ECPI University, Richmond - CIS 106

02/26/19

1)Who developed Linux?

2. Which company introduced floppy disk drives in 1978?
3. What did microsoft’s windows NT introduce as a new logical structure for storing files?
4. Who founded Apple computer?
5. What version of Microsoft was available as a free upgrade to consumers running windows 7 (SP1) or windows 8.1 upgrade on PC’s, Laptop’s, and tablets?

6. What are the two command line interfaces (CLIs) that come with windows?
7. Which operating system is considered to the oldest still in use today?
8. What does DOS stand for (acronym)?
9. What is considered to be the first widely accepted Microsoft windows version?
10. What was the first spreadsheet program to run on a personal computer?
11. What is the generic term for a mode or method of malware infection?
12. What is the term describes a computer-generated animation you may select to represent you in a virtual world?
13. What type of threat points your browse’s home page to a website you did not chose, and may even keep you from changing the default home page for the browser?
14. The biggest issue preventing the running of OS X in a virtual machine on a Windows computer is?
15. What term is used for a computer that belongs to a group of networked computers, all working mindlessly to serve the person who installed the program on the computers?
16. Which of the following is an Oracle virtualization product that works in several host OS’s including windows, Linux, and OS X?
17. What type of malware is spyware that collects information about the user’s browsing habits in order to display advertisements in the browser targeted to that user?
18. Which free hypervisor works on older PC’s w/o hardware virtualization support?
19. You want to run Linux as a guest OS on a Windows 7 host that lacks hardware virtualization. Of the following , which is a hypervisor that would work in this scenario?
20. What type of malware is also a vector and gets its name from Virgil’s famous epic poem, The

Aeneid, which describes how Greek warriors gained access to the City of Troy?

21. What term describes unsolicited instant messages?
22. What is the oldest Malware vector?
23. What type of malware replicates itself on a computer or throughout a network?
24. What does Microsoft recommend for large organizations requiring desktop virtualization for many clients?

25. Which of the following is a Microsoft desktop virtualization option that is so well integrated with the windows 7 host OS that it will allow you to launch a virtual machine and an application program within it from the host OS simply by double-clicking on a file of the type required by the application?

26. What term describes a group of networked computers infected with malware that forward

information to other computers?

27. When you create a VM using this Windows hypervisor, the VM and “Hosting” OS run in separate virtual machines.
28. This describes a virtual environment into which you can install and run Windows or Linux.
29. What term describes a password cracker that tries a huge number of possible passwords?
30. From the virtual box download page, you need to download both the core software required to

install Virtual box, plus the Virtual box                          which you install into a virtual machine after installing a client OS.

31. Create one of these on your desktop Start menu and use it to quickly open a folder, data file, (p.128) program, or other object.
32. This feature allows you to place icons for applications and destinations on the taskbar and Start

(p.129) menu.

33. When you right-click on a program on the taskbar in windows 7, you see this feature (p.129)?
34. When installing windows 8.1 from disc you must manually enter this to activate the OS.
35. When you upgrade from windows 7 to windows 8.1. What can you choose to keep?
36. This type of small graphical object, on a bar that slides out from the right side of the Windows

8.1 screen, acts as a shortcut to one of several important system wide tasks.

37. What is the name of the file management tool in windows 8.1?
38. Click or tap this charm in Widows 8.1 to see the options: sleep, shutdown, and restart.
39. What screen on windows 8.1 prevents the accidental launching of programs from a touch screen device?
40. What windows 8.1 feature provides antispyware protections?
41. Which of the following is mandatory and occurs early in the installation of a retail edition of Widows 10?
42. Which of the following is not an account type that can be used to sign into windows 10?
43. You are no longer required to manually enter this when you install Windows 10.
44. Create this beforehand and you can use it to boot up windows in the event the OS fails completely and will not start up in any mode.
45. If you are better at remembering a sequence of numbers than alphanumeric passwords, configure Windows 10 to allow you to sign in using this.
46. What windows 7 utility has been added back into Windows 10 to help you migrate data from windows 7 installation to a Windows 10 system?
47. Which of the following is not a backup program found in Windows 10?

48. This feature of Windows 10, long available in Linux and OS X, allows you to organize your open apps within work spaces according to the tasks or projects you work on with each group of apps.

49. What new Windows 10 feature (using the name previously assigned to a control panel page)

replaces Windows 8 charms bar?

50. Uninstall applications in Windows 10 from this new feature on the start menu.
51. The first time you power on a new Mac this program automatically runs allowing you to personalize your installation of OS X.
52. Check the version of OS X by opening this desktop object and selecting About This Mac.
53. This is a bootable image of the operating system that will run from disc or other bootable media without requiring that the OS be installed on the local computer.
54. This default Linux directory contains many of the Linux commands.
55. Everything in Linux is a                                       .

56. This group formed in 1986 to continue the development of a standard for GUI interfaces.

57. Apple introduce this UNIX­based operating system in 2000.

58. What important Apple computer (with a GUI OS) was introduced in 1984?
59. Which one of these commands will display the current directory?
60. This is the generic term for the user interface to an OS that accepts commands and displays error messages and other screen output.
61. What organization was created in 1988 to lobby for an open UNIX?
62. This GUI shell standard was developed in 1984 at MIT.
63. You can quickly launch a program that has an icon sitting on this GUI object on the OS X desktop.
64. What is the product name for OS X version 10.11?
65. This feature, introduced in OS X 10.11 El Capitan, allows two full­screen apps to share the screen.
66. In spite of his key role in the development of Linux, this person receives no direct financial gain.
67. This is the one place in Linux where an ordinary user has full control.
68. This is the OS X file manager.
69. What type of OS is Darwin, the core of OS X?
70. This feature of OS X allows you to manage Spaces.
71. The ability to track the whereabouts of a device is enabled by                                                  .
72. What option on a mobile device turns off all radio frequency (RF) signals?
73. Mobile device peripherals like headsets or keyboards often use this type of connection.
74. Which of the following is an acronym for a category of software used to enforce policies for BYOD?
75. Pairing is the term used when two devices connect using which type of network?