Microsoft Windows 98 Quality Control & Assurance 4

Question 1

During Windows 98 QA regression testing, a tester checks that a newly installed application did not overwrite a shared system DLL with an older version. Which Windows 98 feature helps detect this?

Accepted Answer

Version Conflict Manager

Answer

Version Conflict Manager alerts users when an installation replaces a newer system DLL with an older one, allowing restoration of the correct version.

Question 2

A QA engineer runs the Windows 98 Automatic Skip Driver (ASD) tool. What scenario triggers ASD to skip a driver on the next boot?

Accepted Answer

A driver caused Windows to hang during a previous startup attempt

Answer

ASD detects drivers that caused the system to hang during startup and automatically skips them on subsequent boots to allow Windows to load successfully.

Question 3

In Windows 98 quality assurance, what does 'DLL Hell' refer to, and why was it a major concern?

Accepted Answer

Shared DLL versioning conflicts where one application's install breaks another application

Answer

DLL Hell describes the problem where installing one application replaces shared DLLs with incompatible versions, causing other applications that depend on those DLLs to crash.

Question 4

Which Windows 98 testing approach involves verifying that the OS correctly handles the transition from 1999 to 2000, a major QA focus of the era?

Accepted Answer

Y2K (Year 2000) compliance testing

Answer

Y2K compliance testing verified that Windows 98 and its applications correctly handled the year 2000 date rollover without misinterpreting the year as 1900.

Question 5

A QA tester verifies Windows 98 hardware compatibility by checking Device Manager for yellow exclamation marks. What does a yellow exclamation mark on a device indicate?

Accepted Answer

The device has a driver error or resource conflict

Answer

A yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager indicates the device is experiencing a problem, typically a driver failure or hardware resource conflict (IRQ, DMA, I/O address).

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Microsoft Windows 98 Quality Control & Assurance 4