Information Systems True/False

Horizontal Application software performs generic tasks, like word processing.

Systems programmers specialize in working with end user to help solve business problems.q

An operating system resides in main memory when the computer is running.

PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE is protected by copyright.

A file deletion program is an example of a utility program.

Booting is the function of the Operating System that loads it in to main memory.

A multi-tasking program is always multi-user.

A multi-user system is always multi-tasking.

Context switching is the same thing as multi-tasking.

In Project Enabling you create the original project plan.

Bursting is when the CPU(s) alternate communication between two or more memory banks.

Third generation computers were developed in the 1960s.

Hard drives use magnetized dots to represent data.

All BUS lines in a computer transmit data at the same speed.

EBCIDIC requires two bytes to represent one character.