Final Exam Comments:

 

This is a comprehensive exam. Please see the link from the home page on midterm comments.

In general, you should go over the class notes, links, and work in your shared folder as well as midterm.

 

 

The exam is in two parts:

 

Part 1: Objective (hands-off)  Covers entire course

Part 2: Hands-On, Covers entire course

 

Part 1:

This part of the test is multiple choice and is organized around the seven skill areas listed in the catalog and in the course syllabus:

1. Introduction to Computing (hardware, software, files, and formats).

 

2. Computers and Text (the uses of word processing software).

 

3. Computers and Numbers (quantitative analysis using spreadsheet software).

 

4. Computers and Information Retrieval (structuring and retrieving data using database software).

 

5. Computers and Graphics (visualizing and illustrating data using graphics software).

 

6. Computer Communications (using Local Area Networks, electronic mail, and the World Wide Web).

 

7. Computer Ethics (issues of privacy and the legal use of software and data).

 

For the hands-on part, you may bring your text and notes. You may refer to anything on the Internet. You may refer to your files in your groups folder, your Y drive, the class folder, etc.

 

Chapters covered in the text: Ch 1-8, 12, 13, Appendix

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These are comments about the part of the course since the midterm. (may refer to either part of test)

Create a web site as directed in class using Expression Web.
Create a web page using HTML tags and notepad.
Create a database in Excel. Use the mail merge wizard in Word using the database you created in Excel.
Creating a PowerPoint presentation using techniques described in text.
Graphics …
GIMP:
·         Creating Graphics
·         File types for Web
·         File type for Photos
·         File type for charts
·         GIMP file type
Resizing/resampling, compressing images
Website www.picnik.com can be helpful.
Digital Cameras: How is the camera # of megapixels related to image resolution?
Information about Scanning, for example, output resolution
Hardware information from Larry Hechler
Newspaper handed out on last day of class:
·         7 Practices for Safer Computing
·         Social Networking: Safety Tips
Information from Chris Nolan’s talk.
Database terminology from class notes links 27 and 28

Additional comments from first half of semester:

 

Network Drives and information. Remember the tour?
Screen captures in Windows,
Word: Drawing shapes, drawing canvass, controlling where images are on a page 
Harris – Library Home Page, remember to look at notes
Class 8: See list of formatting topics on class web page
Links from Class 5 are important
Links from Class 4 on Internet and Network are important
Spreadsheets – comments are in the class folder in folder named Spreadsheet Expectations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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