4.8

Question 1

What are environment variables?

Answer 1

Variables that describe the operating system environment.

Question 2

What are examples of an OS environment? (3)

Answer 2

Name of the computer

Drive Letter

Path of user’s home directory

Question 3

Describe this script file type: .bat

Answer 3

Legacy Windows OS

Used for scripting at the command line.

Question 4

Describe this script file type: .ps1

Answer 4

Powershell

Used at the command line for system administrators

Question 5

Describe this script file type: .vbs

Answer 5

Visual Basic Scripting

General purpose scripting in Windows (especially in Microsoft Office)

Question 6

Describe this script file type: .sh

Answer 6

Shell Script

Used at the command line for Unix/Linux systems.

Question 7

Describe this script file type: .py

Answer 7

Python

General purpose scripting language.

Question 8

Describe this script file type: .js

Answer 8

JavaScript

Adds interactivity to HTML and CSS