An administrator must write a script that will output the host name to a file.

The correct answer is A. hostname . I corrected the wording from “OS name” to “host name” because, based on the answer choices, this question is testing the command that displays the computer’s host name. Quentin Docter’s Complete Study Guide explains that the hostname command returns the name of the host computer on which it is executed. This makes it appropriate for scripting because its output can be redirected to a file, such as hostname > computername.txt. The CompTIA A+ Core 2 objectives also list hostname , netstat , whoami , and winver as Windows command-line tools candidates should recognize. netstat displays active TCP/IP connections and network statistics, not the computer name. whoami displays the currently logged-in user account. winver displays Windows version information, but it opens a graphical dialog and is not the best option for writing simple script output to a file.