Visit the IT department at your school or at a local company and determine whether the information systems were developed in-house or purchased as software packages. If packages were acquired, determine what customizing was done, if any. Write a brief memo describing the results of your visit.

What will be an ideal response?

Answers will vary. Encourage students to find out why the decisions were made, if possible, and share the results with the class.

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As a(n) ________ list grows, older files are removed to make room for more recently modified files

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Match each item with a statement below.

A. the Windows 10 feature that automatically adjusts Windows 10 between desktop mode and tablet mode as the device state changes B. a personalized virtual search assistant C. the traditional configuration for a Windows 10 computer that is optimized for use with a mouse and keyboard D. software written by the developer of a hardware component that tells the operating system how to talk to and control the hardware E. server responsible for holding a domain security database F. a file that holds application code modules G. a technique used in certain Intel processors to improve their overall performance by working on more than one independent piece of code at a time H. term used to describe the appearance of more than one application sharing the CPU of the computer I. the amount of time allocated to a program running in a preemptive multitasking environment

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