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Software and Apps Flashcards

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programs that help you perform specific tasks when using your computer or smartphone

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Application software (or software applications, or apps)

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Allow you to create documents for business and personal use

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Productivity apps (word, PowerPoint, etc.)

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Allow you to interact with digital media

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Graphics and media apps (photo, video, audio edit apps)

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Give you tools to pursue your interests

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Personal interest apps

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Provide tools for sharing or receiving information

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Communications apps

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Provide tools for maintaining your computer or mobile device

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Device management apps (screen saver, cloud, etc)

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Apps that you install on your computer’s hard drive

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Local applications

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Run from a removable storage device such as an external hard drive or flash drive, or from the cloud.

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Portable apps

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You can access portable apps from

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folder in your cloud storage

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useful when you have limited storage space on your computer.

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Portable apps

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A portable open source productivity suite like those found in Microsoft Office

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OpenOffice.org

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Apps that you access on a smartphone or tablet are called

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mobile applications, or mobile apps

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You can…..data and activity between the web app and the mobile app, so your actions and information will be consistent across all your devices.

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synchronize

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Optimize storage, delete unused or duplicate files, optimize device performance

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Device maintenance apps (CCleaner, PhoneClean)

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Organize your address book

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Contact management apps (Contacts)

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Search the Internet, set timers, add appointments to your calendar, make hands-free calls by speaking commands

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Personal assistant apps (Siri, Cortana, Google Home, Amazon Alexa)

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An app written for a specific operating system and installed on a computer or mobile device

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Native apps

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Can take advantage of specific features of the devices on which they are installed, such as a smartphone’s camera, microphone, or contacts list

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Native apps

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Require an Internet connection to provide full functionality. Some apps can run offline and will store information on your device until they can synchronize with the cloud.

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Native apps

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A web app that runs on a mobile device

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A mobile app

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Optimized for display in a browser on a mobile device, regardless of screen size or orientation.

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Responsive design (mobile web apps)

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Developers prefer it because it runs on all devices

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Web apps

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Rely on HTML5 to display information, JavaScript to manage the app’s performance, and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to format information.

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Web apps

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Pros of Mobile Apps

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Quickly create, and access information on the go, and simplified interactions with voice input and on-screen keyboard.

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Cons of Mobile Apps

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Fewer features and not fast, can be poorly designed, and using a small on-screen keyboard can be cumbersome (or slow).

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Mobile apps have an Android phone, you need to install the Android version of your app; if you have an iPhone, you need to download the iPhone version of your app which is called

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platform-specific

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Designers and developers start building apps to work on mobile devices first because these typically have more restrictions, such as smaller screens.

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Mobile first design

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Development tools, developers can build apps that work on multiple platforms, rather than writing different code for Android or iOS devices.

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cross-platform

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Writes apps in Swift or Objective-C

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iOS developers

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Writes apps in Java

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Android developers

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Rely on HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS

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Cross-platform developers

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Let you use your mobile device to make online purchases of goods and services

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Mobile commerce, or m-commerce apps

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Productivity suits are:

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Windows 360 Office, Apple iWork, G suit, and Apache OpenOffice

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Protect and organize files, and let you share your document with others.

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Document management tools

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Who and what to use to create agendas, memos, contracts, proposals, reports, letters, email, newsletters, personalized bulk mailings and labels?

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Word - Business executives, office workers, medical professionals, politicians

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Who and what to use to create letters, greeting cards, notes, event flyers, check lists?

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Word - Personal users

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Who and what to use to create essays, reports, stories, resumes, notes?

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Word - Students

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Who and what to use to create business cards, postcards, invitations, conference tent cards, name tags, gift tags, stickers?

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Word - Conference promoters and event planners

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Who and what to use to create documents for publishing to the web after converting them to HTML?

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Word - Web designers

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To format a text you

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change its font type, size, style, color, and special effects such as reflection, shadows, and outlining.

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The direction in which content is printed on the page, portrait or landscape

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page orientation

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You can change font and font sizes, change the color of text and backgrounds, add photos and shapes, and use provided templates to give a professional appearance to your documents.

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Word

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You can restrict access to a document by providing

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A view-only link, or read-only access

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You can share documents with several people who can read, edit, and comment on the same document at the same time if you store the document on the

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cloud

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Apps let you interact with numbers, charts, graphics, text, and data

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Spreadsheet

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To calculate taxes or payroll businesses often use

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spreadsheets

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Keeping to-do lists, creating a budget, tracking your personal finances, following the performance of your favorite sports teams, and calculating payments on a loan are all tasks you can accomplish using a

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spreadsheet (manipulate numbers or display numerical data)

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Allow you to organize data stored in rows and columns and perform simple or complex calculations on that data

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spreadsheet

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You use spreadsheet software to create, edit, and format

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Worksheets

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laid out in a grid of rows and columns; they use letters or pairs of letters, such as A or AB, to identify each column, and consecutive numbers to identify each row.

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worksheets

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in a worksheet is the location formed by the intersection of a column and a row

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a cell

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a collection of related worksheets contained in a single file

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workbook

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“+”, “-”, “*”, and “/”

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arithmetic operators

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Spreadsheet formulas always begin with an

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equal sign (“=“)

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a predefined computation or calculation, such as calculating the sum or average of values or finding the largest or smallest value in a range of cells.

