ISTM 210
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED
A+<RECENT VERSION>
1) Who sold IBM MS-DOS? - ANSWER Gates and Allen
2) What is another name for OS? - ANSWER Platform
3) Who started Linux? - ANSWER Linus Torvalds
4) Who developed the earliest Mac OS? - ANSWER Jobs and Wozniak
5) What memory quickens implementation of computer programs? - ANSWER
Registers
6) Who can modify Linux? - ANSWER Anyone
7) What program unclutters a hard drive? - ANSWER Defragmentation
8) Open source operating system? - ANSWER Linux
9) Can an embedding operating system be modified? - ANSWER No
,10) Is an OS system software or application software? - ANSWER System
11) Common name for hierarchy of directories? - ANSWER Folder
12) Memory that coordinates - ANSWER Virtual
13) What is it called when a computer performs a task? - ANSWER Process
14) What memory decreases the time it takes to access memory? - ANSWER CPU
cache
15) What are the set of rules to move data from one computer to another? - ANSWER
TCP/IP
16) TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) breaks file into what? -
ANSWER Packets
17) What does MS-DOS stand for? - ANSWER Microsoft disk operating system
18) What is the works largest network? - ANSWER Internet
19) What is a pro to application software? - ANSWER It is very unlikely that
application software won't do what the user wants
20) What are 6 common application software? - ANSWER email, word processor,
spreadsheet, database, presentation software, and project management software
21) Business computing software - ANSWER Concerned with four basic applications:
spreadsheets, word processors, database, and presentation software
,22) Software/Productivity Suites - ANSWER a collection of business computer
application programs of associated functionality that share a common graphical user
interface (GUI) and can smoothly exchange data across programs
23) What is an example of a software/productivity suite? - ANSWER Microsoft Office
- most popular
24) Object Linking - ANSWER is dynamic and connected to the original snapshot so
it is always up to date with a live connection and is editable
25) Object Embedding - ANSWER is static and only takes a "snapshot" that is not
updated if changes are made to the document that was screenshotted
26) What is the most important aspect of learning application software? - ANSWER
Attitude
27) What does an application software need to work? - ANSWER an operating system
28) Word processing software - ANSWER an application software used to create,
compose, edit, format and print documents; saved to secondary memory
29) What are three word processors? - ANSWER micro soft word, adobe acrobat,
corel word perfect
30) Microsoft word - ANSWER most popular word processor in the world; allows
images, spellcheck, and grammar checks
31) Adobe Acrobat - ANSWER allows a user to create, edit, format, and print portable
document format files (PDF)
32) PDF - ANSWER print portable document
, 33) What is are two pros about PDFs? - ANSWER 1. can be accessed on virtually any
platform (operating system)
2. can be digitally signed
34) Corel Word Perfect - ANSWER developed at BYU for minicomputers; was the
dominant word processor in the market in the 1980s
35) Spreadsheet - ANSWER an electronic grid of columns and rows used to create,
model and manipulate numerical and often, financial information
36) Columns - ANSWER (vertical) labelled with letters
37) Rows - ANSWER (horizontal) labelled with numbers
38) What is formed when a column and row intersect? - ANSWER a cell
39) Microsoft Excel - ANSWER spreadsheet application that lets users perform
calculations, make graphs, develop pivot tables
40) What operating systems can Microsoft Excel be used on? - ANSWER Windows,
Mac, IOS
41) Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - ANSWER Microsoft Excel programming
language
42) What did Microsoft Excel replace to become most popular spreadsheet? -
ANSWER Lotus 1-2-3
43) What application software performs "what-if" analysis? - ANSWER Spreadsheets
44) What do businesses argue about spreadsheets? - ANSWER most powerful and
useful because they perform what-if analysis
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED
A+<RECENT VERSION>
1) Who sold IBM MS-DOS? - ANSWER Gates and Allen
2) What is another name for OS? - ANSWER Platform
3) Who started Linux? - ANSWER Linus Torvalds
4) Who developed the earliest Mac OS? - ANSWER Jobs and Wozniak
5) What memory quickens implementation of computer programs? - ANSWER
Registers
6) Who can modify Linux? - ANSWER Anyone
7) What program unclutters a hard drive? - ANSWER Defragmentation
8) Open source operating system? - ANSWER Linux
9) Can an embedding operating system be modified? - ANSWER No
,10) Is an OS system software or application software? - ANSWER System
11) Common name for hierarchy of directories? - ANSWER Folder
12) Memory that coordinates - ANSWER Virtual
13) What is it called when a computer performs a task? - ANSWER Process
14) What memory decreases the time it takes to access memory? - ANSWER CPU
cache
15) What are the set of rules to move data from one computer to another? - ANSWER
TCP/IP
16) TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) breaks file into what? -
ANSWER Packets
17) What does MS-DOS stand for? - ANSWER Microsoft disk operating system
18) What is the works largest network? - ANSWER Internet
19) What is a pro to application software? - ANSWER It is very unlikely that
application software won't do what the user wants
20) What are 6 common application software? - ANSWER email, word processor,
spreadsheet, database, presentation software, and project management software
21) Business computing software - ANSWER Concerned with four basic applications:
spreadsheets, word processors, database, and presentation software
,22) Software/Productivity Suites - ANSWER a collection of business computer
application programs of associated functionality that share a common graphical user
interface (GUI) and can smoothly exchange data across programs
23) What is an example of a software/productivity suite? - ANSWER Microsoft Office
- most popular
24) Object Linking - ANSWER is dynamic and connected to the original snapshot so
it is always up to date with a live connection and is editable
25) Object Embedding - ANSWER is static and only takes a "snapshot" that is not
updated if changes are made to the document that was screenshotted
26) What is the most important aspect of learning application software? - ANSWER
Attitude
27) What does an application software need to work? - ANSWER an operating system
28) Word processing software - ANSWER an application software used to create,
compose, edit, format and print documents; saved to secondary memory
29) What are three word processors? - ANSWER micro soft word, adobe acrobat,
corel word perfect
30) Microsoft word - ANSWER most popular word processor in the world; allows
images, spellcheck, and grammar checks
31) Adobe Acrobat - ANSWER allows a user to create, edit, format, and print portable
document format files (PDF)
32) PDF - ANSWER print portable document
, 33) What is are two pros about PDFs? - ANSWER 1. can be accessed on virtually any
platform (operating system)
2. can be digitally signed
34) Corel Word Perfect - ANSWER developed at BYU for minicomputers; was the
dominant word processor in the market in the 1980s
35) Spreadsheet - ANSWER an electronic grid of columns and rows used to create,
model and manipulate numerical and often, financial information
36) Columns - ANSWER (vertical) labelled with letters
37) Rows - ANSWER (horizontal) labelled with numbers
38) What is formed when a column and row intersect? - ANSWER a cell
39) Microsoft Excel - ANSWER spreadsheet application that lets users perform
calculations, make graphs, develop pivot tables
40) What operating systems can Microsoft Excel be used on? - ANSWER Windows,
Mac, IOS
41) Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - ANSWER Microsoft Excel programming
language
42) What did Microsoft Excel replace to become most popular spreadsheet? -
ANSWER Lotus 1-2-3
43) What application software performs "what-if" analysis? - ANSWER Spreadsheets
44) What do businesses argue about spreadsheets? - ANSWER most powerful and
useful because they perform what-if analysis
