SSK3000 Information Technology & Its Application: SEMESTER2 2015/2016

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FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCES & INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY

SSK3000
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ITS
APPLICATION
SEMESTER2 2015/2016

LAB 2
NAME : MUHAMAD NASRULLAH BIN ROSLAN
MATRIC NO : 174907
LECTURER GROUP :9
PRACTICAL GROUP : 13
LECTURER : DR. NOR AZURA BINTI HUSIN
DEMONSTRATOR : PUAN HARYATI MD KASIM
SUBMISSION DATE : 8/3/2016
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QUESTIONS:
Part A (Knowing about your computer)

1. Answer the following questions about the computer that you are using in this lab.

a) What is the version of the Windows OS in use?


Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

b) What company manufactured the computer?


Microsoft Corporation

c) What is the speed of the processor and how much RAM (physical memory) is
in the computer?
Speed: 2.90GHz
RAM: 4.00GB

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d) How much data can you store on the C: drive and how much of the C: drive is
in use?
Capacity : 97.5GB
Used Space: 49.6GB

e) What is the name of the antivirus program used in the computer (if any)?
Kaspersky Endpoint Security

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2. On the computer which you are working, perform and list down a hardware and
software inventory of at least three hardware devices and three application
programs on the computer. List the vendor and product.

Hardware:
HARDWARE VENDOR PRODUCT
Mouse ACER Wired Optic Mouse

Keyboard Keyboard PR1101U


Monitor Veriton Z2650G

Software
SOFTWARE VENDOR PRODUCT
Microsoft office Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Word, Excel,
Powerpoint, Publisher
Windows media player Media Player
Windows Fax and Scan Fax and scan

Part B (The Command Prompt)

Objectives:
 use DOS commands to view, navigate, create and delete directories
 use DOS commands to copy, rename, and delete files

Microsoft’s Disk Operating System (DOS), also called MS-DOS, is a collection of


programs and commands used to control the overall computer operations system. All
modern Windows versions support DOS commands from the command line.

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1. Open a command line from Windows:
 select Start/Run and type: command

1. What directory are you in? c:\users\FPSK MAKMAL2>


2. What does the prompt look like? Black screen

2. Displaying Directory Contents: Dir


DIR command will list directories and various files. Directories are specified with
the<DIR> notation that precedes the file/directory. The DIR command also displays
the volume name, free space, and total files and directories present.

Show a list of the directories located on this drive.


 type: cd\ change to the root directory
 type: cd windows change to the windows directory
 type dir

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What happened? It will list all the directory in the Windows folder

 type: dir /p Press enter to continue the list

How many directories do you have in the windows folder? 29 files, 55 directories

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What does the /p switch do? It will show the directory part by part

3. Create and change a directory


To create directories in DOS, use the md directory_name or mkdir directory_name
command.
To change directories use the cd directory_name command. To move up one level in
the directory structure, use the command cd…

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Create an IT directory in the C drive
 type: cd\ change to the root directory
 type: md IT

Verify the creation of the directory


 type: dir

Is the IT directory in the list? Yes

How to change to the IT directory? cd IT

4. Managing Files: copy, ren, del


You can use the copy command to make a 2nd copy of a file, with a new name.

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Save a file to IT directory (file name lab2.doc)


How to verify whether lab2.doc file is in the IT directory? type dir

Make a backup of the lab2.doc file with other name labTWO.doc


 type: copy lab2.doc labTWO.doc
 type: dir

Are the new backup file and the original there? Yes

To rename a file, you can use the ren command.

Rename lab2.doc to lab.doc


 type: ren labTWO.doc lab.doc

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 type: dir

Did the file renamed? Yes

Delete files in DOS by using the del command.


Delete lab.doc file
 type: del labTWO.doc

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Is the file has been deleted? No


Why? Because has been renamed to lab.docx

5. Delete a directory
To delete a directory in DOS, use the rd directory_name or rmdir directory_name
command.

Delete the IT directory


 type: rd it

Is the folder deleted? No


Why? Because we are in the folder IT

If your directories can’t be deleted, try this command:


 type cd\ to change to the c:\ drive

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 type: rmdir IT /s
 type Y to confirm the removal of the it directory and all its subdirectories
Verify directory removal
 type: dir

Is the directory still exist? No

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