The Answers to the System Administration Quiz:

DOS:
1. Which two xcopy parameters will copy and create destination directories even if the directories are empty?
XCOPY [filespec] [destination] /s/e


2. What are some DOS commands you could used to change the current directory from:
F:\SOL4 to F:\SOL5\DB

CD DB
CD \SOL5\DB


3. What two memory drivers must be loaded in CONFIG.SYS for any Windows 3.1x workstation?
HIMEM.SYS EMM386.EXE


4. What are five significant differences beween an ASCII text file and a file created by a word processor like WordPerfect or MS-Word.
Word Processors use Non-ASCII Characters to control appearance of the document.
These appeearance controls include: Word-Wrapping (soft returns), Bold, Italic, Underlines, Large, Small, Superscripts, Subscripts, Indents, Fonts, Font Sizes, (typograpy) and letters outside of American English (1,2,3, A, B, C, and punctuation). Specific to a given word processor are features like Math, Tables, Graphics, Indexing, Page Numbering, Headers, Footers, Footnotes, Endnotes, Styles, Columns, Database Functions, and a whole lot more.


5. What do the following file extensions usually mean:
.EXE .COM .TXT .CSV .DOC .XLS .WKS .DBF .GIF .JPG .HTM .INI .GRP .BAS

.EXE MS-DOS or Windows EXEcutable Program
.COM MS-DOS EXEcutable Program
.TXT An ASCII Text file (with no special word Processor Characters)
.CSV "Comma Separated Values." ASCII Text file, used to store data in a structured format where the delimiter between data FIELDS is either a comma or a comma surrounded by quotes [,] [","]
.DOC Originally an ASCII Text file describing a program file with the same 8 letters to the left of the period. These .DOC text files contained "DOCumentation" for the associated program.
Since 1998 or so .DOC has been mainly been the "file type" of Microsoft Word files or DOCuments.
.XLS Microsoft Excell spreadsheet file
.WKS Lotus Development Corp 1-2-3 Spreadsheet file
.DBF Mostly X-Base database file (dBase, Foxpro etc), also a data file for any program
.GIF 256 color graphic image (picture) file
.JPG 16-Million Color Graphic Image file with several different levels of data compression possible.
.HTM Hypertext Markup Language File - Used in World Wide Web Pages, and read by programs like Netscape and Internet Explorer
.INI ASCII Text file, used to store control statements for MS-Windows programs.
.GRP MS-Windows Group. Contains lists of programs in a windows group, and their properties.
.BAS Can be an ASCII file containing the source code for a BASIC program, or a file containing intermediate code for a BASIC Program.


6. What is the difference between a RESIDENT command and a Transient Command

A resident command is always present for it is stored inside of DOS. A transient lives on a disk drive and is called up when needed, then removed from memory until it's needed again


7. Name two Terminate-Stay-Resident (TSR) commands.

Sidekick, DOSKEY, LSL, IPXODI, NETX, RPRINTER,


8. Which of the following are NOT valid MS-DOS command lines
(that is to say they are not included with packages of opreating systems sold as Microsoft Disk Operating System v6.22 or earlier?)
CAT CD CHDIR COMMAND COPY DIR DU DISK FORMAT LESS LIST LS MD MEM MKDIR MODEM MOVE RD RENAME RMDIR SD SET SMARTDRIV STREE SYS TREE TYPE VER XCOPY XDIR XTREE YCOPY ZCOPY

CAT DU DISK LESS LIST LS MODEM SD STREE XDIR XTREE YCOPY ZCOPY



WINDOWS:

1. What is the keystroke combination used to switch between applications loaded on the windows desktop
ALT-TAB


2. Which menu selection from program manager will execute another program such as SETUP.EXE but not add it to program manager?
FILE RUN


3. Which control panel icon is used to set Windows swap drive settings?
386 Features


4. Which menu selection from Windows' Program Manager allows you to change the program directory and working directory for a program icon?
FILE PROPERTIES


5. What two Windows initialization (.INI) files are most frequently used to control environment and desktop settings?
WIN.INI SYSTEM.INI


6. Windows uses which type of memory?
Extended


7. What program Manager menu selection displays total available memory and the total percent available?
HELP ABOUT


8. What type of file is used to setup DOS applications running under windows?
.PIF


9. What is the name of the group that will automatically load applications when starting Windows?
STARTUP



NETWARE:
1. What Netware command will display the list of current drive settings?
MAP


2. What netware command will mark all files in a directory to be read only?
FILER also the MS-DOS command ATTRIB


3. What Netware utility allows you to execute file server console commands from attached workstations?
RCONSOLE


4. What netware utility is used to setup new users and control their rights to files and directories?
SYSCON


5. What command will display the current DOS and netware shell versions and the attached file server Netware Version for a workstation?
WHOAMI


6. BTRIEVE CLIB PSERVER and MONITOR are all examples of _____?
NLM's - Netware Loadable Modules


7. What must be loaded at any workstation prior to logging in to a Novell network:
A set of programs that enable communications with the network adapter, the network itself and the server as currently configured. Examples:

IPX NETX (also EMENETX XMSNETX)
LSL NE2000 IPXODI NETX (w/NET.CFG)
VLM
8. What file server command will display the NLM files currently loaded?
MODULES