Lesson 1—Exercise 1

List and explain the five high-level deployment steps that are typically a part of an enterprise workstation deployment.

·       Build a deployment image.

·       Perform a reference computer installation.

·       Capture an image of the reference computer.

·       Boot the target computers.

·       Apply the Windows 7 reference computer image.

Explain the advantages of using Microsoft Imaging rather than traditional imaging.

The advantages of Microsoft imaging include .wim files being:

·       Bandwidth efficient

·       Nondestructive

·       Hardware independent

·       Compressed

·       Compatible with multiple operating systems

·       Capable of single-instance storage

·       Spannable

·       Bootable

·       Editable

List and explain the seven different configuration passes in an answer file.

·       Windows PE

·       Offline servicing

·       Generalize

·       Specialize

·       AuditSystem

·       AuditUser

·       OOBE System