Windows management Instrumentation .NET

WMI - To monitor and manage System, application and devices using Windows Management Instrumentation


Detecting Management Event

• WMI is a component of the Windows operating system that provides monitoring functionality that spans virtually every machine resource.
• The EventQuery class is used within the .NET Framework to represent a WMI query.
• The Win32_Service object can be used to query information about Windows services.
• The ManagementQuery base class is used as a foundation for all management query objects.
• The ManagementObjectSearcher is used to query system resources through WMI.

Which of the following items cannot be queried via WMI?
Network adapters.
Logical drives on a machine
A list of OleDb-compliant databases on the network
A list of Windows Services on a machine and their respective states



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Answers



Correct Answer: C

Incorrect: Network Adapters can be discovered using WMI.
Incorrect: Logical drives can be discovered and interrogated using WMI.
Correct: Although some database information can be retrieved using WMI, a list of all OleDb-compliant databases cannot be determined using the WMI query syntax
Incorrect: A list of Windows Services running on a machine, and their respective states, can be queried via WMI.