Microsoft Windows Basics Quiz for Beginner

1) A program in execution is a _________

1. Process
2. DLL
3. Thread
4. Event

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2) Windows OS uses a paging file for virtual memory called _________

1. sys
2. . config.sys
3. sys
4. ini

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3) The lowest layer of the Windows OS architecture is ___________

1. HAL
2. . Executive
3. Device Drivers
4. Kernel

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4) If physical storage is allocated for the page of a process’s virtual address space, then the page is said to be in which of the following state?

1. Free
2. Committed
3. Reserved
4. None of the above

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5) Kernel32.dll in windows runs in _________

1. kernel mode
2. both user and kernel mode
3. user mode
4. None of the above. It has its own special privilege mode

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6) _________ allows programs to access memory larger than physical memory

1. Virtual memory
2. Memory mapped files
3. Shared memory
4. Fragmentation

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7) A Process has which of the following?

1. Virtual Address Space
2. Executable Code
3. Primary Thread
4. All of the above

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8) ________ is a system file containing the contents of virtual pages that have been paged out of memory

1. Page map
2. Paged pool
3. Page frame
4. Paging file

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9) A file in which much of the data is zeros is called a ___________

1. System File
2. Log File
3. Binary File
4. Sparse File

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10) Each process on a 32 bit Windows has a virtual address space of ———-

1. 4 GigaBytes
2. 4 TeraBytes
3. 2 GigaBytes
4. 8 TeraBytes

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11) What is EPROCESS?

1. It is a special process that runs as a service
2. It is an application that manages all processes
3. It is an executive process block that represents a Windows process
4. It is a structure used by certain processes

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12) __________ prevents the replacement of essential system files installed as part of Windows

1. Authentication
2. Windows File Protection(WFP)
3. File system drivers
4. Windows management Instrumentation(WMI)

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13) _______________is Microsoft’s directory service for the Windows architecture

1. Microsoft Directory
2. Windows Diretctory
3. Active Directory
4. None of the above

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14) ____________subtree in Windows Registry contains information about the local computer system, including hardware and operating system data.

1. HKEY_CURRENT_SYSTEM
2. HKEY_SYSTEM_CONFIG
3. HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

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15) __________are the lowest-level element in the Windows Registry.

1. Hives
2. Values
3. Entries
4. All of the above

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16) 64-bit Microsoft Windows-based applications have a user-mode address space of ————–

1. 4 GigaBytes
2. 8 TeraBytes
3. 2 GigaBytes
4. 4 TeraBytes

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17) A hard disk consists of one or more logical regions called ———-

1. Sectors
2. Fragments
3. Frames
4. Partitions

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18) Ability of an operating system to run multiple programs concurrently
 

1. Multiprogramming
2. Multithreading
3. Multitasking
4. All of the above

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19) DHCP provides

1. Dynamic IP address assignment
2. Static IP address assignment
3. Dynamic IP address verification
4. Static IP address verification

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20) Dynamic Linked Library is a module that contains functions and data that can be used by another module

1. True
2. FALSE
3. May be True
4. Can’t determine

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21) Each time a file is opened, the system places the file pointer at the ———-

1. byte last written
2. end of the file
3. byte last read
4. beginning of the file

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22) Files are securable objects. Choose the correct option for this statement.

1. FALSE always
2. Depends upon their type
3. Depends upon their creation
4. TRUE always

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23) How do you lock your comupter

1. Press Ctrl, Del and Alt keys together
2. Press Windows and ‘L’ keys together
3. Select Lock option from start menu
4. All of the above

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24) Howmany subtrees are present in  Windows Registry

1. 4
2. 5
3. 6
4. 7

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25) In the intel x86 architecture, the system services and device drivers run in which mode?

