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Book II
Lab 1-1: Identifying Motherboard Components
In this lab you will identify the major motherboard components on an older
motherboard shown in the following diagram. Locate the following items:
1. 30-pin SIMMs
2. 8-bit ISA slot
3. System BIOS
4. VESA slot
5. Processor
6. L2 cache
7. 16-bit ISA slot
8. 72-pin SIMMs
9. CMOS battery
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Lab1-1: Answer
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Speed
ISA
EISA
Data Path
Bus Mastering
Support
8-/16-bit
No
8 MHz
MCA
VESA
32-bit
PCI
AGP
PCIe
PCMCIA
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5. What is the maximum amount of memory that can be installed on the laptop?
Value
Amount of memory
Processor Specs
Memory (type and amount)
Cache memory
BIOS date
Parallel port mode
Hard drive size
First startup device
Second startup device
Third startup device
COM1 IRQ
COM2 IRQ
LPT1 IRQ
Virtualization Support?
Built-in network card? Enabled?
3. Find out how to change the values of particular settings in your CMOS setup
program by looking at the bottom of the screen for a legend. Changing the
value is often done by using left and right arrow keys or the page up and page
down buttons.
What method is used for changing values in CMOS?
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2. You are trying to boot off the network and have specified that the network will
be your first boot device, followed by the DVD drive and then your hard drive.
You cant seem to boot off the network. What is the most likely problem?
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3. You are running Windows Server 2008 and have installed the Hyper-V role, but
you get an error when trying to create a virtual machine. What might be the
cause of the problem?
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7. If you have a second hard disk and an IDE cable with three connectors, then
master and slave the two drives.
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Book III
Lab 3-1: Multi-Display Support in Windows
In this lab, you install a second video card in your system and configure Windows
for multi-display support. Multi-display support is a cool feature of Windows that
allows your Desktop to span multiple monitors. When your Desktop spans multiple
monitors, you can move applications from one monitor to the other - essentially
leveraging your screen space.
To configure multi-display support in Windows XP follow these steps:
1. Open your computer case and install an additional video adapter or connect
multiple monitors to the one video card if you have multiple video ports on the
video card.
You can find instructions for installing a video card in the Installing a video card
section.
2. Put the computer case back on and power on the system.
3. Plug a separate monitor into each of the two video cards.
4. Ensure that a driver is loaded for both video cards and monitors.
5. To enable multi-display support, right-click the Desktop and choose Properties.
6. In the Desktop Properties window, click the Advanced tab and select the second
monitor (contains the number 2 in the icon).
7. After you have highlighted the second monitor, select Extend My Windows
Desktop to This Monitor.
8. Click OK.
9. Start Internet Explorer, type www.gleneclarke.com in the address bar, and press
Enter.
10. After the Web site appears, restore the window and then move it to the
secondary monitor by clicking and dragging it.
11. Once Internet Explorer is on the secondary monitor maximize the Window.
12. Start your e-mail program and ensure it is running on the primary monitor.
You are now taking advantage of multi display - viewing two programs at one time
while maximizing screen space.
To configure multi-display support in Windows 7 follow these steps:
13. Open your computer case and install an additional video adapter or connect
multiple monitors to the one video card if you have multiple video ports on the
video card.
You can find instructions for installing a video card in the Installing a video card
section.
14. Put the computer case back on and power on the system.
15. Plug a separate monitor into each of the two video cards.
16. Ensure that a driver is loaded for both video cards and monitors.
17. To enable multi-display support, right-click the Desktop and choose Screen
Resolution.
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Device
IRQ
LPT1
Hard disk controller
System timer
COM1
COM2
Keyboard
Floppy disk controller
Math coprocessor
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I/O Address
LPT1
Hard disk controller
COM1
COM2
Floppy disk controller
Math coprocessor
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What IRQ settings will need to be assigned to the four devices to allow them all to
function at the same time?
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Book V
Lab 3-1: Installing Windows XP
In this lab you will boot off the Windows XP Professional CD and perform a clean
installation of the operating system.
1. Turn on the computer with the Windows XP CDROM in the CDROM tray.
Watch the screen and press any key to boot from CDROM when asked to.
2. Press Enter to install Windows.
3. Press c to continue if you are warned about the partition setup.
4. Press F8 to agree to the licensing information.
5. Choose c to create a partition. Type a partition size of 20000 MB. If you
dont have 20000 MB, go with 10000 MB.
6. Press enter on your newly created partition to install the operating system to
that partition.
