You probably work at a workstation, but how much do you really know about them? This quiz will assess your knowledge of key terms related to workstations and their various components
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1. This is a feature included in Microsoft's Windows 2000 server that
allows network administrators to install the Windows 2000 Professional
operating system and its upgrades to any number of workstations at one
time from a centralized location.
a. ATX
b. CPI
c. RIS
d. CPU
e. ALU
2. This feature is useful for downloading software updates or
reconfiguring computers during late-night hours when a company's computers
are usually turned off.
a. firmware
b. virtual
keyboard
c. standby
power
d. remote
wakeup
e. Power-On
Self-Test
3. On a workstation, this is a customized graphical user inferface
(GUI).
a. eye
candy
b. desktop
theme
c. Desktop
Management Interface
d. Personal
Home Page
e. chip
art
4. In the Windows 2000 operating system, this is a collection of
settings that define what a system will look like and how it will behave
for a select group of users.
a. Group
Policy Object
b. ASSP
c. impression
d. CISC
e. instantiation
5. This is the detailed recording and updating of information that
describes an enterprise's computer systems and networks, including all
workstations and their hardware and software components.
a. Master
Boot Record
b. boilerplate
c. configuration
management
d. Conversational
Monitor System
e. access
log
6. This product from Symantec can clone (copy) the entire contents of a
hard disk to another computer's hard disk, automatically formatting and
partitioning the target workstation.
a. ghost
b. port
replicator
c. carbon
copy
d. e-copy
e. hologram
7. This is a program that emulates the Windows OS on a Macintosh
computer.
a. iMac
b. Darwin
c. fat
Mac
d. Virtual
PC
e. crippleware
8. In a Windows NT environment, what the user sees on his or her
workstation, as well as what files, applications and directories they have
access to, is determined by how the network administrator has set up this.
a. user
profile
b. hardware
abstraction layer
c. LANDesk
Client Manager
d. InstallShield
e. localization
9. This management tool can be used in a classroom system where one PC
becomes the "master" of student computers, automatically reconfiguring
them or turning them off at night.
a. big-endian
and little-endian
b. Remote-control
software
c. reconfigurable
processor
d. Voodoo
e. distributed
file system
10. This is an open source graphical desktop environment for UNIX
workstations.
a. Bourne
shell
b. OpenCourseWare
c. Red
Hat
d. Visual
InterDev
e. K
Desktop Environment
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Answers:1c; 2d; 3b; 4a; 5c; 6a; 7d; 8a; 9b; 10e
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This was first published in July 2003