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Administrative Tools
Introduction to Administrative
Tools
Key Topics
Administrative Tools Components
System Backups
Disk Administrator
Event Viewer
Performance Monitor
Remote Access Service RAS
User Manager
Windows NT Diagnostic Tool
Questions
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The administrative tools
contains all the options that
an administrator
might need to configure and
monitor the windows NT environment and all components defined within it.
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The administrator
or an administrator equivalent
has access to this particular option and has the ability of changing user
access to the workstation or domain resources
.
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The administrative tools
are by no means the total
number of tools that the system administrator
requires to fulfill their
tasks. The other tools for the system administrator are covered in the Other
Windows NT
administration tools
module
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The administrative tools
option inside Windows NT
is the only obvious noticeable
deference between windows 9x
and NT’s start menu
options.
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The administrative tools
contain tools that are used by
administrators to configure the system components exclusively related to
Windows NT
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The administrative tools
components include backup,
disk administrator
, event viewer
, performance
monitor, remote access admin
, user manager
and windows diagnostics
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Windows NT
workstation provides you with
backup tools, which allow you to duplicate the required data from the hard
drive
on to a tape drive.
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This Microsoft backup tool
built in Windows NT
performs function including
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Backup
and verify selected files
and folders
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Append and replace previous
backups
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Backup
system data and the registry
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Restores selected files
and folders
from backup
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Schedule
automatic regular backups
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Logs summary about backup such
as when the backup started and failed backup files
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The disk management utility can
be used to manage all the storage devices
on our system directly from
within Windows NT
.
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You can use this utility to
change drive label, create partitions, format
drives, configure newly added
drives, convert
to volumes, setup drive
redundancy, etc.
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The Performance monitor is a
windows NT utility to monitor different device activity including CPU
, Memory, storage device, network
RAS
etc.
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If it is used correctly it can
identify performance
bottlenecks within our Windows
NT
system.
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The information
produced by the performance
monitor can be of great value
to the system administrator
striving to have the system
working optimally.
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This is a feature of Windows NT
, which allows serial stream connections to be made, controlled and
secured using modems
for all incoming and outgoing
dial up connections
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Windows NT
workstations only support 1
incoming RAS
connection.
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Windows NT
server supports up to 256
incoming connections.
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Windows NT
server also provides support
for outgoing connections.
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You can use User Manager
or User Manager for domains to
add individual users and assign their permissions
on a workstation or a domain.
You can also setup groups and add users to those groups. Using groups
means that a particular set of permissions can be assigned to a number of
users collectively caving time, effort and improving overall security.
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The Windows NT
diagnostic
tool WinMSD
allows the user to inspect the
different components of Windows NT and is equivalent to the system
information
on windows 98.
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The WinMSD
program can view system
information
on the computer including
System version, Display, Drives, Memory, Services, Resources, Environment
, and network
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The WinMSD
program can be accessed from
the administrative tools
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Windows NT4 provides you with a
utility called remote access administrator
, which allows the administrator to monitor and control all incoming
sessions to our RAS
system.
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What are the functions of the
disk administrator
? (Choose all that apply)
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Manage your storage device
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Create partitions
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Make users
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Format Derives
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Convert to volume
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Make groups
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What are the functions of
system backup? (Choose all that apply)
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Backup
selected files
and folders
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Backup
registry
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Schedule
automatic backup
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Performs an automatic restore
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Logs summary of backup
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What information
does the performance
monitor? (Choose all that
apply)
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Kernel
performance
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CPU
performance
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Memory uptake
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Storage
uptake
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RAS
performance
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What are the features of RAS?
(Choose all that apply)
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Workstation allows for one
incoming RAS
connection
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Workstation supports outgoing
connections
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Server supports 256 incoming
connections
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Workstation supports 256
incoming connections
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Server supports one outgoing
connections
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What are the features of user
manager? (Choose all that apply)
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Create a user
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Set user permissions
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Add a group
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Add a user to a group
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Add users to a folder
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What are the features of the
diagnostic
tools? (Choose all that apply)
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View system information
on drives
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View system information
on memory
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View system information
on services
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View system information
on Resources
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View system information
on network
Answers
1.
B,E
2.
A,B,C,D,E
3.
A,B,E
4.
A,C,
5.
A,B,C,D
6.
A.B.C.E
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