7. Format the partition for NTFS.
8. After setup restarts and proceeds to the GUI install choose Next to accept the
Regional settings.
9. Type your Name and Organization and then choose Next.
10. Type your product key and then click Next.
11. Type XPPro as the computername and type P@ssw0rd as the password for the
administrator account. Keep in mind that in real life you should use a more
complicated password so that it cannot be guessed by intruders. Choose Next.
12. Choose your time zone and then choose Next.
13. Choose Next to accept the typical network settings.
14. Choose Next to make this system part of a workgroup called WORKGROUP.
15. Click Finish when setup is complete.
16. When the system reboots choose Next at the Network Identification wizard and
then choose that users must enter a unique username and password.
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This changes the file format to open with Notepad instead of WordPad.
15. Click OK and then OK and then Close in the consecutive dialog boxes to return
to the My Computer Window; then close the My Computer window.
16. Double-click the testfile.luk file on your desktop.
Did it open with Notepad? If not, repeat steps 8 15 to see what went wrong.
17. Delete the testfile.luk file from your desktop.
Lab 4-2: Setting and Working with File Attributes from the
CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 3rd Edition
By Glen E. Clarke and Ed Tetz
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Command Line
Lab 4-2 provides some practice working with attributes via the command line. For
this exercise, you need a computer running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or
Windows 7.
1. Open a command prompt by choosing Start-->(All) Programs-->Accessories->Command Prompt.
2. Create a new directory and four files on the root of one of your drives by typing
the following commands:
mkdir c:\attribtest
c:
cd \attribtest
dir c:\*.* >c:\attribtest\read.txt
dir c:\*.* >c:\attribtest\hidden.txt
dir c:\*.* >c:\attribtest\system.txt
dir c:\*.* >c:\attribtest\archive.txt
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+h
+s
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read.txt
hidden.txt
system.txt
archive.txt
4. Now remove the archive attribute from all files in the directory by using the
following command (record any errors):
attrib -a
10. Make any change to the file, when you finish editing the file, close and save
your changes by pressing Alt+F, S and then Alt+F, X.
11. Check the existing attributes on archive.txt by typing attrib archive.txt.
archive.txt should now have the Archive attribute set on it again.
12. Delete all of the files in the attribtest directory by using this command:
del c:\attribtest\*.*
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Book VI
Lab 1-1: Examining Driver Resource Settings with Device
Manager
Lab 1-1 will guide you through examining the resources that are in use by your
network card. In this exercise, you can use either Windows XP, Windows Vista, or
Windows 7.
1. Open Device Manager.
On Windows XP, follow these steps:
1. Choose Start -->Control Panel -->System.
2. From the System Properties dialog, choose the Hardware tab and click the
Device Manager button.
On Windows Vista or Windows 7, follow these steps:
1. Choose Start.
2. Right-click on Computer and choose Properties.
3. From the System Properties window, choose the Device Manager link in the lefthand panel.
2. Expand the Network Adapters section.
3. Right click on your network card and select Properties.
This will open the Properties dialog for your network card.
4. Select the Resources tab and record the following settings (if available):
Memory Range:________________
Input/Output Range:________________
Interrupt Request:________________
Direct Memory Access:________________
5. Close the Network Card Properties window and the associated windows.
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Warning
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Technical Stuff
The WindowsMetrics section deals with sizing and spacing of various Windows
components, such as icons and menus.
The values in this file represent your current Desktop settings.
8. Edit this file, deleted all the lines except for the following lines, and change the
lines to match as written in the following:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="c:\\labfiles\\NewDesk.bmp"
"TileWallpaper"="1"
When specifying file paths in the Registry Editor, you type paths normally, but
when using Registry export files, you must double the backslashes that are used in
the path because the backslash is used as a control character in the key names.
9. Save the file by choosing File-->Save, and close Notepad by choosing File->Exit.
10. Import file C:\labfiles\desktop_reg.txt into your registry by choosing Start->Run, type regedit.exe C:\labfiles\desktop_reg.txt and click OK.
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You should take note of the changes in the MsgBox command. You will take the
input from the MsgBox command (the button that was clicked) and place it in a
variable named RunProg. This is also the reason there is a pair of parentheses
because youre getting input.
11. Run the script and click the buttons. Currently these buttons do not do
anything other than close the dialog.
