Operating Systems and Recovery Study Guide

These questions are for study practice only and are not official exam questions.

1. 1. A support policy requires staff to use standard accounts for daily work and elevate only for approved administrative tasks. What principle does this implement?

   • Maximum default access
   • Anonymous accountability
   • Least privilege
   • Unlimited persistence

2. 2. A user can open a shared document but receives an access-denied message when saving changes. The permissions explicitly grant read access only. What explains the behavior?

   • The access-denied message proves the file contents are corrupt
   • Read permission does not include write permission
   • Read permission automatically grants modification permission
   • Opening a file means no access check is needed when saving it

3. 3. An application is unresponsive, and a support tool offers to end its process. What consequence should be explained before taking that approved step?

   • Unsaved work in that process may be lost
   • All saved files on every drive must be deleted
   • The network router must restart
   • Ending a process always repairs its underlying cause

4. 4. A support task distinguishes creating a partition from formatting a volume. What is the clearest conceptual difference?

   • Partitioning and formatting are identical names for one operation
   • Formatting always creates an independent backup before altering data
   • Creating a partition necessarily increases physical drive capacity
   • Partitioning divides storage regions; formatting creates a filesystem within a selected region

5. 5. A previously working audio device fails immediately after a driver update. The operating system offers a documented rollback to the previous approved driver. What is a reasonable controlled recovery step?

   • Use the supported rollback and verify audio behavior
   • Erase all user data immediately
   • Disable every security control permanently
   • Install an unrelated driver chosen only by file size

6. 6. A command-line exercise defines /reports/annual.txt as starting from the filesystem root and reports/annual.txt as starting from the current directory. Which is the absolute path?

   • reports/annual.txt
   • Both are necessarily relative
   • Neither path can identify a file
   • /reports/annual.txt

7. 7. A required background service is stopped after every reboot. Its startup setting is disabled. Which configuration most directly explains the repeated behavior?

   • The service is guaranteed to start because its files exist
   • The disabled startup setting prevents automatic service startup
   • The user login password determines every service startup mode
   • The service must be running whenever an associated shortcut appears

8. 8. An update dashboard says an approved operating-system update is installed but pending restart. What must the technician consider before declaring the update fully active?

   • Whether the download completed, without considering activation
   • Whether the installation icon disappeared, without post-restart checks
   • Whether the user signed out, assuming this always replaces a restart
   • Whether the required restart and post-restart verification have occurred

9. 9. A user asks whether an operating-system restore point guarantees recovery of every personal file deleted last week. What is the best response?

   • Every restore point is a complete independent copy of all files
   • Personal-file recovery needs an appropriate backup or version history; a restore point is not that guarantee
   • A restore point makes storage failures impossible
   • Deleting the restore point will restore the missing files

10. 10. In a supplied case-sensitive file-system exercise, Report.txt and report.txt are two valid filenames. What follows?

    • They must always be the same file
    • One filename is necessarily malware
    • They can refer to different files because letter case is significant
    • The extension determines whether case matters