ISTM 210 Exam 1 Phinney With 100% Correct And Verified Answers 2024
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ISTM 210 Exam 1 Phinney With 100% Correct And Verified Answers 2024
Rosalind Franklin - Correct Answer-Watson, Wilkins, and Crick exploited this biophysicist's work in co-discovering the double helix DNA structure
Cloud - Correct Answer-allows us to get subscriptions to any software we need ins...
ISTM 210 Exam 1 Phinney With 100%
Correct And Verified Answers 2024
Rosalind Franklin - Correct Answer-Watson, Wilkins, and Crick exploited this
biophysicist's work in co-discovering the double helix DNA structure
Cloud - Correct Answer-allows us to get subscriptions to any software we need instead
of ever having to purchase and install it
Information Technology (IT) - Correct Answer-the study, design, development,
implementation, support, and management of computer-based information systems,
particularly software and hardware
People - Correct Answer-- end-users
-what makes computers smart
Competency - Correct Answer-knowledge that enables a person to understand
something
Attitude - Correct Answer--plays a pivotal role toward gaining computer competency
-not thinking of a computer as a mysterious box with a mind of its own, but thinking of it
as a tool with boundaries that are only limited by the imagination and ingenuity of its
user
Critical Thinking - Correct Answer-a way of thinking that involves analysis and
evaluation and includes considering all possible outcomes in order to form a solid
decision
Best Practice - Correct Answer-management process, technique, or method that is most
effective at arriving at a desired outcome or better outcome than any other process,
technique, or method
Application - Correct Answer-in computing is something with a practical use and
expected outcome
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 - Correct Answer--attempts to protect investors from
accounting and reporting fraud
-created an entirely new industry of jobs and computing applications
Gordon Moore - Correct Answer-one of the founding fathers of Intel
Moore's Law - Correct Answer--observation in 1995
-states that computing power doubles every eighteen months
,-It is not an unusual accounting practice to depreciate a computer's value to zero dollars
after just three years
Leaders (First Adopters) - Correct Answer--organizations that buy new technology as it
comes to market in the hopes that it will afford them a competitive advantage
Followers - Correct Answer-organizations that abstain from buying new technology and
wait for it to improve from its original version, understanding that there is no competitive
advantage to be gained
Business computer hardware - Correct Answer-tangible or physical aspect of a
computer like circuit boards, chipsets, and keyboards
Mainframe computers - Correct Answer--massive, room-sized computers that process
and store enormous amounts of bulk data and information
-require a huge amount of physical space and have special requirements like
specialized air-conditioning units and fire protection systems
-ex:what a credit card company needs like American Express
Midrange computers (minicomputers) - Correct Answer--less powerful and smaller in
physical size than mainframe computers
-do many of the same things as mainframes, but on a smaller scale
-for small to medium businesses who cannot afford mainframes
Microcomputers - Correct Answer--smaller than mainframes and midrange computers
-so common they are usually referred to as "computers" or "boxes"
-come in four configurations: desktop, laptop, tablet, and handheld
desktop computer - Correct Answer-made to reside on a desk and is not portable
laptop - Correct Answer-has the same basic components as a desktop computer and is
designed specifically for portability
Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's) - Correct Answer-handheld computers that are
compact but far less powerful than desktops or laptops
Hardware - Correct Answer-the physical part of the computer
software - Correct Answer-a collection of computer programs that accomplish a specific
task
System software - Correct Answer--enables the operating system so it can become a
platform for application software to work
-requires very little user intervention
-computer turns this on when it gets electricity
, operating system (Platform) - Correct Answer--the software that manages the resources
of a computer, like memory and application programs
-a collection of computer programs that work together to manage hardware and
software to ensure that they are working properly
File management - Correct Answer--one of the most important jobs of the OS
-a way to store and organize files to the memory of a computer
graphical user interface (GUI) - Correct Answer--how Microsoft Windows represents its
file management system
process - Correct Answer-Any task a computer performs
multitasking - Correct Answer-When a computer runs more than one process at a time
Memory management - Correct Answer-The operating system's coordination of a
computer's memory which includes cache, random access memory (RAM), registers,
and virtual memory
Random Access Memory (RAM) - Correct Answer--primary storage
-allows data to be accessed in any order without physical movement of the silicone
media
Virtual memory - Correct Answer--an endless supply of memory the operating system
provides by coordinating, tracking, and efficiently allocating the use of the CPU cache,
registers, RAM, and disk storage
-the technique of breaking files requested from a secondary memory, like a hard drive,
into smaller, more manageable files that can fit into RAM (pages)
Disk management - Correct Answer-OS is responsible for reading and writing data and
information to a disk, typically a hard drive
Disk storage - Correct Answer--non-volatile, secondary storage
-n a physical device like a hard drive or optical disk with a read/write apparatus
file allocation table (FAT) - Correct Answer--on Microsoft platform
-directs the read/write arm of the hard drive to where data exists and accesses it upon
the user's request
application software - Correct Answer--designed to serve the user and carry out
whatever task he or she can imagine, like creating a document or spreadsheet
-executes only when the user chooses to run it
Business computing software - Correct Answer-Spreadsheets
Word processors
Databases
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