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Test I. Give the letter of the correct answer.
1. Which of the following is true about custom software?
A) It is developed within an organization for use by that organization.
B) The organization that purchases it has no control over the specifications, schedule, or evolution of the software.
C) The organization that develops the software is not the intended audience.
D) All of the choices are correct.
2. An operating system is best described as a(n):
A) General purpose application program.
B) Application specific program.
C) System management program.
D) System development program.
3. Your text illustrates that application programs can be segregated into two major categories. Which statement best illustrates what these categories are?
A) General purpose and application-specific (business, scientific, and other).
B) Accounting, marketing, manufacturing, and sales.
C) Job management, business, scientific, and other.
D) Supervisor, business, scientific, and general purpose.
4. Your text illustrates that application programs can be segregated into two major categories - general purpose and application-specific. Application programs consist of programs that:
A) Control the use of the hardware, software, and data resources.
B) Help programmers develop information-processing programs.
C) Direct the processing required for the solution to a specific user's problem.
D) Supervise the operations of the CPU.
5. According to your text, e-mail:
A) Allows users to store messages in folders and add attachments to messages
B) Has changed the way people work and communicate.
C) Is stored on networked mail servers until a user is ready for it.
D) All of the choices are correct.
6. Which one of the following is a basic function that an operating system performs in the operation of a computer system?
A) It provides a user interface, utilities, and support services.
B) It performs resource and task management.
C) It performs file management.
D) It performs all of the above functions.
7. HTML is used to:
A) Create hypertext or hypermedia documents.
B) Is used for development of advanced computer applications.
C) Is a user interface.
D) Has all the function and abilities of XML.
8. Java became popular because:
A) When introduced it was the most powerful development tool available to programmers.
B) It is platform independent.
C) It is more secure than Internet Explorer.
D) Without Java the development of computer networks would not have been possible.
9. The following protocols are used for the development of web services.
A) Java and XML.
B) UDDI and SOAP.
C) CASE tools.
D) All the choices are correct.
10. Programming language translators:
A) Are used to facilitate communications between companies where the employees speak different languages.
B) Allow the transmission of data from one language to another
C) Translate programs into machine language so a computer can execute the program.
D) Translate the language programmer's use into a high level language a computer can execute.
Test II. True or false. Justify your answer.
1. Unlike hardware, which has several categories, software only has one category: computer applications.
A) True
B) False
2. Your text gives a conceptual overview of computer software and illustrates it as either application or system software. System software are programs that manage and support operations of computer systems and networks.
A) True
B) False
3. Although Microsoft Office has a large share of the software suite market, Lotus, Corel, and Sun all offer competing productivity suites.
A) True
B) False
4. Integrated packages eliminate the need for a lot of disk space used by software suite packages. Integrated packages such as Microsoft Works and AppleWorks have increased functionality of several programs such as word processing and spreadsheets when compared to software suites.
A) True
B) False
5. Instant messaging is quite popular in today's society outside the workplace. It is not yet being used in the business environment.
A) True
B) False
6. End users and organizations are using desktop publishing (DTP) software to design and print their own newsletters, brochures, manuals, and books with several type styles, graphics, photos, and colors on each page. While some companies prefer to use a professional desktop publishing package such as Adobe PageMaker for this task, word processing packages also provide DTP capability.
A) True
B) False
7. Electronic mail is often called application specific software since it helps members of a workgroup to collaborate on group projects, while also providing some office automation, decision support, and information management needed to complete specific work assignments.
A) True
B) False
8. A large and fast-growing number of companies are turning to application service providers instead of developing or purchasing the application software they need to run their businesses.
A) True
B) False
9. An advantage of open source software is that since programmers can read and modify the source code, they can improve it, adapt it, and fix bugs.
A) True
B) False
10. Assembler languages are frequently called symbolic languages, because symbols are used to represent operation codes and storage locations. Convenient alphabetic abbreviations, called mnemonics, and other symbols represent operation codes, storage locations, and data elements.
A) True
B) False
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