You are a desktop support technician for your company. The corporate network has a domain controller that runs Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and computers that run Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Business. You setup group policies on the domain controller. When you log on to the corporate network, only the computers that run Windows Vista Business are able to retrieve the updated policies.

You need to process the group policy for all the computers on the corporate network. Which Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) setting should you enable?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. The computers in the your company run Windows Vista. All computers contain a Wake-on-LAN compliant network card. To conserve energy, a corporate policy states that all computers should be powered off at night. You need to recommend a plan that allows Windows Update installations to run at night and consume minimal power. You configure the Enabling Windows Update Power Management to automatically wake up the system to install scheduled updates option and enable Windows Updates for all computers. What should you do next?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. You setup event forwarding between a source computer and a collecting computer. The collecting computer has a standard user set to run the subscription. The collecting computer displays the subscription. The collecting computer display the subscription as Trying. You verify that there is no error on the source computer and that the firewall is configured correctly. You need to view the subscription run time status. What should you do?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. The computers in your company run Windows Vista. The computers connect directly to the Internet. Users report that their computers do not receive critical updates. You need to ensure that only critical updates are installed on the user’s computers. You must achieve this goal by usign the minimum amount of administrative effort. What should you do?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. The computers in your company run Windows Vista. You need to prevent users from installing removable device drivers on their computers. Which group policy setting should you enable?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. All client computers run Windows Vista. A scheduled task is configured to run the disk defragmenter every night. The accounting department has requested that the disk defragmenter not be run this week due to month-end processing. You need to recommend a solution that prevents the disk defragmenter from running. Your solution should not interfere with any other scheduled tasks. What should you do?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. The computers in your company run Windows Vista. The company has a main office and a branch office. The offices have multiple computers in a workgroup environment. Domain servers are not available. You want to l og all critical events to a member server at the main office.

You need to create a Normal mode (Pull) subscription for all critical event warnings generated by the computers at the branch office and forward it to the server at the main office. What should you do first?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. The security team is concerned about the installation of Sidebar gadgets. You need to remove the Windows Sidebar from all computers. What should you do?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. All client computers run Windows Vista. Computers for the sales department have Microsoft Office 2003 installed. All other computers have Microsoft Office 2007 installed. You need to ensure that all users are able to open files that have been created by using Office Open XML Formats. What should you do?

You are a desktop support technician for your company. You need to recommend a solution for monitoring services and startup programs on Windows Vista computers. What should you recommend?