Department of Information Systems, School of Business Administration, College of Business and Public Affairs, Morehead State University Exam 1 Hints CIS 211 Software Tools for Business (Spring 2015) 1. _______________ is an electronic device that processes data. 2. ____________________ has logical processes embedded into it so that software programs can utilize them. It is like a brain in a human body. 3. A computer processes data as a series of one of two states, on or off. For human beings to be able to easily understand, the states are represented as either 0 for off or 1 for on. Each of these, 0 or 1, is called a ________________. 4. Which of the following is not true about a byte? 5. After the CPU processes data, the data are sent to other devices such as output devices or storage devices. In this sense, storage devices sometimes are considered output devices. Output devices are different from storage devices, however, because _____________________. 6. Permanent storage devices are _____________________. 7. Temporary storage devices are ____________________________________. 8. Random access memory is _____________________________________________. 9. A flash memory jump drive is ___________________. 10. When you turn on a computer, ________________________________. 11. Which of the following is not true about read-only memory (ROM)? 12. An operating system is ___________________________. 13. Which of the following is not true about a software driver? 14. If you need to handle text data as they are represented (i.e., code), which of the following is the best program? 15. Which of the following is not true about Notepad? 16. If you need to create clean Web pages, which of the following is the best choice? 17. If you need to create a text document with some graphics and format it for printing, which of the following is the best choice? 18. If you need to create fliers that includes graphics and text, which of the following would be the best choice? 19. Microsoft Access __________________________________. 20. Tables in Microsoft Access are ______________________________. 21. The programming tool to process data in a relational database management system is __________________. 22. You have created two tables in Microsoft Access (EMP and DEPT) and used queries to insert data into the tables. You also used another query to list all the data from the two tables, run the query to get a result set, and saved the query as Employees. You then exited the program after you had saved the Access file as test.accdb. What are included in the file, test.accdb? 23. In a table of Microsoft Access, ____________________ data are stored. 24. If you need to store large amount of data in storage devices, which of the following is the best choice? 25. Which of the following is not true about Mi.

1. Department of Information Systems, School of Business
Administration, College of Business and Public Affairs,
Morehead State University
Exam 1 Hints
CIS 211 Software Tools for Business (Spring 2015)
1. _______________ is an electronic device that processes data.
2. ____________________ has logical processes embedded into
it so that software
programs can utilize them. It is like a brain in a human body.
3. A computer processes data as a series of one of two states, on
or off. For human
beings to be able to easily understand, the states are represented
as either 0 for
off or 1 for on. Each of these, 0 or 1, is called a
________________.
4. Which of the following is not true about a byte?
5. After the CPU processes data, the data are sent to other
devices such as output
devices or storage devices. In this sense, storage devices
sometimes are considered
output devices. Output devices are different from storage
devices, however, because

2. _____________________.
6. Permanent storage devices are _____________________.
7. Temporary storage devices are
____________________________________.
8. Random access memory is
_____________________________________________.
9. A flash memory jump drive is ___________________.
10. When you turn on a computer,
________________________________.
11. Which of the following is not true about read-only memory
(ROM)?
12. An operating system is ___________________________.
13. Which of the following is not true about a software driver?
14. If you need to handle text data as they are represented (i.e.,
code), which of
the following is the best program?

3. 15. Which of the following is not true about Notepad?
16. If you need to create clean Web pages, which of the
following is the best choice?
17. If you need to create a text document with some graphics
and format it for
printing, which of the following is the best choice?
18. If you need to create fliers that includes graphics and text,
which of the
following would be the best choice?
19. Microsoft Access __________________________________.
20. Tables in Microsoft Access are
______________________________.
21. The programming tool to process data in a relational
database management system
is __________________.
22. You have created two tables in Microsoft Access (EMP and
DEPT) and used queries
to insert data into the tables. You also used another query to
list all the data

4. from the two tables, run the query to get a result set, and saved
the query as
Employees. You then exited the program after you had saved
the Access file as
test.accdb. What are included in the file, test.accdb?
23. In a table of Microsoft Access, ____________________ data
are stored.
24. If you need to store large amount of data in storage devices,
which of the
following is the best choice?
25. Which of the following is not true about Microsoft Access?
26. A relation in a database management system is
______________________.
27. Structured query language is ________________________.
28. Microsoft PowerPoint is
_______________________________.
29. If you need to create electronic slides for your presentation,
which of the
following is the best choice?
30. A Web browser such as Firefox is

5. _______________________________.
31. Microsoft Excel is ____________________________.
32. Which of the following is not true about Microsoft Excel
2013?
33. What type of data does a cell in Microsoft Excel handle?
34. Which of the following is true about Microsoft Excel?
35. A cell in an electronic spreadsheet program is identified
with its address. A
cell in row 12 and column F is presented as _______________.
36. Which of the following data types is the most important in
an electronic
spreadsheet program?
37. Text data in an electronic spreadsheet program is used
mostly for
___________________________.
38. What is the formula to calculate the sum of the numbers in
the following cells of

6. Microsoft Excel?
A B C D
1
2 12
3 33
4 53
5
6
7
8
39. Cell E23 of a worksheet in Microsoft Excel includes a
formula, =B12*D2. Which of
the following is true if you need to fix the column of D2 in the
formula?
40. Which of the following is the best choice if you need to do
complex calculations
with large amount of numeric data?
41. In Microsoft Excel, when you copy a formula in a cell (A12)
and paste it into
another cell (F34), the other cell (F34) will have ___________.
42. Which of the following is the most important job of an
electronic spreadsheet
program?
43. In Microsoft Excel, which of the following is the best
choice if you need to see

7. the total amount (set a cell, F34, to 100000) based on a value in
another cell (by
changing a value of a cell, B30)?
44. The default file management program in Windows 7 is
_______________________.
45. The default text-based command-driven communication
channel to Windows 7 is
__________________________.
46. A Web server is based on the UNIX operating system
architecture, and thus file
and directory (folder) names can include spaces.
47. ___________________ is a named unit of storage. It is
usually stored in a
permanent storage device and can be copied into memory to be
used. A program can be
stored in it. Data (text, graphic, audio, or video) can be stored
in it.
48. A worksheet in an electronic spreadsheet program is like a
big table with many
cells, each of which is flexible to handle text or numeric data.
49. In a computer, files are organized hierarchically. If you

8. have sub-directories
(sub-folders, e.g., assignments directory under the cis211
directory under the root
directory), your Windows operating system will follow the path,
C:cis211assignments, to access a file under the assignments
directory.
50. Computer directories or folders are useful tools that can be
used to group
relevant files together. Technically, operating systems treat
them as if they are
files.