Exam 15: Software

Open source software ensures that all computing products in an organization work together.

___ software is available at no cost to both developers and users.

________ allows users to maintain checkbooks, track investments, monitor credit cards, and bank and pay bills electronically.

The ________ allows users to directly control the hardware by manipulating visible objects and actions that replace complex commands.

The developer keeps the source code private with ________ software.

About ________ percent of the lines of code written by professional programmers have errors.

The best software is called best of breed.

________ is an example of proprietary software.

Only core developers are allowed to modify open-source software code directly.

The ___ allows users to directly control the hardware by manipulating visible objects and actions that replace complex commands.

NUIs combine social, haptic, and touch-enabled gesture-control interfaces.

To address the piracy problem, new firms have arisen to specialize in tracking software licenses for companies for a fee.

Social interfaces tend to be corny (for example, Microsoft's "Clippy").

________ is an advantage of open source software.

________ software is available at no cost to both developers and users; it ________ distributed with license terms.

The ________ is the "director" of your computer system's operations; it is ________ software.

Piracy is illegal.

________ allows users to manipulate primarily text with many writing and editing features.

________ is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to promoting a safe and legal digital world that collects, investigates, and acts on software piracy tips.

List the functions systems software performs. What OS do you use and why? What would be the cost to you to switch to another OS? If your company used a particular OS, would you want to use that same one for your personal computer (why or why not)? Suppose you are a manager: how would you handle an employee who refuses to use a different OS than what that person uses at home?