The midterm exam will cover chapters 1-5 and 9-10 in the text. In addition, it will cover the MS WORD lab book (pp 1-73) and the additonal topics of computer networks, the Internet, and the technologies of the World Wide Web.

Some sample questions from each area are:

• Chapter 1: What is the difference between a mainframe and a microcomputer?

• Chapter 2: What is the CPU and describe what it does.

• Chapter 3: What is the main advantage of CD-ROM as a storage medium when compared with magnetic disks? What is the main disadvantage?

• Chapter 4: What does an operating system do?

• Chapter 5: How does desktop publishing differ from word processing?

• Chapter 9: Why is a modem required to connect your home computer to the Internet?

• Chapter 10: Why is file compression so important on the Internet?

• MS WORD: Describe how you would delete a paragraph of text in MS WORD?

• Computer Networks: Name two LAN standards?

• The Internet: Why was the Internet created?

• The World Wide Web: Is HTML just a fancy word processor? Explain.

• HTML tags <ol> and <ul> are different: explain. Write the HTML tag to construct a link that reads "Hit me" and will connect you to the object located at abc.xyz.

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