ISTM 210 Exam 1 [2026/2027] | UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Question and Answer | A+ Verified
• Paul Reuters -✓✓ Used homing pigeons in the 1840s to quickly get accurate business
information
• People -✓✓ The most important factor of Business Information Technology
• People, tools, best practice, and critical thinking -✓✓ The four factors of successful
implementation of business technology
• Gordon Moore -✓✓ Founder of Intel
• Moore's Law -✓✓ "Computer processing power doubles every 18 months"
• Leader/First Adapter -✓✓ First person (business) to adopt new technology; might give
them a temporary edge
• continue -✓✓ Amazon is so successful because they _________________ to lead and
adapt
• Follower -✓✓ Person or business that waits to see what works before investing in new
technology
• Super-Computer -✓✓ Large computing hardware; mostly used for large-scale
research, not really used in business
• End-users -✓✓ People that use computers
• Competency -✓✓ The knowledge that enables a person to understand something
• Attitude -✓✓ Plays a pivotal role toward gaining computer competency; it should be
thought of as a tool with boundaries that are only limited by the user's imagination and
ingenuity
• critical thinking -✓✓ "Individuals with the capacity for ______________________ have
the humility to understand that a task can always be done better"
• Best Practice -✓✓ A management process, technique, or method that is most effective
at arriving at a desired outcome
• Application -✓✓ A program with a practical use and an expected outcome
, • Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 -✓✓ Law that attempts to protect investors from
accounting and reporting fraud
• Midrange Computers -✓✓ Smaller in physical size than mainframes, but essentially
perform the same function; used by companies that can't afford large mainframes
• Personal Digital Assistant -✓✓ Handheld computers; compact but far less powerful
than desktops or laptops
• Hardware -✓✓ The physical part of the computer
• Software -✓✓ A collection of computer programs that accomplish a specific task
• without -✓✓ When a computer is turned on, hundreds of routines or "programs" carry
out technical details that make it run ____(with or without?)____ human interaction
• Operating System -✓✓ The software that manages the resources of a computer, like
memory and application programs. Necessary for application software to work.
• File Management -✓✓ One of the most important jobs of an operating system, a way
to store and organize files to the memory of a computer
• Graphical User Interface -✓✓ The way Microsoft Windows visually represents its file
management system in a way the user can understand
• Multitasking -✓✓ The ability of a computer to perform multiple processes at once
• Process -✓✓ Any task a computer performs
• Amdahl -✓✓ Computing company founded by former IBM techs (TAMU was its 3rd
customer)
• Program Suites -✓✓ Large collection of applications (i.e., Microsoft Office)
• Acrobat Reader -✓✓ Freeware that allows for viewing, printing, and highlighting PDFs
• Database Software -✓✓ Software that interacts with the user and other applications to
capture and analyze data; consists of records (rows) separated by fields (columns)
• File Allocation Table -✓✓ A table of contents for a disk that directs the read/write arm
of the hard drive to where data exists and accesses it upon the user's request
Exam Question and Answer | A+ Verified
• Paul Reuters -✓✓ Used homing pigeons in the 1840s to quickly get accurate business
information
• People -✓✓ The most important factor of Business Information Technology
• People, tools, best practice, and critical thinking -✓✓ The four factors of successful
implementation of business technology
• Gordon Moore -✓✓ Founder of Intel
• Moore's Law -✓✓ "Computer processing power doubles every 18 months"
• Leader/First Adapter -✓✓ First person (business) to adopt new technology; might give
them a temporary edge
• continue -✓✓ Amazon is so successful because they _________________ to lead and
adapt
• Follower -✓✓ Person or business that waits to see what works before investing in new
technology
• Super-Computer -✓✓ Large computing hardware; mostly used for large-scale
research, not really used in business
• End-users -✓✓ People that use computers
• Competency -✓✓ The knowledge that enables a person to understand something
• Attitude -✓✓ Plays a pivotal role toward gaining computer competency; it should be
thought of as a tool with boundaries that are only limited by the user's imagination and
ingenuity
• critical thinking -✓✓ "Individuals with the capacity for ______________________ have
the humility to understand that a task can always be done better"
• Best Practice -✓✓ A management process, technique, or method that is most effective
at arriving at a desired outcome
• Application -✓✓ A program with a practical use and an expected outcome
, • Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 -✓✓ Law that attempts to protect investors from
accounting and reporting fraud
• Midrange Computers -✓✓ Smaller in physical size than mainframes, but essentially
perform the same function; used by companies that can't afford large mainframes
• Personal Digital Assistant -✓✓ Handheld computers; compact but far less powerful
than desktops or laptops
• Hardware -✓✓ The physical part of the computer
• Software -✓✓ A collection of computer programs that accomplish a specific task
• without -✓✓ When a computer is turned on, hundreds of routines or "programs" carry
out technical details that make it run ____(with or without?)____ human interaction
• Operating System -✓✓ The software that manages the resources of a computer, like
memory and application programs. Necessary for application software to work.
• File Management -✓✓ One of the most important jobs of an operating system, a way
to store and organize files to the memory of a computer
• Graphical User Interface -✓✓ The way Microsoft Windows visually represents its file
management system in a way the user can understand
• Multitasking -✓✓ The ability of a computer to perform multiple processes at once
• Process -✓✓ Any task a computer performs
• Amdahl -✓✓ Computing company founded by former IBM techs (TAMU was its 3rd
customer)
• Program Suites -✓✓ Large collection of applications (i.e., Microsoft Office)
• Acrobat Reader -✓✓ Freeware that allows for viewing, printing, and highlighting PDFs
• Database Software -✓✓ Software that interacts with the user and other applications to
capture and analyze data; consists of records (rows) separated by fields (columns)
• File Allocation Table -✓✓ A table of contents for a disk that directs the read/write arm
of the hard drive to where data exists and accesses it upon the user's request
