Survey of Operating Systems Ch. 7-8 Questions. – Flashcards

What type of OS is Darwin, the core of OS X?

You can quickly launch a program that has an icon sitting on this GUI object on the OS X desktop.

This is an OS X file management tool.

This feature of OS X allows you to manage Spaces.

What important Apple computer (with a GUI OS) was introduced in 1984?

Check the version of OS X by opening this desktop object and selecting About This Mac.

Apple introduce this UNIX-based operating system in 2000.

What is the product name for OS X version 10.9?

The first time you power on a new Mac, this program automatically runs, allowing you to personalize you installation of OS X.

Which method will bring up information about an Apple computer's hardware?

From this menu you can shut down your computer, access configuration settings, update software, put your Mac to sleep, restart, log out, access recent items, and learn about your Mac.

This OS X equivalent of the Windows Control Panel is where you can make many configuration changes to your system.

Using this feature of OS X, you can have separate sets of open program windows for the desktop. It is a handy way to roganize different projects of to keep your personal work separate from your professional work in separate desktops.

Use this Finder view if you need to see information about files and folders at a glance, including date modified, soze and kind of oject (folder or type of file).

What key combination quickly opens the folder containing files and folders that appear on your OS X Desktop?

Use this OS X feature to configure automatic system backups to a dedicated drive.

What folder is represented by an icon in the Finder Sidebar that resembles a house?

What folder contains the Utilities folder?

You have the General preferences pane open; which of the following will quickly return you to the main System Preferences window?

What key combination will quickly open the OS X search utility?

What key combination will cut a selected item?

Where can you configure the OS X Firewall settings?

What OS X feature would you turn on to encrypt you startup drive?

Turn on this feature so that hackers canot access the swap file in an effort to read confidential data on your OS X computer.

This OS X feature is a secure database of a user's passwords.

The first account you create on a new OS X computer is this type, with the ability to create other accounts and to change all system preferences settings and install software in the main application and libary folders.

This all-powerful account is disabled by default; Apple has tried to ensure that you should never, or rarely, need to use it.

In most cases, this should not be turned on because it bypasses a very important security feature.

You have forgotten the password for your account on your Macbook Pro with OS X Mountain Lion. You are locked out of your computer. Which of the following will allow you to reset the password so that you can log on again?

The Apple II computer was the first personal computer with a graphcal user interface (GUI).

What organization was created in 1988 to lobby for an open UNIX?

In spite of his key role in the development of Linux, this person receives no direct financial gain.

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.

This is the generic term for the user interface to an OS that accepts commands and displays error messages and other screen output.

This GUI shell standard was developed in 1984 at MIT.

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

Which of the following is an implementation of the X Windows System?

Using a special symbol, such as the tilde (~) or two dots (..), as a parameter to certain shell comands, you can move around directories in Linux using _______________.

The command line cd/usr/sbin is an example of the use of a/an ___________________.

Which of these commands will display the current directory?

At the Linux command shell, when an ordinary user is logged on, the prompt ends with which of the following characters?

Which of the following is the short name for a very popular Web server first developed for UNIX, but available for Linux and other operating systems.

Which of the following would you enter at the Linux command line to shut down Linux immediately and to halt (power off) the computer.

Considering the Ubuntu Linux example in the chapter, which of the following would you expect to be the size of the download of a Linux distribution for the desktop?

Which of the following will result in an error message if you enter it at the Linux command prompt?

Everything in Linux is a _______________.

This is the one place in Linux where an ordinary user has full control.

What directory contains settings and configuration data and is one of the directories created by default in Linux?

This default Linux directory contains many of the Linux commands.

Use this shell command to modify file permissions.

Use this shell command to copy files.

Which of the following options for the ls command will show a listing of all files, including hidden files?

Which command will change to the user's home directory, regardless of the current directory?

What command displays the entire contents of a file, pausing when the screen is full and waiting for a keystroke to continue?

The KDE GUI in Fedora discussed in this chapter has a screen object resembling the Windows desktop Start menu. What is the name of this object?

Precede a Linus shell command with this command when you are logged on as an administrator, and you can temporarily run the command, even if it normally requires root-level privileges.

Which of the following is a search tool in the Ubuntu Unity GUI?

Which command will delete a user?

Which of the following is true when you delete a user in Linux?

What permissions are assigned by the access mode number 6?