MD-100 System Configuration and Maintenance 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Windows 10 feature creates restore points that can roll back system files and registry settings without affecting personal files?
- System Restore (Correct answer)
- File History
- Reset this PC
- BitLocker recovery
Correct answer: System Restore
System Restore takes snapshots of system files, installed programs, and the registry, allowing rollback to a previous state.
Question 2: A Windows 10 PC is running slowly. Which built-in tool analyzes startup services and provides a performance score?
- Task Manager > Performance and Startup tabs (Correct answer)
- Resource Monitor
- Performance Monitor (perfmon)
- Windows Experience Index
Correct answer: Task Manager > Performance and Startup tabs
Task Manager's Performance tab shows real-time CPU, memory, and disk utilization, while the Startup tab rates each item's impact.
Question 3: Which Windows 10 utility defragments HDDs and optimizes (TRIM) SSDs on a schedule?
- Optimize Drives (defrag) (Correct answer)
- Disk Cleanup
- chkdsk
- Storage Sense
Correct answer: Optimize Drives (defrag)
Optimize Drives automatically detects drive type, running defragmentation for HDDs and TRIM/retrim operations for SSDs.
Question 4: Which tool provides advanced startup options including Safe Mode, Startup Repair, and Command Prompt for a Windows 10 PC that won't boot normally?
- Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) (Correct answer)
- UEFI/BIOS Setup
- Windows Setup media only
- System Configuration (msconfig)
Correct answer: Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
WinRE is a recovery platform available from the boot menu that provides diagnostic and repair tools outside the normal OS.
Question 5: What does enabling 'Reserved Storage' in Windows 10 do?
- Reserves a portion of disk space so Windows updates always have room to install (Correct answer)
- Reserves RAM for system processes
- Creates a hidden system backup partition
- Allocates space for the paging file
Correct answer: Reserves a portion of disk space so Windows updates always have room to install
Reserved Storage sets aside around 7 GB of disk space exclusively for Windows updates, temporary files, and caches.
Question 6: Which Windows 10 command-line tool repairs the Windows image and component store when SFC finds corruption it cannot fix?
- DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth (Correct answer)
- sfc /scanfile
- chkdsk /r
- bcdedit /repair
Correct answer: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
DISM RestoreHealth downloads healthy component files from Windows Update to repair a corrupted Windows image.
MD-100 System Configuration and Maintenance 1
Which Windows 10 feature creates restore points that can roll back system files and registry settings without affecting personal files?