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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, 7th Edition
Instructor Solutions Manual
Chapter 1: Defining Information Technology
Questions
Multiple Choice
1. In order for something to be
considered a computer it must have a
keyboard attached.
a. true
b. false
c. only certain computers
2. What was used to make analyzing
results faster for the 1890 census?
a. integrated circuits
b. processors
c. punch cards and punch card
readers
d. ENIAC
3. When using Google, Bing, Yahoo! or
DuckDuckGo, what keyword can be
used to provide you with a definition of
a certain term?
a. look-up
b. define
c. dictionary
d. definition
4. What word is interchangeable with
computer?
a. processor
b. desktop
c. personal
d. integrated circuit
5. What educational background is
required to write algorithms?
a. BS in Computer Science or
Computer Engineering
b. MS in Computer Science or
Computer Engineering
c. a high school diploma
d. no educational background is
required
6. An agent could be a
a. computer
b. human
c. program
d. all of the above
Answers
Multiple Choice
1. b
2. c
3. b
4. a
5. d
6. d

Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, 7th Edition
Instructor Solutions Manual
Chapter 1: Defining Information Technology
Short Answer
1. _______ was the name of the first
electronic computer and it was located
in _______.
2. The instructions written in software
are followed or executed by _______.
3. _______ made computers more
affordable and allowed them to have
more complex CPUs.
4. _______, _______, and _______
were three technologies that
increased ones’ desire to own a
personal computer.
5. Complexity is _______ to
manufacture, though it remains
_______ to design.
6. Software is a collective term for
_______.
7. Abstracting requires that you to
separate information into two
categories: _______ and _______.
8. A program acts on _____ and results
in _____.
Exercises
1. How many computers do you have?
List them.
2. Explain in detail why the phrase
“software program” is redundant.
3. What is the difference between hard
and soft instructions?
4. Similar to video production, which is
now accessible to many
nonprofessionals, name two other
things that over time have been made
more accessible due to computer
software.
5. Explain why it is important to use the
right words when describing your
problem to tech support.
6. Explain in detail the difference
between booting and rebooting.
7. Write an algorithm that provides
someone with clear directions on how
to make your favorite snack.
Short Answer
1. ENIAC, Philadelphia
2. hardware
3. Transistors
4. email, games, word processing
5. cheap, expensive
6. programs
7. relevant, irrelevant
8. inputs, outputs
Exercises
1. Many possible answers. Should list
items like cell phones, game consoles,
etc.
2. Software is synonymous with
programs. No software exists that is
not a program or collection of
programs.
3. Hard instructions are executed by the
hardware, whereas the CPU runs soft
instructions.
4. Many possible answers. Could include
high fidelity audio reproduction,
academic research, real-time long
distance communication
5. The tech support staff knows the right
terms, and they will explain the
solution using the right terms, so you
need to know them to communicate
6. Booting is turning a computer on,
whereas rebooting is restarting a
computer that was already on.

Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, 7th Edition
Instructor Solutions Manual
Chapter 2: Exploring the Human-Computer Interface
Questions
Multiple Choice
1. What is a UI?
a. update identification
b. user identification
c. user interface
d. update interface
2. Which of the following is not a
common computer metaphor
a. buttons
b. door handles
c. menus
d. sliders
3. Which of the following is not an
instance?
a. image
b. song file
c. word processing document
d. menu
4. Computers do
a. exactly what you tell them to
do
b. only what other computers tell
them to do
c. instructions at random
d. everything
5. A good way to learn how to use a new
application or piece of software is to
a. read the entire manual
b. skim through the manual
c. call tech support
d. click around
6. Each time you paste, what is made of
that saved version?
a. file
b. copy
c. type
d. replace
7. What key sequence does ^C indicate
to the user?
a. Ctrl+C or Command+C
b. c
c. C
d. Caps Lock + C
8. When computers went mobile, this
Answers
Multiple Choice
1. c
2. b
3. d
4. a
5. d
6. b
7. a
8. d
9. b

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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, 7th Edition
Instructor Solutions Manual
Chapter 2: Exploring the Human-Computer Interface
8. The temptation to replace the phrase
with the faster-to-type acronym for
now and use find and replace to
expand it later is high. But ‘the’ is a
common word in English, so there
would be many false positives that
would be replaced, wasting much
more time in later editing than was
saved by using the placeholder in the
first place.
9. The touch metaphor refers to an
illusion that the user is touching the
content of the display; the change was
required because it is inconvenient for
mobile devices to use a pointing
device like a mouse.
10. Desktop metaphor still has
advantages in certain situations.
11. Blazing away is a way to experiment
with the software and discover what it
does and how to use it.

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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, 7th Edition
Instructor Solutions Manual
Chapter 3: The Basics of Networking
using the Internet.
12. What motivated engineers to make TCP/IP packets
more independent?
13. Why do webmasters sometimes register misspellings of
their domains?
analog form acceptable to a phone
12. Network reliability (broken links) and
congestion (busy links).
13. So when users type the incorrect
domain, they will be redirected to the
correct one

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