The final exam will be on Saturday, May 1rst at 10:00a.m.

If you are a AOL member and you will be taking the test over AOL remember to send me an email
hunterl@cs.montana.edu
between now and Saturday so I can send you a direct link on Saturday morning. It just needs to say "send me the link".

For People taking the written test:

• You will take the  exam in EPS 103( I have another room scheduled if 103 gets too full).
• Bring a pencil, notes, book, etc. etc.

For people taking the test on the computer:

• The link will be at top of the main CS150 page
• You will log in and start the test
• I will have EPS 110 open which has 40 machines and  Reid 306 lab with 80 or so machines will be open. You can use any of these computers, or some other computer if you like. The lab rooms will be open at 9:45am.  
• The test will be random questions, so nobody should get the same tests.

For everybody taking the test:

 Don't study just definitions for this exam. You should understand how each of these items fit in the "big picture" of computing.

The stuff on the test is as follows:

Lab Manual  & Excel lecture

There will be a couple of Excel questions from the lecture notes.

Relative and Absolute Referencing

Charts and Graphs

Know why ###### shows up in a cell. (cell is too narrow, try it).

History of Computing Lecture

The Term "computers"

People

First commercial microcomputer

First modern GUI and mouse

First successful commercial software

Microprocessor introduction

Origins of DOS

Mosiac

Origin of Internet

Univac and Eniac 

The generations of computers -> what goes with them 
 

Future of Computing Lecture

"Wintel" standard = Windows and Intel processors, the market is saturated with this pair together.

Bloatware

How you'll buy software in the future

Java

Internet appliances

Freeware, shareware, Beta software

Internet connections

Telecommuting

PDA's

Ecommerce
 

Storage

Chapter 3 in the text

  The differences between how the different storage hardware represents the digital data (magnetic, pits, electronic, etc. )

   Sectors, tracks, Cylinders

  FAT

  Examples of each type of storage device, e.g. Magnetic storage = harddrive

  Access time

  Viruses

  Speeds

  Technology of how to store more on the same size apparatus (e.g. DVD vs CD-ROM)

  Compression

Types of harddrives, IDE and SCSI

Virutal memory

Formatting

Memory Capacity for types of storage

For speed, cost and capacity make sure you look at  the pyramid on page 6.3, actually many of the pictures in this chapter are important.
 
 

Networking

Modem

Front end processors

Multiplexer

Routers

Transmission medium types

Common Carriers

Client/Server Computing

The MSU technologies from the notes

Protocols

Nodes

Client/Servers

Front end applications vs Back end applications

Broadband vs Baseband

Analog vs. Digital

Bandwidth

DSL, ISDN, T1, T3, etc. etc.

Wireless mediums (bluetooth, 802.11)

Intranets

TCP/IP

Output

Chapter 4 in the book

Resolution
Pixels
Dot pitch
RGB
VRAM
Refresh rate
Printers - laser, dotmatrix, bubblejet, plotters, etc. etc.
Virtual Reality
Video Cards
HDTV
Terminals

Input