Installing OS/2
Sample Test 109
SECTION 1 - VERSIONS OF OS/2
1. Windows application support under OS/2 Warp does not include support for
a. WIN32S applications
b. Windows 3.1 applications
c. Windows 3.11 applications
d. Windows for Workgroups network functions
SECTION 2 - BASIC INSTALLATION
2. How should the initial size of the swap file be configured for OS/2 Warp?
a. Use the OS/2 install default.
b. Allocate the amount required for system boot.
c. Allocate a minimum size based on amount of memory.
d. Allocate an amount based on the expected paging demand.
3. How is OS/2 Warp installed from CD-ROM if the CD-ROM device is not supported?
a. The user must use diskettes.
b. Put the CD-ROM device drivers on OS/2 diskette 1.
c. Boot with diskettes and copy the CD-ROM drivers to the root directory.
d. Boot with utility diskettes created on another OS/2 system and copy the
device drivers to \OS2\INSTALL.
4. What is not detected by the installation program during OS/2 Warp installation?
a. CD-ROM type
b. video display type
c. multimedia device type
d. attached printer type
5. Which program is used to install high resolution drivers on an OS/2 Warp
system configured for VGA?
a. SETVGA
b. Recovery Choices
c. Resource Manager
d. Selective Install
SECTION 3 - HARD DISK MANAGEMENT
6. Which statements are true about OS/2 disk layouts?
a. Logical drives must be contiguous on a disk
b. Primary partitions must be contiguous on a disk.
c. There may be unusable space in the middle of the disk.
d. Only one primary partition on a disk is accessible at a time.
7. Which FDISK status setting indicates a drive will be displayed on the Boot
Manager menu?
a. bootable
b. primary
c. startable
d. installable
8. What is the function of the Boot Manager?
a. It enables the dual boot feature.
b. It manages the loading of the OS/2 kernel at boot time.
c. It creates boot diskettes for emergency boot requirements.
d. It allows you to boot multiple operating systems on the same machine.
9. What is an advantage of placing the operating system and application
programs on different drives?
a. It improves swap file access.
b. It allows for faster load of application data.
c. It makes operating system maintenance easier.
d. It protects application data from unauthorized access.
SECTION 4 - ALTERNATIVE INSTALLATIONS
10. Where are the DOS and OS/2 operating systems installed on a dual boot
system?
a. DOS and OS/2 are on different primary partitions.
b. Both DOS and OS/2 are on the same primary partition.
c. Both DOS and OS/2 are on the same extended partition.
d. DOS is on a primary partition and OS/2 is on an extended partition.
11. How is a system upgraded to OS/2 Warp if OS/2 for Windows is on Drive C?
a. Format Drive C and install.
b. Install OS/2 Warp on Drive C without formatting.
c. Format Drive C and install DOS, Windows and OS/2 Warp on Drive C.
d. Copy \WINOS2 subdirectory to Drive D. Format Drive C and install OS/2 Warp on it.
12. What is required if an OS/2 user wants to add a native DOS system in its own
partition to an OS/2 Warp system?
a. dual boot
b. the Boot Manager
c. OS/2 installed on a primary drive
d. OS/2 installed on a logical drive
SECTION 5 - INSTALL AND CONFIGURE PRINTERS AND FONTS
13. How do you install a Windows printer driver if the printer does not have
an OS/2 driver?
a. Install the printer driver using an OS/2 Desktop printer object.
b. Use the Printers icon on the WIN-OS/2 Control Panel to install the driver.
c. A Windows printer driver can not be added to WIN-OS/2 without an OS/2 equivalent.
d. Create an OS/2 printer object and install the driver. Then configure its
settings using the WIN-OS/2 Control Panel.
14. When should the Spooler be disabled?
a. when spool space is full
b. when print priority is increased
c. when printing from DOS applications
d. when printing from only one application at a time
SECTION 6 - OS/2 SYSTEM FILES
15. Which statement boots a system and establishes an 8MB swap file on Drive C?
a. SWAPPATH=C:\ 4096 8192
b. SWAPPATH=C:\ 8192 4096
c. SWAPPER.DAT=C:\ 4096 8192
d. SWAPPER.DAT=C:\ 8192 4096
16. What is the default location of the files used to provide support for DOS
applications on an OS/2 Warp with WIN-OS/2 system?
a. \OS2\DOS subdirectory
b. \OS2\APPS subdirectory
c. \OS2\MDOS subdirectory
d. \OS2\MIGRATE subdirectory
SECTION 7 - APPLICATION SUPPORT
17. Which OS/2 feature allows a physical device to be shared by a DOS application
and other applications?
a. real mode drivers
b. virtual device drivers
c. physical device drivers
d. reentrant session drivers
18. What should you do if a DOS program running under OS/2 cannot allocate
enough XMS memory?
a. Shutdown OS/2 and reboot.
b. Use the MEM command to increase memory.
c. Close the session and reconfigure the VDM.
d. Modify DOS settings dynamically to increase memory available.
19. If you are running a Windows word processor and a Windows communications
program on OS/2 Warp, how should the system be configured to ensure the
communications application has processor cycles when needed?
a. Run both applications in a shared WIN-OS/2 session and increase the WIN-OS/2
session priority.
b. Run both applications in a shared WIN-OS/2 session and increase the Windows
timeslice parameter in the WIN.INI file.
c. Run the communications application in a separate WIN-OS/2 session and increase
the session priority for the communications application's WIN-OS/2 session.
d. Run both applications in a shared WIN-OS/2 session and decrease the
IDLE_SENSITIVITY setting for the communications application and set the COM_DIRECT
setting to on.
SECTION 8 - REDIRECTED INSTALLATION
20. Which IBM product provides connectivity for a redirected install?
a. OS/2 LAN Server (LS)
b. OS/2 Installable File System Server (IFSS)
c. OS/2 Network Transport Services (NTS/2)
d. OS/2 Redirected Installation Utility (RIU)
21. Which OS/2 file can be used as a template to set up a response file
which provides answers to all installation prompts?
a. CONFIG.SYS
b. SAMPLE.SYS
c. INSTALL.RSP
d. SAMPLE.RSP
Installing OS/2
Sample Test 109
ANSWER KEY
1. d
2. d
3. b
4. d
5. d
6. acd
7. a
8. d
9. c
10. b
11. b
12. b
13. b
14. d
15. a
16. c
17. b
18. c
19. c
20. c
21. d
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