Test 109: Installing OS/2
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Objectives
- SECTION 1 - VERSIONS OF OS/2
- Describe the different versions of OS/2 and the environments in which they are candidates for installation.
- Describe the support for Windows applications provided by the different versions of OS/2.
- 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 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.
Recommended Education and Publications
Courses and publications are offered to help you prepare for the certification tests. The courses are recommended, but not required, before taking a certification test.
- Course Title
- OS/2 Technical Training Fastpath
- Course Number: P1103 (USA); PS600 (Canada); PS610 (Canada)
- Course Duration: 5 Days
- Course Abstract: This course provides a fastpath for the six days of training offered in course P1170 (2 days) - OS/2 Warp: Using and Customizing and course P1171 (4 days) - OS/2 Warp: Implementation and Support.
- Publication
- OS/2 Certification Handbook
- Publication Order Number: SR28-5650; ISBN 1-56205-407-4
- Abstract: This book is a tutorial that covers the functions and features of OS/2 Warp Version 3. Topics include installing, using and supporting OS/2, and OS/2 performance and tuning.
Sample Test
- 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