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?

You are a desktop administrator for your certifyme company. You need to deploy a new application. The application is packaged in an .msi file. The application will be used by only a small number of users. You plan to install the application by using the Msiexec.exe program. You need to ensure that the installation process does not display a user interface. What should you do?

You are a desktop administrator for your certifyme company. You are responsible for deploying a new application. The application is packaged in an .msi file. You need to deploy the application to only three users in the company. The .msi file contains all of the information necessary to correctly install the application. You need to install the application so that users see information about the installation progress, but no other user interface is displayed during the installation. What should you do?