Scripting

Question 1

What is a Batch File?

Answer 1

It’s a text file written in a text editor such as notepad, wherein you type commands, one on each line, just like you would at a command prompt

Question 2

What makes something a batch file

Answer 2

text written in a text editor, such as notepad, saved with the extension .bat

Question 3

How do you save a notepad file as a .bat file

Answer 3

choose the extension type asterik dot asterik and end the file name with .bat

Question 4

How would you get a list of environment variables?

Answer 4

open a command prompt and enter set

Question 5

What is an environment variable?

Answer 5

certain phrases that point to certain places or things that work for anything throughout the OS.

Question 6

%homepath%

Answer 6

environment variable that will lead to whoevers logged in, will replace with their homepath.

Question 7

What extension does powershell use?

Answer 7

.ps1

Question 8

cmdlet

Answer 8

commandlet

Question 9

.exe

Answer 9

executable file

Question 10

What is compiled code

Answer 10

Essentially a text document of code that is then run through another program called a compiler. The compiler generates the .exe files.

Question 11

What is the downside of compilers?

Answer 11

you use different compilers from different operating systems and cpus.

Question 12

What is an interpreted program

Answer 12

Programs are still written in a programming language, but these are built into every different OS using an interpreter that works on most OS. The program isn’t turned into a .exe

Question 13

What extension does visual basic use?

Answer 13

.vbs

Question 14

what is a variable

Answer 14

values that can change based on how we manipulate them

Question 15

What is a string value?

Answer 15

basically anything you want to put in

Question 16

conditional

Answer 16

if/then

Question 17

What OS is visual basic generally limited to?

Answer 17

windows

Question 18

What extension does python use?

Answer 18

.py

Question 19

What OS does python run on?

Answer 19

all of them.

Question 20

What extension does javascript use

Answer 20

.js

Question 21

What is a client-side application

Answer 21

Web server runs code on the web browser & runs on the client itself

Question 22

For statement

Answer 22

conditional loop= as long as variable is doing something, repeat indefinitely

Question 23

functions

Answer 23

chunks of code run over and over again

Question 24

Pathping

Answer 24

calculates distance between each hop, latency between each hop and latency from start to end of that communication

Question 25

Time drift

Answer 25

when system clock or OS clock falls out of sync