WINDOWS XP ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR BEGINNERS
CONTENTS V TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION HOW THIS BOOK HELPS YOU WHAT THE INSTALLING, CONFIGURING, AND ADMINISTERING MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL EXAM (70-270) COVERS INSTALLING WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL IMPLEMENTING AND CONDUCTING ADMINISTRATION OF RESOURCES IMPLEMENTING, MANAGING, MONITORING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING HARDWARE DEVICES AND DRIVERS MONITORING AND OPTIMIZING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY CONFIGURING AND TROUBLESHOOTING THE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT IMPLEMENTING, MANAGING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND SERVICES CONFIGURING, MANAGING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING SECURITY HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE YOU’LL NEED ADVICE ON TAKING THE EXAM QUE CERTIFICATION PUBLISHING PART I: EXAM PREPARATION 1 INSTALLING WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL INTRODUCTION WINDOWS XP PRODUCT FAMILY BEFORE YOU BEGIN INSTALLATION HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS DISK AND PARTITION OPTIONS WINDOWS XP FILE SYSTEMS WORKGROUP VERSUS DOMAIN MODELS INSTALLING WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL—AN OVERVIEW PHASE 1—RUNNING THE SETUP PROGRAM PHASE 2—COMPLETING THE SETUP WIZARD PHASE 3—INSTALLING NETWORKING COMPONENTS PHASE 4—COMPLETING THE INSTALLATION INSTALLING WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL MANUALLY INSTALLING FROM A LOCAL CD INSTALLING OVER A NETWORK AUTOMATING THE INSTALLATION PROCESS CREATING UNATTENDED INSTALLATION FILES REMOTE INSTALLATION SERVICES (RIS) USING SYSPREP TO IMAGE WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL INSTALLS USING A DUAL-BOOT SYSTEM UPGRADING TO WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL VERIFYING UPGRADE PATHS CLIENT HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY UPGRADING COMPATIBLE WINDOWS 98/ME CLIENTS UPGRADING COMPATIBLE WINDOWS NT CLIENTS INCOMPATIBLE SYSTEMS MIGRATING USER ENVIRONMENTS POST-INSTALLATION TASKS TROUBLESHOOTING THE INSTALLATION PROCESS EXERCISES REVIEW QUESTIONS EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS TO EXAM QUESTIONS 2 IMPLEMENTING AND CONDUCTING ADMINISTRATION OF RESOURCES MANAGING NETWORK RESOURCES FILE RESOURCES SHARED FOLDERS NTFS PERMISSIONS NTFS PERMISSIONS AND SHARED FOLDERS DEVELOPING AN EFFICIENT DIRECTORY STRUCTURE OFFLINE FILES OFFLINE FILES AND MOBILE USERS SELECTING ITEMS TO BE AVAILABLE OFFLINE SYNCHRONIZING FILE CONFLICTS MANAGING FILE RESOURCES NTFS, FAT32, OR FAT PRINT RESOURCES THE PRINT ENVIRONMENT MANAGING PRINTERS MANAGING PRINT JOBS MANAGING PRINTERS USING A WEB BROWSER 3 IMPLEMENTING, MANAGING, MONITORING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING HARDWARE DEVICES AND DRIVERS INSTALLING HARDWARE USING THE ADD HARDWARE WIZARD CONFIRMING HARDWARE INSTALLATION DETERMINING REQUIRED RESOURCES DETERMINING AVAILABLE RESOURCES CHANGING RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS MEDIA DEVICES CD-ROM AND DVD DEVICES FIXED DISKS VOLUME SETS REMOVABLE MEDIA DISPLAY DEVICES MULTIPLE-DISPLAY SUPPORT VIDEO ADAPTERS POWER MANAGEMENT ADVANCED POWER MANAGEMENT ADVANCED CONFIGURATION POWER INTERFACE INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES CONFIGURING INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES CAMERAS MODEMS INFRARED DATA ASSOCIATION (IRDA) DEVICES HANDHELD DEVICES NETWORK ADAPTERS DRIVERS AND DRIVER SIGNING UPDATING DRIVERS MANAGING DRIVER SIGNING MULTIPLE-PROCESSOR MACHINES MONITORING MULTIPLE CPUS IMPACT ON RESOURCES 4 MONITORING AND OPTIMIZING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OPTIMIZING AND TROUBLESHOOTING PERFORMANCE OF THE WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL DESKTOP OPTIMIZING AND TROUBLESHOOTING MEMORY PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZING AND TROUBLESHOOTING PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE EXAMINING AND TUNING DISK PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZING AND TROUBLESHOOTING APPLICATION PERFORMANCE WORKING WITH THE TASK SCHEDULER MANAGING AND OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE FOR MOBILE COMPUTERS MANAGING HARDWARE PROFILES CREATING A NEW HARDWARE PROFILE USING THE BRIEFCASE TO SYNCHRONIZE FILES POWER OPTIONS FOR MOBILE SYSTEMS RECOVERING SYSTEM AND USER DATA RECOVERING A SYSTEM USING SYSTEM RESTORE RECOVERING SYSTEM AND USER DATA BY USING WINDOWS BACKUP TROUBLESHOOTING THE SYSTEM BOOT PROCESS USING THE WINDOWS XP RECOVERY CONSOLE CONFIGURING THE WINDOWS XP RECOVERY CONSOLE TROUBLESHOOTING