-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Study guide and outline for the final The exam is on Thursday, May 6th at 10 a.m. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** THIS STUDY GUIDE IS NOW COMPLETED *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have not received many questions on Sliding Windows. The final exam will include some questions on TCP/IP and sliding windows and Class A, B and C addresses. The w.x.y.z dotted decimal notation and subnet masks will also be included. Disk drives, slack space, clusters, sectors, FAT, Mac formatted diskettes (constant density, so outer tracks store more information than an inner track would) versus variable density recording (same number of bytes and bits stored on inner tracks as outer tracks), File Cabinet Metaphor, 8.3 filenames versus long Win 95 and Win NT filenames, extensions and associations, Inside the Drive, why FAT is limited to 65,535 entries, because each FAT entry is 16 bits, Fragmentation, Disk Caching, Swap Files and Virtual memory, how to save wear and tear on your disk drive, what is lazy writing, viruses, data compression. The machine cycle will be talked about next. We will have something about thrashing on the test. POST and BIOS and the boot process will be on the test. The four layers of TCP/IP and the 7 layers of OSI networking model should be understood, with more detailed emphasis on the TCP/IP model. Windows NT levels from HAL (hardware abstraction layer) to kernel to services should be studied. The > and < and | and the Windows NT (DOS PROMPT) command prompt and batch files should be reviewed. At least half, possibly even 3/4 of the exam will be based on questions that I come up with when looking at the student questions you have sent me as well as the web pages and the graphic drawings you have created. Be sure to review and check out those questions and the student web pages. I will bring plenty of napkins to class for the final exam treats, cause they get a bit messy, but they help keep the room alot cooler! :-)