
User and file management - questions
Q1. Describe what is meant by a single-user, multi-tasking operating system, with examples.
Q2. Explain why an employee only sees the data they need from a company's database to enable them to do their job.
Q3. What does a user typically need to be able to login to a network?
Q4. Explain how a Network Manager uses user groups and inheritance to set up many users on a network.
Q5. What is another name for a directory and sub-directory?
Q6. What is meant by the root directory?
Q7. What is the difference between a physical drive and a logical drive?
Q8. What is meant by a path? Give an example.
Q9. Describe with examples what metadata is kept about a file.
Q10. What are file permissions?