Windows 8 Interview Questions
Love it or loathe it, Windows 8 is the mainstream OS that all new desktop and laptop devices run. Furthermore, with the introduction of Windows 8.1, users are coming round to upgrading to Windows 8 both at home and at work.
Therefore, possessing a good understanding of Microsoft’s latest OS is an advantage in many situations. You’ll find that Windows 8 will become increasingly popular as Vista fades away and XP becomes a distant memory. In fact, towards the end of 2013 the number of job roles requiring Windows 8 experience quadrupled.
These interview questions are perfect preparation for your next job interview. They encompass several aspects of Windows 8 including configuration, maintenance and management. Key topics include network connectivity, resource access, backup and recovery and clients and devices.
They are suitable for the following job roles:
- Support Engineer
- Technical Consultant
- IT Support
- 2nd Line Support
- Systems Administrator
Interview Questions
1. 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.
Zero-Touch, High-Volume Deployment
High Touch with Standard Image
None of these
Lite-Touch, High-Volume Deployment
Show AnswerAnswer:
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.
2. 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
Show AnswerAnswer:
AppLocker
3. 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
Show AnswerAnswer:
AppLocker
4. 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?
USMT
VAMT
ACT
None of these
Show AnswerAnswer:
USMT
Comments:
User State Migration Tool (USMT) provides a highly customizable user-profile migration experience for IT professionals
5. 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
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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.
6. 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
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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.
7. 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?
Copype
Makewinpemedia
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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.
8. 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
None of these
Binary
XML
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XML
Comments:
An answer file is an XML-based file.
9. 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.
TRUE
FALSE
Show AnswerAnswer:
FALSE
Comments:
It's the opposite. Thick images contain fully customized desktop environemnts. Thin images contain the bare bones, usually just the OS.
10. 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
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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.
11. Metro style apps are designed to be sleek, quick, and modern with groups of common tasks consolidated to speed up usage.
If a user creates a new folder in C:\Personal Docs and files are copied into that folder, will the Metro style apps have access those files?
Yes
No
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No
12. USMT is a tool used for large deployments of Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. USMT captures user accounts, including desktop and application settings as well as a user's files. Which of the following scenarios would you NOT use USMT?
Wipe and load migrations
Side by side migrations
All of these
Upgrades
Show AnswerAnswer:
Upgrades
Comments:
If you are only upgrading your operating system, USMT is not needed.