Technology for Business Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course explores the pivotal role of technology in modern business environments, examining how digital tools and systems drive innovation, enhance productivity, and create competitive advantages. Students will learn about core business technologies, including information management systems, e-commerce platforms, data analytics, and emerging digital trends. Emphasis is placed on understanding how technology integrates with business strategies, streamlines operations, and supports decision-making. The course combines theoretical frameworks with practical applications, preparing students to leverage technology effectively in various business contexts.
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Technology In Action Complete 12th Edition by
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Chapter 1: Using Technology to Change the World
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Q1) Mastery of software programs, such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Painter, is essential to creating digital art.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The term ________ literate means being familiar enough with computers to understand their capabilities and limitations and knowing how to use them.
Answer: computer
Q3) ________ can determine which products are selling on a given day and in a specific location.
Answer: Data mining
Q4) A virus is electronic junk mail.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) The ________ is a collaboration of several museums that allows online visitors to explore over a thousand pieces of art through tools similar to Google Street View. Answer: Art Project
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Chapter 2: Looking at Computers: Understanding the Parts
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Q1) ________ is a wireless transmission standard that lets you connect mobile computing devices to peripheral devices over short distances.
Answer: Bluetooth
Bluetooth technology
Q2) The ________ contains the central electronic components of the computer.
A) motherboard
B) arithmetic/logic unit
C) peripheral unit
D) input unit
Answer: A
Q3) A kilobyte is exactly ________ bytes.
Answer: 1,024
one thousand twenty-four 1024
Q4) Keyboards that display on screen when input of text is required are known as virtual keyboards.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Using the Internet: Making the
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Q1) When shopping on the web, it is better to pay for your purchase with a debit card rather than a credit card.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The World Wide Web was based on a protocol developed by ________.
A) Microsoft
B) Apple
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) the U.S. government
Answer: C
Q3) In B2B commerce, businesses buy and sell goods with ________.
Answer: businesses
B2B business-to-business
Q4) All popular social networking sites have privacy policies but you still need to follow certain precautions when using their sites.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Application Software: Programs That Let You
Work and Play
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Q1) Before installing any software, it's always important to back up your system and to create a(n)________, which enables you to go back to your computer's previous settings if anything goes wrong during a new software installation.
Q2) All of the following are tips for a great presentation EXCEPT ________.
A) limit bullet points per slide to 4-6
B) use images to convey a thought or illustrate a point
C) use a variety of animations on most slides to keep your audience's attention
D) keep the font size large enough to be read from the back of the room
Q3) A Microsoft Office________ guides you through the steps necessary to finish a complicated task.
Q4) In databases, a category of data is called a ________.
A) table
B) record
C) worksheet
D) field
Q5) ________ programs allow you to experience a real situation through a virtual environment.
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Q6) You could use a(n)________ to combine a series of commands so that they will run as a single command.
Chapter 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware:
Evaluating Your System
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Q1) When referring to hard drives, access time is measured in ________.
A) megahertz
B) bps
C) milliseconds
D) kilobytes
Q2) Mac OS X uses ________ software to automatically backup and restore data.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT an optical disc format?
A) Read-only (ROM)
B) Read-erasable (RE)
C) Recordable (R)
D) Rewritable (RW)
Q4) Optical drives use a(n)________ to read and write data.
Q5) In most current systems, ________ is the type of RAM used.
A) DDR2
B) DDR3
C) DRAM
D) SDRAM
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Q6) ________ Law predicts that the number of transistors in a CPU will double every 2 years.
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Chapter 7: Networking: Connecting Computing Devices
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Q1) In a peer-to-peer network, one computer acts as the central computer.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ are devices that transfer packets of data between two or more networks.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a type of cable used in wired networks?
A) Unshielded twisted-pair
B) Coaxial
C) Fiber-optic
D) Unshielded coaxial
Q4) A computer ________ is two or more computers connected using software and hardware so that they can communicate with each other.
A) network
B) switch
C) broadband
D) node
Q5) A client/server network is an example of ________ administration
A) local
B) wide area
C) central
D) remote
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Chapter 8: Digital Devices and Media: Managing a Digital Lifestyle
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Q1) Which of the following mobile devices is the lightest?
A) Ultrabook
B) Smartphone
C) Tablet
D) Laptop
Q2) Digital camera resolution is measured in ________.
Q3) Raw files are larger than JPEG files.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most common file types supported by digital cameras are raw uncompressed (RAW)data and ________.
Q5) The ________ of a digital camera refers to the number of data points recorded for a captured image.
Q6) The distance between two near field communication (NFC)devices is limited to about ________.
A) 1.5 inches
B) 1.5 feet
C) 1.5 meters
D) 10 meters
Q7) Making sure the data on two devices are the same is referred to as ________. Page 10
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Chapter 9: Securing Your System: Protecting Your Digital
Data and Devices
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Q1) Configuring a firewall to ignore all incoming packets that request access to a specific port is known as ________.
A) packet filtering
B) packet switching
C) static addressing
D) logical port blocking
Q2) Unwanted, unsolicited e-mail is referred to as ________.
Q3) A virus signature is a portion of virus code that is unique to a particular computer virus.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a virus category?
A) worm
B) logic bomb
C) macro
D) pharming
Q5) Social ________ is any technique that uses social skills to generate human interaction that entices individuals to reveal sensitive information.
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Q6) ________ occur when a website downloads harmful software onto your computer.
Chapter 10: Behind the Scenes: Software Programming
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Q1) Bottom-up design is a systematic approach in which a problem is broken into a series of high-level tasks.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In object-oriented terms, a new, modified class is called the ________ class.
