Test Bank to Accompany Computers and Data Processing provides a variety of questions from which instructors can easily custom tailor exams appropriate for their particular courses. This book contains over 4000 short-answer questions that span the full range of topics for introductory computing course. This book is organized into five parts encompassing 19 chapters. This text provides a very large number of questions so that instructors can produce different exam testing essentially the same topics in succeeding semesters. Three types of questions are included in this book, including multiple choices, true/false, and fill-in-the-blanks. The answers are provided side-by-side with the questions so that instructors can easily locate questions that are unambiguous and appropriate in the context of their courses.This book covers a variety of topics, including evolution of computers, computer processor, input, output, software, programming languages, and data communications. This book is a valuable resource for students and instructors in introductory computing course.

Preface

Part One: Introduction


1. The Information Revolution


2. The Evolution of Computers


Part Two: Hardware


3. The Processor


4. Input: Gateway to the Computer


5. Output: Getting Results from the Computer


6. Secondary Storage


7. Data Communications


Part Three: Software


8. Structured Programming


9. Programming Languages


10. Structured Systems Analysis and Design; Systems Acquisition


11. Database Management Systems, Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems


12. Operating Systems


Part Four: Computers in Business


13. Personal Computing


14. Office Automation


15. Electronic Funds Transfer Systems, Security, Privacy, and Computer Crime


Part Five: Computers in Society


16. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence


17. Computers and Medicine


18. Computers and the Handicapped


19. Computers and Transportation