Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Windows® XP Operating System Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 70-27)

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normal backup

A backup that copies all files and marks

those files as having been backed up (in

other words, clears the archive attribute). A

normal backup is the most complete form of

backup.

NSLOOKUP

A command-line diagnostic utility used to

retrieve information from a DNS name

server.

NTBackup or NTBackup.exe

See Backup Utility.

NTFS (NT File System)

An advanced file system that is designed for

use specifically under the Windows NT,

Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and

Windows XP operating systems. It supports

file-system recovery, extremely large storage

media, and long filenames.

NTFS data compression

The process of making individual files and

folders occupy less disk space with the

NTFS version 5.0 file system in Windows

XP. Compressed files can be read and writ-

ten to over the network by any Windows-

or DOS-based program without having to be

decompressed first. Files decompress when

opened and recompress when closed. The

NTFS 5 file system handles this entire

process. Compression is simply a file attrib-

ute that you can apply to any file or folder

stored on an NTFS 5 drive volume.

NTFS data encryption

See Encrypting File System.

NTFS disk quota

See disk quota.

NTFS permission

A rule associated with a folder, file, or print-

er that regulates which users can gain access

to the object and in what manner. The

object’s owner allows or denies permissions.

The permissions that both NTFS permis-

sions and Share permissions have in com-

mon take precedence if conflicting permis-

sions exist between share permissions and

NTFS permissions on an object.

object

In the context of performance monitoring

and optimization, a system component that

has numerous counters associated with it.

For example, objects include processor,

memory, system, logical disk, and paging

file.

offline files

A feature in Windows XP and Windows

2000 that allows users to continue to work

with network files and programs even when

they are not connected to the network.

When a network connection is restored or

when users dock their mobile computers,

any changes that were made while users

were working offline are updated to the net-

work. When more than one user on the net-

work has made changes to the same file,

users are given the option of saving their

specific versions of the file to the network,

keeping the other version, or saving both.

Also known as client-side caching (CSC).

organizational unit (OU)

A type of container object that is used with-

in Active Directory and within the

LDAP/X.500 information model to group

other objects and classes together for easier

administration.

pagefile

See paging file.

paging file

A system file that is an extension of RAM

which is stored on the disk drive as a kind of

virtual memory.

partition

A section on a basic disk that is created

from free space so that data can be stored

on it. On a basic disk, you can create up to

four primary partitions or up to three pri-

mary partitions and one extended partition.