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Lecture 7 Device drivers
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- 1What is a device driverIt's a piece of software which allows you to use a piece of hardware with your computer
- 2What information comes device driver*Name of driver file & location
*Company providing file
*Date of written driver
*Version number
*Digital signiture - 3What is plug and playIt's when the computer automatically installs the appropriate drivers when the hardware is inserted
- 4What is a legacy deviceIts when the user has to manually install the device and drivers
- 5What is a driver signatureIt's a signature to ensure the driver file is approved from the company and is compatible with the OS
- 6What is an unsigned-driverThis is a driver file that is unknown and hasn't been approved by a company
- 7Name 3 tools for checking digital signatures*Windows file protection
*System file checker
*File signature verification - 8What does the windows file protectionIt verifies and protect system files. If it can't find the files from a backup it will ask for it's location
- 9What does the system file checker doIt uses the cmd tool to verify system files that have been overwritten and replaces them with the correct files
- 10What does the file signature verification doUses the sigverif cmd to check and verify signature file
- 11What policies can admins do*Ignore
*Warn
*Block - 12If you want to prevent a user from using a usb port for example what can you doDisable that device
- 13What can you do with device manager*View details
*Update and install
*Rollback
*Unistall - 14Can you rollback in safe modeYes
- 15Can you rollback more than one version of a driverNo
- 16Can you rollback print driversNo
- 17What are hardware profilesThey're profiles which are created to control what devices accounts can use
- 18What is last known goodIt's the configuration which is saved after the user logs in
- 19What should you consider with last known goodWhether your logging into a stable configuration
- 20What is the CurrentControlSetThe configuration of the user for when they log in
- 21What is ASRAutomated system recovery
- 22When should you use ASRWhen you can't use safe mode or the last known good is unstable
- 23What does ASR recoverThe windows operating system
- 24What doesn't ASR recoverYour data
- 25What should two features come with ASR*Recover
*Backup - 26What do you need to perform ASRAn ASR backup and system recovery disc
- 27What do you need to perform an ASR recoveryThe installation CD