Last updated: 11/13/99
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Topics for AGS 3340 Quiz 2
Now includes Release 2.1

Description

Quiz 2 will be 90 minutes (strict limit) in class at the beginning of class on December 1. There will be three or four questions from the list below. This means that you will have to have studied the content and practiced the word processing tasks. You should use the computer conference to discuss content and skills questions that you want to go over. The quiz will cover

• Classes on 10/13 (after quiz 1) and 11/3, including some material on handouts that was not covered in class, as explained below
• Teach Yourself Microsoft Office97, Chapters 8 - 10 (Word) and 14 - 17 (Excel)
• Internet Issues web page
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree chapters 6 to end
• Release 2.1, beginning through Chapter 7

The quiz will be open book, but if you have to check the books for everything, you will probably not have time. Open book and open web browser, but your own words except for standard terms and definitions.

You will write the answers for Quiz 2 using Microsoft Word 97 on a floppy diskette supplied by the Instructor. Make up the names for your Quiz 2 answers with the following parts, in order:

• Your three initials. (If you do not have a middle initial, use the understroke character -- _ or Shift-dash -- instead).
• "2" for Quiz 2 computer work
• "cf9" to indicate Computers, the Internet and Society, Fall 1999
• Normal extension for your word processor (doc, in this case)

So for example, since I use Microsoft Word, the file name for my Quiz 2 would be drb2cf9.doc

When I grade the assignments, I will add a "g" to the end of the filename and return it.

Also, as backup file ID, include the following lines at the beginning of each file:

1. Your full name
2. Course (AGS 3340) and course name (Computers, the Internet, and Society)
3. Semester (Fall 1999)
4. Assignment (not just the code, write it out, e.g. "Essay A"
5. Word processor and version number (this is in case I have trouble reading it).
   (In Windows, to find the name and version number of any program, including a word processor, open the program, click on its "Help" menu item, and then on the "About" item on the drop-down menu list.)

For example, for my Quiz 2 I would include the following lines at the beginning of the file:

David R. Bowen
AGS 3340, Computers, the Internet, and Society
Fall 1999
Quiz 2
Microsoft Word 7.0

The essay title and text would start after this header.

Quiz 2 Topics

1. Carried over from Quiz 1: general Windows skills - under test conditions,
   1. Open a file from the A: drive
   2. Save a file to the A: drive
   3. Using Save As..., change the name of a file
2. Word processing topics as listed below
   1. Be able to format text, paragraphs and tabs in Microsoft Word 97
   2. Be able to insert pictures from a file or from clip art using Microsoft Word 97
   3. Recognize and name (i.e. be able to say "that is a bulleted list") bulleted lists, numbered lists and tables
   4. Be able to create bulleted lists, numbered lists and tables using Microsoft Word 97
   5. Describe the word processing function at a general level, not specific to Microsoft word 97. For example, describe formatting as changing the appearance of text, such as font, font size, etc.
3. Excel topics as listed below
   1. Open an existing Excel sheet (worksheet or chart) or a new sheet, edit it, and save it
   2. Locate cells identified in the standard manner (e.g. B5)
   3. Enter text, numbers and/or formulae into cells
      1. Formulae using + - * / sum and average
   4. Format text as with word 97 (e.g. Bold, Underlined, Right Aligned, etc.)
   5. In addition to the above formatting options, format numbers as currency, date, percentage
   6. Create an Excel chart based on data in a worksheet
      1. As new sheet or on worksheet
      2. Column, pie or line charts
4. For the Internet Issues web page, given a choice of two issues, write a brief half-page essay about one of the issues that:
   1. Names and describes the issue
   2. Describes at least two opinions about the issue
   3. Describes your own position, along with why you support that position
5. Describe or diagram the Internet applications email and FTP
6. From the Lexus and the Olive Tree
   1. Describe the various stages of DOSCapital
   2. Describe the role of the following in globalization, according to Freidman
      1. Courts
      2. Accounting standards
      3. Bribery and other forms of corruption
      4. Fast communications
      5. Being an open society
   3. What role does the author feel that globalization will play in
      1. Reducing warfare
      2. Homogenizing local cultures
         1. How does Friedman feel that this homogenizing can be stopped
      3. Winner-take-all
   4. Globalization has damaged many economies around the world
      1. Describe three examples
      2. Why does the author feel that this has not resulted in a sustained backlash against globalization?
      3. How does Friedman suggest that globalization could destroy itself?
   5. What advantages does Friedman feel that the US has in being able to benefit from globalization?
   6. Describe the importance that Friedman attaches to a fictional Rapid Change Opportunity Act
      1. What would be in such an act
      2. Why would such an act be important for the US?
      3. Why does Friedman feel that a strong and activist US is important for the rest of the world?
7. Describe or explain the progression from word processing to spreadsheets to databases in terms of
   1. How information is stored or organized
   2. The amount or degree of structure in the information
   3. The ability of a computer to sort the information, transform the information, and display the information in different ways
   4. describe which of these types of information currently predominates on the world wide web
8. Describe or explain
   1. What is meant by "convergence" with respect to the Internet, and give examples
   2. How the Internet could give end users more control than they have had with previous communications technologies
   3. The significance of previous changes in communications technologies
9. Release 2.1 through Chapter 7. You answers should focus on the contents of the book.
   1. What do markets do differently in real life than in Business School?
   2. Why does the market work better in the US than it does in Russia?
   3. What do communities need in order to thrive? How can an online system help create a community?
   4. How does the author feel that the Net will change looking for work, looking for employees, and working?
   5. What is necessary for schools to get connected to the Net, and using the Net effectively in courses?  How could the Net change and improve education? Are there dangers?
   6. Why dangers does the author see in regulating the Net through laws? How would self-regulation work?
   7. How is a Net community diffferent than a country? How are they similar?
   8. The author suggests that four questions are important for the development of intellectual property. What are those four questions, and what answers does the author suggest?
   9. What dangers does the author see for Net content? How does she feel these dangers can be dealt with?