STUDENT TEST BOOKLET
Open Response Scoring Breakdown: 4 = 50/50, 3 = 45/50, 2 = 30/50, 1 = 20/50
This test section contains TWELVE multiple-choice and ONE open-response (short-answer) questions. Please mark your answers for the multiple-choice questions in the spaces provided on your Student Response Booklet. Mark only one answer for each question. If you do not know the answer, make your best guess. DO NOT WRITE ANY ANSWERS IN THIS TEST BOOKLET. WHEN YOU FINISH, DO NOT WORK ON ANY OTHER TEST SECTION.1. / Jake recently decided to disassemble an old hard drive that he had lying in his room. After taking the hard drive apart Jake noticed some large circular shiny discs. Which of the following is the hard drive component that Jake has located?
A. / Read/Write head
B. / Buffer
C. / Platter
D. / Plate
2. / Katie recently looked at a new laptop at Best Buy that was priced at $450.00. The same computer is now being offered with a 20% discount. What will be the subtotal(no tax included) for Katie’s purchase at Best Buy?
A. / $390.00
B. / $380.00
C. / $370.00
D. / $360.00
3. / During a recent job skills exam Les found a hard drive, flash drive, compact disk, DVD and an external hard drive. Les was asked to correctly classify these items into an appropriate area of storage devices. Which of the following would be the most accurate selection Les could make?
A. / Required Storage
B. / Portable Storage
C. / Temporary Storage
D. / Secondary Storage
4. / Skyler wants to construct a story about his life so far. A story that is about the author is commonly called a(n)______.
A. / Autobiography
B. / Biography
C. / Personal Narrative
D. / Self Analysis
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5. / Kerry has been asked to speak to a group of aspiring production agent within the music industry about the differences in CD-R’s and CD-RW’s. Which of the following would be a difference between these two types of media?A. / CD-RW’s protect all data that is placed on the CD so that it cannot be overwritten
B. / CD-R’s provide an option that allows the person burning a CD to decide on if the data will be permanent or temporary on the CD.
C. / CD-R’s keep data on the CD once it has been burned so that it cannot be erased or changed.
D. / CD-RW’s are more reliable than CD-R’s due to the extra layer of material that they possess.
6. / Kermit has been asked to construct a story about his great grandfather that will include the history of his great grandfather from when he was a young boy until the end of his life. Kermit has been asked to construct a(n)______.
A. / Autobiography
B. / Biography
C. / Personal Narrative
D. / Self Analysis
7. / Al has been asked by his mother to explain some of the basics of a computer system. Currently Al is describing the area where icons can be found, right clicks can be made to adjust settings and the Graphical User Interface is located. This area is commonly called which of the following?
A. / Desktop
B. / Control Panel
C. / Personalization
D. / Accessories Folder
8. / Sam removed several components from his computer system. After cleaning and replacing several of the components Sam placed everything back into his machine. After trying to power on his machine Sam realized that the paper he was typing on before he unplugged his computer was gone. Sam realized that he forgot to save his paper and that the paper was only stored temporarily on his computer.Which device stored Sam’s paper while he was typing?
A. / RAM
B. / Hard Drive
C. / CD/RW
D. / CPU
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9. / Which of the following is not an operating system?A. / Mac OS X
B. / Windows Explorer
C. / Microsoft Windows
D. / Linux
10. / Sherry recently purchased a new computer and found out it had a spreadsheet program installed? Which of the following is a spreadsheet application program?
A. / MS Word
B. / MS Excel
C. / MS PowerPoint
D. / MS Access
Use the following article to answer questions 11 - 12
Death By Powerpoint
by Angela R. Garber
When Microsoft Windows crashes, it pops up what techies call "the blue screen of death." But there's another deadly blue screen that businesspeople are even more familiar with. You know the one: The royal blue rectangle that contains bright yellow lines of bulleted text, a pie chart, or sometimes just brightly colored logos. You've already seen enough dull PowerPoint slides to last yourself a lifetime. So why, when it's your turn behind the lectern, do you boot up the same old speech?
