Free 70-687 Practice Test - Windows 8

Welcome to the free practice test for the 70-687 Windows 8 exam, part of the MCSA certification path. Windows 8 is the biggest shakeup of the world’s most popular operating system in years. The new metro style interface presents IT professionals with new challenges that are well covered by this exam.

Consisting of 15 questions pulled from our exclusive range of Windows 8 material, the test is the perfect companion for your study material. To help you prepare for the exam, questions vary in difficulty from the simplest to the most challenging. They were all written by other Microsoft professionals and closely follow the Microsoft exam material for 70-687 and Microsoft’s new OS system.

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15 questions

Timed test (no limit)

Helpful explanations per question

Who should take the 70-687 exam?

The configuring Windows 8 exam is suited to IT professionals who configure or support Windows 8 computers, devices, users and associated network and security resources. Candidates might be a consultant, full time desktop support technician or an IT generalist.

70-687 forms part of the MCSA certification path and is considered one of the foundation exams. It builds the bridge towards the high level MCSE for Windows 8.

Exam topics are high level and intense experience within a certain topic is unnecessary to pass the exam. A broad knowledge of all aspects of Windows 8 is sufficient to achieve this exam. The equal split between the exam topics, roughly 14% for each is further proof of this.

High level topics covered by our practice test

Install and Upgrade to Windows 8
Configure Hardware and Applications
Configure Network Connectivity
Configure Access to Resources
Configure Remote Access and Mobility
Monitor and Maintain Windows Clients
Configure Backup and Recovery Options

How does the test work?

Starting a free practice test is easy. Just click the start test link below, then read each question carefully and select the best answer from the multiple choice list. The simulator shows you the correct answers as you progress. Complete the 15 questions and you’ll get your overall time and score. Ideally, you want to complete the test in around 30-45 minutes.

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MCSA Certification

The Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows 8 certification shows that you have the primary set of Windows 8 skills that are relevant across multiple solution areas in a business environment. The MCSA: Windows 8 certification is a prerequisite for earning the MCSE certification.

Sample Questions

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Q1. Which form of deployment is described below?

This strategy is for small organizations that have an information technology (IT) generalist on staff and that often use partners to help with technology adoption. Small organizations using this strategy usually have 100–200 client computers with small, unmanaged networks in distributed locations.

High Touch with Standard Image
Zero-Touch, High-Volume Deployment
Lite-Touch, High-Volume Deployment
None of these

Answer:
High Touch with Standard Image

Comments:
Typically, High Touch with Standard Image is used by organizations to manually install Windows from retail or volume-licensed (VL) media, manually install applications from their media, and then manually configure the computers to suit their needs.

Q2. Select the missing term from the sentence below:

___ helps administrators control which applications and files users can run. These include executable files, scripts, Windows Installer files, DLLs, Packaged apps and Packaged app installers. Using this tool you can define rules based on file attributes that persist across application updates such as the publisher name (derived from the digital signature), product name, file name and file version.

AppLocker
BitLocker
DirectAccess
eDrive

Answer:
AppLocker

Q3. Which tool would you use to fulfil the following requirement?

Your organization's security policy dictates the use of only licensed software, so you need to prevent users from running unlicensed software and also restrict the use of licensed software to authorized users.

BitLocker
AppLocker
eDrive
DirectAccess

Answer:
AppLocker

Q4. The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) contains tools that you can use to prepare your organization for migrating to Windows 8.

Which tool could you use to migrate user settings and application settings?

VAMT
None of these
ACT
USMT

Answer:
USMT

Comments:
User State Migration Tool (USMT) provides a highly customizable user-profile migration experience for IT professionals

Q5. What is the name of the tool that you can load onto a USB flash drive to boot a computer to a simple command prompt from which you can capture and deploy images?

Robocopy
VAMT
USMT
Windows PE

Answer:
Windows PE

Comments:
You can load Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) on an empty USB flash drive (min 4GB). Windows PE is used to boot a computer to a simple command prompt from which you can capture and deploy images and run deployment scripts.

Q6. You're trying to use the Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management tool (DISM) from ADK. However, you get an error when trying to run Dism /mount-image to mount an image file.

What could the problem be?

You can't use DISM to mount an image file
You are using an older version of DISM

Answer:
You are using an older version of DISM

Comments:
The Dism /mount-image command is only available in the new version of the DISM tools.

Q7. As part of an enterprise rollout of Windows 8, you need to create bootable Windows Preinstallation Environment media. You know that you need to use a combination of Makewinpemedia and Copype to create the bootable media, but which would you run first?

Makewinpemedia
Copype

Answer:
Copype

Comments:
Running the Copype tool is a prerequisite for creating bootable media. Copype creates a directory structure for Windows PE files and copies the necessary Windows PE media files.

Q8. Answer files are used together with Windows Setup and the System Preparation (Sysprep) tool. An answer file tells Windows Setup how to configure the Windows installation during an unattended installation. What format are answer files?

CSV
XML
None of these
Binary

Answer:
XML

Comments:
An answer file is an XML-based file.

Q9. This question relates to creating Windows 8 images for mass deployment.

Thin images are helpful for organizations that need to deploy new (or refreshed) fully customized desktop environments to users as quickly as possible.

FALSE
TRUE

Answer:
FALSE

Comments:
It's the opposite. Thick images contain fully customized desktop environemnts. Thin images contain the bare bones, usually just the OS.

Q10. Which term is used to refer to installing apps directly to a device without going through the Windows Store?

SQL Injection
BranchCache
DLL Hijack
Sideloading

Answer:
Sideloading

Comments:
Sideloading, which is available in both Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012, refers to installing apps directly to a device without going through the Windows Store. LOB apps do not need to be certified by Microsoft and cannot be installed through the Windows Store but they must be signed with a certificate chained to a trusted root certificate. We recommend that IT administrators use the same technical certification that is done by the Windows Store on LOB apps.

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