Chapter 3—Answers

1. True
2. Plug and Play:
3.  
   1. Interrupt Request (IRQ)
   2. Direct Memory Access (DMA)
4. True
5. Windows Registry
6. 1. Devices
   2. Device Manager
7. 1. Services Control Manager
   2. Registry Editor
8. Service account
9. Any changes made to your server are stored in the registry. That said, the Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores the hardware/software configuration and system security information. After you access the registry, you will notice that its console tree (left-hand side) consists of five registry keys known as hives (that is HKEYs): HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR), HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU), HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM), HKEY_USERS (HKU), and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG (HKCC).

3. Services are background services that keep alive the OS. When accessing services through the Services Control Manager, you will notice that for each service there is a description which helps us understand its purpose. Each service has the following start-up types: Automatic, Automatic (Delayed start), Manual, and Disable.