Transcript Early Term Exam Review

Late Middle Term Exam Review
Mazen S. Alzyoud
Chapter 4 System Software
• System software: Operating System, System Utilities.
• Operating System: Five basic functions. Why computer need
OS?
• Starting the computer:
– cold boot & warm boot.
– Six steps of booting a system. What will happen?
• Managing memory.
• Coordinates tasks: Interrupts & Interrupt handlers; Device
driver.
• User interface; GUI, menu-driven, Command-line.
Chapter 4 System software
 Three categories of operating systems: Stand-alone, Server
OS & Embedded OS. Examples of these categories.
 System utilities.
 Back up program.
 Scanning program for these bad sectors.
 Trouble shooting & safe mode.
Chapter 5 Application Software
 General-purpose application software: Productivity, Media
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and graphic, Internet based, Home and education program.
Compression and decompression. Lossless compression and
lossy compression.
Vector Graphics.
Web-hosted technology.
Undesirable Internet software. Spyware, Pop-up, Adware.
Chapter 5
 Standalone program, Integrated Programs, and Software
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suites.
Software version. Release of programs are cited by a year or
version number.
Software license and site license.
Commercial software, shareware, Freeware.
Public domain software, Copy-protected software.
Chapter 6 Internet and WWW
 Internet and host. Methods to access Internet. Dial-up, DSL,
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Cable access, Satellite and Fiber-optic service.
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol(IP).
Hot spot.
World Wide Web. Web server.
Uniform Resource Locator(URL) and its components: http,
domain name, resource name.
Search Engines, Spider and Link rot.
Chapter 6
 Internet Service. Electronic Mail, Instant Messaging. VoIP,
FTP.
 Malware, Spyware, Botnet.
 E-commerce. B2B, C2C, B2C. Drawbacks to B2C ecommerce. Online e-commerce solutions to drawbacks.
 Protecting your identity.