INFORMATİON TECHNOLOGİES

Software is a set of instructions that enables the user to interact with a computer, its hardware, or perform tasks. Software is designed to enable a computer to perform a well-defined function.

Application softwares are easy to understand though they are bigger in size.

Processes are the programs executed concurrently. Life cycle of a process consists of the following states: new, running, waiting, ready, and terminated. States of a process and their descriptions are given in Table 2.2.

Booting is the process of starting or restarting a computer.

Documents created by the word processors look great and they are easy to edit and share. But sometimes you need to redistribute them in a format that locks the layout or does not require a word processing software for opening them. Portable Document Format (PDF) is the most widely used file format to fulfil this requirement. Word processor tools allow you to save your document as a PDF. This is usually done using the export menu.

A spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel, is used for reviewing and editing spreadsheets. Spreadsheets can be thought of tables filled with data in the form of numbers, dates, strings etc. Spreadsheet programs are powerful tools for getting meaning out of raw data. It helps to discover trends and patterns using data bars, sparklines, color coding, and icons. Even helps summarize and illustrate insights by charts and graphs.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a protocol that facilitates synchronous communication in the form of text. It allows several users to chat with each other simultaneously.

All others are social media networks and instant messengers only chrome is a browser.

Each Web page is distinguished and accessed by its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is a human-memorable address used to locate resources on the Internet.

A gentle introduction to office tools is made in this section. Details of the aforementioned tools are out of the scope of this chapter. However, further details of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and so on can be found on office training center.

Firmware is a small and permanent software programmed into a read-only memory. The correct answer is C.

A device driver is a system software that operates or controls a particular hardware device (e.g., graphic card, printer, scanner, etc.) that is connected to a computer. It allows a computer to communicate with these internal or external peripheral devices The correct answer is C.

A browser is a software to connect to the Internet (WorldWideWeb) and displayWeb pages. Several browser implementations, such as Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Edge are listed in Table 2.5. Each Web page is distinguished and accessed by its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is a human-memorable address used to locate resources on the Internet. The correct answer is B.

A browser is a software to connect to the Internet (WorldWideWeb) and displayWeb pages. Several browser implementations, such as Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Edge are listed in Table 2.5. Each Web page is distinguished and accessed by its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is a human-memorable address used to locate resources on the Internet. For example, to access e-Campus Web site of the Anadolu University, https:// ekampus.anadolu.edu.tr is entered in the address bar of a browser. Here, the address should be easy to remember by humans. The correct answer is E.

A browser is a software to connect to the Internet (WorldWideWeb) and displayWeb pages. Several browser implementations, such as Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Edge are listed in Table 2.5. Each Web page is distinguished and accessed by its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is a human-memorable address used to locate resources on the Internet. For example, to access e-Campus Web site of the Anadolu University, https:// ekampus.anadolu.edu.tr is entered in the address bar of a browser. Here, the address should be easy to remember by humans. The correct answer is E.

A spreadsheet programs, such as Microsoft excel, is used for reviewing and editing spreadsheets. Spreadsheets can be thought of tables filled with data in the form of numbers, dates, strings etc. Spreadsheet programs are powerful tools for getting meaning out of raw data. It helps to discovers trends and patterns using data bars, spark lines, color coding, and icons. Even helps summarize and illustrate insights by charts and graphs. The correct answer is C.

Text related tasks such as composing, editing, formatting, and printing of text documents are carried out by word processor. Furthermore, word processing software allows users to

• change margins

• insert footnotes

• find and replace terms

• place a header and footer at the top and the bottom of a page

• use different fonts (character design), font size (character scale), and font style (character appearance such as bold, italic and underline).

Microsoft Word is the most well-known word processing software.

The correct answer is D.

Presentation software offer various builtin themes and templates to give your slides an attractive, professional look. A theme is a readymade presentation design that contains matching colors, fonts, layouts, and special effects like shadows, reflections. The correct answer is D.

Documents created by the word processors look great and they areeasy to edit and share. But sometimes you need to redistribute them in a format that locks the layout or does not require a word processing software for opening them. Portable Document Format (PDF) is the most widely used file format to fulfil this requirement. Word processor tools allows you to save your document as a PDF. This is usually done using the export menu. The correct answer is A.

The component of an operating system that defines the interface between the operating system and its users is called the shell. Modern shells communicate the user of the computer by means of a graphical user interface. The correct answer is A.