Mid-Term Exam - February 10
This exam will include material covered in the first five classes. The following
is an outline of what will be covered. To prepare for the exam, you should review the Class
Notes for these classes, the relevant sections of our texts, the handouts and your own
notes from class. The Key Concepts section lists (surprise) key
concepts from the class lectures which you should understand well.
Class Notes
Key Concepts from the Lectures
 | What an OS does |
| Fundamental Windows architecture and how it differs from DOS |
| What shortcuts are and how they work |
| What the registry is, and what kinds of things are stored there. |
| File naming conventions in Dos and Windows 95 |
| Which systems use various file systems. |
| General layout of a hard drive, cluster size and waste estimation |
| How graphics are stored, size computations. |
| What a pallette is. |
| What a boot disk is and what's on it, how to make and use one. |
| Steps in planning and carrying out a Windows installation. |
Readings from Microsoft Windows 95
Comprehensive
| Review of Using Windows (Tutorials 1 - 3)
 | Starting and Shutting Down Windows |
| Using the Mouse |
| Starting and Closing Programs |
| Running Multiple Programs |
| Parts of a Window |
| Managing Windows |
| Using Menus, Toolbars and Controls |
| Using Help |
| Formatting a Disk |
| Working with Text |
| Opening and Saving Files |
| Printing a file |
| Using My Computer |
| Moving, Copying and Renaming Files and Folders |
| Using Explorer |
| Creating and Renaming Folders |
| Changing the view |
| Sorting Contents |
| Printing Explorer Windows |
| Moving and Copying Files and Folders in Explorer |
| Deleting Items |
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| Tutorial 4
| Context Menus |
| Document-centric Desktop |
| Creating Shortcuts |
| Deleting, Moving and Copying Shortcuts |
| Desktop Properties and Appearance |
| Screen Settings |
| Screensaver |
| Control Panel Apps |
| Customizing the Mouse |
| Accessibility Options |
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| Intermediate Tutorial 1
| Finding files |
| Wild Card search specifications |
| Recent Documents |
| Using Quickview |
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| Intermediate Tutorial 2
| Using Paint |
| Graphics Terminology |
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Readings from MCSE: The Core Exams in a Nutshell
| Windows 95
| Pages 309-331 - Windows 95 Basics |
| Pages 331-338 - Windows 95 Installation |
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| Windows NT
| Although you had reading assignments on Windows NT, they were not
discussed in class and won't be on the midterm. |
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