12. Now add the following lines to the end of your script file to create a shell-level
object that will be called upon to make the shortcut:
Dim WSH
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13. Declare your variables by adding the following line to the script file:
Dim NewShortcut, ShortcutName, DesktopLocation
14. Find out where the current Desktop folder is by adding the following line to the
script file:
DesktopPath = WSH.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
15. Prompt the user for a name to be given to their new Shortcut to Notepad by
adding this:
ShortcutName = InputBox("What would you like to name the
Shortcut to Notepad?","Need Info")
If ShortcutName = "" Then ShortcutName = "Shortcut to Notepad"
The InputBox command is similar to MsgBox in that the parameters are body text
and title. The result of what is typed in is stored in a variable named ShortcutName.
If no name is typed, then the name will be Shortcut to Notepad.
16. Finally, create the shortcut on the Desktop with the .lnk extension:
Set NewShortcut = WSH.CreateShortcut(DesktopLocation & "\" & ShortcutName & ".lnk")
NewShortcut.TargetPath = WSH.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%windir%\notepad.exe")
NewShortcut.WorkingDirectory = WSH.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%windir%")
NewShortcut.WindowStyle = 4
NewShortcut.IconLocation = WSH.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%windir%\notepad.exe, 0")
NewShortcut.Save
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5. Type the following line and review the output to become familiar with the
options:
expand /?
When you examine the options that are available, you will notice that the expand
command works to extract files from within cabinet files as well.
6. Search the source directory for files that are used by Freecell by typing dir /w
/on freecell.*.
This should provide a list of three files: freecell.ex_, freecell.ch_, and freecell.hl_.
These files are actually freecell.exe, freecell.chm, and freecell.hlp. The .hlp file is
the help file, the .chm file is a compiled help file (that has the Explorer interface),
and the .exe file is the executable itself.
7. Expand the executable into your new destination directory by typing the
following command:
expand freecell.ex_ c:\labfiles\winxp\freecell.exe
You should note that if you do not know what the destination filenames are suppose
to be, you could use the -r option and only specify the destination directory, as in
the following example:
expand -r freecell.ex_ c:\labfiles\winxp
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Book VII
Lab 2-1: Restarting the Print Spooler from the Command
Prompt
Lab 2-1 provides practice restarting the print spooler via the command prompt. This
lab requires a Windows XP, Window Vista, or Windows 7 computer.
1. Start up Windows and log in.
2. Open a new command prompt by choosing Start-->(All) Programs->Accessories-->Command Prompt.
3. Find out or confirm the proper name of the Print Spooler service by typing net
start, and locate it in the list of services.
4. Verify the correct syntax of the net command by typing net stop /?.
5. Stop the print spooler by typing net stop "print spooler".
After a few seconds, the print spooler should be stopped.
6. Restart the print spooler by typing net start "print spooler".
After a few seconds, the print spooler should be running. This is the same process
that should be followed when the spooler stalls.
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Book VIII
Lab 1-1: Identifying Network Architectures
The following lab reviews your knowledge of the different types of network
architectures. The following table summarizes the different network architectures.
Please fill in the blanks.
Architecture
Topology
Cabling
Access Method
Speed
Token Ring
10Base2
10BaseT
CSMA/CD
Star
10Base5
10 Mbps
100BaseT
1000BaseSX
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Book IX
Lab 2-1: Creating Users and Groups
In this lab, you create three user accounts and two groups. You create a user account
for Anita Watchmaker, Bill OSale, and Sally Forth. You also create a group for the
accountants and for the marketing personnel. To create the users in Windows XP
follow these steps:
1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and choose Manage.
2. Expand Local Users and Groups and then select the Users folder.
3. Right-click the Users folder and choose New User.
4. Create user accounts for Anita, Bill, and Sally with logon names built from
their first initial plus their last name. Enter their full names and assign a
password of P@ssw0rd for each account.
5. After you have created the three user accounts, select the Groups folder and
then right-click the Groups folder and choose New Group.
6. Create a group called Accountants and add the Anita Watchmaker account to
the group.
7. Create a group called Marketing and add Bill and Sally to the Marketing group.
8. Close Computer Management.
To create the users in Windows 7 follow these steps:
9. Click Start, right-click Computer, and choose Manage.
10. Expand Local Users and Groups and then select the Users folder.
11. Right-click the Users folder and choose New User.
12. Create user accounts for Anita, Bill, and Sally with logon names built from
their first initial plus their last name. Enter their full names and assign a
password of P@ssw0rd for each account.
13. After you have created the three user accounts, select the Groups folder and
then right-click the Groups folder and choose New Group.
14. Create a group called Accountants and add the Anita Watchmaker account to
the group.
15. Create a group called Marketing and add Bill and Sally to the Marketing group.
16. Close Computer Management.
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