YOU WERE RECENTLY HIRED AS PART OF A SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION TEAM AT...

1.

You were recently hired as part of a systems administration team at a medium-sized

company. Your manager has asked you to install Windows XP Professional on 25 iden-

tical new desktop computers for the Accounts Receivable department in your firm. To

date, your colleagues have been manually installing Windows XP Professional and the

suite of applications on each computer as they arrive, carefully following written step-

by-step instructions. The process has been tedious and slow, and users have had prob-

lems with new computers because of configuration errors caused by human error dur-

ing the installation process. You want to deploy the computers as efficiently as possible

with all the desktop applications that are required by the staff in Accounts Receivable

installed and configured. You also want to ensure that all 25 computers are configured

consistently.

You propose to do the following:

■

Manually install and configure Windows XP Professional and the required appli-

cations on one of the new computers, meticulously following the existing step-by-

step instructions.

■

Use Setup Manager to fully automate the installation routine by creating an answer

file called Sysprep.inf.

■

Use a non-Microsoft imaging tool to create an image of the reference computer.

■

Use the imaging tool to copy the image from the reference computer to the

remaining computers.

What critical step is missing from your proposal? Choose the correct answer.

A.

Use Setup Manager to create a UDF file with unique settings for each of the 25

computers.

B.

Create RIS boot disks so that the computers can connect to the RIS server to down-

load the disk image.

C.

Use the SysPrep utility to prepare the reference computer for imaging.

D.

Install PXE-compliant network cards into each computer so that they can connect

to the RIS server to download the disk image.