Test Review Flashcards by Hakeem Samra

Responsible for controlling a computer

Operating System Software

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Four main functions of all os

Provide a user interface
manage files
manage hardware
manage applications

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Windows OEM can only be installed on?

New PC for resale

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Usually on the right side of the taskbar and displays open services

Notification area (system tray or stystray)

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A program that runs in the background

Services

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What was the Windows 8 interface formerly called?

Metro User Interface or Metro UI

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What is the initial screen that is displayed?

Desktop

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What is a mini app that provides information such as time, date, news headlines, or weather. Found on windows 7 desktop

Gadgets

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Where is the windows desktop folder located?

In the File System

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A windows 7 what is a collection of folders?

Library

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What root directory is the top of hierarchical structure of subdirectories?

C:\

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A hard drive is divided into what?

Partitions

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Each volume on a hard drive has its own?

Root directory

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A hard drive also has what?

A hierarchical structure of subdirectories

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Why can a single hard drive have multiple root directories?

Because it can have multiple partitions

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Can hold files or other directories, the directories are called subdirectories, child directories, or folders.

Root directory

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Any directory can have what two things?

Files and other subdirectories in it.

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What are the partitions assigned drive letters called?

Volumes

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How do you navigate the navigation pane?

Click or double click folders

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Folders in windows = what?

Directories in command prompt.

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Compressed folders have what kind of extension?

.ZIP extension

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Obtains applets used to manage system

Control Panel

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Accessing control panel in windows

Right click start button in windows 7 and then click control panel

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What is the default view for control panel?

Category view

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Administrative tools in control panel

Print management Computer management Event viewer

Gives you a quick look at what hardware and software are installed

System Window

How to access system information window in Windows 8

Enter msinfo32.exe in run box and press enter

Tools to quickly solve problems, and lists errors and issues that need attention

Action Center

Appears in notification area of toolbar

Action Center Flag

Place to view network information and trouble shoot network problems

Network and Sharing Center

What are two types of privileges?

Administrative and Standard

Type of account that authenticates off Microsoft server

Microsoft Account

What is authenticated by a computer on a network?

Network ID

What is authenticated on the local computer?

Local account

What indicates how file contents are organized and formatted?

The File extensions

What OS system can support a max of 4 GB of memory?

32 Bit OS

How many bites of memory can 64 bit OS support?

16 hexabytes of memory

Can 64 bit apps support 32 bit Os?

Yes

Has a 2 TB partition size

Master Boot Record (MBR) partition

Limited to 18 EB partition size

GUID Partition Table (GPT)

Manages essential devices such as keyboard.

The Motherboard UEFI/BIOS

Used to change motherboard settings.

Setup/UEFI BIOS

What is required if. Imputed has a drive larger than 2 TB

UEFI

What does UEFI have that is an Anti malware that prevents malware from high jacking system?

Secure boot

Small programs stored on hard drive that tell the computer how to communicate with hardware.

Device drivers

Hidden recovery partition on brand-name computers to reinstall OS

Factory recovery partition

Software simulating a physical computer

Virtual Machine

Where are old files saved if the hard drive is not reformatted?

Windows.old file

Launched from the desktop and keeps user settings and installed apps and

In place upgrade

When windows is installed in a second partition this is called.

Multi boot

What is required if you want to install a 64-bit version of windows over a 32-bit system?

Clean install

A disc image file that has setup files

ISO file

Install windows 8.1 only required for clean installs

Click custom

Pre-installed antivirus and anti malware on windows 8

Windows Defender

Copies individual or small companies user data and settings

Windows Easy Transfer

Deployment strategy that clones the hard drive recommended for 100-200 computers

High touch standard image

An answer file stores responses to installation prompts.

Light touch high volume

Deployment strategy that uses push automation. It is automated with no user intervention required.

Zero touch high volume deployment.

No user intervention is required. A server pushed installation to a computer.

Push automation

Installation that does not require technician to respond to prompts by the setup program.

Unattended installation

Provide encryptions and hardlink management

UsmtUtils

How can virtual machines be used?

Train users to run legacy software | Support multiple operating systems.

Software used to create and manage virtual machines

Hypervisor

When a user logs onto windows a user profile is created

User Profile Namespace

File stored in the C:\users\username folder

Ntuser.dat

To define values for variables used by the program files have .ini or .inf extensions

Initialization files

Utility used to delete temporary files

Windows Disk Cleanup

Rearrange fragments or parts of files to store as few segments as possible

Defragment

Is defragmentation recommended for SSD’s?

A file allocation unit

Cluster

Unused space at the end of the last cluster in a hard drive is called

Slack

Fake RAM on hard drive is called what?

Virtual memory

Hidden file stored in c root directory

Pagefile.sys

How can you save space involving virtual memory?

Move the virtual memory paging file to another partition on same or different drive.

Extra copy of data or software file

Backup

When is it necessary to use back up?

If original file becomes damaged or destroyed

Utility that automatically backs up system files and stores them at regular intervals

Windows System Protection

A Condition at the time a snapshot is taken and includes windows system file.

Restore point

What is the size of each sector on a magnetic drive?

512 bytes

Installs a file system and erases all data on volume

High level formatting

Called an extended partition which can hold one or more volumes called logical drives

Fourth MBR partition

Can support up to 128 partitions and doesn’t use extended partitions

GPT partition (Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table)

Removed extended partitions and concerts the drive in GPT partitions

Diskpart command

Overall structure an Os uses names files to site info on a drive

File system

Single hard drive that can be partitioned and formatted as a stand alone drive.

Basic Disk

A volume accessible by a folder on another volume.

Mounted Drive

Word together to collectively present a single dynamic volume

Several dynamic disks

Combines multiple physical disks into a single virtual disk

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)

Keyboard short cut to terminate a command before its finished

CTRL + C or CTRL + Pause

Small program that contains a list of commands

Batch File (.bat)

How do you manually execute a batch file?

Type .batch along with the file name in command prompt

Creates a sub directory under a directory

Md [drive:] path

Fixes file system errors, recovers data from bad sectors, won’t fix anything unless drive is unlocked.

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