CSCI 1100 Final Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Information Technology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- refers to any technology that helps:
produce, manipulate, store,
communicate, and/or disseminate information
Computer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a programmable, multiuse machine that accepts
data—raw facts and figures—and processes, or manipulates, it into information we can use
Communications Technology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- consists of electromagnetic
devices and systems for communicating over any distance
Virtual - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- means something that is created, simulated, or carried
on by means of a computer or a computer network
Super Computers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - fastest and largest available
- can perform more than several quadrillion calculations per second
- used for govt. census, weather forecasting designing aircraft, scientific projects, etc.
Mainframes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - used in many large businesses
- water-cooled or air-cooled
- used by banks, airlines, colleges, etc.
Workstations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - used for graphics, special effects, & some prof.
applications
- usually connected to a network
Microcomputers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- used by individuals and aren't necessarily
connected to a network
,Microcontrollers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- found inside appliances and automobiles
Information System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a combination of people, procedures,
software, hardware, data, and the Internet
Data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The raw facts and figures
Information - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Data that has been summarized or otherwise
transformed for use in decision making
Hardware - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The machinery and equipment in a computer system
Software - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The electronic instructions that tell the computer how
to perform a task
Input Operations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- What goes into the computer system
Processing Operations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The manipulation a computer does to
transform data into information
Primary Storage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- temporary storage for data waiting to be
processed
Secondary Storage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- permanent storage: media such as hard disk,
DVDs, and CDs
Output - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- What comes out—the results of processing, such as on
the screen, printouts, sound
, Communications - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An extended operation, with wired or wireless
connections data may be input from a far computer, processed by a remote computer, stored
in many different locations and output is yet another place
input, processing, storage, output, commuications - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- basic
computer operations
Application - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ____ software is a software that has been
developed to solve a particular problem for users, to perform useful work on specific tasks, or
to provide entertainment
General-Purpose - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- _____ software are Widely used programs
such as Browsers, Word Processors, spread sheets
Specialized - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- _____ software is a narrow focus on specific
disciplines and occupations, such as graphics and Web authoring
Mobile Apps - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Designed for mobile devices or tablets for social
networking, games, music, and video Apps
System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- _____ software is a collection of system programs
including operating systems,
utilities and device drivers
System Software - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Runs at most basic level of your computer.
- Enables the computer to perform essential operating tasks and makes it possible for
application software to run.
- Enables application software to interact with the computer hardware
- Background software helps manage resources
Operating Systems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the principal component of system software
in any computing system; it manages the basic operations of the computer, handles the
control and use of hardware resources, including disk space, memory, CPU and peripheral
devices
