Midterm Study Guide

First of all, this is a study guide.  It is not a key to the midterm.  It is help you focus in on concepts.  If you have any questions, please feel feel to post them on the message center.  Feel free to help each other ... it is the best way to cement some of these concepts.  A couple of other things ... the midterm review is on tape, cable and audio.  Sit through it.  Also, don't forget about the slides.  They are also a great study tool.   What is STAIR?   What are the STAIR steps?  What part do they play?  How can you apply them?   Is it easy to find things on the Web?  Why or Why not?   How can you use STAIR when searching the Web?   What are the basic tools or categories (e.g., search engines) that you can use to search the Web?   What are the characteristics of these categories?  What makes them unique?   What tools do they use?  When should you use them?  What are their advantages and disadvantages?   What is machine language?   What are the basic commands of all computers?  What functions so these commands have?   What is a computer?   What is the difference between analog and digital?  Which is more accurate and which is more precise?   What is binary?    Convert the following to decimal:  110001001, 11100010001, 11001, and 100001   Convert the following to binary:  10, 368, 23,568 and 1,133,456   What is ASCII?   What is ABNIAC and what does it do?   What are the three primary graphic types which are used on the Web?  Why do we use these graphics?  When do you use them?  What capabilities do they have?   What limitations do they have?   What is the Web palette?  Why do you need to worry about it?   What is RGB?    How do animated gifs work?   How do browsers support graphics?   How have computers changed over the years?  What is its current, primary role?   Why was the Internet developed?   What was ARPANet?  NSFNet?   The Internet is .....   The Internet is not .....   Is the WWW the same thing is the Internet?  Why or why not?   What are the basic protocols of the Internet?  What are their primary roles?   What is a LAN?   How did PC's change the role of computing?    What was the communication importance of mainframes?  What did we lose when we went to PC's?   What is machine capability?  What is the problem associated with this and how would this affect you as a user?   What is an operating system?   What is a hierarchy algorithm?  Why is it important?    What is GUI?   What is UNIX?   Tell me what the following basic Unix commands do and how do they assist you? cd ls mkdir cp man mv chmod   Why are permissions important?   What permissions are directories set to?  And files?   Interpret the following permissions ... what are their numeric equivalents? rw-rw-rw rwxr-xr-x rwx--x--x   What represents me - group - world???   What are text editors?   Why are they important?   What are some common Unix text editors?   What is a common Windows text editor? Copyright © 2000 - Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis