1.7 System Software

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Year 10 IT Mind Map on 1.7 System Software, created by Thomas Irish on 04/05/2017.
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1.7 System Software
  1. Operating system: An operating system is the main piece of software on your PC. It controls all of the hardware and all of your actions.
    1. GUI
      1. Graphical user interface: This type of interface involves clicking through icon, tiles and buttons wit a mouse to navigate through the PC
      2. CLI
        1. Command line interface: This type of interface involves lines of code that the person input to use the PC
        2. Peripherial managment
          1. Drivers
            1. Peripherals are devices which connect to your PC so you can control the PC, listen to music, ect
            2. Multitasking
              1. Time slicing
              2. Managment
                1. Usermanagment
                  1. Memory managment
                    1. File managment
                  2. Utility software: Software built within the computer system to help maintain it
                    1. Data compression
                      1. Lossy
                        1. Lossless
                        2. Encryption software
                          1. Encrypting data to protect it from unwanted eyes
                          2. Defragmenting
                            1. Sorting out muddled up pieces of data
                              1. Speeding up the hard drive
                            2. Backups: keeping copies of data in case its deleted or get lost.
                              1. Full
                                1. All of the files are backed up
                                  1. Takes a short time to do a full restore
                                    1. Takes a long time to do the full backup
                                    2. Incremental
                                      1. One backup is performed but any backups after the fact only backup the changed files
                                        1. Takes a short time to perform each backup
                                          1. Each backup take up less space than a full backup
                                            1. It takes a long time for the OS to work through each file restoring each part
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