CSCI 1105: COMPUTERS AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Sample Midterm  Spring 2011                       

				
PARTS I & II 
Answer the questions for Part I and Part II on your computer Store screen shots on disk or flash media.
I Instructions for Windows:
a)	Open two applications. Show Windows side by side (screen shot saved)
b)	Open task manager. Find all applications running (screen show saved) 
c)	 Open Windows.  Toggle to desk top and back. 

II Instructions for Word:
Type a paragraph. Apply the following editing and formatting features.
	
a)	Insert a title, centered, and bold, 14. , Times New Roman, at the top of the document.
b)	Make the paragraph itself 12. Ariel. Full justify this paragraph.
c)	Use the thesaurus to find alternates to any word in your document.
d)	Spell Check the document.
e)	Insert a shape in your document.
f)	Make your page into two columns. 
g)	Select Review (on tool bar) and add a new comment in the document..

PART III
Answer the following questions:

1)	Describe the difference between the Save and Save as commands.	
2)	Explain the concepts of {upward and downward compatibility}.  
3)	List 5 steps of how a computer accepts input, processes it, and prints the result.

PART IV 								
Pick the best answer for the following questions. 

1)	 Downloading or copying  text from the Internet and using it in your homework, without reference,  is an example of:
a)	  	junk email
b)	  	legitimate, usable material from the Internet
c)	  	plagiarism
d)	  	public property

2)	Which of the following is not an example of a microcomputer?
a)	Mainframe
b)	Desktop Units
c)	Laptops
d)	Notebooks

3)	Which of the following is an example of a peripheral device?
a)	CPU
b)	Software
c)	Floppy Disk
d)	Scanner

4)	The Operating System on our lab desktops  is called:
a)	Windows XP
b)	Windows 7
c)	UNIX
d)	Linux

5)	 Settings that have been pre-selected by the software's developers but can be changed are called:
a)	Initial settings
b)	Default settings
c)	Tab settings
d)	Bullets

6)	When you buy a new printer, in order for the Operating System to be able to print, it must have the following file installed:
a)	controller
b)	printer driver
c)	quick print
d)	print preview

7)	To remove text to the right of the cursor, you press which key?

a)	Backspace
b)	Delete
c)	Cut
d)	Insert

8)	In Microsoft Word, clicking on the top "X" of  the Word window after you have made changes to the document will do the following:

a)	leave the Word application
b)	close the open document but leave the application open
c)	ask if you want to save the changes made
d)	leave the altered document with or without saving as specified

9)      Which of the following options will display a document so you can 
        view it before printing?
a)	Outline		
b)	Print Layout
c)	Print Preview
d)	normal

10)	The interface on our Windows desktops is called:
a)	a graphical user interface (GUI)
b)	a command line interface
c)	a menu based interface
d)	none of the above

11)	  Existing text can be removed by: 
a)	Highlight the text, right click for the menu, and choose cut.
b)	Highlight the text and press Cntl+X
c)	Positioning the cursor before the text and pressing Delete repeatedly.
d)	all of the above

12)	 You are running a Windows application. Where may its data be stored?
a)	in registers
b)	in main memory
c)	on the hard disk
d)	all of the above

13)	One method to back up your entire computer system (data and programs) is by
a)	Flash drives
b)	External hard drives
c)	Optical Disks
d)	all of the above

14)	 SPAM is another term for:
a)	main memory
b)	secondary storage
c)	junk mail
d)	encryption

15)	Three main elements of a computer that you should study when buying a new computer are: 
a)	the microprocessor speed, main memory size, and hard disk capacity
b)	register size, word size, and main memory size
c)	modem speed, disk space, virtual memory
d)	register size, secondary storage and auxiliary storage

PART IV 
Write T (TRUE) or F (FALSE) for each statement below. 


1)	 Windows7 is hardware.

2)	The taskbar is a strip at the bottom of the screen that contains icons of programs are in a state of execution.

3)	Print Preview provides the ability to toggle between landscape and portrait orientation.

4)	The Minimize button can be used to exit  an open application.

5)	You can open a program located on the Quick Launch Toolbar by clicking one. 

6)	Read-only memory (ROM) is erased when you turn the computer off.

7)	Data can be retrieved more quickly from main memory than from magnetic disk.
							
Fill in the blank.

8)	The __________    __________  is a temporary storage area on your computer's hard 
drive for deleted files, which remain in that folder until you delete them.

9)	__________ is a button on the taskbar that you use to find and open files.

10)	The safest way to close an Internet pop up is ________________.
	
11)	To reverse the most recent action, click  __________ .

12)	 A machine cycle has two parts, a ___________ cycle and an __________ cycle.

13)	Information in __________ is lost when the computer is turned off.

14)	Volatile memory includes _____________

15)	Name three secondary storage devices: __________,   ____________ and ___________.

16)	The _____________   _______________   __________ consists of the ALU and the CU.

17)	The term bit stands for ___________.

18)	The key combination I would use in Word for selecting the entire document is__________ 

19)	I want added to this class  ___________