L1 e-Safety Presentation

Question 1

File management

Answer 1

The process by which the OS keeps track of the physical location of files and folders in the storage, whilst allowing the user to organise and find data using a folder and file structure.

Question 2

File extension

Answer 2

In Windows, each file name contains three or four letters as file extension after the dot. For example myfile.xls. “xls” is called the ‘file extension’. It indicates what kind of application created it.

Question 3

Folder

Answer 3

A directory structure allows you to organise the files and folders on your computer in a sensible manner

Question 4

Recycle bin

Answer 4

In Windows, is a directory (folder) where deleted files or folders are temporarily stored

Question 5

Backup

Answer 5

to make a copy of the data held on the system in case the original data is lost or damaged.

Question 6

Shortcut key combination

Answer 6

is a keyboard way of carrying out an action within an application rather than using the mouse / menu system.

Question 7

Zip

Answer 7

To ‘zip’ a file. This means to compress a data file by using the zip algorithm. Files that have been compressed using zip have the .zip extension.