ISTM 210 Exam 1 [2026/2027] | UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Question and Answer | Ultimate Exam Prep
• Competency -✓✓ The knowledge that enables a person to understand something
• Hardware -✓✓ The physical parts of a computer
• Software -✓✓ Systems that make hardware work
• The Cloud -✓✓ Hard drive or software that exists on another computer connected by a
network
• rackspace.com -✓✓ Cloud service provider in San Antonio
• Disadvantages of the Coud -✓✓ Requires internet connection
Don't know where your information is actually being stored
• Gordon Moore -✓✓ Who founded intel?
• Moore's Law -✓✓ Computer power doubles every 18 months
• Mainframe Computers -✓✓ Massive, room-sized computers that process and store
enormous amounts of bulk data and information
• Mainframe Computers -✓✓ TAMU has 2 kinds of what hardware for payroll and
transactions?
• Super Computers -✓✓ What kind of hardware are TAMU student files on?
• IBM and Amdahl -✓✓ Who are big mainframe makers?
• Big Blue -✓✓ What is IBM's nickname?
• Midrange Computers -✓✓ Less powerful and smaller in physical size than mainframe
computers, but do many of the same things, simply on a smaller scale
• Microcomputers -✓✓ Smaller than mainframes and midrange computers
So common that they are most commonly referred to simply as "computers" and
sometimes just referred to as "boxes."
• Microcomputer -✓✓ What type of a computer is a desktop?
, • Operating System (OS) -✓✓ Often called a platform
• Operating System (OS) -✓✓ A collection of computer programs that work together to
manage hardware and software to ensure that they are working properly
• Data per Inch (DPI) -✓✓ Determinant of a monitor's resolution
• Booting -✓✓ Loading the platform into the computer's memory
• Cold Boot -✓✓ Powering a computer for the first time
• Warm Boot -✓✓ Restarting a computer
• Process -✓✓ What is it called when a computer performs a task?
• System Software -✓✓ What kind of software requires no human interaction?
• Memory Management -✓✓ The operating system's coordination of a computer's
memory which includes cache, RAM, registers, and virtual memory
• Random Access Memory -✓✓ RAM
• RAM -✓✓ Primary storage that allows data to be accessed in any order without
physical movement of the silicone media
• Volatile Memory -✓✓ Memory that is only there when you're currently running an
application
• Non-Volatile Memory -✓✓ Where memory is stored after processing
• Virtual Memory -✓✓ Memory the operating system uses to coordinate, track, and
efficiently allocate the use of the CPU cache, registers, RAM, and disk storage
• Disk Management -✓✓ Part of the OS that reads and writes data onto a disk
(typically a hard drive)
• Disk Storage -✓✓ Non-volatile, secondary storage that is recorded to a physical device
• Track -✓✓ Concentric band around disk that is divided in to pie shaped wedges called
sectors
• File Management -✓✓ One of the most important jobs of an OS
Exam Question and Answer | Ultimate Exam Prep
• Competency -✓✓ The knowledge that enables a person to understand something
• Hardware -✓✓ The physical parts of a computer
• Software -✓✓ Systems that make hardware work
• The Cloud -✓✓ Hard drive or software that exists on another computer connected by a
network
• rackspace.com -✓✓ Cloud service provider in San Antonio
• Disadvantages of the Coud -✓✓ Requires internet connection
Don't know where your information is actually being stored
• Gordon Moore -✓✓ Who founded intel?
• Moore's Law -✓✓ Computer power doubles every 18 months
• Mainframe Computers -✓✓ Massive, room-sized computers that process and store
enormous amounts of bulk data and information
• Mainframe Computers -✓✓ TAMU has 2 kinds of what hardware for payroll and
transactions?
• Super Computers -✓✓ What kind of hardware are TAMU student files on?
• IBM and Amdahl -✓✓ Who are big mainframe makers?
• Big Blue -✓✓ What is IBM's nickname?
• Midrange Computers -✓✓ Less powerful and smaller in physical size than mainframe
computers, but do many of the same things, simply on a smaller scale
• Microcomputers -✓✓ Smaller than mainframes and midrange computers
So common that they are most commonly referred to simply as "computers" and
sometimes just referred to as "boxes."
• Microcomputer -✓✓ What type of a computer is a desktop?
, • Operating System (OS) -✓✓ Often called a platform
• Operating System (OS) -✓✓ A collection of computer programs that work together to
manage hardware and software to ensure that they are working properly
• Data per Inch (DPI) -✓✓ Determinant of a monitor's resolution
• Booting -✓✓ Loading the platform into the computer's memory
• Cold Boot -✓✓ Powering a computer for the first time
• Warm Boot -✓✓ Restarting a computer
• Process -✓✓ What is it called when a computer performs a task?
• System Software -✓✓ What kind of software requires no human interaction?
• Memory Management -✓✓ The operating system's coordination of a computer's
memory which includes cache, RAM, registers, and virtual memory
• Random Access Memory -✓✓ RAM
• RAM -✓✓ Primary storage that allows data to be accessed in any order without
physical movement of the silicone media
• Volatile Memory -✓✓ Memory that is only there when you're currently running an
application
• Non-Volatile Memory -✓✓ Where memory is stored after processing
• Virtual Memory -✓✓ Memory the operating system uses to coordinate, track, and
efficiently allocate the use of the CPU cache, registers, RAM, and disk storage
• Disk Management -✓✓ Part of the OS that reads and writes data onto a disk
(typically a hard drive)
• Disk Storage -✓✓ Non-volatile, secondary storage that is recorded to a physical device
• Track -✓✓ Concentric band around disk that is divided in to pie shaped wedges called
sectors
• File Management -✓✓ One of the most important jobs of an OS
