Topic 2 - Software Components
It manages the data going to and from the peripheral devices because these are what the user interacts with. e.g. keyboard, printer, mouses and headphones.
How does the operating system manage peripheral device?
Controls where files & programs are saved on storage devices and is also assigns drive names - (C:) (D:) (E:) e.t.c
How does the operating system manage storage?
Food groups A-Z
How dose android name there operating systems?
Proprietary software
Software that has been developed by a company and has restrictions on its use, copying, and modification?
Operating System (OS)
Software used to control the computer and its peripheral equipment.
Customer Relationship Management
What does CRM stand for?
Integrated Development Environment
What does IDE stand for?
WAV and MP3
What files types are used for audio?
AVI, FLV, WMV, MOV and MPG.
What files types are used for video?
Reorganizes the files so that that the data is all stored in one sequence together.
What is Disc De-Fragmentation?
If there isn't enough space for the whole file, it is split up with the rest saved in the next available space.
What is Disc Fragmentation?
A code where plain text is changed into an unreadable format using a key (and an algorithm).
What is Encryption?
Chrome OS
What is Google's Linux-based operating system designed to work primarily with web apps?
Sends text messages over the internet.
What is Instant Messaging?
Voice over Internet Protocol.
What is VoIP?
Translates the source code & creates an executable file (.exe)
What is a Compiler?
Software that is used to create 3D models to help design for building and 3D printing.
What is a Computer aided design? (CAD)
It is a persistent, organised set of data.
What is a Databases?
Shows us where errors are and what they might be.
What is a Debugger?
A driver is extra software that tells the operating system how to communicate with the new hardware.
What is a hardware driver?
Uses ports as gateways into the network these are all numbered.
What is a network port?
Devices that is plugged into the computer system (but not storage or chargers. (input/output devices)
What is a peripheral device?
PPT (and PPTX) is a file extension for a presentation file format used by Microsoft PowerPoint, Keynote and google sides.
What is a presentation software?
It is used for sheets of calculations using formulas and function.
What is a spreadsheet?
A document file format used by Microsoft Word and word processing software, including OpenOffice.
What is a text based document?
Software that is designed for a single purpose and performs a single function. (e.g. Minecraft, WhatsApp and OBS.)
What is an App?
An application is software designed to perform a variety of functions. (e.g. Facebook, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.)
What is an Application?
Cloud storage
What is an Internet service that provides storage to computer users?
Removing all data and sets all areas of the disk to be written to.
What is disk formatting?
This includes the software used to install and manage games apps. (e.g. game shopping market)
What is gaming management software?
Installed game (e.g. Minecraft)
What is gaming software?
A Software that allows employees to communicate inside a business. (e.g. VoIP (Skype, Zoom etc), Instant Messaging (Slack, Zoom) and Organisation (Trello, Padlet).)
What is interoffice communications?
Software that runs on a mobile device. (e.g. smartphone or tablet)
What is mobile app?
When you can use a website and app to access the same content but with different views. (e.g. mobile app developed for touch screen and Website for browsing large web pages)
What is multi-platform software?
Software that creates a list of tasks to complete.
What is organisation software?
Open sources software
What is software that includes its source code, allowing programmers to modify and improve it? (Some could be free.)
Cloud Computing
What is the practice of using the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer?
A big database of customers & clients and all the interactions that the business has had with them.
What is the purpose of CRM software?
Where software is used to create smaller versions of a file(s) or folder(s) for storing or sending.
What is the purpose of Compression Software?
Allows the user to delete cache from the system.
What is the purpose of Disk Drive Cleanup?
Protects files by making them unreadable and usually with a password.
What is the purpose of Encryption software?
Keeps a log of and monitors any problems found in the software and hardware of the system. (If any thing crashes a log is created with as much information as possible.)
What is the purpose of Event viewer?
Allows a user to write program in code to create new programs or web pages.
What is the purpose of IDE software?
Prevents unwanted connections to a network from outside a different network.
What is the purpose of a firewall?
Memory is used to run the computer system (RAM, ROM, & Cache)
What is the purpose of computer memory?
Allows the user to see if there are any issues with the hardware and offers possible solutions on how to fix them.
What is the purpose of hardware troubleshooting?
Creates a backups and allow a copy of the whole system to be saved to another location on an another hard dives or cloud storage.
What is the purpose of operating system backup?
It holds the currently running programs & data
What is the purpose of ram?
Allows the user to see which programs are running, how much memory and processing they are currently using.
What is the purpose of task manager?
Allows the user to monitor the performance of the hardware using grafts and charts.
What is the purpose of the performance monitor?
Operating system backups allow a copy of the whole system to be saved to another location on hard drive or to the cloud.
What is the purpose of third party backups software?
When the ram gets full, the OS can assign part of the hard drive to act as RAM.
What is virtual memory?
GUI
What kind of interface do most desktop operating systems use?
Linux
What open source software is available to install as different flavours? e.g. Mint, Ubuntu and Rasbian
Rasbian
What operating system can be installed on a Raspberry Pi?
Mac OS
What operating system can only be run on a Mac Book & iMac?
Windows
What operating system can run on a Surface, Desktop, or Laptop?
IOS
What operating system is used on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad?
The CPU Cores (CPU) Memory use (RAM) Storage Space (Disk) Co-Processors (GPUs) Network bandwidth (Ethernet)
What resources does operating system manage?
DBMS for example Microsoft Access.
What software is used to manage Database?
Microsoft excel, Apple Numbers and Google sheets.
What software is used to manage Spreadsheets?
These can be as simple as Voice Recorder which creates a basic recording from a microphone, or more complex like Audacity where you can make changes to the sound file and can save as different types of file.
What software is used to manage audio files?
Email clients e.g. Apple mail, Easy mail for Gmail and Microsoft Outlook.
What software is used to manage emails?
Presentation software (e.g PowerPoint)
What software is used to manage multimedia files?
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher OneNote and Apple Pages.
What software is used to manage text based documents?
Film software allows the user to watch and edit video files. (e.g. Move Maker, Microsoft movies & TV (Windows 10) and Apple Clips.)
What software is used to manage video files?
Web Browsers
What software is used to view web-pages?
Oreo
What version of android will come after Nougat?
IPhone
What was the first smartphone released in 2007?
Tizen
Which operating system based on Linux do Samsung devices use?
Mobile operating system
Which operating system designed to be used with mobile phones and other mobile devices?
Android OS
Which operating system was developed by Google for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets?
Windows 8
Which version of Windows came before Windows 10?
Compressed file(s) cannot be scanned for viruses.
Why do email server block compressed files?
