MIS 2201 Exam 1 Questions and
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What is the Internet of Things? - Answer the idea that everything / every device
could be given an ip address and put on the internet. Ex. using your phone to turn on
your microwave or you fridge knowing when you are out of milk
What is the difference between a client computer and a server computer? - Answer A
client computer has much less storage, little processing power, and is a single user
device. A server computer has a lot of storage, high processing power, constantly
running, and multi-user.
What is the difference between a native and web application? - Answer A native
application is an appication that has to be downloaded and installed onto the
computer, where a web application is completely online.
What is a downside of web applications? - Answer Limited by what the browser can do
What is a fat client? - Answer A networked computer with most resources installed
locally.
What is a thin client? - Answer Low-cost, centrally managed computer with no internal
or external attached drives for storage. Uses only web applications
What is virtualization? - Answer Technology used to host one or more operating systems
within the memory of a single host computer. This mechanism allows virtually any OS to
, operate on any hardware. It also allows multiple operating systems to
work simultaneously on the same hardware.
What is Moore's Law? - Answer The number of transistors per square inch on an
integrated chip doubles every 18 months
What are the implications from Moore's Law? - Answer Computers are becoming
more and more advanced as the cost of computing is becoming close to nothing.
Processing power is increasing.
What are the characters you can not put in a file name? - Answer / | \ : * ? " < >
What is an extension? - Answer tells what type of file something is, whether it is a docx.
Or a pdf. Or a jpg. It just tells what kind of format and code the file uses.
What is a file path? - Answer the folders in which your file is going back to the main C
drive of the computer. It is displayed in the topic navigation field of the file explorer.
What is the difference between save and save as? - Answer By clicking "save" you will be
saving with the current file name in the current location. By clicking "save as" you will
have the option to save with a different file name in and different location.
What is information? - Answer Data converted into a meaningful and useful context
Why is information subjective? - Answer because it is basically useless unless you know
what it is for and what it means.
What is the difference between data and information? - Answer Information is
created in your mind while data is just the data (the raw information).
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