WGU D317 - IT APPLICATIONS PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS (A+ GRADE)
A management directive requires that you keep hard copies of all your workstations' S)'Stem
configurations. You have all Windows workstations. Which command c.an you use to easily
gather this information for remote workstations and save a report as a text file?
msinfo32
You have a situation that requires installing Windows 11 from installation media. You'll be
launching Setup on the media while you are on the existing Windows 10 desktop. Which of the
following is not an option?
Forensic Install
You are configuring a wireless router for a home office. Which of the following changes will
have the least impact on improving the security of the network?
Disabling the SSID broadcast
SSID
even if you disable this, potential attackers still have many simple tools available to see your
wireless network traffic and get it anyway.
It is a weak form of security that will keep out only the most casual intruders.
WPA3
best commonly available form of encryption for wireless routers
You have just installed a second and third hard drive into a Windows Pro workstation. Each
drive is 500 GB. The user wants to combine the two drives into one 1 TB volume. What should
,you create from those two drives to accomplish this and give the user a disk read and write
performance boost?
Striped Volume
Striped volume
is like a RAID-0 and will provide a 1 TB volume with a slight performance boost.
Spanned Volume
Volume that uses space on multiple dynamic disks
Simple volume
A type of dynamic volume used on a single hard drive that corresponds to a primary partition
on a basic disk.
Mirrored volume
The term used by Windows for the RAID 1 level that duplicates data on one drive to another
drive and is used for fault tolerance.
-makes one of the disks redundant
You have installed a second hard drive in a Windows workstation. In Disk Management. what
type of partition can you create that will allow you to create an unlimited number of logic.al
partitions in it?
GPT
GPT
, -When you create a partition in Windows 10, it will ask you if you want to create a master boot
record (MBR) or this.
-Newer and has far more features than MBR
-one of those features is that you can create an unlimited number of logical partitions on it.
-Only the OS will limit you; Windows 10 will only allow 128 partitions on one drive.
-Windows 11 supports only this type
Dynamic disk
A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without
the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk, the number of volumes are unlimited, and
a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk in the computer. (10)
Logical disk
is a portion of hard disk described in one separate file system
A small business has two servers in their telecommunications room. They've come seeking your
advice because the area has frequent power outages and they have lost important data on their
servers as a result. What will you recommend for them to protect against this issue?
Battery backup
Battery backup
also called an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) is designed to provide enough power to keep
systems running until they can be safely shut down or switched to another power source.
-UPS must provide adequate wattage for the devices connected to it as well as sufficient
battery capactiy.
-Most also offer protected and unprotected outlets
AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS (A+ GRADE)
A management directive requires that you keep hard copies of all your workstations' S)'Stem
configurations. You have all Windows workstations. Which command c.an you use to easily
gather this information for remote workstations and save a report as a text file?
msinfo32
You have a situation that requires installing Windows 11 from installation media. You'll be
launching Setup on the media while you are on the existing Windows 10 desktop. Which of the
following is not an option?
Forensic Install
You are configuring a wireless router for a home office. Which of the following changes will
have the least impact on improving the security of the network?
Disabling the SSID broadcast
SSID
even if you disable this, potential attackers still have many simple tools available to see your
wireless network traffic and get it anyway.
It is a weak form of security that will keep out only the most casual intruders.
WPA3
best commonly available form of encryption for wireless routers
You have just installed a second and third hard drive into a Windows Pro workstation. Each
drive is 500 GB. The user wants to combine the two drives into one 1 TB volume. What should
,you create from those two drives to accomplish this and give the user a disk read and write
performance boost?
Striped Volume
Striped volume
is like a RAID-0 and will provide a 1 TB volume with a slight performance boost.
Spanned Volume
Volume that uses space on multiple dynamic disks
Simple volume
A type of dynamic volume used on a single hard drive that corresponds to a primary partition
on a basic disk.
Mirrored volume
The term used by Windows for the RAID 1 level that duplicates data on one drive to another
drive and is used for fault tolerance.
-makes one of the disks redundant
You have installed a second hard drive in a Windows workstation. In Disk Management. what
type of partition can you create that will allow you to create an unlimited number of logic.al
partitions in it?
GPT
GPT
, -When you create a partition in Windows 10, it will ask you if you want to create a master boot
record (MBR) or this.
-Newer and has far more features than MBR
-one of those features is that you can create an unlimited number of logical partitions on it.
-Only the OS will limit you; Windows 10 will only allow 128 partitions on one drive.
-Windows 11 supports only this type
Dynamic disk
A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without
the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk, the number of volumes are unlimited, and
a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk in the computer. (10)
Logical disk
is a portion of hard disk described in one separate file system
A small business has two servers in their telecommunications room. They've come seeking your
advice because the area has frequent power outages and they have lost important data on their
servers as a result. What will you recommend for them to protect against this issue?
Battery backup
Battery backup
also called an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) is designed to provide enough power to keep
systems running until they can be safely shut down or switched to another power source.
-UPS must provide adequate wattage for the devices connected to it as well as sufficient
battery capactiy.
-Most also offer protected and unprotected outlets
