WGU D075 OA COMPREHENSIVE TEST
BANK 2026 COMPLETE ANSWERS
ACCURATE
⫸ Information Technology (IT) Answer: The study, design,
development, implementation, support, and management of computer-
based information systems, particularly software and hardware.
⫸ best practice Answer: A 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.
⫸ The most effective way of arriving at a desired outcome Answer:
What is the definition of the term "best practice"?
⫸ Computing processing power doubles every 18 months Answer:
Which observation about computing technology is expressed in Moore's
law?
⫸ CPU Answer: What hardware component performs most of the
calculations for a computer?
⫸ Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Answer: Language used to
compose Web pages.
,⫸ Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Answer: protocol used to
defines how messages are formatted and transmitted on the internet.
⫸ Mainframe computers Answer: Massive, room-sized computers that
process and store enormous amounts of bulk data and information
⫸ Midrange Computers Answer: less powerful and smaller in physical
size than mainframe computers, but do many of the same things, simply
on a smaller scale
⫸ Microcomputer Answer: The least Powerful computers in terms of
processing and come in for typical configurations: Desktop, laptop,
tablet, and handheld.
⫸ system software Answer: Software that runs in the background and
requires very little or no user intervention.
⫸ Application software Answer: Software that is designed for the user
to carry out a specific task.
⫸ Hardware Answer: the physical parts of a computer
⫸ Software Answer: a collection of computer programs that accomplish
a specific task.
,⫸ Operating System (OS) Answer: A collection of Computer programs
that work together to manage hardware and software to ensure that they
are working properly. Also Called a platform.
⫸ Graphical User Interface (GUI) Answer: The visual system of a
computer screen designs that a user to interact with an electron it
⫸ Process Answer: Any task a computer performs.
⫸ Cache Answer: A hardware or software component that stores data so
that future requests for that data can be served faster.
⫸ Random Access Memory (RAM) Answer: A type of memory that
allows data to be accessed in any order without physical movement of
the silicone media.
⫸ Registers Answer: A location in a store of data used for a specific
purpose and with quick access time.
⫸ Virtual Memory Answer: Memory that appears to exist as main
storage although most of it is supported by data held in secondary
storage, transfer between the two being made automatically as required.
⫸ Solid State Drive (SSD) Answer: Device that uses integrated circuit
assemblies as memory to store data persistently, typically using flash
memory.
, ⫸ Disk Storage Answer: Non-volatile, secondary storage that is
recorded to a physical device like a hard drive or optical disk with a
read/write apparatus.
⫸ Optical disk Answer: A computer desk that uses optical storage
techniques and technology to read and write data.
⫸ File Allocation Table (FAT) Answer: A table of contacts that directs
the read/write Arm of the hard drive to the location where data exist and
access is the data upon the users request.
⫸ word processor Answer: An application software you use to create,
compose, edit, format, and print documents.
⫸ Database Management System (DBMS) Answer: An application
software that is used to create a collection of related files that consist of
records of data separated by fields can be queried to produce populations
of information.
⫸ presentation software Answer: And application software used to
present information in a slideshow format.
⫸ software suite Answer: A collection of business computer application
programs of associated Functionality that share come graphical user
interace and have the capability to smoothly exchange data across the
programs.
BANK 2026 COMPLETE ANSWERS
ACCURATE
⫸ Information Technology (IT) Answer: The study, design,
development, implementation, support, and management of computer-
based information systems, particularly software and hardware.
⫸ best practice Answer: A 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.
⫸ The most effective way of arriving at a desired outcome Answer:
What is the definition of the term "best practice"?
⫸ Computing processing power doubles every 18 months Answer:
Which observation about computing technology is expressed in Moore's
law?
⫸ CPU Answer: What hardware component performs most of the
calculations for a computer?
⫸ Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Answer: Language used to
compose Web pages.
,⫸ Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Answer: protocol used to
defines how messages are formatted and transmitted on the internet.
⫸ Mainframe computers Answer: Massive, room-sized computers that
process and store enormous amounts of bulk data and information
⫸ Midrange Computers Answer: less powerful and smaller in physical
size than mainframe computers, but do many of the same things, simply
on a smaller scale
⫸ Microcomputer Answer: The least Powerful computers in terms of
processing and come in for typical configurations: Desktop, laptop,
tablet, and handheld.
⫸ system software Answer: Software that runs in the background and
requires very little or no user intervention.
⫸ Application software Answer: Software that is designed for the user
to carry out a specific task.
⫸ Hardware Answer: the physical parts of a computer
⫸ Software Answer: a collection of computer programs that accomplish
a specific task.
,⫸ Operating System (OS) Answer: A collection of Computer programs
that work together to manage hardware and software to ensure that they
are working properly. Also Called a platform.
⫸ Graphical User Interface (GUI) Answer: The visual system of a
computer screen designs that a user to interact with an electron it
⫸ Process Answer: Any task a computer performs.
⫸ Cache Answer: A hardware or software component that stores data so
that future requests for that data can be served faster.
⫸ Random Access Memory (RAM) Answer: A type of memory that
allows data to be accessed in any order without physical movement of
the silicone media.
⫸ Registers Answer: A location in a store of data used for a specific
purpose and with quick access time.
⫸ Virtual Memory Answer: Memory that appears to exist as main
storage although most of it is supported by data held in secondary
storage, transfer between the two being made automatically as required.
⫸ Solid State Drive (SSD) Answer: Device that uses integrated circuit
assemblies as memory to store data persistently, typically using flash
memory.
, ⫸ Disk Storage Answer: Non-volatile, secondary storage that is
recorded to a physical device like a hard drive or optical disk with a
read/write apparatus.
⫸ Optical disk Answer: A computer desk that uses optical storage
techniques and technology to read and write data.
⫸ File Allocation Table (FAT) Answer: A table of contacts that directs
the read/write Arm of the hard drive to the location where data exist and
access is the data upon the users request.
⫸ word processor Answer: An application software you use to create,
compose, edit, format, and print documents.
⫸ Database Management System (DBMS) Answer: An application
software that is used to create a collection of related files that consist of
records of data separated by fields can be queried to produce populations
of information.
⫸ presentation software Answer: And application software used to
present information in a slideshow format.
⫸ software suite Answer: A collection of business computer application
programs of associated Functionality that share come graphical user
interace and have the capability to smoothly exchange data across the
programs.
