70-680 Configuring Windows 7 Lab Manual

Lab 16

Configuring Mobile options

Exercise 16.1 / Configuring Power Options
Overview / In Exercise 16.1, you examine the power settings used in the default power plans provided in Windows 7.
Completion time / 20 minutes
Question 1 / How many power plans are available for your selection in the Power Options control panel?

Table 16-3

Default Windows 7 power configuration settings

Setting / Balanced / Power Saver / High Performance
Turn off the display
Put the computer to sleep
Question 2 / How do the different settings enable the Power saver plan to be more energy efficient than the Balanced plan?
Question 3 / How do the different settings enable the High performance plan to achieve greater performance levels than either of the other two plans?

Table 16-4

Default Windows 7 advanced power configuration settings

Setting / Balanced / Power Saver / High Performance
Require a password on wakeup
Turn off hard disk after
Wireless Adapter Settings \ Power Saving Mode
Sleep after
Allow wake timers
USB selective suspend setting
Power button action
Link State Power Management
Minimum processor state
System cooling policy
Maximum processor state
Turn off display after
When sharing media
When playing video
Question 4 / Which of the settings on the Advanced settings tab enables the High performance plan to achieve greater performance levels than the Balanced plan?
Question 5 / Which of the settings on the Advanced settings tab enables the Power saver plan to conserve more energy than the other two plans?
Exercise 16.2 / Creating a Custom Power Plan
Overview / In Exercise 16.2, you create power plans for your company’s desktop and laptop workstations.
Completion time / 20 minutes

8. Take a screen shot of the Power Options control panel, showing the power plans you created, by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the Lab16_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

Question 6 / Which of the settings you configured in both of your new power plans will prevent the computers from operating at peak performance levels?
Exercise 16.3 / Using Powercfg.exe
Overview / Now that you have created power plans for your company’s desktop and laptop computers, you must determine how to transfer those plans to other computers. In Exercise 16.3, you use the Powercfg.exe command line utility to export your power plans from your NYC-CLa workstation and import them on NYC-CLb.
Completion time / 10 minutes

Table 16-5

Custom power plan GUIDs

Power Plan Name / GUID
NYC-CLa Desktops
NYC-CLa Laptops


11. Take a screen shot of the Command Prompt window, showing the successful import commands, by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the Lab16_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

Exercise 16.4 / Using BitLocker
Overview / In addition to investigating power settings, your director wants you to examine the BitLocker feature included in Windows 7. For Exercise 16.4, you will use BitLocker to encrypt an external drive connected to your workstation using a password.
Completion time / 10 minutes
Question 7 / Under real world conditions, why would it be unwise to store the recovery key on the computer?


11. Take a screen shot of the BitLocker Drive Encryption control panel, showing that BitLocker is turned on for external drive, by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the lab16_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.