It's easy to turn to the templates that come standard with the Microsoft Office suite, fill in a few forms, and recite the information on the slides. But don't expect the audience to remember you -- or what you said -- once you walk out the door. Tools like presentation programs can quickly become crutches, and even get in the way of effective communication.
How can you make sure every presentation is a success? When giving your next speech with PowerPoint, whether you choose to flash it up on the wall, print it as a leave-behind, or show it on a laptop monitor, try to avoid these capital offenses.
Data Dumping
Too many speakers try to cram everything they have to say into their PowerPoint slides, according to Patti Kane, vice president of Gumpert Communications, a public relations and marketing firm in Needham, Mass.
Instead of using visual aids to punctuate and reinforce what they're saying, they create too many of them and pack too much information onto each. In the end, they only end up confusing the audience.
Most people do this because they treat presentations as an opportunity to simply dispense information, says Anne Warfield, president of Edina, Minn.-based Impression Management Professionals. "They just get up and rattle off the information that they feel should be out there," she says. But overwhelming the audience with information actually gets in the way of communicating the message.
"If you put in too much information they're going to feel like they're not smart," Warfield says. "They'll transfer that anger and frustration to the speaker."
Rick Linder, president of Linder Management Consultants, suggests what he calls a six-by-six rule: There should be no more than six lines of text on each slide, and no line of text should have more than six words in it.
The Wrong Speech At The Wrong Time
Programs like PowerPoint make it incredibly easy to create presentations. But they don't help taylor them to particular audiences. Simply selecting the PowerPoint template for "Giving Bad News" doesn't mean you should use the exact same speech for your few key investors and the staff as a whole.
Speakers need to know why the audience is interested and how much they already know about the subject, Kane says. Then they can construct their presentations accordingly. "You have to know how sophisticated they are," Warfield says. "Putting up overheads for a bunch of computer geeks would be a joke."
Doug Whipple, an attorney at Jones Day Reavis and Pogue in Washington, D.C., has seen such knowledge gaps kill a company's chance at gaining financing from venture capitalists. "Entrepreneurs only have a few minutes to make their pitches," Whipple says. "Most get so bogged down in talking about the specific technical details of their products that they never really get around to letting the audience know exactly what it is that their product does."
The size of the audience also matters. Big rooms -- especially big, full rooms -- can make it hard to keep the audience's attention. "The smaller the audience, the better they move with you," Warfield says. Larger audiences require more time to absorb what you say and take in the information on your slides. "It's like dragging around the Titanic," she says. "You can feel them moving in waves. It could take a minute or so for the people in the back of the room to catch up."
Use the above article to answer questions 11-12
11. / What is the main idea of this passage?A. / PowerPoint is a great program for individuals in business to use to present everything from simple to complex information.
B. / PowerPoint can sometimes hurt an individual by providing to much information at once or by confusing or boring the audience.
C. / PowerPoint designers should apply lots of extras within the design phase to catch the viewers attention
D. / PowerPoint is underused by most individuals in the business world.
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12. / Which of the following statements below paraphrases the information found in the last paragraph of the article?A. / Presenters should limit the number of people in the audience in order to answer each person’s questions in a timely manner.
B. / Presenters should realize that the size of the audience effects how quickly everyone would grasp the concept that is being presented.
C. / Presenters need to move around the room to ensure that each area receives their attention and stays focused.
D. / Presenters should use graphics and animations to capture the entire audience no matter what the size or location of the presentation.
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OPEN-RESPONSE QUESTION
Read all parts of the open-response question before you begin. Write your answers to the open-response question in the space provided on your Student Response Booklet. DO NOT WRITE ANY ANSWERS IN THIS TEST BOOKLET.The Computer
For many years people had a similar description as to how they viewed a computer system. Today if you asked 10 people more than likely you will receive 10 different answers because of the variety of devices that we now consider computers.
13. /
- Compare and Contrast (at least 2-3 similarities and 2-3 differences)a biography with an autobiography.
- Describe the various ways that a person could obtain software for his or her PC. Include at least 3 of the possible 6 examples along with a description of the three ways that were selected.