ISTM 210 - Exam 1 Phinney With Solutions 100% Correct
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ISTM 210 - Exam 1 Phinney With Solutions
100% Correct
Critical Thinking a way of thinking that involves analysis and evaluation and includes
considering all possible outcomes in order to form a solid decision
Best Practice management process, technique, or method that is most effective at arr...
ISTM 210 - Exam 1 Phinney With Solutions
100% Correct
Critical Thinking a way of thinking that involves analysis and evaluation and includes
considering all possible outcomes in order to form a solid decision
Best Practice 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 in computing is something with a practical use and expected outcome
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 -attempts to protect investors from accounting and reporting
fraud
-created an entirely new industry of jobs and computing applications
Gordon Moore one of the founding fathers of Intel
Moore's Law -observation in 1995
-states that computing power doubles every eighteen months
, ISTM 210 - Exam 1 Phinney With Solutions
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-It is not an unusual accounting practice to depreciate a computer's value to zero dollars after just
three years
Leaders (First Adopters) -organizations that buy new technology as it comes to market in
the hopes that it will afford them a competitive advantage
Followers 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 tangible or physical aspect of a computer like circuit boards,
chipsets, and keyboards
Mainframe computers -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
, ISTM 210 - Exam 1 Phinney With Solutions
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Midrange computers (minicomputers) -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 -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 made to reside on a desk and is not portable
laptop has the same basic components as a desktop computer and is designed specifically
for portability
Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's) handheld computers that are compact but far less
software a collection of computer programs that accomplish a specific task
System software -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) -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 -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) -how Microsoft Windows represents its file management
system
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