Tutorial 5

1. You have a PC with 486DX 66-MHz processor with 32 MB of RAM, 160-MB hard drive, and a
monitor with a maximum resolution of 800 x 600. If you can afford to upgrade one component of
the PC. Which component is most essential to upgrade in order to successfully run Windows 98?

2. Which two files are required for a Windows 98 system to be successfully uninstalled?

3. When is the FAT created in a Windows 98 system?

4. How is a device that has been disabled shown in the Control Panel?

5. A hard drive is divided into chunks of 512 bytes each. Which term describes these chunks?

6. You wish to upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 98. Which file on the Windows 98 CD-ROM
should you run to upgrade the system?

7. Which type of format routine marks off the disk into sectors and cylinders and defines their
placement on the disk?

8. You wish to upgrade your Windows ME to Windows XP. What is the recommended upgrade
procedure?

9. Which utility allows you to control the system startup of Windows 98 by giving quick access to
CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, and other important configuration
files?

10. Which undocumented Windows 98 command do you used to repair the master boot record of a
disk partition?

11. Where in Windows 9x would you access information on the status of a print job?

12. What is the name of the hierarchical database containing all of the information needed by the
Windows operating system?