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Database Vocabulary Spreadsheet Vocabulary Social & Ethical Issues Bonus Vocabulary Area of Impact Bonus Vocabulary
to make a request for information from a database A 100
What is a Query? A 100
a collection of programs that enables you to store, modify, and extract information from a database A 200
What is a Database Management System (DMS) A 200
a feature supported by many word processors that enables you to generate form letters A 300
What is Mail Merge? A 300
A 400 contains all the information about a single 'member' of a table; similar to a row in spreadsheets
What is a Record? A 400
a space allocated for a particular item of information; similar to a column in spreadsheets A 500
What is a Field? A 500
- a set of instructions that can be triggered by a keyboard shortcut, toolbar button or an icon in a spreadsheet - used to eliminate the need to repeat the steps of common tasks over and over B 100
What is a Macro? B 100
provides better testing and documentation of individual spreadsheets in less time B 200
What is Validation? B 200
“What if I worked this number of hours versus that number in a week, how much would I earn?" is an example of this excel function. B 300
What is a “What If” question? B 300
consists of many worksheets containing related information B 400
What is a Workbook? B 400
an excel function used when you know what answer you want but do not know the exact figure to input for that answer B 500
What is “Goal Seek”? B 500
Janie is a secretary at the local doctor’s office. The office is doing what they can to catch up with technology and switching all the patient’s records over to digital records. What are the possible social and ethical issues involved with this situation that might raise concern among patients? C 100
Integrity of the data that Janie transferred into the digital copy C 100
Referring back to Janie’s situation, what are possible positive outcomes to this switch over? C 200
a. Updating data will faster and easier b. Costs of paper will decrease c. Easier and cheaper to transport a patient’s data from one doctor’s office to another d. Able to utilize charts and graphs to recognize patterns in their patient data C 200
The president of a security company wants to compare the data stored in his spreadsheets. Specifically, he wants compare the past three month’s sales. What is the best way to allow the user to see clearly the comparison of the data? C 300
Pivot Table/Chart/Graph C 300
C 400 What is one way Security/Integrity/Authenticity issues can be avoided within spreadsheets?
Excel provides its users with the option of setting a password for a workbook. This is one simple option. C 400
If a password is set for an excel sheet, does this also improve the reliability of the workbook? True or False? C 400
True, having a password will allow the user to be sure that only authorized personnel can access it. This, in turn, assures that the information will be reliable. C 500
A major security company needs to search their files for a large buyer they provide services to. They want to use the function of digging through and analyzing enormous sets of data and then extracting the meaning of the data. What is this process called? C 500
Data Logging D 100
What is the name of the function that consists of a function within a function? D 100
Nested Function D 200
This reference has a $ before the column portion of the reference and/or the row portion of the reference. Its main feature is that it does not change when a formula or function is copied and pasted to other cells. D 200
Absolute Reference D 300
This consists of the column letter and row number that intersect at the cell's location D 300
What is a Relative Reference? D 400
This feature in Excel allows the user to specify the exact range of cells to print D 400
Set Print Area D 500
Correct Response Five D D 500
What is a way databases and spreadsheets are affecting the area of health? Give an example. E 100
Ex. Allows doctor’s offices to transfer all paper documents and records into an organizational “digital file cabinet.” E 100
What is a way databases and spreadsheets are affecting the area of politics and government? Give one example. E 200
Allows the poll worker’s to keep each voter’s information in digital form rather than on paper. E 200
What is a way databases and spreadsheets are affecting the area of science and the environment? Give one example E 300
Providing an alternative to printed documents; a paper-free world, saves trees E 300
What is a way databases and spreadsheets are affecting the area of business and employment? Give one example. E 400
Provides a way to efficiently create charts/graphs to help a business determine whether their current business model is effective E 400
What is a way databases and spreadsheets are affecting the area of education? Give one example. E 500
Schools around the world use databases to store all the student information. This helps save time when creating a student’s schedule or looking for their home address, for example. E 500
This allows the user to sort and quickly retrieve information from a database by choosing one or more fields to act as keys F 100
What is a Key Field? F 100
To explore or examine in order to discover information within a spreadsheet F 200
What is to search? F 200
The intersection between a column and a row in a worksheet F 300
What is a Cell? F 300
The parameters a user gives an excel worksheet. F 400
What is a Cell Reference? F 400
Used for titles, headings, names; used for identifying columns of data in excel F 500
What is a Label? F 500
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