Choose the best definition for this word

“help desk ticket”

The amount of information that can be carried through a computer connection at one time

The smallest unit of information that a computer uses

The distance of network coverage measured in metres or feet.

“metric (adj)”

“system diagnostic card”

The network administrator was fired when he lost all the company———by accidentally formatting the wrong hard disk drive array

T1.2

The international company stored their customer information in a central ___________in Brussels

T4.1

The company________consisted of 3 servers, 155 workstations and 10 printers

T6.1

English teachers join eltforum.com to _______their resources

T3.1

Online storage is an _______-method of data storage and back-up

T4.3

Remote data storage and back-up providers encrypt the data and set up password protection to ensure maximum______.

T4.3

It is a good idea to have an ______hard drive to back up your data

T4.3

Hello, I am Kamal._____to meet you

T1.1

Have you _____the CD into the correct drive?

T2.3

The user wants a website that is easy to _____

T3.4

What is the aim of developing commercial websites?

U3

Which word is used to describe movement on the Internet?

U3

What is the purpose of a personal website ?

U3

Finance department of a company works with …

U4

Human resources department of a company works with …

U4

Which of the following means graphical view of the website traffic ?

U3

Which of the following is information about visitors’ IP addresses, geography, country, time zone, language, city, visitor maps

U3

1. 
   Which of the following means the number of successful visits or visits which fulfil the site’s aim/goal (number of sales, searches, downloads) ?
   

U3

Which of the following means invisible information on a website?

U3

Which of the following means increasing the number of visitors to a site ?

U3

In banks, computers store information about the money held by each customer and enable staff to access large databases and to carry out financial transactions at high speed. They also control the cash points, or ATMs (automatic teller machines), which dispense money to customers by the use of a PIN-protected card. People use a Chip and PIN card to pay for goods and services. Instead of using a signature to verify payments, customers are asked to enter a four-digit personal identification number (PIN), the same number used at cash points; this; system makes transactions more secure. With online banking, clients can easily pay bills and transfer money from the comfort of their homes.

Airline pilots use computers to help them control the plane. For example, monitors display data about fuel consumption and weather conditions. In airport control towers, computers are used to manage radar systems and regulate air traffic. On the ground, airlines are connected to travel agencies by computer. Travel agents use computers to find out about the availability of flights, prices, times, stopovers and many other details.

Choose a password that is difficult to guess: use between six and eight characters, have letters in upper and lower case and intermix letters, numbers and punctuation marks. Keep your password private. Change your password every nine weeks.

What is the text about?

Software is the instructions that tell the computer what to do and how to do it. The computer will not work without software. The two main categories of software are system software and application software. The system software also called the operating system (OS) actually runs the computer. This software controls all the operations of the computer and its devices. All computers use system software and without the system software the application software will not work.

What is the text about?

Application software is a program that allows users to a specific task on the computer. There are a number of different types of application software available to do many of the tasks we do daily. Four examples of common application software are: Word Processing Application, Spreadsheet Application, E-mail Application, Internet Application .

What is a specification of application software?

Application software is a program that allows users to a specific task on the computer. There are a number of different types of application software available to do many of the tasks we do daily. Four examples of common application software and what they are used for are: Word Processing Application, Spreadsheet Application, E-mail Application, Internet Application.

How do employees exchange information?

Let me give you some background to our company’s setup. Jumbo Book Store is a company based in Thailand. It has three book stores and a warehouse next to one of the book shops. The store manager, Amiki Sukhon, finds it very difficult to track sales because he uses handwritten sales reports that employees prepare every day.

What does Amiki do?

Every day it takes 5 to 6 hours to compile data about the sales. Based on these sales reports, Amiki writes purchase orders for new books, sales figures for the owner and customer information for the marketing department.

In addition, he often gets calls from customers complaining about poor information, available books and stationary products in the warehouse. Could you spend some time looking at how we can improve our processes?

A scanner ‘sees’ images and converts the printed text or pictures into electronic codes that can be understood by the computer. With a flatbed color scanner, the paper with the image is placed face down on a glass screen, as with a photocopier. Beneath the glass are the lighting and measurement devices. Once the scanner is activated, it reads the image as a series of dots and then generates the digitized image that is sent to the computer and stored as a file.

What does the word “luxury” mean in the text?

People in consumer societies tend to live more comfortably. They eat a wider variety of food. They go to restaurants more often. They also buy a lot of products, maybe more than they need. Products such as TVs, cell phones, and computers used to be luxuries. Today people can buy these things more easily than ever before. The market for these goods is growing faster all the time. Consumer societies encourage people to buy bigger and better products. For example, “smarter” phones come out every year. In a consumer society, people are often buying newer and more advanced products. This creates a lot of waste.

People often refer to taxes in terms of their being much too high. In reality, they are probably even higher than you think, because in addition to the federal income tax we are now studying, there are many other Federal, State, and local taxes, including sales taxes, inheritance taxes, state income taxes, personal property taxes, real estate taxes, and others. These are just some of the most obvious ones.

U1/5

The fact that electronic computers are now used for data processing has led the general public to believe that it is a mysterious, complicated science and that the computers are giant brains. Both of these ideas are false. A computer is basically just a high-speed adding machine that performs the functions it is told to. If the input data are varied even a little, the computer is unable to operate until it is programmed to accept the variations. The business operations it performs are impressive only because of the extremely high speed of manipulation, but most of these operations have been used for decades. Unlike man, the computer performs repetitive calculations without getting tired or bored.

U2/2

The Louisiana Purchase proved to be one of the shrewdest business pacts in the entire history of the United States. The purchase doubled in the area of the country and provided territory from which fourteen new states were created either wholly or in part. It also gave us control over the mouth of the Mississippi River and opened up the way to foreign trade. Prior to the purchase, the waterway had been blocked by the Spanish, probably with the approval of Napoleon. The land that was bought was rich in timber, minerals, and natural resources of many kinds. Finally, the cost of the transaction was unbelievably low; the total of $15 million amounted to about four cents an acre.

U2/5

There is a common belief that while the dog is man’s best friend, the coyote is his worst enemy. The bad reputation of the coyote traces back to his fondness for small animals; he hunts at night and is particularly destructive to sheep, young pigs, and poultry. Yet it is sometimes wise to encourage coyotes. Provided valuable farm animals are protected, the coyote will often free the property of other animals, like rabbits, which are ruinous to crops and certain trees. He is especially beneficial in keeping down the rodent population. Where coyotes have been allowed to do their work without molestation, ranchers and fruit growers have found them so valuable that they would no more shoot them than they would shoot their dogs.

U2/4

In earlier days those who had overseas business which they believed should be discussed personally, took ship and set out across the briny deep. Once aboard they transacted their affairs, engaging in commercial and social matters or conducting government business. Today ships and passengers continue to sail the seven seas, and airplanes soar overhead. But above them all, words speed through the sky – telephone conversations quickly bring together in the most personal fashion people who are separated by thousands of miles.

U2/3

The attitudes of Americans toward gambling are amazingly contradictory. You may find, for example, that horse racing is legal in your state, but that you cannot legally play poker for money on your front porch; bookies may be prosecuted by state law, but they are supposed to purchase a federal license nonetheless; one church condemns gambling, while another raises money by sponsoring Bingo games. Gambling laws are inconsistent from state to state or even from town to town and are very difficult to enforce.

U2/3