An accountant is booting a PC that has Windows 8 installed. The boot process is currently working on the following step: BIOS locates and reads the configuration settings that are stored in the CMOS memory. What is the next step that will happen in the boot process?

An accountant is booting a PC that has Windows 8 installed. The boot process is currently working on the following step: BIOS locates and reads the configuration settings that are stored in the CMOS memory. What is the next step that will happen in the boot process?

• The BIOS boots the computer using the first drive that contains a valid boot sector.
• The code in the boot sector is executed and the control of the boot process is given to Windows Boot Manager.
• Winload uses the path specified in BOOTMGR to find the boot partition.
• WinLoad loads two files that make up the core of Windows: NTOSKRNL.EXE and HAL.DLL.