Name: __________________________No. Matric:_____________________ Practicum:______________

SC015 – Computer Science ______ / 30 marks

1.1 Development of IT 1.2 Application of IT

1. Information Technology (IT) is defined as the use of ______________ ______________and

________________to store, retrieve, and manipulate____________________.

2. A personal computer that can perform all of its____________, _____________, ____________, and

storage activities by itself.

3. A mainframe is a____________, expensive, _______________computer that can handle hundreds

or thousands of connected ________ ____________________ (multi-user).

4. Client-server network is a network in which one or more _______________ act as a ____________,

and the other computers (_____________) on the network request ______________ from

the_____________.

5. Distributed computing is a _________________ system consists of multiple ___________________

computers that ____________________ through a computer network.

6. Cloud computing is an ________________ service that provides computing needs to

computer_____________, whereby ____________ is stored at a ____________ on the Internet &

available anywhere the Internet can be accessed.

7. Give one (1) example for each field.

Field Example of Application

Education

Finance

Government

Health Care

Science

Travel

Manufacturing