Worksheet 4
Complete in preparation for the quiz on September 29, 2015
You may use this worksheet during the Quiz on September 29, 2015.
Collected Question (Will be collected at the beginning of class)
1.
Generate a BPMN diagram for the process of purchasing a soda from a vending machine
using either dollar bills or coins.
Questions from Lecture and Chapter 3
1. Do questions 1, 2 and 3 from the worksheet passed out in class. (The one that had examples of
data quality factors from Health Information Technology.)
2. What are the 3 programming constructs?
3. Give an example of each of the three constructs using the Banner or Bursar's Office as a model.
(For example, bill generation or grade/transcript generation)
4. Give 3 examples of hardware.
5. To what human organ is the CPU often compared?
6. For what does RAM stand?
7. What does RAM do?
8. For what does ROM stand?
9. What does ROM do? When does the computer use ROM?
10. Is ROM a type of Firmware (Firmware is defined in the textbook.)
11. How is a hard drive used by the computer?
12. What is a type of utility software that reorganizes files on the hard drive?
13. What happens to the contents of RAM when the computer is turned off?
14. What are activities that are performed by the Operating System of a computer?
15. To what human system is the Operating system of a computer often compared?
16. What are examples of common operating systems?
17. What are 2 examples of utility software?
18. Explain what defragmentation software does.
19. On what piece of hardware does defragmentation software operate?
20. How can hardware and software be distinguished?
21. Identify 2 ways that one can improve the performance of a slow running computer mentioned in
class.
22. What is the exact size of a kilobyte in terms of bystes? What is special about that number?
23. How is CPU speed expressed?
24. What is the cache?
25. What is volatile memory? What are examples of volatile memory?
26. What is non-volatile memory? What is an example of non-volatile memory?
27. What is virtualization?
Questions about Microsoft Excel
1.
Using MS Excel, find each of the following:
A. The monthly payment on a $100,000 30 year fixed rate loan at 4%
B. The interest payment at the 4th installment of a $100,000 30 year fixed rate loan at 4%
C. The principle payment at the 4th installment of a $100,000 30 year fixed rate loan at 4%
2.
Write the equation PMT = IPMT + PPMT in 2 other ways.
3.
Explain the use of $ in Microsoft Excel. For example $C$10.