Principles of Te chnology Unit 5 Study Guide

Name: Click here to enter text.

1. When you turn on your computer, you see the following error message and nothing else happens. What is the problem?

a. The OS is missing or cannot load

b. Windows will only boot up with an administrator login

c. Your hard drive is full

d. The graphics card is not functioning

2. What allows the monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, hard drive, and Word (for example) to communicate with

each other?

a. Application software

b. Operating system

c. BIOS

d. USB cable

3. What do you need to access a SaaS product, such as Adobe, online? Click here to enter text.

4. By not installing updates to your OS, what risk would there be?

a. Security holes may be left open and not fixed

b. You will lose the software license

c. Your keyboard will no longer work

d. You won’t be able to change the wallpaper

5. Where would the best place be to get a software upgrade/update? Click here to enter text.

6. Which of these devices might have an embedded OS?

a. Digital camera

b. Laptop

c. iPhone

d. Server

7. What would you call a small amount of files to download that will fix a security hole in your operating system?

a. Service pack

b. Driver

c. Patch

d. Upgrade

8. Software that gets installed that allows a new device you are installing or hooking up to your computer to

communicate with your OS is called what? Click here to enter text.

9. Which of these licenses costs the least per user?

a. Network license

b. Freeware license

c. Single-user license

d. Site/enterprise license

10. What type of software is an OS? Click here to enter text.

11. In Windows, where can you find DOS?

a. Control Panel…System

b. Command Prompt

c. On the Taskbar

d. Triple-click the clock

12. What is unique about the Linux OS? Click here to enter text.

13. In developing a new router for the Internet, what type of OS would usually be used to program it?

a. Windows

b. UNIX

c. DOS

d. Novell

14. What general type of OS would be installed on a server and used to manage the network, manage the logins,

and maintain network security & maintenance? Click here to enter text.

15. Name that OS.

16. What kind of OS would be used on appliances or for devices with special purposes such as a digital picture frame or a car? Click here to enter text.

17. Which of these file types could be read across multiple operating systems without added software, and will not include any text formatting?

a. .docxb. .rtfc. .jpgd. .txt

18. DOS & UNIX use a Click here to enter text. user interface while Windows, Mac, and Linux use a Click here to enter text. interface with icons.

19. What are the steps to start up a computer?a. STEP 1: Click here to enter text. Checks hardwareb. STEP 2: Looks here for boot instructions…Click here to enter text.c. STEP 3: OS gets loaded from Click here to enter text. to Click here to enter text.d. STEP 4: You do this to use the computer…Click here to enter text.

20. Look at the picture of the back of a PC. Name each port

a. #1: Click here to enter text.b. #2: Click here to enter text.c. #3: Click here to enter text.d. #5: Click here to enter text.e. #7: Click here to enter text.f. #8: Click here to enter text.g. #9: Click here to enter text.h. #10: Click here to enter text.i. #12: Click here to enter text.j. #13: Click here to enter text.

21. Based upon the picture in question 20, which port would you…a. Plug a turntable into so you can record old records to your computer so you can put them on

CD? Click here to enter text.b. Plug your cable or DSL modem into for high-speed Internet

access? Click here to enter text.c. Plug your speakers into? Click here to enter text.d. Plug a monitor into? Click here to enter text.

22. What port is this? Click here to enter text.