An administrator needs to copy a large number of files from an NTFS volume to a FAT32 USB drive. Some files are larger than 4 GB. What will happen?

The copy will fail for files larger than 4 GB.

The copy will succeed but the files will be corrupted.

The files will be split into smaller parts.

The files will be automatically compressed to fit.

A developer is writing a Windows application that needs to access hardware directly, such as reading from a custom sensor. The application is running as a standard user. What is the best approach for the application to interact with the hardware?

Use the Windows Registry to read sensor data

Use a system service that runs in user mode

Run the application as administrator

Use a device driver that runs in kernel mode

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Windows Foundations GFACT Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Operating System Fundamentals domain, which makes up ~21% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~11–17 in this domain), expect 6–9 from this objective — we provide 31 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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6application · medium
An administrator needs to copy a large number of files from an NTFS volume to a FAT32 USB drive. Some files are larger than 4 GB. What will happen?
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7application · medium
A user reports that they can access the internet but cannot access a file share on a server named 'FileSrv'. The user can ping the server's IP address. Which command should be used to verify that the server's name resolves correctly?
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8foundation · easy
Which Windows file system supports file-level security permissions, encryption, and disk quotas, and is the default for modern Windows installations?
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9application · medium
A developer is writing a Windows application that needs to access hardware directly, such as reading from a custom sensor. The application is running as a standard user. What is the best approach for the application to interact with the hardware?
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10application · medium
A technician needs to find the process ID (PID) of a specific application that is using a particular network port on a Windows server. Which command should they use?
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Questions 6–10

An administrator needs to copy a large number of files from an NTFS volume to a FAT32 USB drive. Some files are larger than 4 GB. What will happen?

A user reports that they can access the internet but cannot access a file share on a server named 'FileSrv'. The user can ping the server's IP address. Which command should be used to verify that the server's name resolves correctly?

Which Windows file system supports file-level security permissions, encryption, and disk quotas, and is the default for modern Windows installations?

A developer is writing a Windows application that needs to access hardware directly, such as reading from a custom sensor. The application is running as a standard user. What is the best approach for the application to interact with the hardware?

A technician needs to find the process ID (PID) of a specific application that is using a particular network port on a Windows server. Which command should they use?

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