CLASS DISCUSSION: QUESTIONS

General questions
1 What is hardware?
2 What is software?
3 What is a program?
4 If you buy a computer and it has no software, will you be able to use the
computer for processing activities?
5 Why do we need software?

Application software
1 What are some of the tasks you perform on your computer?
2 Do you use the same software to perform all the tasks on your computer?
3 What are the names of some of the software you have on your computer?
4 What tasks do you perform with each of these types of software?

Integrated software
1 What does the word Integrate mean?
2 Do you know of any software package that consists of many different
applications and is referred to by one name?
3 What do you think would be an advantage of this type of software?
4 Do you believe that each application should be a separate package?

Custom-written software
1 Do you think that we can purchase software for every purpose off the shelf?
2 What will a company have to do if they require a piece of software to perform a
task and it is not available?

Operating system
1 What is an operating system?
2 What is the name of the operating system installed in the computers at your
schools or the one you have at your home?
3 What are some of the functions of the operating system?

Device drivers
1 How is your computer able to communicate with devices (cameras, printers, pen
drives, digital voice recorders etc.) attached to it.
The Vista operating system
1 Do you know the name of Microsoft’s latest operating system?
2 How is it different from Windows XP or the operating system you have on your
computer?