STOP ERRORS 5 CONFIGURING AND TROUBLESHOOTING THE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURING USER PROFILES USER PROFILE TYPES CONFIGURING THE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT VIDEO SETTINGS CONFIGURING REGIONAL OPTIONS CONFIGURING ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS PROGRAM COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING APPLICATIONS ADD OR REMOVE PROGRAMS WINDOWS INSTALLER PUBLISHING ZAP FILES 6 IMPLEMENTING, MANAGING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND SERVICES THE WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING MODEL WINDOWS XP NETWORKING VERSUS THE OSI REFERENCE MODEL NDIS-COMPATIBLE NETWORK ADAPTER CARD DRIVERS NDIS 5 0 NETWORK PROTOCOLS TRANSPORT DRIVER INTERFACE NETWORK APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION BASIC NETWORK SERVICES INTEROPERATING WITH OTHER NETWORKS ADDING AND CONFIGURING THE NETWORK COMPONENTS OF WINDOWS XP IDENTIFICATION OPTIONS PROTOCOL OPTIONS SERVICE OPTIONS CLIENT OPTIONS CONFIGURING THE TCP/IP PROTOCOL IP ADDRESSING SUBNET MASK DEFAULT GATEWAY (ROUTER) WINDOWS INTERNET NAME SERVICE DOMAIN NETWORK SYSTEMS SERVER ADDRESS UNDERSTANDING DHCP MANUALLY CONFIGURING TCP/IP NAME RESOLUTION WITH TCP/IP ADVANCED TCP/IP CONFIGURATION CONNECTING TO COMPUTERS BY USING DIAL-UP NETWORKING LINE PROTOCOLS INSTALLING A DIAL-UP NETWORKING CONNECTION INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING CONNECTING TO RESOURCES USING INTERNET EXPLORER ACCESSING FILES USING INTERNET EXPLORER FINDING AND INSTALLING PRINTERS FROM INTERNET EXPLORER ACCESSING WEB SITES DEALING WITH PROXY SERVERS CONFIGURING, MANAGING, AND IMPLEMENTING INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICES INSTALLING IIS ON YOUR COMPUTER THE DEFAULT WEB SITE VIRTUAL DIRECTORIES CONFIGURING, MANAGING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING REMOTE DESKTOP AND REMOTE ASSISTANCE CONFIGURING REMOTE DESKTOP RUNNING AN APPLICATION REMOTELY CONFIGURE REMOTE ASSISTANCE REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE AND OFFERING HELP CONFIGURING, MANAGING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING AN INTERNET CONNECTION FIREWALL A STATEFUL PACKET FILTER CONFIGURING ICF (INTERNET CONNECTION FIREWALL) WHAT TO FILTER AND WHAT TO ALLOW LOOKING AT THE LOGS ICF AND POLICIES TROUBLESHOOTING TCP/IP CONNECTIONS CONFIGURATION ERRORS CHECKING BASIC CONNECTIVITY RESOLVING HOSTNAMES IN TCP/IP IDENTIFYING NAME-RESOLUTION PROBLEMS REVIEW ANSWERS 7 IMPLEMENTING, MONITORING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING SECURITY USER AND GROUP MANAGEMENT THE WORKGROUP MODEL THE DOMAIN MODEL ACCOUNTS AND SECURITY IDENTIFIERS USER ACCOUNTS GROUPS USER RIGHTS LOCAL GROUP POLICY LOCAL ACCOUNT POLICY PASSWORD POLICIES ACCOUNT LOCKOUT POLICY MONITORING SECURITY EVENTS EVENT LOGS AND THE EVENT VIEWER AUDIT POLICIES WINDOWS XP SECURITY CONFIGURATIONS SECURITY TEMPLATES CONFIGURE SYSTEM SECURITY VALIDATING A SECURITY CONFIGURATION ENCRYPTING FILE SYSTEM (EFS) CONFIGURING INTERNET OPTIONS PART II: FINAL REVIEW FAST FACTS SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INSTALLATION METHODS UNATTENDED INSTALLATION REMOTE INSTALLATION SERVICES BEST PRACTICES SHARING PRINTER RESOURCES USING AND SYNCHRONIZING OFFLINE FILES HARD DISK DEVICES REMOVABLE STORAGE MULTIPLE DISPLAYS INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICES PRINTERS KEYBOARDS MOUSE MULTIMEDIA SMART CARDS INFRARED DEVICES WIRELESS DEVICES USB DEVICES MANAGING NETWORK ADAPTERS MULTIPLE PROCESSING UNITS PERFORMANCE MONITORING HARDWARE PROFILES RECOVERING SYSTEM AND USER DATA USING BACKUP BOOTING YOUR COMPUTER USING SAFE MODE LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION USER PROFILES CONFIGURING SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE LANGUAGES CONFIGURING DESKTOP SETTINGS WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL IN THE WINDOWS 2000 SERVER NETWORK DESKTOP CONTROL THROUGH LOCAL GROUP POLICIES ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES TCP/IP NWLINK IPX/SPX–COMPATIBLE TRANSPORT ADDING AND CONFIGURING NETWORK COMPONENTS DOMAIN NAME SYSTEMS SERVER ADDRESS VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS POINT-TO-POINT TUNNELING PROTOCOL LAYER 2 TUNNELING PROTOCOL INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICES INTERNET CONNECTION FIREWALL IMPLEMENTING, MONITORING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING SECURITY LOCAL USER ACCOUNTS ENCRYPTING FILE SYSTEM STUDY AND EXAM PREP TIPS LEARNING STYLES STUDY TIPS STUDY STRATEGIES PRETESTING YOURSELF EXAM PREP TIPS THE MCP EXAM EXAM FORMAT QUESTION TYPES PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER FINAL CONSIDERATIONS PRACTICE EXAM