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A function

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is a cell reference that does not change when the formula containing that reference is moved to a new location

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An absolute reference

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is a cell reference that changes when the formula containing that reference is moved to a new location.

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A relative reference

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What spreadsheet function to use to calculate the sum, average, or count of cells in a range

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SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT

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What spreadsheet function to use to calculate interest rates and loan payments

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RATE, PMT

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What spreadsheet function to use to obtain the current date, time, or date and time

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DATE, TIME, NOW

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What spreadsheet function to use to perform calculations based on logical conditions

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IF, AND, OR, NOT

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What spreadsheet function to use to calculate the largest and smallest values in a group of cells

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MAX, MIN

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What spreadsheet function to use to look up values in a table

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VLOOKUP

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What to use to highlight cells that meet specified criteria

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conditional formatting

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to arrange them in increasing or decreasing order

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Sort data by values in a column

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to display only the values you want to see

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Filter worksheet data

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to test multiple scenarios by temporarily changing one or more variables, to see the effect on related calculations

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What-if analysis

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to visually summarize changes in values over time with small graphs that appear in cells of the worksheet next to the values they represent

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trendlines, or sparklines

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to create meaningful data summaries to analyze worksheets containing large amounts of data

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pivot tables

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to perform steps you repeat frequently in a spreadsheet software you use

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macros

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represent data using bars, columns, pie wedges, lines, or other symbols.

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Charts (sometimes called graphs)

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Present data visually and make it easier to see relationships among the data on a spreadsheet software

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charts

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In a database software, it compares categories of data to one another, and a pie chart compares parts (or slices) to the whole.

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column chart

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shows how several values change over time in the same graphic

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A stacked area chart

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an overall template for a presentation formatted with a theme, customized title and text fonts, backgrounds, and other objects that appear on slides in the presentation.

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slide master

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What app should you use to keep track of contacts, addresses, and collections. Large enterprises use it to store vast quantities of data that enable us to shop online, execute web searches, or find friends on social media.

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database software

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a collection of data organized in a manner that allows access, retrieval, and reporting of that data

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database

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to track contacts, schedules, possessions, or collections.

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database software for individuals

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to process orders, track inventory, maintain customer lists, or manage employee records

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database software for small business

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to store customer relationship management data, such as interactions with customers and their purchases

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database software for companies

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a language that provides a standardized way to request information from a relational database system

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SQL (Structured Query Language),

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allow you to organize large amounts of data, and have many users update it simultaneously.

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Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL

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Data can be exported from a database into other programs, such as

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a spreadsheet program

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is a database that consists of a collection of tables where items are organized in columns and rows.

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A relational database management system (RDBMS), or relational database,

85
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provide advanced database solutions for enterprise use

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SQL Server and Oracle

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In a relational database, such as Microsoft Access, data is organized into tables of

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records (rows of data)

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Each piece of data in a database is entered and stored in an area called a

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field

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a column containing a specific property for each record, such as a person, place, object, event, or idea.

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field

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are a collection of records for a single subject, such as all the customer records, organized in grids of rows and columns, much like worksheets in spreadsheet applications.

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tables

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extracts data from a database based on specified criteria, or conditions, for one or more fields.

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A query

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You might ……… a sales database to find all the customers in Connecticut who made purchases of more than $1000 in January and sort the results in decreasing order by the purchase amount.

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query

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converts your query specifications to SQL

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visual query builder tool

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provides a series of keywords and commands that advanced users might type directly to create and run queries.

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SQL

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a user-designed layout of database content

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report

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You might prepare a monthly sales………. listing top deals and agents, or an inventory report to identify low-stock items.

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report

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a screen used to enter data into a database

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A form

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provides an easy-to-use data entry screen that generally shows only one record at a time.

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A form

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A form is made up of

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controls

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elements such as labels, text boxes, list boxes, buttons, and graphics, that specify where content is placed and how it is labeled.

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controls

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What should you use to reduce data entry errors?

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controls

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a form might contain a text box in which a database user can type an email address, would it accept any other type of data?

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No

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help users navigate records and find specific information

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form

103
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refers to data collections so large and complex that it is difficult to process using relational database applications.

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Big Data

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What should companies do to easily increase storage or processing capabilities to store, access, or query the data?

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storing large databases in the cloud

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Digital images are stored either in

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bitmap (raster), or vector format

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Bitmap images are based on a grid of colored dots called

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pixels

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tend to be simple images composed of shapes, lines, and diagrams.

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Vector graphics (does not lose quality)

108
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use mathematical formulas instead of pixels to define their appearance.

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Vector graphics

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useful for images that can be shrunk or enlarged (e.q logos) and still maintain their crisp outlines and clarity.

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Vector graphics (does not lose quality)

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Most clip art images are stored as

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Vector graphics

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refers to premade pictures and symbols available on the web or included with your application’s image gallery.

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Clip art

112
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supports images with animation and transparent backgrounds

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.gif

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codes a value for each pixel. Files can be large (uncompressed)

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.bmp

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unprocessed data from a digital camera, usually used by professional photographers (uncompressed)

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.raw

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commonly used for print publishing because it maintains quality.

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.tiff

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let you create simple, two-dimensional images.

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Drawing apps

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