Exam 22: Strategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive Advantages

A supercomputer is the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive type of computer. Organizations such as NASA that are heavily involved in research and number crunching employ supercomputers because of the speed with which they can process information. Other large, customer-oriented businesses such as General Motors and AT&T employ supercomputers just to handle customer information and transaction processing.

Multitasking allows more than one piece of software to be used at a time. Multitasking is used when creating a graph in Excel and simultaneously printing a word processing document.

A workstation is a cellular telephone with a keypad that runs programs, music, photos, email, and includes many features of a PDA.

What is a form of a stationary mouse on which the movement of a finger causes the pointer on the screen to move?

What occurs when the software vendor releases a new version of the software making significant changes to the program?

What software helps save information if a computer crashes?

What is a computer designed to meet the computing needs of hundreds of people in a large business environment?

Complex instruction set computer (CISC) chips is a type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions, enough to carry out most computations directly.

A desktop computer portable enough to fit on a lap or in a bag and has its own power source or battery.

What is roughly 1 million bytes?