a single Windows system with Judith and Dalton.

You are the owner of the D:\Reports folder. Judith needs to be able to see the files and subfolders in the D:\Reports folder. Dalton needs these abilities as well as the ability to delete folders.

Which rights must you assign to each user to give them the necessary NTFS permissions to the D:\Reports folder?

You have created a new folder and added the Authenticated Users group. Which basic permissions will be applied by default? (Select three.)

You have a folder on your Windows desktop system that you would like to share with members of your development team. Users need to be able to view and edit any file in the shared folder.

You share the folder and give the Everyone Full Control permission to the shared folder. Users connect to the shared folder and report that they can open the files, but they cannot modify any of the files.

What should you do?

What setting allows the computer hosting the share to be located by a remote system?

You have a folder on your Windows system that you would like members of your development team to access. You want to restrict network and local access to only specific users. All other users must not be able to view or modify the files in the folder.

What should you do? (Select two.)

What are the profile choices when sharing folders? (Select three.)

You have been put in charge of providing a VPN solution for employees who work remotely. When these employees change locations, they lose their VPN connection. You want them to automatically reconnect if the VPN connection is lost or disconnected.

Which VPN security protocol supports the VPN Reconnect functionality?

You are a new system administrator, and your company has just mandated that users need to work from home and connect to files and folders on the network.

Which option will allow users to connect to the corporate network remotely and securely?

Your remote users run a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application that requires access to certain files on a network share each time it runs. What would you implement in order for your remote users to make sure that network resources are always available when they run that application?

You want to protect all the files on the hard drive of your Windows notebook system to prevent unauthorized access. You want to prevent access to any encrypted file on the hard drive, even if the hard drive is moved to another computer.

Which feature should you implement?

You are getting ready to install Windows 10 on a new laptop. You would like to configure the laptop to use BitLocker.

How can you configure the laptop to start without requiring a PIN or a USB device? (Select two. Each answer is part of the complete solution.)

You have previously installed Windows 10 on two new computers and configured both computers with BitLocker. Both computers have a TPM installed.

Because of a hardware failure, one of the computers will not boot. You replace the failed hardware, but now BitLocker is preventing the system from starting because it has failed the startup system integrity checks.

Which of the following options would you use to reconfigure BitLocker so the system will start?

You have just installed Windows 10 a new notebook. The notebook does not have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip.

You want to configure the computer to use BitLocker to protect the volume used for the operating system and all user data.

What should you do? (Select two. Each correct answer is complete solution.)

You have been given a USB drive that has been encrypted with BitLocker To Go.

Which of the following options is required before you can access the data from this drive on a Windows 10 computer? (Select two. Each answer is a complete solutions.)