ENGLISH FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Department of Informatics

FTEIC – ITS Surabaya

SESSION 10

THE FINAL TEST

This Final Test is to check your understanding of the lessons from all of the units you have
learned in the course.
Write your name before you start the test. Read the instructions and do the test accordingly.
There are five sections in the test.

Wirandito Sarwono
Name: __________________________________________

Section 1: Vocabulary
1 Complete these sentences. Use one or two words in each gap.
1 A(n)hard
________
drive stores large amounts of data.
2 Please disconnect the ________
external hard drive from the computer.
3 I really like the people I work with: my colleague
________ are all great people!
4 The ________
motherboard is the internal part of the computer that everything else connects to.
5 Use the ________
scrollbar at the side of the window to move down so that you can see the
whole page.
6 A big advantage of open ________
source software is that it’s usually free.
7 You may have to ________
partition your disks while installing the operating system if you want to
divide your big drive into some smaller ones.
8 Don’t forget to ________
backup your data so that you always have a copy!

Section 2: Language
1 Put these words in the correct order to make sentences and questions.
1 check / every / emails / I / day / my
I check my emails every day
________________________________________________________________________
2 company / software / does / develop / your / ?
Does your company develop software?
________________________________________________________________________
3 a / computer / latest / need / new / OS / run / the / to / we
________________________________________________________________________
We need a new computer to run the latest OS
4 personal / use / must / purposes / staff / not / for / computers
________________________________________________________________________
Staff must not use computers for personal purposes
5 problem / afraid / a / the / there’s / I’m / with / software
I'm afraid there's a problem with the software
________________________________________________________________________
6 projector / you / off / could / turn / that / just / ?
Could you just turn off that projector?
________________________________________________________________________
7 unplug / first / headphones / you / video camera / could / from / the / the / ?
Could you unplug the headphones first from the video camera?
________________________________________________________________________
8 operators / off / to / computer / their / day / need / computer / all / switch / every
All computer operators need to switch off their computer every day
________________________________________________________________________

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Section 3: Reading
1 Read the job advertisement. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Ordinary people can buy the company’s products in shops. (T / F)
2 ADS now has offices in nine countries. (T / F)
3 The company is having problems now. (T / F)
4 Clients like ADS because of its low prices. (T / F)
5 If you haven’t worked in IT before, you could apply for this job if you have a Diploma in
Software Development. (T / F)
6 You need to understand more than one OS to do this job well. (T / F)
7 Working for several years in a small company isn’t useful for this job. (T / F)
8 This job is suitable for people who don’t need to live close to their family. (T / F)

Atlantic Digital Services

Atlantic Digital Services (ADS) is a software development company providing services to
other companies. With over 2000 employees in seven different countries, we are able to
help a wide range of clients in many different parts of the world. We are growing very
quickly and plan to open offices in two more countries later this year. Our customers keep
coming back to us because we can develop high quality software to their specifications very
quickly and because of our great customer service.

Software developer positions available

We have positions available in our new international offices for people with the following:
• a Diploma in Software Development with good grades
• experience developing software for the Windows and Linux operating systems
• two years’ experience in a company similar to ours
Applicants must be happy to travel to our international offices for some projects, which may
last from a few weeks to a year.

Section 4: Writing
1 Use the prompts to complete this email to Fred, who has never used a computer before.
Explain how to connect an external drive to a computer and save files to it. Include a
greeting and a signing off and remember to introduce the topic.
(1) ________
Hi Fred ________,
Here’s how to connect your (2) ______________________________________
external drive to your computer . First,
connect the hard drive to your computer using USB cable (connect / USB cable / hard drive /
(3) ______________________________________
computer). Then (4) ______________________________________
click the 'Start' menu and open Windows Explorer (click / ‘Start’ menu /
open / Windows Explorer). Next, (5) ______________________________________
right-click on the 'My Computer' button
(right-click / ‘Computer’) and (6) ______________________________________
you should see the hard drive appears (should /
see / hard drive). Now (7) _____________________________________ (drag and drop
files / folders / hard drive). drag and drop the files from your folder to your hard drive

Good Luck
(8) _________________,
____________________
Dito

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Section 5: Listening
1 ► 08 Listen and correct the mistakes. Underline one incorrect word and write the
correct word on the line.

1 a quad-core processor ________

dual
2 a quad-speed DVD drive ________
BluRay
3 a 3.5-millimetre plug ________
socket
4 micrometer
a millimetre ________
5 80 nanometres ________
18
6 a 56-kilobyte file ________
26
7 2.4
4.2 megahertz ________
8 4 gigabytes ________
terabytes

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