Question 1

32-bit Windows XP editions allocate each process a ________GB virtual address space of which ________GB are reserved as system space.

Accepted Answer

A)   4; 1
B)   4; 2
C)   6; 3
D)   16; 2E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 2

________ provides directory services for shared objects (e.g., files, printers, services, users, etc.)  on a network.

Accepted Answer

A)   Active Directory
B)   Lightweight Data Access Protocol (LDAP) 
C)   Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) 
D)   .NETE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

________ is a Windows XP design goal inherited from the corporate line of Windows operating systems.

Accepted Answer

A)   A user-friendly GUI
B)   Data reliability
C)   Advanced multimedia support
D)   Hard real time guaranteesE) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 4

The ________ is not a Windows XP thread state.

Accepted Answer

A)   valid state
B)   ready state
C)   standby state
D)   waiting stateE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 5

A(n)  ________ comprises a user's credentials on a Windows XP system.

Accepted Answer

A)   password
B)   username, password and access token
C)   username and password
D)   access tokenE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 6

How do job objects facilitate resource management for servers?

Accepted Answer

A)   A server can group all the processes dedicated to servicing a client's request (or all clients' requests)  in a job object and restrict the resources (e.g., processor time and working set size)  allocated to those processes.
B)   A server can queue work items to a job object, which dispatches one of its dedicated system worker threads to fulfill the request. This frees the server from unnecessarily creating and terminating threads for each client request.
C)   A server can register a job object with an I/O completion port. When an I/O for a file associated with the port completes, the job object dispatches one of its dedicated system worker threads to complete I/O processing, freeing the server from this responsibility.
D)   all of the aboveE) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 7

________ will not cause a process to terminate.

Accepted Answer

A)   A process's parent process terminates.
B)   All of process's threads terminate.
C)   One of the process's threads directs the process to terminate.
D)   The user in whose context the process executes logs off.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 8

The ________ interacts with device drivers to fulfill I/O requests.

Accepted Answer

A)   plug and play manager
B)   I/O manager
C)   power manager
D)   I/O worker threadE) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 9

________ is not a type of system worker thread.

Accepted Answer

A)   Asynchronous
B)   Delayed
C)   Critical
D)   HypercriticalE) C) and D)
F) B) and D) A

Question 10

A(n)  ________ provides a method for unidirectional communication between one server process and many client processes.

Accepted Answer

A)   named pipe
B)   unnamed pipe
C)   region of shared memory
D)   mailslotE) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 11

A(n)  ________ for an interrupt stores interrupt-related information, such as the specific DIRQL at which the interrupt executes, the interrupt vector of the interrupt and the address of the ISR.

Accepted Answer

A)   I/O completion routine
B)   interrupt object
C)   deferred procedure call (DP
C)  
D)   interrupt dispatch table (IDT) E) C) and D)
F) A) and C) B

Question 12

The benefit of using the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS)  is that ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   each system using NDIS employs the same network and transport protocols, improving interoperability between diverse systems
B)   drivers that follow NDIS fulfill all the requirements for network drivers and support plug and play (PnP)  by default
C)   NDIS hides the differences in network and transport protocols between diverse systems, allowing them to communicate regardless of the protocols they use
D)   NDIS drivers are portable because they each implement a standard interface, facilitating driver swappingE) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 13

When does the object manager delete an object?

Accepted Answer

A)   When all handles to the object are closed.
B)   When the thread that created the object calls the delete function.
C)   Objects are never deleted unless system memory is low.
D)   When the object's reference count drops to zero.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 14

Why might a kernel-mode component need to create a system thread or queue a work item to a system worker thread?

Accepted Answer

A)   The component must perform work not requested by a user thread (e.g., flushing dirty pages to disk) .
B)   The component is unable to perform all interrupt processing at an elevated IRQL.
C)   The component must share handles with a user-mode process.
D)   Both a and b.E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

.NET services interoperable and portable because ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   they support COM interfaces
B)   clients communicate with .NET servers through native API calls, regardless of whether the service is on the local computer or a remote computer
C)   clients communicate with .NET servers using XML messages which any computer can interpret because they are just text (i.e., not language or platform specific) 
D)   clients and servers of .NET services communicate using IDL, which is The Open Group's Distributed Computing Environment (DC
E)   standard for RPC interoperabilityE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 16

Mapping views of files provides which additional benefit(s)  beyond sharing memory?

Accepted Answer

A)   faster random I/O
B)   faster sequential I/O
C)   more efficient caching
D)   all of the aboveE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 17

A thread gains access to a resource with a nonempty discretionary access control list (DACL)  if ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the first ACE (access control entry)  in the resource's DACL that matches one of the SIDs in the thread's access token grants that security principal access to the resource
B)   no ACE in the resource's DACL denies access to any of the SIDs in the thread's access token
C)   one of the ACEs in the resource's DACL that matches one of the SIDs in the thread's access token grants that security principal access to the resource
D)   for each SID in the thread's access token, there is an ACE in the resource's DACL that grants access to the resourceE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 18

________ is a file system supported by the default installation of Windows XP.

Accepted Answer

A)   FAT
B)   NTFS
C)   UDF
D)   all of the aboveE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 19

Asynchronous I/O available to Windows XP threads can be managed by ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   issuing the I/O request, performing some other processing and waiting on an event object to signal the completion of the I/O
B)   performing alertable I/O, in which case a thread issues the I/O request, performs some other processing and then enters an alertable wait state to process an APC associated with the I/O completion
C)   using an I/O completion port, enabling another thread that registered with the port and that is waiting for I/O completion packets to process them
D)   all of the above.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 20

A CIFS client uses a(n)  ________ to obtain exclusive access to a remote file, ensuring that the client can cache data locally and maintain cache coherency.

Accepted Answer

A)   spin lock
B)   cache lock
C)   opportunistic lock
D)   network lockE) All of the above
F) C) and D) C

Exam 21: In-Depth Analysis of Windows XP

32-bit Windows XP editions allocate each process a ________GB virtual address space of which ________GB are reserved as system space.

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________ provides directory services for shared objects (e.g., files, printers, services, users, etc.) on a network.

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________ is a Windows XP design goal inherited from the corporate line of Windows operating systems.

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The ________ is not a Windows XP thread state.

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A(n) ________ comprises a user's credentials on a Windows XP system.

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How do job objects facilitate resource management for servers?

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________ will not cause a process to terminate.

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The ________ interacts with device drivers to fulfill I/O requests.

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________ is not a type of system worker thread.

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A(n) ________ provides a method for unidirectional communication between one server process and many client processes.

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A(n) ________ for an interrupt stores interrupt-related information, such as the specific DIRQL at which the interrupt executes, the interrupt vector of the interrupt and the address of the ISR.

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The benefit of using the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) is that ________.

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When does the object manager delete an object?

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Why might a kernel-mode component need to create a system thread or queue a work item to a system worker thread?

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.NET services interoperable and portable because ________.

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Mapping views of files provides which additional benefit(s) beyond sharing memory?

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A thread gains access to a resource with a nonempty discretionary access control list (DACL) if ________.

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________ is a file system supported by the default installation of Windows XP.

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Asynchronous I/O available to Windows XP threads can be managed by ________.

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A CIFS client uses a(n) ________ to obtain exclusive access to a remote file, ensuring that the client can cache data locally and maintain cache coherency.

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