MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing ...

21-20 Chapter 21 Installing Windows XP Professional (1.0)
Objective 1.2 Questions
1. You were recently hired as part of a systems administration team at a medium-sized
company. Your manager has asked you to install Windows XP Professional on 25 identical
new desktop computers for the Accounts Receivable department in your firm. To
date, your colleagues have been manually installing Windows XP Professional and the
suite of applications on each computer as they arrive, carefully following written stepby-step
instructions. The process has been tedious and slow, and users have had problems
with new computers because of configuration errors caused by human error during
the installation process. You want to deploy the computers as efficiently as possible
with all the desktop applications that are required by the staff in Accounts Receivable
installed and configured. You also want to ensure that all 25 computers are configured
consistently.
You propose to do the following:
■ Manually install and configure Windows XP Professional and the required applications
on one of the new computers, meticulously following the existing step-bystep
instructions.
■ Use Setup Manager to fully automate the installation routine by creating an answer
file called Sysprep.inf.
■ Use a non-Microsoft imaging tool to create an image of the reference computer.
■ Use the imaging tool to copy the image from the reference computer to the
remaining computers.
What critical step is missing from your proposal? Choose the correct answer.
A. Use Setup Manager to create a UDF file with unique settings for each of the 25
computers.
B. Create RIS boot disks so that the computers can connect to the RIS server to download
the disk image.
C. Use the SysPrep utility to prepare the reference computer for imaging.
D. Install PXE-compliant network cards into each computer so that they can connect
to the RIS server to download the disk image.
2. You are creating an automated installation of Windows XP Professional for 30 computers.
You want to accomplish the following.
■ Assign a unique computer name to each computer
■ Ensure that all computers have the same display settings, time zone configured,
default user name, and organization name entered