ISTM 1-14

Gordon Moore made which of the following observations?

Computing power doubles every eighteen months.

What is the most important part of an information system?

People

Does the average businessperson need to be an expert in IT?

No

What plays an import role when learning IT?

Attitude

Acquiring technology when it is first introduced is called what?

Being a Leader

Waiting to acquire technology until it is proven is called what?

Being a Follower

The tangible and physical aspects of a computer are called what?

Hardware

What are the largest and most powerful business computers?

Mainframes

What computers process large amounts of data for a mid-sized business?

Midrange computers

Desktop computers are considered what type of computer?

Microcomputers

A computer program that accomplishes a specific task is called what?

Software

What kind of software requires no human interaction?

System software

What is the most important thing system software does?

Enables the operating system

A common name for an operating system is what?

Platform

Any task a computer performs is called what?

Process

Running more than one application at a time is called what?

Multitasking

What part of the computer coordinates memory?

Operating System

The table of contents of a hard drive is called what?

FAT

Software sold as a collection are called what?

Software Suite

What is the most important aspect of a productivity suite?

Sharing Data

What is the easiest and most basic way to share data?

Copy (or Cut) and Paste

Which method of sharing data is dynamic?

Object Linking

What part of a computer is responsible for reading and writing data?

Operating System

How is information represented on a monitor?

Graphical User Interface

Will Google Earth become Google Live?

Yes

Which is not word processing software?

Apple Word Press Pro (is: Adobe Acrobat, Miscrosoft word, Corel Wordperfect)

What does platform neutral mean in context of a PDF?

Works on any operating system

Which of the following is not a feature of word processing software?

Array Document Protocols (is: editing Documents, Formatting Documents, Creating Documents)

What application software features a "what-if" analysis?

Spreadsheets

In a DBMS, what is a row called?

Records

In a DBMS, what is a column called?

Fields

What is it called when a row and column intersect in a spreadsheet?

Cell

What differentiates system software from application software?

Human Intervention

Linking the customer and transaction tables is called what?

One-to-many relationship

Connecting two or more computers is called what?

Network

What software is designed to display on-screen?

Presentation software

What technology has made presentation software more popular?

Business Intelligence

What software did Excel replace as the most popular spreadsheet?

Lotus 123

What software models financial information?

Sppreadsheets

Where was WordPerfect originally developed?

Brigham Young University

Which software visually communicates a point?

Presentation

Which software displays web pages?

Browser Software

Which software can provide a table of contents?

Word Processor

What is a clickable navigation element?

Hyperlink

What was the first web browser called?

WorldWideWeb

Who invented the first web browser?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Which is the leading presentation software?

Microsoft PowerPoint

What is the most popular word processor in the world?

Microsoft Word

Which is not a peripheral device?

NIC CarD (Is: Printer, Copy Machine, Scanner)

What company makes Acrobat?

Adobe

Is it important to know how the inside of a computer works?

Yes

What is the main body of a computer called?

System Unit

What is the main component of a system unit?

Motherboard

What is the chassis commonly referred as?

The “Box”

Physically, what is a motherboard?

Circuit Board

What does Apple call a motherboard?

Logic Board

What is considered the "brains" of a computer?

Microprocessor

Where does the microprocessor reside?

On the motherboard

A microprocessor's speed is measured in what?

Clock rate

Many chips encased in one chip working together is what?

RISC

What are the pathways inside a computer unit called?

Bus Lines

How are bus lines measured?

Width

Which type of memory is primary storage?

RAM

Which type of memory is secondary storage?

Hard Drive

What coding scheme do most microcomputers use?

ASCII

A PSU converts Alternating Current to what?

Direct Current

The programming on ROM chips is sometimes called what?

Firmware

What is the only real language a computer understands?

Machine Code

Data and information that enters a computer is called what?

Input

Data and information that leaves a computer is called what?

Output

Image and text scanners use a technology called what?

OCR

What tag can transmit through radio waves

RFID

What determines a monitor's resolution?

DPI

What is a pen-like device that can "write" on a screen?

Stylus

How many bits in a byte?

8

Who sold IBM MS-DOS?

Gates and Allen

What does MS-DOS stand for?

Microsoft Disk Operating System

What is the dominant OS in the operating system market?

Windows

Who developed the earliest Mac OS?

Jobs and Wozniak

Is an OS system software or application software?

System

What is another name for an OS?

Platform

Which is not a major OS in business?

Borland System Platform (is: Windows, Mac OS, Linux)

Which operating system is open-source?

Linux

Which operating system is free of cost?

Linux

What is it called when a computer performs a task?

Process

What is it called when a computer runs more than one process at a time?

Multitasking

Which memory helps decrease the time it takes to access memory?

CPU Cache

Which memory quickens the implementation of computer programs?

Registers

Which memory coordinates, tracks, allocates other memory?

Virtual

What function stores and organize a user's work in computer files?

File Manager

What is the table of contents to a hard drive?

FAT

What program unclutters a hard drive?

Defragmentation

What is a common name for a hierarchy of directories?

Folder

What are the set of rules to move data from one computer to another?

TCP/IP

TCP/IP breaks file into what?

Packets

What is the world's largest network?

Internet

What kind of operating system does an iPhone use?

Embedded

Who started Linux?

Linus Torvalds

Can an embedded operating system be modified?

No

Who can modify Linux?

Anyone