Holt's IST 117 Study Sheet for Test 1

1	Study Sheet for IST 117 Test 1	What are the main operations of computer processing?	Name 3 examples of input devices
2	Name 2 examples of output devices	Name 4 examples of storage devices	Name 3 examples (names) of microprocessors
3	What is the difference between memory and storage?	What are two categories of microcomputers?	What does CPU stand for? What does it do?
4	What does RAM stand for? What does it do?	What does a modem do? Why do you need it?	Give specs of a typical new PC you can buy.
5	Where are function keys? What is their purpose?	Where are cursor keys? What is their purpose?	Where is numeric keypad? Purpose?
6	Difference between software and hardware?	What is an operating system? Examples?	What is a diskette used for? How much data does it hold?
7	What does virus checking do? How often do you do it?	Give examples of application software? (types and examples of each type)	What is a word processor used for? spreadsheet? database?
8	What is a network? a LAN?	What are the advantages of a network?	How do we take care of diskettes?
9	What is drive C, drive A, drive T? Disk drive vs. disk	Give the meaning of GB, MB, KB, Byte	What is the cursor? insertion point?
10	When does a file get stored to disk? When is it in memory?	Why can you not use your data disk on an Apple computer?	What does GUI stand for? mean?
11	What is a dialog box? What types of options are in it?	How do you save a file? Save a file with a new name (making a second copy of the file)?	How do you enlarge a window? make it smaller?
12	Identify: window, title bar, desktop, menu bars, tool bars, icons, radio buttons, check boxes, text boxes, drop down lists, ellipsis, submenus, status bar, taskbar	What are the functions of each mouse pointer shape (pointer, I-beam, hourglass, hand, resize arrows/double-headed arrows)?	Which mouse button do you use? When to click, double click, right click, drag? What is used on notebook computers instead of a mouse?
13	How do you minimize a window? maximize? restore?	How do you bring up a context sensitive menu?	What are scroll bars? Three ways to use?
14	Active vs. non-active windows	How do we use buttons on the Task Bar?	How to move a window? View a partially hidden window?
15	Name the newest version of Microsoft Windows.	How do you close a window (2 ways)? Close Windows 98?	How do you start a program? (2 ways)
16	What is an icon? Where do we see them?	What is multi-tasking?	Who is Bill Gates?
17	Name some built-in accessory programs in Windows 98.	Name the most successful software company. Computer chip company?	Why is the Justice Dept. suing Microsoft Corp.?
18	How to use Windows Help? Use of Contents vs. Index?	Compare NotePad to Word.	What is Office 2000? What is included in it? Editions?
19	What is the difference between backspace and delete?	What is highlighting? How do you highlight? Why do it?	What are nonprinting characters? What do the symbols mean?
20	What does the page break mark look like? end of paragraph mark? space? tab?	What does NumLock do? Caps Lock? Page Up? Page Down? Home? End?	Which is bigger - a 12-point font or 36 point font? How to change font and/or size?
21	What is left-aligned text? right-aligned? centered?	What does bold, italics, underline, and color do?	What are bulleted lists?
22	Difference between Insert and Typeover modes?	What is the Office Assistant?	How do you see an AutoText tip?
23	What is word-wrap? When are the only times you should press Enter?	What is Print Preview? Why should we do it? How do we know if there is another page?	What happens if you close a document without saving?
24	What does the Open command do? Can more than one document be open at once?	How do you create a new document? When do you save it?	What happens if something is highlighted and you start typing? How can you recover from this?
25	What are margins? How do you change margins?	What happens if you Undo? Redo?	What does Find do? Replace?
26	What does each options in the Spell Checker do? What does red underlining mean? green?	Where do headers show? How often? Footers? Footnotes? How to enter each?	Do you type in the page number for each page? What can Word do?
27	How do you add pictures to your documents? Where do they come from?	What is difference between Copy & Paste vs. Cut & Paste?	How do you copy text from one place to another? What is the clipboard?
28	What are resizing handles? How do you resize an object?	What are differences on Page Layout view vs. Normal view?	Meaning of dimmed or grayed out options? default options?
29	What are hypertext, hypermedia, hyper- links? Multi-media?	When does a link change color? What does it mean?	What is an image? How can you save one?
30	What is a Web browser? Give 2 examples.	What do the letters URL stand for? What does it mean?	What does HTTP stand for? Where is it used?
31	What is the WWW? What is the Internet?	Name 3 top-level domains and what they stand for.	What do the following buttons do: back, forward, home, stop?
32	What are 2 meanings of Home Pages?	What is a Web site? Web page? Web server?	What is the History list?
33	How do you save a Web address for future use on that computer?	What do these buttons do: back, forward, home, refresh, stop?	How do you copy text from a Web page to a word processor?
34	What is a search engine used for?	Name 3 search engines.	How do we print just one page from Netscape or IE?
35	What is B to B? B to C?	How do you determine that a Web site offers secure transactions?	What does ISP stand for? What is it?
	HANDS-ON TEST	You can use your book and notes on this part of the test.	It will be similar to your computer lab projects.
36	Center, Right, Left Align text	Bulleted lists	Bold, Italics, Underline
37	Indent, first line indent, hanging indent	Fonts, sizes	Spell Checking, Thesaurus
38	Clip art - insert, resize	Copy from T drive to floppy disk	Type in a URL, follow links. Print the Web Page.
39	Footnotes	Margins	Double space
40	Headers and footers, page numbers	Force page break. Force blank line(s).	Everything we've done!