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

23-2 Chapter 23 Implementing, Managing, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices and Drivers
❑ Practice 3: Change the drive letter of your CD-ROM disk to T: and then
change it back.
❑ Practice 4: On a test computer with multiple hard disks, upgrade a basic disk
other than the system disk to a dynamic disk. Afterward, note whether you
can downgrade the disk back to a basic disk.
Important For the following task, you should complete at least Practices 1 and 2. If you
want hands-on experience with every aspect of the exam and you have the extra lab
resources needed to do Practice 3, complete Practice 3 as well.
■ Implement, manage, and troubleshoot display devices.
❑ Practice 1: Change the refresh rate on your video adapter. Note the difference
between high and low refresh rates. Afterward, reset the refresh rate to the
highest rate supported by your monitor.
❑ Practice 2: Open Internet Explorer, maximize the window, and visit the http://
www.microsoft.com Web site. Then, use the Display Properties dialog box to
adjust your monitor to several different resolutions. At each resolution, notice
how the Web page appears different. Note the resolution that is the easiest to
read while still enabling Internet Explorer to display the entire width of the
Web page without scrolling left and right.
❑ Practice 3: On a test computer with one video adapter, install a second video
adapter and video monitor; configure the computer for multiple monitors.
■ Configure Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI).
❑ Practice 1: Check to see whether your computer is an ACPI system. Compare
an ACPI-compatible with one that is not compatible.
❑ Practice 2: Review the various Power Schemes; create and test a custom
Power Scheme.
❑ Practice 3: Enable hibernation, and then hibernate your computer.
■ Implement, manage, and troubleshoot input and output (I/O) devices.
❑ Practice 1: Install Plug and Play hardware such as a digital camera, scanner,
and network card into an existing Windows XP Professional computer.
❑ Practice 2: Open Device Manager and inspect the properties of all the objects
displayed there. Run the hardware troubleshooter for some of the devices by
clicking the Troubleshoot button on the General tab of the device’s Properties
window.
❑ Practice 3: Familiarize yourself with the other tools available for troubleshooting
hardware, such as Dxdiag.exe, Winmsd.exe, Sigverif.exe, and Verifier.exe.