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15 Cards in this Set
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A powerful managment specification that far surpasses its predecessor, APM, by providig support for hot swappale devices and better control of power modes.
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Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
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A text file, also called a response file, which contains a set of instructions for installing Windows XP.
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Answer File
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The partition that hosts the main Windows XP system files and is the initial default location for the paging file. It can be the same partition as the system partition or it can be any other partition on logical drive on any drive hosted by the computer.
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Boot Partition
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An exact duplicate of a hard disk, used for automated installations. Using third-party software, this is copied from a reference computer that is configured in the same manner are the computer on which the OS will be installed.
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Disk Imaging
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The act of creating partitions on a physical hard drive.
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Disk Partitioning
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A server trhat has the Windows XP distribution files copied to a shared folder. The files in the folder can then be used to install XP over a network connection using either WINNT.EXE or WINNT32.EXE
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Distribution Server
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A collection of computers with centrally managed security and activities.
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Domain
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The 32-bit enhanced version of FT introduced by Windows 95 OSR2 that expands the file and volume size of FAT to 32 GB. It is one of the file systems supported by XP.
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FAT32
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A list maintained by Microsoft that lists all the hardware that is supported by an operating system.
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Hardware Compatibility List
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An allocation of disk space on a hard drive, using a drive letter. For example, a 50GB physcal drive could be partitioned into two logical drives: AC: drive, which might be 20G, and a D: drive, which might be 30GB.
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Logical Drive
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This utility scans computers for common security lapses and then generates individual security reports for each computer it scans.
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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
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A standard that is used to automatically deploy applications with Windows Installer packages. The program will have an extension of .msi.
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Microsoft Installer (MSI)
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The process of allowing a computer to boot multiple operating systems.
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Multi-booting
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The high-performance file system supported by Windows XP that offers file-level security, encryption, compression, auditing, Disk Quotas and more. Theoretically supports volumes up to 16 exabytes, but Microsoft recommends volumes not exceed 2 terabytes.
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New Technology File System (NTFS)
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A standard environment in PC98-compliant computers and network computers that can be used for a remote OS installation.
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Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE)
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