Terms you’ll need to understand:

• BOOT.INI

• NTLDR

• Registry

• Active partition

• Primary partition

• Extended partition

• File allocation tables

• Master file tables

• Root directory

• NTFS

• Files

• Directories

• Permissions

• Logical partitions

• POST

• Bootup

• CDFS

Exam objectives you’ll learn in this chapter:

Essentials 3.1: Identify the fundamentals of using operating systems.

• Identify names, purposes, and characteristics of the primary operating system components, including Registry, virtual memory, and file systems.

• Identify the names, locations, purposes, and characteristics of operating system files, for example:

  • BOOT.INI

  • NTLDR

  • NTDETECT.COM

  • NTBOOTDD.SYS

  • Registry data files

Essentials 3.1/Technical Support 2.1/IT Technician 3.1.

• Identify concepts and procedures for creating, viewing, managing disks, directories, and files in operating systems, for example:

  • Disks (for example, active, primary, extended, and logical partitions)

  • File systems (for example, FAT32, NTFS)

  • Directory structures (for example, create folders, navigate directory structures)

  • Files (for example, creation, extensions, attributes, permissions)