Dunch Noe the answers Part II of III

Advanced Quiz (30 points):

- What is the file attributes in MS-DOS?
Ans: Read-only, Hidden, System and Archive.

- What is the META tag in HTML used for?
Ans: As per the original meaning of META, it is used to describe the content of the HTML document. Search Engines usually use the META tag to help the improve the ranking of the pages. However, due to common exploitation (e.g repeated words) to increase ranking algorithms on search engines, the META tag is given lower priority than it used to.

- Define Hardware, Middleware, Software, Firmware.
Ans: Hardware is the physical component of a computer. Software is the application that follows the software designer's design to perform certain tasks in a computer. Middleware is the software application that connects different software. Firmware is the programmed software that resides in RAM on mainboard or other hardware. (E.g - A mouse is a hardware, Microsoft Word is a software, GameGuard is a middleware used against hackers used by many online games, the program that resides in your remote controls is the firmware)

- Define Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojan, Virus and Worm.
Ans: Malware is a software designed to perform malicious tasks on a User's PC without the User's consents, thus the shortened name of malicious software. Adware is a software designed within a running application to provide advertisement content, usually by obtaining 'inputs' from the user's behaviour on the Internet. Spyware is a malware designed to obtain information especially about the user's behaviour without the User's content. Trojan (short for trojan horse) is a type of malware that acts like a safe software but allows access for malicious codes/access to the User's system. Virus is a type of computer software that replicates itself on the user's system on existing files and any other unsuspecting hosts. Worm is a type of computer software that replicates itself on the user's system and any other unsuspecting hosts without attaching to an existing file.

- What is the print command in MS-DOS?
Ans: The command is copy for MS-DOS and for ver 2, print was introduced. The common command line is to copy to the LPT port.

- List 2 examples of binary dot-matrix printing and text printing commands in MS-DOS.
Ans: There is no dot-matrix printing in MS-DOS without any other installed applications (Note: the word binary was a mistake). All printing of documents within MS-DOS is character-based. The sample command line of a print function is [ copy name.txt lptx ] where name is the 8 character name of the file and lptx where X is the lpt port number. In MS-DOS version 2 with the introduction of the print command. An example is [ print name.txt ] .