ISTM 210 EXAM 1 CURTSINGER| WITH
ACTUAL COMPLETE QQUESTIONS AND
100% CORRECT ANSWERS| VERIFIED
BY EXPERT| 2025 NEW UPDATE.
Father of intel - answer ✔✔ gordon moore 1965
Information technology (it) - answer ✔✔ study, design, development, implementation, support,
and management of computer-based information systems, particularly software and hardware.
Yes - answer ✔✔ is it technology (information technology) a core compentency
End-users - answer ✔✔ people that use computers.
Sarbanes-oxley act of 2002 - answer ✔✔ attempts to protect investors from accounting and
reporting fraud
Competency - answer ✔✔ knowledge that enables a person to understand something, in this
case, a computing system and its relationship to business.
Attitude - answer ✔✔ towards information technology plays a pivotal role toward gaining
computer competency.
*plays in important role when learning it*
Critical thinking - answer ✔✔ a way of thinking that involves analysis and evaluation and
includes considering all possible outcomes in order to form a sold decision
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.
Moore's law - answer ✔✔ technology will double in speed every 18 months meaning google
earth will become google live
Father of apple/mac - answer ✔✔ steve jobs
Father of microsoft/pc - answer ✔✔ bill gates
First adopter - answer ✔✔ first group to use a new technology; expensive, risky, leaders
Follower - answer ✔✔ waits at least one year to adopt a new technology
,Super computers - answer ✔✔ fastest computer in the world
Main frame computer - answer ✔✔ massive computers used for huge data processing like credit
cards companies, take up entire rooms
Reliability, scalability, availability, compatibility, cost, security, - answer ✔✔ strengths of main
frame computers
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
Smaller businesses use them that can't afford main frame
Microcomputer - answer ✔✔ smaller than mainframes and midrange computers and are so
common that they are most commonly referred to simply as " computers" and sometimes just
referred to as " boxes
Microcomputers - answer ✔✔ pc desktops, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, pda, personal
computers ?are examples of what type of computer
Desktop computer & laptops - answer ✔✔ made to reside on a desk and is not portable (desktop)
Has the same basic components as a desktop and is designed specifically for portability (laptop)
Software - answer ✔✔ a collection of computer programs that accomplish a specific task
System software - answer ✔✔ background programs, no human interaction, responsible for data
mgmt, creates table of contents using fat, responsible for ram and rom, operating system
Application software - answer ✔✔ requires human interaction, used in businesses when the user
wants to access them, microsoft suites, adobe
Progress - answer ✔✔ any task a computer performs
Copy and paste - answer ✔✔ simplest way to share info, allows the user to select an area in one
application (source data), copy the information into memory, switch to a different application,
and then paste it into the desired area (destination).
Object linking - answer ✔✔ similar to object embedding, but when the source file is linked into
the destination file, both files stay up to date.
* both files are current and editable.*
, Object embedding - answer ✔✔ allows a user to select an entire area from one application and a
part of another
Operating system - answer ✔✔ often called a platform, is a collection of computer programs that
work together to manage hardware and software to ensure that they are working properly.
Most popular platforms in today - answer ✔✔ microsoft windows
Mac os
Linux
Unix
Memory mangement - answer ✔✔ operating systems coordinate a computer's memory which
includes cache, random access memory (ram), registers, and virtual memory
Os file management - answer ✔✔ the os is a way to store and organize files to its memory in a
way represented by a gui (graphical user interface)
Os disk management - answer ✔✔ reading and writing data to a disk like a hard drive that had a
table of contents called a fat
Os computer memory - answer ✔✔ the os coordinates the computer's memory which includes
cache, ram, registers, and virtual memory
Disk stoarage - answer ✔✔ non-volatile, secondary storage on a physical device like a hard drive
or optical disk with a read/write apparatus.
Mainframes - answer ✔✔ largest and most powerful business computers
Enables the operating system - answer ✔✔ the most important thing system software does
Hard drive - answer ✔✔ what part of the computer coordinates memory?
Software suite - answer ✔✔ collection of business computer application programs of associated
functionality that share a common graphical user interface (gui) and have the capacity to
smoothly exchange data across the programs
Multitasking - answer ✔✔ running more than one application
Gui (graphical user interface) - answer ✔✔ is the way information is represented on the monitor
Hardware (also known as business computer hardware) - answer ✔✔ tangible and physical
aspects of a computer
ACTUAL COMPLETE QQUESTIONS AND
100% CORRECT ANSWERS| VERIFIED
BY EXPERT| 2025 NEW UPDATE.
