A technician is booting a PC that has Windows 10 installed on dynamic drives. The boot process is currently working on the following step: POST. What is the next step that will happen in the boot process?

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A technician is booting a PC that has Windows 10 installed on dynamic drives. The boot process is currently working on the following step: POST. What is the next step that will happen in the boot process?

  • There are no more steps, the boot process is complete.
  • NTOSKRNL.EXE starts the login file called WINLOGON.EXE.
  • WINLOGON.EXE displays the Windows Welcome screen
  • BIOS locates and reads the configuration settings that are stored in the CMOS memory.

Explanation: Boot Sequence for Windows:
– Power on Self Test (POST)
– POST for each adapter card that has a BIOS
– BIOS reads the MBR
– MBR takes over control of the boot process and starts BOOTMGR
– BOOTMGR reads the Boot Configuration Data file to know which OS to load and where to find the OS on the boot partition
– BOOTMGR invokes WINLOAD.EXE in order to load the NTOSKRNL.EXE file and HAL.DLL
– BOOTMGR reads the registry files and loads device drivers
– NTOSKRNL.EXE starts the WINLOGON.EXE program and displays the Windows login screen.

Exam with this question: Final Exam - Composite (Chapters 1-14)

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