SOFTWARE PROJECT

Answer the following in a Word document (unless an individual problem specifies otherwise) and attach the Word document to your submission in Blackboard.

1. Do both of the following worksheets.  You can print, fill them out (pencil is your friend) and then scan or take a (clear!!!) picture and turn them in as an image file, or if you would rather, you can re-create them using excel or a word table and fill them in that way, then turn that file in. Remember that all files need to be attached to the SAME submission in brightspace.

File System worksheet 1

File System worksheet 2

2. Answer one of the following:

• We know that parallel processing is good for speeding up running multiple programs on the same computer. Under what circumstances can we NOT do multiple programs (just) by parallel processing? What do we do instead? Why is this slower?
• Why do people tell you that if your computer is slow you need more RAM? Describe under what circumstances and why this might help.

3. What is the difference between a syntax error and a logic error? Which kind do beta testers catch?

4. Answer one of the following

• A trojan on your computer would allow someone to look through your files for information such as passwords. Why would most wrongdoers prefer to take a different approach? Explain another type of malware they could use to achieve the same goal.
• Compare and contrast what viruses and worms do once they get onto your computer (think about what they do and why they do it).