IST 220 Course Guide
 Week 16 – QUIZ 4 Procedures

What to Expect

Study Topics

  Chapter 10 - Input/Output Technology

  Chapter 11 - Applications Technology

  Chapter 12 - Operating Systems

  Chapter 13 - Mass Storage Access and Management

 

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 Procedures:

The procedures for ELI examinations are listed in the SYLLABUS mailed from ELI. The following is a summary:
    1. Prepare for the exam
    2. Call the testing lab for the hours
    3. Take Photo ID and Exam Pass (from the SYLLABUS mailed from ELI) to Testing lab
    4. Take Exam.
If you are outside metropolitan Washington, incarcerated or handicapped, see the information on Examination Proctors and the Proctor Request form in the SYLLABUS mailed from ELI.

Please do not let the exams stop you from completing the course. If you have great difficulty getting to a testing lab or are very concerned about taking exams, please call or email me instead of giving up!

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What to Expect:

Exam 4 will cover material from Chapter 10: Input/Output Technology, Chapter 11: Applications Technology, Chapter 12: Operating Systems, and Chapter 13: Mass Storage Access and Management.

Exam 4 is worth 100 points. Each question is worth 2 points. The test consists of 50 multiple choice or true/false questions only from among those listed in the Study Questions below, Vocabulary and Review Questions from the textbook. However, the questions will not be ordered or listed as those. YOU CANNOT USE YOUR TEXT, COURSE GUIDE OR NOTES TO HELP YOU WITH THIS EXAM. Allow 2 hours to complete the exam.

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Study Questions - Chapter 10:  Input/Output Technology
1. What are scan codes? Pg. 385
2. What is the difference between a mouse and a Trackball mouse? Pg. 385-386
3. How does a digitized table work? Pg. 386
4. Define these terms in relation to a monitor: 
Pixel Pg. 387
Resolution Pg. 387
RGB Monitor Pg. 389
CRT Pg. 400
Dot Pitch Pg. 387
Fonts Pg. 388
Refresh rate Pg. 400
Gas Plasma ¾ Flat panel Pg. 401
LCD ¾ Flat panel Pg. 401
5. How does a Bar Code Reader work? Pg. 408
6. How does Optical Character Recognition work? Pg. 409
7. What is speech recognition? Pg. 412
8. What is phoneme? Pg. 411
9. What is sampling? Pg. 410
10. What is speech generation? Pg. 413
11. How does a laser printer work? Pg. 405
12. How does an ink jet printer work? Pg. 404
13. How does a dot matrix printer work? Pg. 403
14. How does a plotter work? Pg. 406

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Study Questions - Chapter 11: Applications Technology
1. Describe the system models:  
Structured Pg. 427
Logical model Pg. 427-429
Physical model Pg. 427-429
Data flow diagrams Pg. 427-429
Object Oriented Pg. Pg. 434
Prototype Pg. 432
2. Describe the programming language generations Pg. 455-467
Machine code  
Assembly Language  
High level languages  
Fourth Generation Languages  
Instruction Explosion  
3. What is a compiler? Pg. 69
4. What is source code? Pg. 439
5. What is object code? Pg. 439
6. What is executable code? Pg. 66
7. What is type of data stored in a symbol table? Pg. 440 & 443
8. What is the purpose of libraries? Pg. 445
9. What is the function of a linkage editor? Pg. 446
10. What is an interpreter? Pg. 449-451
11. What is an assembler? Pg. 68

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Study Questions - Chapter 12: Mass Storage Access and Management
   
1. What is an operating system? Pg. 486
2. What are some of the functions of an operating system Pg. 487
3. What is a process? Pg. 496
4. What is the function of a scheduler? Pg. 509
5. What is the function of a dispatcher? Pg. 506
6. Describe the ready state. Pg. 506
7. Describe the running state. Pg. 506
8. What is an operating system? Pg. 486
9. What are some of the functions of an operating system? Pg. 487
10. What is a process? Pg. 496
11. What is the function of a scheduler? Pg. 509
12. What is the function of a dispatcher? Pg. 506
13. Describe the ready state. Pg. 506
14. Describe the running state. Pg. 506
15. Describe the blocked state. Pg. 507
16. What type of data is stored in a process control block? Pg. 496
17. What is preemptive scheduling? Pg. 509
18. What are priority-based scheduling routines? Pg. 512-513
19. Describe the first-come first-served scheduling routine Pg. 512
20. Describe the explicit prioritization scheduling routine. Pg. 513
21. What is multitasking? Pg. 522
22. What is the difference between fixed and variable partitions? Pg. 522
23. What are the problems with fixed and variable partitions? Pg. 524
24. What is virtual memory? Pg. 527
25. Describe the first-come first-served strategy. Pg. 529
26. Describe the least recently used strategy. Pg. 529
27. Describe the least frequently used strategy. Pg. 529

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Study Questions - Chapter 13: Mass Storage and Access Management
1. What is the difference between a logical and physical record? Pg. 555
2. What is the function of a buffer with files? Pg. 554
3. What is contiguous storage allocation? Pg. 549
4. What is noncontiguous storage allocation? Pg. 552
5. What is the purpose of a file allocation table? Pg. 553
6. What is sequential access? Pg. 557
7. What is direct access? Pg. 553
8. Describe a tree structure for files. Pg. 560
9. What is file security integrity? Pg. 576-580

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