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EXAM 1 Study Questions

Study Questions - Chapter 1 - Systems Architecture: An Introduction 1. Definition of System Development Life Cycle. 2. What is the purpose of the Unified Process. 3. Describe the Business Modeling discipline. 4. Describe the Requirements discipline. 5. Describe the Design discipline. 6. Describe the Implementation discipline. 7. Describe the Testing discipline. 8. Describe the Deployment discipline. 9. Describe the Systems Evaluation and Maintenance process. 10. What is the role of a systems analyst? 11. What is the role of a programmer? 12. What type of degree is needed by a person that develops scientific and technical applications? 13. What type of technical knowledge is needed by an application developer? 14. What type of knowledge is needed by hardware personnel? 15. What is the responsibility of a computer operations manager? 16. What are the roles of a network administrator? 17. What is the role of a chief information officer? 18. What is the role of a database administrator? 19. What methods can a computer system professional use to keep updated in the computer field?

Study Questions - Chapter 2 - Introduction to Systems Architecture 20. Define the term Computer. 21. What is an instruction? 22. What is a processor? 23. What is the difference between a special-purpose and a general-purpose processor? 24. What is an algorithm? 25. What is a condition? 26. What is stored inside a computer system? 27. Describe the four main functions of a computer system. 28. What is the function of the central processing unit? 29. What is the difference between primary storage and secondary storage? 30. What are the characteristics of random access memory? 31. What are the characteristics of secondary storage? 32. What is the function of a system bus? 33. What is the function of a register? 34. Compare the data access speed of a register and primary storage.

35. Define the term Control Unit 36. What is the function of the Arithmetic and Logic Unit? 37. Define and Describe the different Classes of Computers  Microcomputer  Netbook Computer  Laptop Computer  Mainframe computer  Supercomputer  Server  Workstation 38. What is a program? 39. What is the difference between application software and system software? 40. Define the four system software layers. 41. What is an operating system? 42. What is application development software? 43. What is a program translator? 44. Describe the function of program editors, debugging tools and system development tools. 45. What is a computer network? Study Questions - Chapter 3 - Data Representation 46. What is boolean logic? 47. Define the following terms: radix, base, decimal point. 48. What is a bit? 49. What is a byte? 50. What is a file? 51. Describe the characteristics of hexadecimal notation. 52. Describe the characteristics of octal notation. 53. Describe the goals of computer data representation. 54. What is an integer? 55. What is a signed integer? 56. What is the purpose of two's complement notation? 57. What is the connection between numeric range and overflow? 58. What is a real number? 59. What is floating point notation? 60. What is the connection between range, overflow and underflow? 61. What is a character? 62. What is a string? 63. What is the ASCII coding system? 64. What is the difference between ASCII-7 and ASCII-8? 65. What are the limitations of ASCII? 66. What is the purpose of Unicode? 67. What is boolean data? 68. What is the EBCDIC coding system? 69. What is a data structure?

70. What is the difference between a pointer and an address? 71. Want is a character array (string)? 72. What is a record? 73. What is an index? 74. What are the characteristics of a single linked list? 75. How is an element added to a single linked list? pg. 76. What are the characteristics of a doubly linked list? 77. What are the advantages/disadvantages of a doubly linked list? 78. What is a class? 79. What is a method?