ISTM 210 Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Answers | A+ Score
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Chief Information Officer (CIO) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Head of technology within
a corporation
End-Users - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔People that use computers
Telegraph - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Connected the world in 1837
When did Western Union close its last office? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2006
Carrier Pigeons - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What was a result of people in
Belgium/Germany requesting market prices?
Paul Reuters - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Used carrier pigeons to deliver news. Most
respected world new source.
Study - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What do you need?
,Design - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Talk to users. Build it or buy one?
Implement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Set up & use
Support - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Keep it working
Management - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Keep track of parts, software, & users.
Most important people - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Those that can use tools
What's the most important component of IT? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔People
Competency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Knowledge enabling someone to do
soemthing
What must people have to gain computer competency? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
good attitude
Critical Thinking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Analysis that involves looking at all
outcomes and making a decision based on them.
Best Practice - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Process, method, or technique most
effective in reaching desired outcome.
Moore's Law - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Computing power doubles every 18 months
, Gordon Moore - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Founded Intel. Created Moore's Law in
1965. Creation of microchips
Jeff Bezos - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Founder of Amazon
Leaders (First Adopters) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Businesses that buy technology
as soon as it is released.
Followers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Wait for technology to improve before buying it.
Hardware - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Physical parts of a computer (i.e. circuit boards,
keyboards, and chipsets)
Application - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Something with practical use & expected
outcome.
Mainframe Computer - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Room-sized computers that process
and store massive amounts of bulk data.
Supercomputer - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Large, all-knowing databases
What is IBM's supercomputer called? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Watson
How many mainframe computers does TAMU have? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2.
One here for payroll, another in Dallas for backups.
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Questions and Answers | A+ Score
Assured
Chief Information Officer (CIO) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Head of technology within
a corporation
End-Users - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔People that use computers
Telegraph - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Connected the world in 1837
When did Western Union close its last office? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2006
Carrier Pigeons - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What was a result of people in
Belgium/Germany requesting market prices?
Paul Reuters - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Used carrier pigeons to deliver news. Most
respected world new source.
Study - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What do you need?
,Design - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Talk to users. Build it or buy one?
Implement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Set up & use
Support - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Keep it working
Management - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Keep track of parts, software, & users.
Most important people - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Those that can use tools
What's the most important component of IT? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔People
Competency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Knowledge enabling someone to do
soemthing
What must people have to gain computer competency? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
good attitude
Critical Thinking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Analysis that involves looking at all
outcomes and making a decision based on them.
Best Practice - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Process, method, or technique most
effective in reaching desired outcome.
Moore's Law - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Computing power doubles every 18 months
, Gordon Moore - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Founded Intel. Created Moore's Law in
1965. Creation of microchips
Jeff Bezos - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Founder of Amazon
Leaders (First Adopters) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Businesses that buy technology
as soon as it is released.
Followers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Wait for technology to improve before buying it.
Hardware - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Physical parts of a computer (i.e. circuit boards,
keyboards, and chipsets)
Application - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Something with practical use & expected
outcome.
Mainframe Computer - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Room-sized computers that process
and store massive amounts of bulk data.
Supercomputer - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Large, all-knowing databases
What is IBM's supercomputer called? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Watson
How many mainframe computers does TAMU have? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2.
One here for payroll, another in Dallas for backups.
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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