Windows and MacOS
An OS designed to work with a handheld portable device, This type of OS must have a touch operated interface.
What is a Cell Phone/Smartphone/Tablet
Started as version 3.1 for 16-bit computers. Hugely popular as home and business machines. Has had many iterations and introduced Active Directory for managing network objects.
What is Windows?
OS for some models of the Apple iPad tablet.
What is an iPadOS?
When data is written to an NTFS volume, it is re-read, verified, and logged. Makes recovery after power outages and crashes faster and more reliable.
What is Journaling?
What is Windows Pro?
What is a home client?
Proprietary OS designed by Apple for their range of iMac computers, Mac workstations, and MacBook portables.
What is MacOS?
OS of Apple's iPhone smartphone and most iPad tablet models.
What is iOS?
Allows the Volume Shadow Copy Service to make read-only copies of files at given points in time even if the file is locked by another process. Allows users to revert changes more easily and also supports backup operations.
What is Snapshots?
Has the full feature set but is only available via volume licensing.
What is Windows Enterprise?
An OS designed to run servers in business networks.
What is a Networking Operating System (NOS)?
Is a family of more than 20 related operating systems that are produced by various companies. It can run on a wide variety of platforms. Offers a multitude of file systems in addition to its native system. Remains widely deployed in enterprise data centers to run mission-critical applications and infrastructure.
What is UNIX?
What is an Android?
Features such as file permissions and ownership, file access audit trails, quota management, and encrypting file system (EFS) allow administrators to ensure only authorized users can read/modify file data.
What is Security?
Are variants of editions designed for licensing by schools and colleges.
What is Windows Education/Pro Education?
An OS designed to work as a client in centrally managed business domain networks.
What is a business client?
Open-source OS packaged in distributions supported by a wide range of hardware and software vendors.
What is Linux?
Is a very early type named for its method of organization. Provides links from one allocation unit to another. Uses a 32-bit allocation table, nominally supporting volumes up to 2 TB. The maximum file size is 4GB minus 1 byte.
What is FAT32?
Supports UNIX/LINUX compatibility, Microsoft engineered NTFS to support case-sensitive naming, hard links, and other key features required by UNIX/LINUX applications.
What is POSIX Compliance?
Is used to create and apply OS and software application settings. These could be configured on each machine individually, but more typically they are applied via policies configured on the DC so that client machines have uniform desktop styles and settings.
What is Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)?
Disk management feature allows space on multiple physical disks to be combined into volumes.
What are Dynamic Disks?
Proprietary OS developed by Google to run on specific laptop (chromebooks) and PC (chromeboxes) hardware.
What is ChromeOS?
Is a 64-bit version designed for use with removable hard drives and flash media. Supports large volumes, up to a recommended maximum size of 512 Terabytes (TB). Also support for access permissions but not encryption.
What is exFAT?
Creates a catalog of file and folder locations and properties, speeding up searches.
What is indexing?
Enables the user to encrypt all the information on a disk drive. Encryption means that data on the device is protected even if someone steals it. Not supported in Windows Home Edition.
What is BitLocker?