Question

1. Name a minimum of three advantages to using a Recovery Drive over just running diagnostic programs in Windows from your hard disk drive? Are there any disadvantages from using a Recovery Drive?
2. Why might you want to recover lost data before attempting to resolve a hard drive boot problem? List a minimum of two specific reasons.
3. If you were the PC support technician responsible for a computer in an office environment, what could you do to prevent a problem from happening in the future or limit its impact on users if it did happen? List a minimum of three specific items that could mitigate impact/problems.
4. You suspect that a computer is not booting because it is infected with a virus. So, you intend to remove the hard drive from this computer, and install/connect it to a second computer to recover the data. What should you ensure before installing the hard drive in your system for data recovery? Could this computer pose a problem on the local area network? If so, how (List a minimum of two specific reasons)?
5. Explain in your own words what the System File Checker is. Then provide the steps on how to access and use this tool.
6. Which Task Manager tab do you use to switch between applications and end a task? (Please provide the specific mouse clicks.)
7. How could you tell whether the processor had recently completed a period of intensive use but is now idle? (Please provide the specific mouse clicks.)
8. What specific term is used to refer to the specialized tools/components you can add to a console with the MMC? What are they used for? How do you add one of these components to the MMC? You can create any type that you wish. (Please provide the specific steps and mouse clicks.)
9. Based on the Event Viewer, what might be your first indication that a problem occurred after startup? (Please provide the specific mouse clicks.)

Answer 1

According to HomeworkLib policy I answer the first four questions.

Answer 1)

The three advantages are
1) Using recovery drive all the windows system files are restored successfully
2) Using recovery drive the virus files can be deleted but running diagnostic cant do that
3) Diagnostic program mainly runs on RAM so most problems are not solved but using Recovery disk every problem are solved by cleaning the old files with new one.

One disadvantage is

The applications like oracle etc which are installed cannot be restored by recovery drive, so we have to reinstall those applications.

Answer 2)

Two specific reasons are

1) Harddrive boot problem diagnostics software sometimes corrupt the boot sector, after that recovering data is not possible.
2) If the hard disk is corrupted logically then resolve a hard drive boot problem is not required, so recover lost data is more effective.

Answer 3)

1) First one is properly shutdown the OS, do not directly power off the system which can crash your system.
2) Do not insert pendrive in your office laptop or desktop which can be virus effected.
3) All the computers should be backedup by online or offline UPS.

Answer 4)

a) First I should check that my system has currently updated antivirus which can detect virus and I open my lan port so the virus cant effect the lan.
b) Yes it can pose if the antivirus is not installed.
i) If antivirus is not there then when we open the disk, the virus in the disk effect my system.
ii) Most of the virus are spread in LAN, so if the LAN port is opened then it will spread to other computers.