Tutorials 3&4
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Updated: 2000-09-01 08:42

Windows 95 Exercises
Tutorials 3&4

A. Read Tutorial 3 (pages 99 - 142), practice on a PC, and answer the following questions:
  1. Name the concentric recording bands on a diskette's surface.
  2. What is a byte?
  3. How many sectors are there in a track of a high density 3 and ½" diskette? How many bytes are there in the sector?
  4. How many bytes are there in an allocation unit of a high density 3 and ½" diskette?
  5. One of my text file is 460 bytes long. When it is saved onto a high density 3 and ½" diskette, how many bytes does the file occupy?
  6. What are the purposes of a boot record?
  7. Looking at Figure 3-4 of page 103, if a file starts at cluster number 102, name all the clusters it occupies. If a file starts at cluster number 111, how many clusters does it occupy?
  8. Give a good reason for the formatting utility to create two FAT tables.
  9. Name two main advantages that VFAT has over that of FAT.
  10. Name five file attributes available in Windows 95.
  11. Explain the steps used to find out the attributes of a file in Windows and in DOS.
  12. Which file keeps track of the folders and files stored in a diskette?
  13. Explain the steps used to display the full MS-DOS path in the title bar of a folders window.
  14. Name the steps needed to create a new folder.
  15. In the list view of a folder, explain how you would select a group of files.
  16. Explain the quickest way to select all objects in a folder's window.
B. Read Tutorial 4 (pages 146 - 182) , practice on a PC, and answer the following questions:
  1. What is a full path of a file?
  2. Is it true that moving files is easier with Windows Explorer than with My Computer?
  3. Name two wildcards and explain their differences.
  4. If you wish to find all WordPerfect document files in MyFiles folder using the Find facility, what would you enter in the Name list box and the Look in list box?
  5. If you wish to find all Quattro Pro Spreadsheets in MyFiles folder using the Find facility, what would you enter in the Name list box and the Look in list box?
  6. Use the advanced find feature to find from the A: disk (or N: drive) all hypertext documents you created in the lab that have your name on it.
  7. Name three types of information about file finding that are provided by the Advanced tab of the Find facility.
Exercises originally created by Maitang Mark

Web Author: Ian! D. Allen idallen@ncf.ca
Updated: 2000-09-01 08:42