1.1and 1.2 application and development of information technology
1. Name: __________________________No. Matric:_____________________ Practicum:______________
1.1 Development of IT
1.2 Application of IT
1. Information Technology (IT) is defined as the use of ______________ ______________and
________________to store, retrieve, and manipulate____________________.
2. A personal computer that can perform all of its____________, _____________, ____________, and
storage activities by itself.
3. A mainframe is a____________, expensive, _______________computer that can handle hundreds
or thousands of connected ________ ____________________ (multi-user).
4. Client-server network is a network in which one or more _______________ act as a ____________,
and the other computers (_____________) on the network request ______________ from
the_____________.
5. Distributed computing is a _________________ system consists of multiple ___________________
computers that ____________________ through a computer network.
6. Cloud computing is an ________________ service that provides computing needs to
computer_____________, whereby ____________ is stored at a ____________ on the Internet &
available anywhere the Internet can be accessed.
7. Give one (1) example for each field.
Field Example of Application
Education
Finance
Government
Health Care
Science
Travel
Manufacturing
SC015 – Computer Science ______ / 30 marks