Father of intel - answer ✔✔ gordon moore 1965
Information technology (it) - answer ✔✔ study, design, development, implementation, support,
and management of computer-based information systems, particularly software and hardware.
Yes - answer ✔✔ is it technology (information technology) a core compentency
End-users - answer ✔✔ people that use computers.
Sarbanes-oxley act of 2002 - answer ✔✔ attempts to protect investors from accounting and
reporting fraud
Competency - answer ✔✔ knowledge that enables a person to understand something, in this
case, a computing system and its relationship to business.
Attitude - answer ✔✔ towards information technology plays a pivotal role toward gaining
computer competency.
*plays in important role when learning it*
Critical thinking - answer ✔✔ a way of thinking that involves analysis and evaluation and
includes considering all possible outcomes in order to form a sold decision
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.
Moore's law - answer ✔✔ technology will double in speed every 18 months meaning google
earth will become google live
Father of apple/mac - answer ✔✔ steve jobs
Father of microsoft/pc - answer ✔✔ bill gates
First adopter - answer ✔✔ first group to use a new technology; expensive, risky, leaders
Follower - answer ✔✔ waits at least one year to adopt a new technology
,Super computers - answer ✔✔ fastest computer in the world
Main frame computer - answer ✔✔ massive computers used for huge data processing like credit
cards companies, take up entire rooms
Reliability, scalability, availability, compatibility, cost, security, - answer ✔✔ strengths of main
frame computers
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
Smaller businesses use them that can't afford main frame
Microcomputer - answer ✔✔ smaller than mainframes and midrange computers and are so
common that they are most commonly referred to simply as " computers" and sometimes just
referred to as " boxes
Microcomputers - answer ✔✔ pc desktops, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, pda, personal
computers ?are examples of what type of computer
Desktop computer & laptops - answer ✔✔ made to reside on a desk and is not portable (desktop)
Has the same basic components as a desktop and is designed specifically for portability (laptop)
Software - answer ✔✔ a collection of computer programs that accomplish a specific task
System software - answer ✔✔ background programs, no human interaction, responsible for data
mgmt, creates table of contents using fat, responsible for ram and rom, operating system
Application software - answer ✔✔ requires human interaction, used in businesses when the user
wants to access them, microsoft suites, adobe
Progress - answer ✔✔ any task a computer performs
Copy and paste - answer ✔✔ simplest way to share info, allows the user to select an area in one
application (source data), copy the information into memory, switch to a different application,
and then paste it into the desired area (destination).
Object linking - answer ✔✔ similar to object embedding, but when the source file is linked into
the destination file, both files stay up to date.
* both files are current and editable.*
, Object embedding - answer ✔✔ allows a user to select an entire area from one application and a
part of another
Operating system - answer ✔✔ often called a platform, is a collection of computer programs that
work together to manage hardware and software to ensure that they are working properly.
Most popular platforms in today - answer ✔✔ microsoft windows
Mac os
Linux
Unix
Memory mangement - answer ✔✔ operating systems coordinate a computer's memory which
includes cache, random access memory (ram), registers, and virtual memory
Os file management - answer ✔✔ the os is a way to store and organize files to its memory in a
way represented by a gui (graphical user interface)
Os disk management - answer ✔✔ reading and writing data to a disk like a hard drive that had a
table of contents called a fat
Os computer memory - answer ✔✔ the os coordinates the computer's memory which includes
cache, ram, registers, and virtual memory
Disk stoarage - answer ✔✔ non-volatile, secondary storage on a physical device like a hard drive
or optical disk with a read/write apparatus.
Mainframes - answer ✔✔ largest and most powerful business computers
Enables the operating system - answer ✔✔ the most important thing system software does
Hard drive - answer ✔✔ what part of the computer coordinates memory?
Software suite - answer ✔✔ collection of business computer application programs of associated
functionality that share a common graphical user interface (gui) and have the capacity to
smoothly exchange data across the programs
Multitasking - answer ✔✔ running more than one application
Gui (graphical user interface) - answer ✔✔ is the way information is represented on the monitor
Hardware (also known as business computer hardware) - answer ✔✔ tangible and physical
aspects of a computer
