Deck 17: Plug It in 2 Hardware and Soft Ware

Question 1

Jun is getting ready to open a store in her home town to sell unique lamp bases and shades. She has a desktop computer that she uses to do all of her business processing. Her store lost power while she was working on her taxes with the tax program that she bought. Which of the following is true?

A)Jun lost the tax program.
B)All of the data in the CPU was saved.
C)She lost all the data in her read-only memory.
D)She lost the data she was working on.
E)She didn't lose anything on the computer.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Jun is getting ready to open a store in her home town to sell unique lamp bases and shades. On your advice, she bought a personal computer to handle her processing needs. She remembers you told her she should back up (make a copy of)her data. Which of the following is true?

A)She should back up her RAM.
B)She should back up her ROM.
C)She should back up her primary storage.
D)She should back up her secondary storage.
E)She really shouldn't worry about backing up her data because it's such a small business.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Jun is getting ready to open a store in her home town to sell unique lamp bases and shades. She has bought a laptop to use in the store for all of her operating needs. One of the first applications she knows she needs is one to handle her accounting and check book. How might she go about getting such an application for her business?

A)open source software
B)software-as-a-service
C)open systems
D)application software package
E)All of these choices are valid approaches.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Jun has bought an accounting package for her business which is selling unique lamp bases and shades. She wants to know what kind of software she should buy to do forecasting based on her sales. What would you suggest to her?

A)GUI
B)HTML
C)database
D)operating system
E)spreadsheet

Question 5

Over the past twenty years, hardware costs have _____, while software costs have _____.

A)increased, increased
B)decreased, decreased
C)decreased, increased
D)increased, decreased
E)increased, remained level

Question 6

Jun has a store that sells unique lamp bases and shades. She has an accounting package running on a laptop in the store. She is going to open a second store and wants to put the package on the desktop machine in that store as well. Which of the following is true?

A)She can use the disks she has for the package to install it on the new machine without any problem.
B)That would be fine as long as she Emails the software vendor and lets them know.
C)She has to buy an additional copy of the package.
D)There isn't a problem because the software is running on the cloud.

Question 7

Jun has bought an accounting package for her business which is selling unique lamp bases and shades. Such software is

A)an operating system.
B)personal application software
C)application software
D)assembler software
E)a GUI

Question 8

A thin-client system is a desktop computer that doesn't have locally installed software.

Question 9

Jun is getting ready to open a store in her home town to sell unique lamp bases and shades. She is asks you about buying a thumb drive for backing up her data. Which of the following is true?

A)A 2-Gigabyte thumb drive will hold more than a single Terabyte thumb drive.
B)Buying a 10-Megabyte thumb drive will probably be enough.
C)A terabyte is a trillion bytes.
D)She needs storage on the thumb drive equal to her primary storage size.

Question 10

Primary storage stores which of the following for very brief periods of time?

A)data to be processed by the CPU
B)instructions for the CPU as to how to process the data
C)operating system programs that manage various aspects of the computer's operations
D)all of the above

Question 11

Jun is getting ready to open a store in her home town to sell unique lamp bases and shades. What kind of computer does she need at this point?

A)mainframe computer
B)server
C)supercomputer
D)personal computer

Question 12

Jun has a store that sells unique lamp bases and shades. A friend told her about an order entry program that she should use. Jun says that it's open source but doesn't understand what that means. Which of the following would you tell her?

A)Open-source applications are generally full of bugs.
B)It takes a long time for bugs in open-source applications to get fixed.
C)If she needed to change the functionality of the application, she couldn't.
D)One problem with open-source applications is its limited customer support.

Question 13

A mainframe is a type of server.

Question 14

The part of primary storage that holds a software program (or portion of it)and small amounts of data when they are brought from secondary storage are called:

A)read-only memory
B)random access memory
C)cache memory
D)registers
E)flash memory