In the middle of installing a new PC with Windows NT Workstation, the SETUP program indicates there is an error on the first boot floppy disk. You have pulled the disk out, shaken it, blown on it and tried to read from it again, but the SETUP program insists there is an error.

Required result

Continue with the installation routine.

Optional desired result

Continue the installation routine without restarting SETUP.

In the middle of installing a new PC with Windows NT Workstation, the SETUP program indicates there is an error on the first boot floppy disk. You have pulled the disk out, shaken it, blown on it and tried to read from it again, but the SETUP program insists there is an error.

Required result

Continue with the installation routine.

Optional desired result

Continue the installation routine without restarting SETUP.

As the network administrator for a Windows NT network, you are also responsible for rolling out new client PCs. You recently received three new PCs without operating systems. You begin installing Windows NT Workstation using the options your company has standardized on. Your Windows NT Network uses TCP/IP and a DHCP server assigns the IP addresses over an Ethernet backbone. After you finish the installation the Windows NT Workstation cannot communicate with the network.

Required result

Users in your department print to a laser printer that is connected to your computer via a parallel port. The laser printer is shared on your Windows NT Workstation and is used by Windows NT Workstation and Windows 95 clients. Both types of users noticed today that their print jobs are coming out garbled.

Required result

Ensure the printer issue is not related to network communications.

Optional desired results

A recent failure of a Windows NT Workstation in your department required a total rebuild of the operating system due to a corrupted registry. Each of the Windows NT Workstations in your department are configured as a 333 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, one four gigabyte IDE drive with a single IDE partition and a 10 MBPS Ethernet card.

Required result

Ensure each of the Windows NT Workstations in your department has a current Emergency Repair Disk.

Optional Desired Results

As a web developer, it is important that your Windows NT Workstation supplies the best possible performance. You have just installed a new web-authoring package and are not happy with performance. Your Internet connection, a 512K Frame Relay connection, has not changed.

Required result

Monitor the Windows NT Workstation for CPU bottlenecks.

Optional desired results

Monitor the Windows NT Workstation for TCP/IP bottlenecks.

Topic: Identify and resolve a given performance problem. A new web development package you have installed on your Windows NT Workstation seems to have slowed processing speed on your Windows NT Workstation. Your Windows NT Workstation is configured as a 400MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, one nine-gigabyte SCSI hard drive with three NTFS partitions and a 100 MBPS Ethernet card.

Required result

Identify a CPU bottleneck.

Optional desired result

Identify a disk bottleneck.

Develop a baseline of results to base your claims of a CPU bottleneck.

With a 266 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, one two-gigabyte hard drive with a single NTFS partition and a 10 MBPS Ethernet card running Windows NT Workstation, you are very aware your computer is no longer cutting edge. You want to create a baseline of your computer’s performance, so you can demonstrate the need for a new computer during the next budget cycle. You have not performed any monitoring in the past, so you would like to capture statistics on two critical system areas.

Required result

Your Windows NT Workstation seems to have really slowed down in the last week. Tasks that happened in a split second now take up to five seconds to complete. You are concerned a program you installed may be causing an issue.

Required result

Display a list of all running processes on your computer.

Optional desired result

Display a list of all running programs on your computer.

Display the amount of free memory available.

Proposed solution

Log onto your Windows NT Workstation.