Study Guide for Quiz #3

Concepts 9th ed - chapter 4

Quiz #3 will be on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007.

To prepare for the quiz, look up each term below in the Glossary in the back of the Computer Concepts textbook. If the term is not in the glossary, look it up in the Index and then read the indicated pages in the book. If you do this, you will most likely ace the quiz.

maximum length of a filename in Windows 2000/XP
filename extension
file format
main hard disk drive device letter
root directory
file specification/path
What is Windows Explorer?
file system
NTFS
defragmentation
virus
virus trigger event/payload
macro
boot sector virus
Trojan horse
worm
Denial of Service attack
symptoms of a possible virus
checksum
virus signature
virus hoax
full-system backup
the Registry
port for connecting an external hard disk drive

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