You are the desktop administrator for your company. You need to deploy Windows XP Professional to 50 new computers. You want to use a fully automated installation process. Each new computer is configured with a 20-GB hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and a floppy disk drive. The computers do not contain network adapter cards.
You specify the company’s standard installation settings and save them in an answer file. You want to use the Sysprep utility to prepare the source computer for the deployment. Which two actions should you take? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

You are the desktop administrator for your company. You are responsible for automating the deployment of Windows XP Professional to new computers in your company. You are preparing a Windows XP Professional computer, which you will use to test disk imaging. You install Windows XP Professional on the test computer and run the Sysprep utility. You use a third-party software package to create a disk image. You apply the disk image to a new computer and then restart the computer. Instead of completing the Windows XP Professional installation, the computer starts the Windows Welcome program, requiring you to enter additional setup information. Because you will be deploying a large number of computers, you want to ensure that the disk image can be applied without additional user interaction. What should you do?

You are the desktop administrator for your company’s sales department. The company’s network contains a RIS server. You need to install Windows XP Professional on a computer that has a SCSI disk subsystem. You start the computer by using the Windows XP Professional CD-ROM, and you begin the installation. However, Setup reports that it cannot find any disks on which to install Windows XP Professional. You start the computer by using a RIS bootable floppy disk, and you receive the same result. What should you do?

You are the desktop administrator for your company’s sales department. You need to perform a clean installation of Windows XP Professional on a computer that currently runs Windows 98. You start the installation. The text-based portion of Setup finishes successfully. Before the GUI-based portion of Setup starts, the computer stops responding. You investigate and discover that there is a problem with a device driver. You want to know which device is causing the problem. What should you do?

You are the desktop administrator for your company’s sales department. Katrin is a user in the sales department. You need to upgrade Katrin’s Windows 2000 Professional computer to Windows XP Professional. Philippe is the network administrator. He previously downloaded updated Setup files and placed them on a server named Server1, in a shared folder named Updates. Philippe has successfully installed computers by using these updated Setup files. You want to ensure that these updated Setup files are automatically installed on Katrin’s computer during the upgrade. Which command should you run to start Setup?

You are the administrator of a Windows XP Professional computer named Pro1. The computer is connected to the Internet. Pro1 provides Internet access to eight other Windows XP Professional computers that are connected to Pro1. You enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) and Windows Firewall on Pro1. You run an application named App1 on Pro1. App1 communicates with an online training company on the Internet. To display an online seminar, the training company needs to contact the App1 application at port 5800. You want to ensure that the training company can connect to the App1 application. What should you do?