An administrator needs to back up the following components of a single workstation: - The installation of the operating system - Applications - User profiles - System settings Which of the following…

A differential backup saves only the data that has changed since the last full backup and requires both the last full backup and the latest differential to restore, which is not suitable for a single, comprehensive system backup and recovery.

An image backup creates an exact, sector-by-sector copy of the entire hard drive or a specific partition, capturing the operating system, installed applications, user profiles, and all system settings, allowing for a complete system restoration to a previous state.

A synthetic full backup combines an earlier full backup with subsequent incremental backups to create a new full backup, often used in managed backup solutions, but 'image' directly refers to the comprehensive backup type for a workstation.

Archive is typically a file attribute or a long-term storage solution for inactive data, not a specific method for backing up an entire operational workstation's components for recovery.