Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions
Case OFF 1
Paul has taken over his father's business of running a gas station.Paul's father used spiral notebooks to record all customer-related information.Paul decides he cannot work using this method and purchases a new computer system for the gas station.He also purchases a copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2010 for all of his software needs.
-Paul's first goal is to record the names,addresses,phone numbers,and e-mail addresses of each customer.He wants this information in a program where he can take all of a customer's information and create an invoice form.Paul chooses ____ for this job.
A) Outlook
B) Access
C) Excel
D) Word

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Access is a database management system that is designed for storing and managing large amounts of data. It is the best choice for recording customer information and providing the ability to create an invoice form. Excel is a spreadsheet program and is not ideal for handling large amounts of data. Outlook is designed for email and calendar management, not for customer data storage. Word is a word processing program and is not designed for database management.