Basic System and Application Software

The Lesson Activities will help you meet these educational goals:

  • Content Knowledge—You will explore different operating systems and application software used in information systems.
  • Inquiry—You will conduct online research,in which you will collect information and make observations in written form.
  • 21stCentury Skills—You will employ online tools for research and analysis.

Directions

You will evaluate these activities yourself. Please save this document before beginning the lesson and keep the document open for reference during the lesson. Type your answers directly in this document for all activities.

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Self-CheckedActivities

Read the instructions for the following activities and type in your responses. At the end of the lesson, click the link to open the Student Answer Sheet. Use the answers or sample responses to evaluate your own work.

  1. Common Operating Systems and Application Software

In this activity, you will explore the operating systems and application software that businessescommonly use.

  1. Contact a few information systems professionals and ask them what types of operating systems and application software they use in their organizations. (Alternatively, you maybrowse through articles inbusiness periodicals for the same information.) Fill in the table with information about the operating systems and application software used in four different organizations.

Type your response in the table:

Company / Operating Systems / Application Software
  1. Give reasons for each company’schoice of operating systems.

Type your response here:

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How did you do? Check a box below.

Nailed It!—Iincludedall of the same ideas as the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Halfway There—I included most of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Not Great—I did not include any of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

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  1. Types of Application Software and System Software

In this activity, you will explore differenttypes ofapplication software and operating systems.

  1. Research various kinds of application software that this lesson did not discuss, and briefly describe their use. Use business periodicals, magazines, and books for your research, and then write about at least three types of application software.

Type your response here:

  1. Using business periodicals, magazines, or books, research and identify two types of operating systems not discussed in this lesson. Briefly describe these operating systemsand their advantages and drawbacks.

Type your response here:

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How did you do? Check a box below.

Nailed It!—Iincludedall of the same ideas as the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Halfway There—I included most of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Not Great—I did not include any of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

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