The Windows XP boot process uses ___________ to track all of the installed operating systems.

You can right-click on an item in the ___________________ tab of the Task Manager to see the associated services

1. Which of the following tabs is not found in the Task Manager?
A. Applications
B. Processes
C. Services
D. Objects

6. Which of the following are organized inside the Registry’s root keys? (Select two.)
A. Subkeys
B. Subfolders
C. Values
D. Objects

11. From which tab in the Task Manager can you set priority and affinity from a context menu?
A. Services
B. Applications
C. Performance
D. Processes

_______________ is a command-line version of the Task Manager.

Windows 7 uses _______________, instead of ntldr, to boot the OS.

2. Which of the following root keys contains the data for a system’s non-user-specific configurations?
A. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
B. HKEY_USERS
C. HKEY_CURRENT_USER
D. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

7. Which of the following programs reads the boot.ini file to launch Windows XP?
A. Reliability and Performance Monitor
B. bootmgr
C. ntldr
D. Tasklist

12. What is the name of the coding standard that enables programmers to write databases and applications that interact independently of the operating system used?
A. Open Database Connectivity
B. Services
C. Component Services
D. Reliability and Performan

The _____________________ tab in the Task Manager displays overall CPU and memory usage.

The __________________ tracks everything about your computer, from file types to user preferences

3. What replaced the role of boot.ini in the Windows Vista/7 boot process?
A. processes
B. ntldr
C. Boot Configuration Data
D. Data Sources

8. Which of the following options are available when you right-click on a process in the Task Manager’s Processes tab? (Select two.)
A. Start Service
B. Go to Service(s)
C. Go To Process
D. Set Priority

13. How do you open the Registry Editor from the command prompt? (Select two.)
A. regedit
B. regedt32
C. regeditor
D. rgstry

The Performance console requires a ____________________ and an _______________ to create logs about resource usage

ou can open the _______________________ directly by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-ESC.

4. What is the name of the command-line command for killing tasks?
A. kill
B. taskkill
C. processkill
D. appkill

9. Mark wants to monitor a PC that’s been having performance issues overnight. He needs something that will record the data while he’s away from the computer. Which tool should he use?
A. Performance Logs and Alerts
B. Task Manager
C. System Monitor
D. Re

15. Which of the following key combinations opens the Task Manager?
A. CTRL-ALT-SHIFT
B. SHIFT-F5
C. CTRL-SHIFT-ESC
D. WINDOWS

When you open the Registry Editor, you will see the five ____________________ on the left side of the window.

When programmers need to use objects across multiple applications, they turn to __________________________________

5. With what is every application and service in Windows associated?
A. An object
B. A counter
C. A component
D. A process

10. Which of the following statements about booting in Windows 7 is true?
A. BIOS does not use bootmgr.
B. UEFI looks for the MBR, which finds the boot code that launches bootmgr.
C. BIOS looks for the MBR, which finds the boot code that launches bootmgr.

If ntldr determines that you have chosen to start Windows XP, it boots the system into protected mode and then calls on ___________ to detect the installed hardware on the system.