The current most used file system for Windows PCs
What is NTFS New Technology File System?
This modern operating system (legally) only runs (legally) on hardware manufactured by Apple (legally)?
What is MacOS? (don't look up Hackintosh whatever you do) (but that isn't test material, use your time wisely)
You will most likely use this filesystem for removable media, used to ensure compatibility when moving files from one OS to a completely different one
What is FAT32?
A software meant to provide translation between hardware and the OS
What is a driver?
We refer to flavors or types of Linux this way
What is a Distribution or Distro?
This edition of Windows does not include RDP host capabilities, BitLocker, group policy, or the ability to join a domain, and a maximum RAM support of 128GB?
What is Windows Home?
The most commonly used file system for MacOS
What is APFS Apple File System?
You need to move a 5GB database file from a Linux PC to a Windows PC via removable media so you used this file system?
What is exFAT? FAT32 has a 4GB file limit.
You print a page and it comes out with weird characters and you replace these to solve the issue
What are drivers?
These are two file systems commonly used by Linux
What is ext3 or 4, XFS, FAT32, exFAT?
Most commonly used for central management of user profiles and policy in a Windows environment network
What is AD Active Directory or ADDS Active Directory Domain Service?
This mobile OS is the most popular OS in the world by device installations, is based on Linux, and is highly customizable?
What is Android?
Software layer that manages hardware and provides a platform for applications
What is an OS Operating system?
This is the command to run to bring up the MMC snap-in that allows you to view and manage drivers and hardware.
What is devmgmt.msc (opens Device Manager)?
Written by Linus Torvalds and added significantly to by Richard Stallman and the GNU project to provide a functional alternative to UNIX
What is Linux?
You try to run an application on an older computer but it won't install, when you go to check system information it says you have 4GB of RAM when you know you installed 16GB, and you discover this about the OS your "friend" installed to help you out with this PC
What is a 32-bit operating system?
Mobile OS that is closed source, uses APFS, modified to also run watches and tablets, only runs on one manufacturers hardware
What is iOS?
Use this to see current processes for the user, easy to access and use, sorts by name or resource usage, allows you to end a process
What is Task Manager (Watch Dave's Garage on YouTube if you are curious at all about the creator of this, posts some interesting things)
Where Windows stores settings and configurations, very risky to edit this manually without direct guidance or extensive experience
What is the Registry?
Runs the majority of Web Servers due to it's open source nature, cost is also a major factor in its' extremely common use.
What is Linux?
When a software or hardware vendor has declared when all updates will stop for a product
What is EOL End of Life?
A cloud-centric OS built to run on inexpensive hardware and relying on remote virtualization of applications to make up for the lack of local resources
What is Chrome OS?
You would use this if you have an application that will only run on an OS that has reached it's end of life but still need that application but also know that it will cause security concerns to continue running the application as you have before.
What is virtualization or containerization?
This format is commonly used to distribute operating systems, used to create a Disk Image, can be burned to a disc or mounted virtually as a file
What is an ISO?
The name of the application for command line entry in Linux and MacOS, compares to CMD and Powershell in Windows
What is Terminal?