Windows Vista Maintenance and Optimization


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
An optimized operating system runs at peak performance and helps to ensure that applications and hardware perform as they are designed to. Windows Vista has many tools to help achieve the goal of an optimized system along with monitoring tools that help ensure the system continues to perform at its best. This course describes many of the performance monitoring tools of Windows Vista and explains the strategies for system optimization.

Target Audience
The audience for this path are personnel who provide Tier 1 or Tier 2 desktop and help desk support for Windows Vista, and other technical professionals who wish to certify on Windows Vista.

Prerequisites
Candidates for the exam should have 1 year experience in the IT field and have experience with or a need to resolve issue concerning network connectivity, desktop OS’s, security and client applications.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Windows Vista Maintenance and Optimization

  • use the Performance and Reliability Monitor
  • identify the performance monitoring options in Vista
  • troubleshoot system performance
  • recognize how using SuperFetch can boost system performance
  • monitor the system
  • monitor system performance
  • monitor system reliability
  • analyze a system bottleneck
  • set system properties
  • identify the features of the system tool
  • use system configuration
  • create a new scheduled task
  • use Event Viewer
  • identify indexing options
  • configure tasks and events
  • Course Number:
    mv_wvcc_a07_it_enus