Utility Software Flashcards
1
Q
What is virus Scanning?
A
Scans for a virus causing issue with disk access speed or damaged data/files
2
Q
What does a Virus Checker do?
A
- checks incoming and outgoing emails and attachments
- checks downloaded files
- warns user of suspicious files
- scans the hard drive
3
Q
What is a firewall?
A
Protects a network system from unauthorised access
4
Q
How do firewalls work?
A
5
Q
What does defragmentation do to files?
A
6
Q
How does a computer benefit from defragmentation?
A
7
Q
What does compression/archiving do to files?
A
8
Q
What are the benefits of this for a computer?
A
9
Q
Software compression?
A
10
Q
What is hardware compression?
A
11
Q
What is system monitoring responsible for?
A
12
Q
What is task management?
A
13
Q
What does disk scanning and repair do?
A
14
Q
What is system backup?
A
15
Q
What does system backup do?
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