Microsoft Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional Set 3

You are the desktop administrator for your company's sales department. Susan is a user in the sales department. Susan's Windows XP Professional computer has a single hard disk, which is formatted as NTFS.
Susan's computer contains a folder named C:\Files1. The C:\Files1 folder is shared as Files1. Users in the sales department have permissions to create files in the Files1 shared folder. Company policy allows interns to read
files, but prohibits interns from creating files in the Files1 shared folder. Company policy allows members of the Sales group and the Marketing group to create files in the Files1 shared folder. Carlos is an intern. He is a
member of the Interns group, the Sales group, and the Marketing group. Susan reports that Carlos is able to create files in the Files1 shared folder. You inspect Susan's computer to evaluate the Files1 shared folder.
Permissions on Susan's computer are granted as shown in the following table. You want ensure that Carlos cannot create files in the Files1 shared folder. What should you do?

You are the desktop administrator for your company. The company's network consists of a single Active Directory domain. All client computers run Windows XP Professional. Bruno is a user in the graphics department. Bruno creates a new shared folder named GFXTemplates on his computer. The GFXTemplates folder contains custom templates that are used by various applications. The permissions on the GFXTemplates folder must meet the following requirements:

You and Stephen are the desktop administrators for your company. You install a printer on your Windows XP Professional computer. You share this printer on the company network. You want to ensure that only members
of the DTAdmins local group can use this printer, and that only you and Stephen can manage the printer and all print jobs. You also want to ensure that members of the DTAdmins local group can manage only their own print jobs.
How should you configure security on this printer?

You are the desktop administrator of your company's network. You install a print device on a Windows XP
Professional computer. This print device should be used only by the desktop administration staff and by managers. You share the printer on the network as DTA-Print and assign Allow - Print permissions to the DTA-S group, which includes staff members' accounts, and the DTA-M group, which includes managers' accounts. Later, the managers report that they must wait a long time for their jobs to print. You discover that the desktop administration staff generates many problematic print jobs. As a result, the managers' print jobs must wait a long time in the print queue. You need to ensure that the managers' print jobs print as quickly as possible while minimizing hardware costs. What should you do?

You are the desktop administrator for your company. You connect a print device to a Windows XP Professional computer for the users in the help desk department. You share the printer on the network as HDPrint. You
grant the HDUsers and HDManagers groups Allow - Print permission on HDPrint. Several users in the HDUsers group report that it often takes several minutes for their print jobs to print after they are submitted. You
investigate and discover that under normal use, the print queue length often exceeds 50 print jobs. You want to improve printing performance for the users in the HDUsers group. What should you do?

You are the desktop administrator for your company. All employees have Windows XP Professional computers.
All employees are members of the local Users group on their own computers. A user in the graphics department has a removable disk cartridge drive on his computer. The disk cartridge contains an unsupported, third-party file system. When he tries to save data to the disk cartridge, the user is prompted to reformat the disk cartridge. However, he receives an "access denied" error message when attempting to reformat. You need to enable the user to save data to the disk cartridge. What should you do?

You are the desktop administrator for your company. All employees have Windows XP Professional portable computers. A sales representative named Richard has a local user account on his computer. Richard is issued
a portable USB print device. You log on to his computer and disable the restrictions on loading unsigned drivers. All other local computer policies are configured with the default settings. You restart Richard's computer. Then Richard connects the USB print device, but the printer does not appear in the Printers folder, and Richard cannot print any documents. You need to ensure that Richard can install the printer and print successfully. What should you do?

You are the desktop administrator for your company. All users in the network have Windows XP Professional computers. Users in the research department have dual-processor computers. Users in the research
department report that when they run 16-bit Windows programs, their computer performance becomes very slow. You use System Monitor to monitor the users' computers. You discover that when the users are running
their 16-bit applications, one processor shows a sustained utilization of more than 90 percent while the other processor only shows utilization of less than 10 percent. You need to improve application performance for the users in the research department. What should you do?

You are the administrator of a Windows XP Professional computer. The computer has three identical 4-GB hard disks. The disk and volume configuration of the computer is shown in the following table. At the beginning of a new project, you want to configure the computer's disks so that you can store 2. 5 GB of new data. You want to ensure that you optimize the performance with which the 2. 5 GB of data can be written to the disks. Which two actions should you take? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)