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Windows XP System Support MCDST 70-271 Online Training Course
Course Topics: 7
Estimated Time Needed: 17 hour(s)
Audience: This training course is for anyone preparing for the MCDST Exam 70-271.
Course Description: This online course prepares learners to take the MCDST 70-271 certification exam. It addresses a variety of operating system issues, such as installation, hardware conflicts, user management, performance monitoring, and networking.
Course Tutorials Include:
Windows XP System Support MCDST 70-271: 1 Installing Windows XP
Description
This course provides information on installing Windows XP, including minimum hardware requirements, licensing issues, and troubleshooting installation problems.
Objectives
- Perform an attended installation of Windows XP
- Perform an unattended installation of Windows XP
- Upgrade a computer to Windows XP from a previous Windows operating system
- Install updates for Windows XP
- Troubleshoot installation problems
Windows XP System Support MCDST 70-271: 2 Configuring and Troubleshooting Resources
Description
This course describes the techniques learners need to know to manage shared resources, encrypted files and folders, local and network printers, and offline files.
Objectives
- Share files and folders
- Encrypt files and folders
- Set up local and network printers
- Manage offline files
Windows XP System Support MCDST 70-271: 3 Managing Disks
Description
This course shows learners how to support and troubleshoot hard disks and explores available options under Windows XP for creating partitions, formatting drive volumes, and managing disk administration.
Objectives
- Identify Basic and Dynamic disks
- Use the Disk Management console
- Use the Disk Defragmenter and Disk Cleanup wizards
- Use convert.exe to convert a FAT volume to NTFS
- Use diskpart.exe to manage disk drives and volumes from the command line
Windows XP System Support MCDST 70-271: 4 Managing Hardware Devices
Description
This course provides information on supporting and troubleshooting hardware devices and their associated drivers.
Objectives
- Install, configure, and troubleshoot hardware devices and drivers
- Update drivers and system files
- Roll back drivers to a previous version
- Manage and troubleshoot driver signing
Windows XP System Support MCDST 70-271: 5 Configuring the Desktop and User Profiles
Description
This course describes the techniques to configure desktop settings, manage local user accounts, and troubleshoot startup issues.
Objectives
- Configure regional and multiple-language settings
- Configure user profiles
- Migrate user settings with the File
- Settings and Transfer Wizard
- Publish MSI packages
- Configure software restriction policies
Windows XP System Support MCDST 70-271: 6 Performance Monitoring and Network Troubleshooting
Description
This course provides information on monitoring and analyzing operating system performance and managing and troubleshooting network protocols and services.
Objectives
- Analyze and modify security settings
- Create and configure local and domain user accounts
- Troubleshoot startup and logon problems
- Configure user rights
- Troubleshoot network settings
- Configure ICF and host name resolution
- Enable and troubleshoot Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance
Windows XP System Support MCDST 70-271: 7 Practice Exam
Description
This course provides a practice exam for the MCDST 70-271 certification exam.
Objectives
- Review knowledge of topics on the MCDST 70-271 certification exam

Features
- A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
- Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
- Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
- Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
- A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
- A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
- Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.
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