MOAC 70-687 - Configuring Windows 8 Lab Manual

Lab 19

Configuring Mobility Options

This lab contains the following exercises and activities:

Exercise 19.1 / Configuring Power Options
Exercise 19.2
Lab Challenge / Creating a Custom Power Plan
Using Powercfg.exe
Exercise 19.1 / Configuring Power Options
Overview / In this exercise, you will examine the power settings used in the default power plans provided in Windows.
Mindset / Windows 8 provides a range of settings that you can use to conserve power.
Completion time / 20 minutes
Question 1 / How many power plans are available for your selection in the Power Options control panel?

10.  Click the Change plan settings link for the High performance plan and then type the values for the Turn off the display setting into the appropriate cells of Table 19-3. Click Cancel.

Table 19-3

Default Windows 8 Power Configuration Settings

Setting / Balanced / Power Saver / High Performance
Turn off the display
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?

12.  Take a screen shot of the Power Options dialog box by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste the resulting image into the Lab 19 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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13.  Using the drop-down list to change power plans, examine the values for the advanced power settings and type them in Table 19-4.

Table 19-4

Default Windows 7 Advanced Power Configuration Settings

Setting / Balanced / Power Saver / High Performance
Turn off hard disk after
Internet Explorer \ JavaScript Timer Frequency
Desktop background settings \ Slide show
Wireless Adapter Settings \ Power Saving Mode
Sleep\Allow wake timers
USB settings\USB selective suspend setting
Power buttons and lid\Power button action
PCI Express\Link State Power Management
Processor power management\System cooling policy
Display\Turn off display after
Display\Enable adaptive brightness
Multimedia settings\When sharing media
Multimedia settings\When playing video
Question 4 / Which of the settings on the Advanced settings tab enables the Power saver plan to conserve more energy than the other two plans?
Exercise 19.2 / Creating a Custom Power Plan
Overview / In this exercise, you will create power plans for your company’s desktop and laptop workstations.
Mindset / Desktop and portable computers have different power requirements and therefore require separate power plans.
Completion time / 20 minutes

6.  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 Lab 19 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Question 5 / Why does the Adatum Laptops power plan have a setting to maximize wireless adapter power savings, which the Adatum Desktops plan does not?
Lab Challenge / 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.
Mindset / You can use the Powercfg.exe command-line utility to export your power plans from your WKSTN-MBR-B workstation and import them on WKSTN-MBR-C.
Completion time / 10 minutes

In this challenge, you will use the Powercfg.exe command-line utility to export your power plans from your WKSTN-MBR-B workstation and import them on WKSTN-MBR-C.

To complete the challenge, you must perform the following tasks:

1.  Use the Powercfg.exe utility to display the 32-character GUID values for the power plans you created in Exercise 19.2, and then copy the GUID values into Table 19-5.

Table 16-5

Custom Power Plan GUIDs

Power Plan Name / 32-character GUID
Adatum Desktops
Adatum Laptops

2.  Write the commands needed to export the power plans you created on WKSTN-MBR-B to files, copy the files to the Downloads share on SVR-DC-A, and then import the power plans on WKSTN-MBR-C.

3.  Execute the commands on the two workstations and take screen shots of each by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste the two resulting images into the Lab 19 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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