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What consists of equipment designed to store large volumes of data for long-term storage?

A) Primary storage
B) Secondary storage
C) Memory stick
D) Flash memory

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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What enables a user to return to the previous operating system?

A) System restore software
B) Safe mode software
C) Crash-proof software
D) Disk image software

E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

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Secondary storage consists of equipment designed to store large volumes of data for long-term storage.

What contains high-capacity storage that holds data such as captured images, music, or text files?

Desktop publishing increases the cooperation and joint productivity of small groups of co-workers.

Megahertz is the number of billions of CPU cycles per second.

Presentation graphics create and enhance charts and graphs so that they are visually appealing and easily understood by an audience. A full-features presentation graphics package such as Lotus Freelance

Graphics or Microsoft PowerPoint includes facilities for making a wide variety of charts and graphs and for adding titles, legends, and explanatory text anywhere in the chart or graph.

Spyware removes any software that employs a user's Internet connection in the background without the user's knowledge or explicit permission.

Complex instruction set computer (CISC)chips, which is a type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions, enough to carry out most computations directly.

What limits the number of instructions the CPU can execute to increase processing speed?

What is an input device designed for special applications for use by people with different types of special needs?

What is the portion of a computer's primary storage that does not lose its contents when one switches off the power?

What occurs when the software vendor releases a new version of the software making significant changes to the program?

What occur when the software vendor releases updates to software to fix problems or enhance features?

Define the relationship between operating system software and utility software.

Which license enables anyone on the network to install and use the software?

Email provides email services for computer users, including receiving mail, sending mail, and storing messages. Leading email software includes Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Eudora.

What is equipment used to see, hear, or otherwise accept the results of information processing requests?

What software can remove software that is no longer needed?