2.UTILITIES

Lucia has difficulty understanding information that she reads. Things make more sense to her when she hears them. For this reason, she relies heavily on this computer utility to improve her productivity in the workplace.

Reader

Farah works in an office with two other employees. All three share a printer and an Internet connection. The utility that makes this possible is _____.

SOHO

Match the following.

defragmentation - process of uniting split-up files so the pieces are saved next to each other on the hard drive encryption - scrambling data so that it can be safely transmitted over the Internet fragmented - broken up, as in a computer file that saved in multiple parts in different places on the hard drive multimedia - combination of text, graphics, animation, audio, and video in one file SOHO - a group of networked computers in a small office or home office: small office home office sound card - a computer device that records and plays digital audio files utility - a program that provides a service for a computer

Examples of utilities that make it possible for people to create and share multimedia files include _____.

video players RealPlayer QuickTime audio recorders

Delia is a special education teacher. In her classroom, students use many different types of utility programs to make it easier for them to use their computers. This category of utility software is known as _____.

accessibility

Cameron, in the payroll department, works with sensitive employee information such as social-security numbers and annual salaries. He knows that this information is safe because his computer has this type of utility.

data encryption

This type of utility moves data around so that the pieces of files can be stored next to each other on a computer disk.

defragmentation

The most common types of utility programs fall into these categories.

entertainment accessibility communication security file management

Mariah was working on a multimedia presentation that included both video and audio files. The file was huge, and she wanted to send it to her coworker in another office. She needed to reduce the size of the file so that it could be transmitted faster. The utility she used to do this was _____.

file compression