Victoria Witte
Alonso Vigo
Franco Loli
Amando Tamayo
Chapter 2 Questions


1) What are the two main services provided by an OS? Provides a computer user with a file system structure and with a means of communicating with the computer system hardware.

2) Convert the following acronyms to complete words and capitalize the letter of the word used to contract the acronym.
A) OS- Operating System
B) NT- New Technology
C) DOS- Disk operating system
D) PnP- Plug and Play

3) Why are text-based commands used in Windows XP?
Because they are still a very big part of the A+ certification exams.

4) List five symbols than are not allowed in DOS naming convension.
+,>,<,:,[

5) List five symbols that are not allowed in windows 98 naming convension. *,<,>,?,:,*

6) List five special symbols that are allowed in windows 98 naming convention. (,),!,$,&
7) List the files thatare not vlidusing the DOS naming convention
Big/boy – it contains a “/”
big *top - it contains a “*”


8) Which file names are invalidusing Windows 95 long name format?
mymemo*for*jim – it contains a “*”
MYMEMO/TO/JIM - it contains “/”
my+memo=to+jim – it contains a “+”
mymemo:jim – it contains a “:”
MEMOJune2001= - it contains a “=”

9) What four files are required to boot a Windows NT operating system?
1.NTDLR
2.ntdetect.com
3.boot.ini
4.ntoskrnl.exe

10) What is the name of the Windows XP file that loads the kernel?
ntoskrnl.exe

11) What is the file name of the Windows XP operating system fiole that detectssystem hardware components
Ntdetect.com

12) The purpose of FAT is to____.
C. record file locations on disk

13) What is a kernel?
Kernal- the core of the operating system

14) What three files are found on a MS-DOS boot disk?
Command.com, io.sys, and msdos.sys

15) Arrange the following componets into the correst boot sequence.
POST
BOOTSTRAP PROGRAM
IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
CONFIG.SYS
COMMAND.COM
AUTOEXEC.BAT

16) The kermal is the operating sy stem itself.

17) An operating system does what? Select all that apply.
Provides communication between the user and the computer system
Provides software to communicate with the BIOS
Provides communication between the user and the hard drive

18) A warm boot may be initiated by pressing which three keys simultaneously?
Crtrl, Alt, Delete

19) A spreadsheet program is an example of an application.

20) A software program designed to support communication between a specific printer and a PC is commonly referred to as a driver.

21) Errors in software are commonly referred to as bugs and are corrected by installing a software patch.

22) Which command is used to create a DOS boot disk?
Format/boot

23) A database that stores system configuration information is called the registry.