Exam 6: Software

There is a universal standard for categorizing software and various categorization schemes have few similarities.​

A feature called ___________ determines how your text flows from line to line by automatically moving words down to the next line as you reach the right margin.​

Mobile devices tend to be populated by entertainment apps, games, and social media services.​

Sometimes an application requests memory but never releases it, a condition called a memory ______.​

A(n) _____________ grants the author of a software product an exclusive right to copy, distribute, sell, and modify that work.​

Software for PCs contains a _________ program that guides you through the installation process.​​

Two of the most common open source and free software licenses are ___________.​

​Applications include menu options for opening and saving files calling on the operating system's file management routines to get the job done.

The main directory on a storage device is referred to as the ________ directory.​

In a spreadsheet worksheet, each cell in a grid can contain a value, label, or formula.​

Although there are online sources for software, most consumers obtain software offline.​

A(n) ______ is a set of letters that share a unified design.​

The main weakness of OS X is lack of security.​

Word processing software is likely to include which the following features?​

Portable software is so simple to install that it is sometimes referred to as install-free software.​

​A(n) ____________ storage model describes what actually happens on the disks and in the circuits.

To delete data from a disk in such a way that no one can ever read it, you can use special file ________ software that overwrites supposedly empty sectors with random 1s and 0s.​

A ____________ is generally priced at a flat rate and allows software to be used on all computers at a specific location.​

Spreadsheet software can be used to create an on-screen __________ that is based on a grid of columns and rows.​

Which of the following operating systems is found on Macintosh desktop and laptop computers?​