CompTIA A+ 1102 Objective 1.3

Task Manager

Monitors computer's key resources, like processing, memory, storage, and network capacity

Device Manager

A tool used for investigating and troubleshooting system hardware components, and peripherals

Disk Mangement Console

Provides a summary of all the fixed and removable disks on the system, including HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives. (formats drives, creates partitions, shrinks volumes, creates RAIDS, and more)

Disk Fragmentation

Only truly affects hard drives, and this is because of the way data is written

Capacity

The cap of data you are able to have on your disk

Damage

Can happen when you cut off power to a disk being read or written, or if you drop the device.

Disk Defragmenter

a tool that reorganizes the files and unused space on a computer's hard disk so that the operating system accesses data more quickly and programs run faster (Defragmentation for HDDs, Optimization for SSDs)

Disk Cleanup Utility

Used to track down files that can be safely erased to reclaim disk space that may be needed

Task Scheduler

Used to run commands and scripts automatically in the background at any given interval

Event Viewer

Allows you to go through log files and see what has happened on a given Windows System

Performance Monitor

Provides real-time information about system resources by keeping track of what things are happening in the operating system.

Local Users and Groups

Provides the ability to create, modify, disable, and delete user accounts along with the setting or resetting of passwords

Group Policy Editor

Provides a way of configuring different Windows settings across all machines in the network

Certificate Manager

Looks at different digital certificates installed on the system and provides a way of requesting and importing new certificates.

System Information (msinfo32.exe)

Produces a comprehensive report on the different pieces of hardware and software inside a Windows system.

Resource Monitor

Gives a better version of the type of monitoring provided by the task manager. Essentially a better version of the snapshot and overview monitoring inside the Task Manager.

System Configuration Tool

Used to modify various settings and files that affect the way a computer boots up and loads Windows.

Registry Editor

A database which has all the different settings and configurations across the entire operating system.

Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

A container for plugins or snap-ins that can be used to create custom admin tools to configure a system. (Customized admin tool)