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Westerville City Schools
Westerville North High School
Kimberly Niles – Business Technologies Instructor
e-lesson plan: Day 1
Course: A+ Computer Certification Course
Lesson Objective:
Student should become familiar with various computer terms while searching topics on the Internet.
Materials needed
 Computer access with an Internet connection
Task:
 Explore and identify the answers to the questionnaire, type your responses on the worksheet.
 Save the worksheet and you may print it when we return to school
If you have questions about this assignment, you may e-mail Mrs. Niles at nilesk@wcsoh.org. Please print out your responses and hand them into Mrs. Niles
upon returning to school.
A+ Computer Certification Course
SCAVENGER HUNT
Operating System Basics
NAME: ____________________________________
DATE: _________
Direction: Find as many correct answers as possible to the questions below. You will get points for each correct answer.
1. Name different network operating system certifications. You must list the name of the certification and the operating system it covers.
(2 pt each up to 5)
2. Name network jobs currently available in the Columbus/Westerville area. You must give description of job and must list the required
certification. (2 pt each up to 4). Dice.com is a great source for this information.
3. List the brand, model number, and cost of different 1GB Modules of DDR400 RAM – or better. (2 pt each up to 4)
4. List the brand, model number and cost of different 500 GB 5400 rpm IDE hard disk drives – or better. (2 pt each up to 4)
5. List the brand, model number and cost of different 8x AGP video adapters cards with 256 MB RAM – or better. (2 pt each up to 4)
NTFS and FAT32 Questions
Hard disk drives can be formatted using different file systems. NTFS and FAT32 are file systems used by the Windows XP/Windows 7 operating
system and provide different file system features. The following questions refer to these file systems
6. What is the default cluster size setting when formatting a Windows NTFS partition on a hard disk drive larger than 2 GB?
7. What is the command used to change a Fat32 partition to an NTFS partition?
8. What is the Master File Table (MFT) and what does it contain?
9. What is NTFS journaling?
10. How does journaling help an operating system recover from system failures?
11. Why are NTFS partitions more secure than FAT32?