Installing OS/2 Test 109 TEST INFORMATION: - Required for Certified OS/2 Engineer and Certified LAN Server Engineer - Number of questions: 75 - Passing % Score: 65 - Length (in minutes): 75 PREPARATION: - Self Study OS/2 Certification Handbook - IBM Courses P1071 Installing & Supporting OS/2 2.1 P1171 OS/2 Warp V3 Installation and Support p1103 OS/2 Warp Technical Training Fast Path (a combination of p1171 and p1170, OS/Warp V3 Using and Customizing) Installing OS/2 Test 109 Objectives Version 1 SECTION 1 - VERSIONS OF OS/2 - Describe the different versions of OS/2 (2.1 and later) and the environments in which they are candidates for installation. - Describe the support for Windows applications provided by the different versions of OS/2 (2.1 and later). - Describe the difference between OS/2 Warp and OS/2 Warp with WIN-OS/2. SECTION 2 - BASIC INSTALLATION - Given a user requirement, determine the version of OS/2 to be installed. - Given a customer's requirement, state the hardware required to install OS/2 and meet the customer requirement. - Describe and use the media used to install OS/2. - Install OS/2 on an unused hard disk. - Describe Easy Install and Advanced Install and considerations when each is used. - Given a customer work load requirement, develop a plan for the swap file location and size. - Given an application work load description, determine the memory and hard disk space required for acceptable system performance. - Given a customer requirement, add or remove features on an installed system. - Given a customer hardware configuration and video requirement, install and configure video support as needed. SECTION 3 - HARD DISK MANAGEMENT - Given a customer requirement, develop a plan for hard disk layout. - Use FDISK to configure the hard disk layout. - Given a customer requirement for multiple operating systems, install, configure, and use the Boot Manager. - Discuss issues of coexistence when multiple operating systems are installed on a system. - Given a customer requirement, plan a disk layout which enhances overall system performance and ease of maintenance. - Given a customer requirement and a disk layout, choose a file system for each drive which enhances overall system resource usage and performance. SECTION 4 - ALTERNATIVE INSTALLATIONS - Install dual boot. - Given a customer environment where more than one operating system will be installed, recommend use of dual boot and/or Boot Manager. - Plan installations where OS/2 will be installed on systems with preexisting operating systems. - Given a customer requirement to preserve installed operating systems, plan for installation of OS/2 on existing DOS or OS/2 systems. - Add DOS and Windows to an OS/2 system. - Discuss issues when installing OS/2 Warp on a compressed drive. SECTION 5 - INSTALL AND CONFIGURE PRINTERS AND FONTS - Given a requirement for a new type of printer on an existing system, create a printer object in the Workplace Shell. - Given a customer print requirement, install and configure printer support for DOS and Windows applications. - Configure and manage the WIN-OS/2 print environment. - Configure printers so they can be shared or pooled. - Install printers during OS/2 2.x and OS/2 Warp system installation. - Given a customer printing requirement, manage the OS/2 Spooler to meet the requirement. - Given a customer requirement, install font support. - Describe system resources used by fonts. SECTION 6 - OS/2 SYSTEM FILES - Describe OS/2 INI files. - Given a customer CONFIG.SYS file, identify resources configured for the system. - Make changes to CONFIG.SYS. - Given an installation plan and a customer's requirement, modify CONFIG.SYS to configure the swap file for a customer's requirement. - Use the SET command to configure a system as required. - Describe the function of AUTOEXEC.BAT. - Identify and locate key OS/2 directories. SECTION 7 - APPLICATION SUPPORT - Describe how DOS and Windows application support is implemented by OS/2. - Describe how the VDM environment is created and customized. - Create a migration database to support a customer's unique application portfolio. - Describe how applications are made available on the Desktop during system installation. - Given a DOS or Windows application requirement, customize the VDM environment . - Describe performance differences when running DOS and Windows applications full screen and windowed on the desktop. - Given a customer environment, install, configure and use VM Boot. SECTION 8 - REDIRECTED INSTALLATION - Describe how the CID architecture supports the installation of OS/2. - Describe the difference between a local and remote install. - List the sources of OS/2 installation diskette images. - Describe how OS/2 is installed using a response file. - Install OS/2 using a response file. Installing OS/2 Sample Test 109 Version 1 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 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