1. Mazen S. Alzyoud Late Middle Term Exam Review

2. Chapter 4 System Software System software: Operating System, System Utilities. Operating System: Five basic functions. Why computer need OS? Starting the computer: – cold boot & warm boot. – Six steps of booting a system. What will happen? Managing memory. Coordinates tasks: Interrupts & Interrupt handlers; Device driver. User interface; GUI, menu-driven, Command-line.

3. Chapter 4 System software Three categories of operating systems: Stand-alone, Server OS & Embedded OS. Examples of these categories. System utilities. Back up program. Scanning program for these bad sectors. Trouble shooting & safe mode.

4. Chapter 5 Application Software General-purpose application software: Productivity, Media and graphic, Internet based, Home and education program. Compression and decompression. Lossless compression and lossy compression. Vector Graphics. Web-hosted technology. Undesirable Internet software. Spyware, Pop-up, Adware.

5. Chapter 5 Standalone program, Integrated Programs, and Software suites. Software version. Release of programs are cited by a year or version number. Software license and site license. Commercial software, shareware, Freeware. Public domain software, Copy-protected software.

6. Chapter 6 Internet and WWW Internet and host. Methods to access Internet. Dial-up, DSL, Cable access, Satellite and Fiber-optic service. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol(IP). Hot spot. World Wide Web. Web server. Uniform Resource Locator(URL) and its components: http, domain name, resource name. Search Engines, Spider and Link rot.

7. Chapter 6 Internet Service. Electronic Mail, Instant Messaging. VoIP, FTP. Malware, Spyware, Botnet. E-commerce. B2B, C2C, B2C. Drawbacks to B2C e- commerce. Online e-commerce solutions to drawbacks. Protecting your identity.