1. Ring 3
2. Ring 0
3. Ring 1
4. Ring 2

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26) LmHosts file maps

1. NetBIOS names of remote servers to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses with which you want to communicate over the TCP/IP protocol
2. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to NetBIOS names of remote servers with which you want to communicate over the TCP/IP protocol
3. NetBIOS names to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the system
4. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to NetBIOS names of the system

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27) On x86 computers, the host page size is __________

1. 8KB
2. 4KB
3. 8GB
4. 4GB

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28) The fundamental storage unit of all supported file systems is a ———-

1. Partition
2. Cluster
3. Sector
4. Frame

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29) The total amount of storage available to all executing processes is ______________________

1. Paging File alone
2. Sum of virtual memory and free space on disk available to the paging file
3. Sum of Virtual Memory and Physical memory
4. Sum of physical memory and free space on disk available to the paging file

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30) The virtual address space implemented in 64 bit versions of Windows is _________

1. 4 GB
2. 16 GB
3. 4 Terabytes
4. 16 Terabytes

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31) The virtual address translation to physical memory address is done by the ___________

1. Device driver
2. Memory Management Unit
3. Kernel
4. Application

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32) What is  DLL stands for

1. Data Linked Library
2. Dynamic Linked Library
3. Domain Linked Library
4. Data lineage library

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33) What is the best way to terminate a unresponsive program on your computer

1. Task Manager -> Processes -> Select process -> End Process
2. Task Manager -> Applications -> Select Application -> End Task
3. Both A &B
4. None of the above

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34) What is the name of the command line utility to open registry editor

1. exe
2. exe
3. Regedit.exe
4. exe

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35) Which is a core Win32 subsystem component?

1. dll
2. dll
3. exe
4. Gdi32.dll

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36) Which is the system file that contains the kernel mode portion of the Win32 Subsystem?

1. dll
2. ntoskrnl.exe
3. dll
4. sys

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37) Which of the following API can be used to Open an existing file?

1. CreateFile
2. ReadFile
3. CopyFile
4. None of the above

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38) Which of the following are the modes present in Windows Architecture?

1. User Mode
2. Kernel Mode
3. Both a) and b)
4. None of the above

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39) Which of the following commands allows you to see a list of shares on a remote computer?

1. NET SESSION \\ComputerName
2. NET USE \\ComputerName
3. NET SHARE sharename
4. NET VIEW
5. \\ComputerName

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40) Which of the following is a hidden share in Windows XP?

1. IPC$
2. ADMIN$
3. PRINT$
4. All of the above

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41) Which of the following is a Windows environment subsystem?

1. Win32
2. POSIX
3. OS/2
4. All of the above

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42) Which of the following statements in NOT true regarding file systems

1. Access to file and directory objects in NTFS can be restricted to specific users and groups
2. FAT is preferred file system on Windows 2003, 2000, XP
3. NTFS supports data Recovery and Roll back of operation in case of interruption
4. One of the main features of FAT is defragmentation

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43) Which of the following statements is TRUE?

1. The physical memory and virtual address space are of the same size
2. The virtual address space of each process is much larger than the total physical memory available to all processes
3. The physical memory is slightly larger than the virtual address space
4. Virtual address space and physical memory are one and the same

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44) Which of the following tools can be used to the view the process ids on a windows system?

1. exe
2. Process Explorer
3. Windows Task Manager
4. All of the above

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45) Which one of these does not run in kernel mode?

1. Device Drivers
2. Executive
3. Micro Kernel
4. Services

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46) Windows OS (2000 and above) supports 2 privilege levels. Which are they?

1. Ring 0 and Ring 1
2. Ring 1 and Ring 2
3. Ring 0 and Ring 2
4. Ring 0 and Ring 3

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47) Windows registry is a _________________ database

1. Relational
2. Hierarchical
3. Dimensional
4. Network

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48) Windows SDK GUI program follows ________

1. Event Driven Programming model
2. MFC Programming Model
3. WinForms Programming model
4. .NET Programming model

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49) Windows Task Manager provides information about

1. Programs and processes running on your computer
2. Status of the programs that are running
3. Users connected to your computer
4. All of the above

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50) You can use Performance Monitor to view performance data

1. Real time
2. From a log file
3. Both A &B
4. None of the above

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