Study Guide for Final Exam

Concepts 9th ed - chapters 1 - 7

The CIS 1 §1366 final exam will be noon - 2PM, Tuesday, June 5th, 2007.

To prepare for the final exam, use the Computer Concepts textbook to help you answer each question below. There will be ten multiple-choice questions per chapter.

Chapter 1: Computer, Internet, Web and E-Mail Basics

1. Where in the computer is data processed?
2. What is a personal computer?
3. What is memory used for?
4. What is a client?
5. What is a byte?
6. What is a data file?
7. What is information?
8. What is an operating system?
9. What is a platform?
10. What is uploading?

Chapter 2: Computer Hardware

1. What is a digital device?
2. What is an analog device?
3. What is Unicode?
4. What does kilo mean?
5. What does volatile mean?
6. What units are used in expessing RAM speed?
7. List the common magnetic storage devices.
8. List the common optical storage devices.
9. Compare the access time of solid state storage with that of optical storage.
10. What can be thought of as the waiting room for the processor?

Chapter 3: Computer Software

1. What is the primary purpose of system software?
2. Define operating system.
3. Define user interface.
4. What is a graphical user interface?
5. What is a command-line interface?
6. What can you do with Windows Explorer?
7. What do we mean by the format for a document?
8. What is a style?
9. What can a worksheet cell contain?
10. What is a database?

Chapter 4: File Management, Virus Protection, and Backup

1. What is the main hard disk drive letter?
2. How can you select files that are not listed consecutively?
3. What is a computer virus?
4. What is a Trojan horse?
5. What is a worm?
6. How do you connect an external hard disk drive to your computer?
7. What can a computer virus do to your computer?
8. What does a defragmentation utility do?
9. Define the term malware.
10. If file extensions are hidden in Windows, how can you make them visible?

Chapter 5: Internet and LAN Technology

1. What is the primary disadvantage of networks?
2. Describe the star network topology.
3. What does a communications channel do?
4. Describe fiber-optic cable.
5. What is broadband?
6. Describe packet switching.
7. Describe how packets are sent on Ethernet.
8. Describe Wi-Fi.
9. Describe IP (Internet Protocol).
10. What is FTP (File Transfer Protocol) used for?

Chapter 6: Web Pages, Web Sites, and E-Commerce

1. What is hypertext?
2. What is HTTP used for?
3. What is a style sheet?
4. What is another term to describe DHTML?
5. What is Java?
6. What is VeriSign?
7. What is B2B e-commerce?
8. What does https: mean?
9. How can you identify the creator of an ActiveX control?
10. What do shopping carts use to store information about your activities on a Web site?

Chapter 7: Digital Media

1. What is a bitmap composed of?
2. How does a digital camera store your photos?
3. What two graphic file formats are used by cameras to store photographic images?
4. What is color depth?
5. What does a color palette do?
6. How does dithering work?
7. What does a vector graphic consists of?
8. What distinctive quality does a vector graphic have?
9. What is vector graphics software called?
10. What does the rendering process do?

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