Lab Review for Test 1

Lab 1 - Introduction to Computers

  1. What is a computer and what are the four basic operations of a computer?
  2. What is required for computer processing?
  3. What are the four main components of a computer and give examples of each. Also note Figure 4, page COM4.
  4. What is software? What is hardware?
  5. What is the processor unit composed of?
  6. Proper diskette care.
  7. What is a network?
  8. What is the difference between system software and application software?
  9. Give several examples of application software.

Lab 2 - Using MicroSoft Windows

  1. What is a user interface? What is a graphical user interface?
  2. What does the hourglass icon indicate?
  3. What is an active window?
  4. What are the different parts of a window and the desktop in Windows? (Examine figures 1-4, 1-13, 1-14, 1-20, and 1-26)
  5. What is FileManager?
  6. What is a backup diskette?

Lab 3 - Mail/Internet

  1. Review the process of sending and reading mail using your centum account.
  2. What is the Internet?
  3. What is hypermedia? hypertext link? WWW?
  4. Examine figures on page N6 and N7.
  5. What is URL?
  6. Why would the status indicator be animated?
  7. What is the purpose of the active link indicator?
  8. How do you stop the transfer of a page?
  9. What is the purpose of a search engine?
  10. What are several popular web search engines?

Lab 4 - DOS

  1. What is an operating system?
  2. Examine Table 1-4, page DOS16.
  3. Know the purpose and the correct way to use each of the following commands: DIR, COPY, RENAME, DEL, and CD
  4. What is a subdirectory? root directory? child directory? parent directory?
  5. What is a DOS prompt?
  6. What is a file specification? What are the different parts?

Lab 5 & 6 - MS Word for Windows

  1. What are the different parts of the MS Word window? (Examine Figure 1-4 through 1-9) Know the purposes of the parts.
  2. When do you want to press the "ENTER" key in Word?
  3. What is paragraph formatting and character formatting?
  4. What are bullets?
  5. How do you make a word italicized?
  6. How do you add a header to a paper? What is the difference between a header and a footer?
  7. How you insert a hard page break?
  8. What is the selection bar?

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