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

24-2 Chapter 24 Monitoring and Optimizing System Performance and Reliability
❑ Practice 4: Use the Performance console to monitor real-time performance
information about several different counters simultaneously.
❑ Practice 5: Gather processor utilization information over several hours, and
then analyze that information using the Performance console.
❑ Practice 6: Configure Scheduled Tasks to perform a complete disk defragmentation
weekly, but only if the computer is idle. Configure the task to wake the
computer if necessary.
❑ Practice 7: Run the AT command without any parameters to view scheduled
tasks. Schedule a task to run daily using the AT command.
■ Manage, monitor, and optimize system performance for mobile users.
❑ Practice 1: On a portable computer, manually set the hardware profile for
both docked and undocked configurations.
❑ Practice 2: Create a new hardware profile and disable noncritical drivers for
that profile.
❑ Practice 3: Adjust the power scheme on a computer to a variety of different
settings and observe how the computer’s behavior is changed. Create a custom
power scheme.
■ Restore and back up the operating system, System State data, and user data.
Further Reading
❑ Practice 1: Perform a complete system backup using the Backup Utility.
❑ Practice 2: Save the current system configuration using the System Restore
tool, and then restore the system configuration to its previous state.
❑ Practice 3: Boot the computer using the Last Known Good Configuration.
❑ Practice 4: Boot the computer using safe mode.
❑ Practice 5: Install the Recovery Console as an option on the boot menu. Then,
launch the Recovery Console using the Microsoft Windows XP Professional
CD and examine the available commands by executing the HELP command.
Examine each command in detail by typing the name of each command followed
by /?. Finally, edit the Boot.ini system file using the Recovery Console.
This section lists supplemental readings by objective. We recommend that you study
these sources thoroughly before taking exam 70-270.
Objective 4.1 Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource
Kit Documentation. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2001. Read sections covering
Task Manager, Performance Monitor, and Disk Defragmenter in Appendix D,
“Tools for Troubleshooting” (available online at http://www.microsoft.com/
resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmb_tol_cfbi.asp).