Test Examination (Human Ecology 2007)

BISI/Medical Informatics Department

Marc Nyssen

Question 1

Enter a spreadsheet program and calculate the following value: 1.256 to the power 2.345 Explain how you find the result!

Question 2

Make a list of the main tasks of an operating system and illustrate by examples you know.

Question 3

Suppose you are in charge of a region that has a risk of flouding, due to the presence of a river delta; how can you use GIS to evaluate which are the precise locations that are in danger for flouds and how could you estimate the population (number of people) that lives there, in these locations at risk?

Question 4

Send an E-mail to groep00@minf.vub.ac.be, (groep zero zero!) containing YOUR FULL NAME, followed by the answers to the above questions!

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