Comparative Operating Systems

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    domain, and System/application domain. Below is a brief explanation of the items I just mentioned. * User Domain – Training * Workstation Domain – Virus scanning, Operating system patching, Application-level firewall * LAN Domain– intrusion detection/prevention system, email scanning, server-level virus scanning * LAN-to-WAN Domain – firewall (packet filter, application gateway, proxy server) * WAN Domain – broadcast filter, traffic flow management * System/Application

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    Ntfs and Hyperv

    V The New Technology File System (NTFS) is the standard file structure for the Windows NT operating system. It is used for retrieving and storing files on the hard disk. The NTFS introduced a number of enhancements, including innovative data structures that increased performance, improved metadata, and added expansions like security access control, reliability, disk space utilization, and file system journaling. The NTFS replaced the OS/2 High-Performance File System and the Windows 95 file allocation

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    Hardwood Lumber Company

    accounting system for all financial statement cycles. During planning, you visited with the information systems vice president and learned that personnel in information systems are assigned to one of four departments: systems programming, applications programming, operations, or data control. Job tasks are specific to the individual and no responsibilities overlap with other departments. Hardwood Lumber relies on the operating system software to restrict online access to individuals. The operating system

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    Cmgt/554 Week 3 Individual

    Patton-Fuller Community Hospital network system. Based on the findings I will define what may be missing from the current network architecture. In addition I will identify the wireless technology in use, and how it enhances the hospital network. Looking at the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital intranet Web site it shows seven separate network diagrams. In these seven diagrams there are a Top View, logical, administrative, radiology, and radiology information system data center, information technology

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    Linux

    Carlos Moises Pelaez | IT250 | Linux Operating System: Assignment 1.1 | 3/30/2013 | 1) In the free software world, there are several uses of the word "free." The two main ones are "free as in speech" and "free as in beer." Free as in speech means you are relatively unfettered in what you can do with the software. You can modify it, use it for whatever you want, and give it to others (or even sell it). Free as in beer means that you can obtain it for no monetary cost. Richard Stallman

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    Ram Basic Study Sheet

    Ram Basics – is used for programs and data, and by the operating system for disk caching( using ram to hold recently accessed disk sectors). Ram types – (RAM) RANDOM ACCSSES MEMORY DRAM – Dynamic-RAM requires frequent charges of memory to retain its content or dose need to be refreshed. SRAM – Static-RAM does not need to be refreshed. SDRAM- Synchronous Dynamic-RAM, was first to run in sync with the processor bus DDR SDRAM – Double Data Rate , performs two transfers per clock cycle rather than

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    Hands on Project 2-1

    the appropriate drivers. For this reason, the newer a hardware device is, the less likely it is to be supported. * Linux OSes have a much lower threshold than Microsoft's Windows 7 and Windows 8 and Apples's Mac OS X. So system resources are less of an issue than system compatibility. That means you can run the latest Linux OS without having to buy a more expensive new computer. b. Unsupported drivers and lack of applications for a particular Linux distribution. c. * Samba Server -

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    Week 3 Questions Cis 333

    CIS 333 Security Week 3 1. What are the three fundamental elements of an effective access control solution for information systems? Authorization, Identification, and authentication 2. What two access controls can be setup for Windows Server 2003 folders and authentication? Authorization and access control. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782880(v=ws.10).aspx 3. If you can browse a file on a Windows network share, but are not able to copy it or modify it, what

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    Computers

    made up of the keyboard, mouse, monitor, central processing unit (CPU), scanners and printers. You use the keyboard and mouse to manipulate the data you want to enter into the computer. The CPU is used to control the computer and process the operating system along with the programs you wish to run. The monitor is used to display the information the CPU processes, also the information can also be printed out on a printer, and scanners are used to take a piece of paper and copy it onto the computer

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    Linux Kernels and Shells

    computer systems have one central kernel that abstracts the hardware so the operating system can manage it. Linux is more customizable because it allows you to create your own kernel. I have been hired as an IT consultant and have been asked to write a manual on the kernel distributions of Linux. The kernel is a program that constitutes the central core of a computer operating system. It has complete control over everything that occurs in the system. The shell is the outermost part of the operating system

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