Q3) ________ design is a systematic approach that is used to break down a problem into a series of high-level tasks.
Q4) ________ is the process of translating a task into a series of commands that a computer will use to perform the task.
A) Debugging
B) Programming
C) Analyzing
D) Diagramming
Q5) SQL is an example of a ________.
A) 2GL
B) 3GL
C) 4GL
D) 5GL
Q6) SQL stands for ________.
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Chapter 11: Behind the Scenes: Databases and Information Systems
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Q1) An employee's ID number, name, company position, address, city, state, and Zip Code make up a record.
A)True
B)False
Q2) You can set a ________, which is automatically displayed in a field unless the user enters something different.
A) default value
B) relation
C) field type
D) numeric check
Q3) A(n)________ database stores data in more than two dimensions, as opposed to relational databases, which store data in two-dimensional tables.
Q4) A ________ check compares the values of data in two or more fields to see whether those values are reasonable.
A) correctness
B) range
C) consistency
D) numeric
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Q5) Data that describe other data are called________.
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Chapter 12: Behind the Scenes: Networking and Security in the Business World
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Q1) A(n)________ can often be equipped to act as a hardware firewall.
Q2) ________ provides the capability for troops on the ground to communicate with each other by routing signals through advanced sensor and targeting pods aboard military aircraft
A) Net-T
B) ROVER-5
C) IP7
D) DOU-Z
Q3) Identification badges and smart keys are examples of ________ objects that users carry to identify themselves and that allow them access to a computer system or computer facility.
Q4) A(n)________ is a device that reads information from a magnetic strip on the back of a credit card-like identification card.
Q5) Which of the following is NOT a common network topology?
A) Star
B) Cluster
C) Linear bus
D) Ring
Q6) A(n)________ is made up of two or more LANs that are miles apart.
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Chapter 13: Behind the Scenes: How the Internet Works
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Q1) IPv6 uses six groups of 16-bit numbers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ is the process of encoding e-mail so that only the person with a corresponding key can decode and read the message.
Q3) <b> is an example of an HTML ________.
A) marker
B) tag
C) indicator
D) key
Q4) DHTML stands for ________.
Q5) <i> is an example of an HTML ________.
Q6) ________ is the most commonly used scripting language for creating DHTML effects.
Q7) When using ________ addressing, a computer is assigned a temporary address from available IP addresses.
Q8) Client-side programs run on a web server rather than on your computer.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The History of the Personal Computer
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Q1) Released in 1975, the ________ computer was the first personal computer.
A) Altair
B) TRS-80
C) Apple II
D) Commodore PET
Q2) The Z1 is thought to be the first computer to include features such as a control unit and separate memory functions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) BASIC was the first programming language ever developed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Within a year of its introduction in 1981, the ________ dominated the personal computer market.
Q5) Steve Wozniak designed this in 1978, which fostered the development of DOS.
A) 5.25 inch floppy disk
B) 8.5 inch floppy disk
C) Platter hard drive
D) Compact Disk
Q6) WYSIWYG stands for ________.
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Chapter 5: System Software: The Operating System, Utility
Programs, and File Management
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Q1) C: denotes a ________ directory that is at the top of the filing structure of a computer.
A) top-level
B) cluster
C) root
D) upper-level
Q2) Installing a device driver can sometimes cause system instability.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When your computer runs out of RAM, the operating system borrows space from the CPU.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is the first step in the boot process?
A) The BIOS is activated by turning on the computer.
B) The BIOS checks that all devices are in place.
C) The OS is loaded into RAM.
D) Configuration and customization settings are checked.
Q5) PnP stands for ________.
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Q6) In the file name, Resume.docx, docx is the ________, indicating the file type.
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Chapter 15: Information Technology Ethics
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Q1) Anti-cyberbullying detection is done mostly by police.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Unethical behavior is illegal behavior and illegal behavior is unethical behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) It is estimated that the global loss in 2013 due to software piracy is in the billions of dollars.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ is an ethical system in which conforming to God's law is right, and breaking it is wrong.
Q5) Facebook allows you to determine the extent to which your information can be shared.
A)True B)False
Q6) ________ behavior is behavior where a person has no sense of right and wrong and has no interest in the moral consequences of their actions.
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Chapter 16: Under the Hood
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Q1) The base-sixteen number system is also known as the ________ number system.
Q2) Mathematical operations and comparisons are performed in the ________.
Q3) The ASCII code is able to represent the alphabets of all modern and historic languages.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ language consists of a series of 0s and 1s.
Q5) ________boosts a CPU's performance by working on more than one instruction at the same time.
Q6) The collection of commands that a CPU executes is called the instruction set.
A)True B)False
Q7) The decimal number 11 equals B in the ________ number system.
Q8) The electrical switches that are built using semiconductor layers are called ________.
Q9) OR and AND are examples of ________ operators.
A) logical
B) mathematical
C) statistical
D) textual
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Chapter 17: Careers in IT
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Q1) All IT positions require a high degree of mathematical skills.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A Baltimore business that once used in-house employees but now has those services done by a Hong Kong company is engaging in ________.
Q3) The oldest and best-known organization for women in IT is the ________.
Q4) ________ staff the phones, conduct Internet live chats, and respond to e-mail and solve customer or employee problems.
A) Helpdesk analysts
B) Computer support technicians
C) Network administrators
D) Telecommunications technicians
Q5) Which of the following in NOT a website for finding IT employment?
A) Monster
B) LinkedIn
C) Twitter
D) CareerBuilder
Q6) Game development jobs typically are divided into two paths: designers and ________.
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