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Free CLEP Information Systems Practice Test (2026)

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Question 1 of 25Ransomware encrypts a clinic's patient files, and the attackers demand payment for the key. Which earlier step would best have let the clinic recover its files without paying?
Question 2 of 25A company replaces 40 lightly used physical servers with a few powerful servers that each run many virtual servers. Which goal of green computing does this mainly serve?
Question 3 of 25A company wants one system that records every call, email, purchase, and service request for each customer, so that its sales and support staff can see a customer's full history. Which kind of enterprise system fits best?
Question 4 of 25Which is a commonly cited disadvantage of telecommuting for employees?
Question 5 of 25Five employees in different cities edit the same proposal at the same time, see one another's changes appear as they type, and leave comments in the margins. They are most likely using
Question 6 of 25A developer changes a program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and distributes the new version. What does the license generally require?
Question 7 of 25How many different values can be represented by one byte?
Question 8 of 25Which change would most help a blind visitor who uses a screen reader to use a website?
Question 9 of 25Compared with a traditional hard disk drive, a solid-state drive
Question 10 of 25Programmers have tested each module of a new order system on its own. Next, they test whether the order-entry, inventory, and billing modules pass data to one another correctly. This stage is
Question 11 of 25In a spreadsheet, cell C2 holds the formula =B2*$F$1, where cell F1 contains a tax rate. If the formula is copied from C2 down to C3, what will C3 contain?
Question 12 of 25A shopper adds items to an online cart, leaves without logging in, and returns the next day on the same browser to find the items still in the cart. What most likely made this possible?
Question 13 of 25A teacher wants cell C2 of a spreadsheet to show Pass when the score in cell B2 is 70 or higher and Fail otherwise. Which formula does this?
Question 14 of 25In the systems development life cycle, during which phase do analysts study the current system and interview users to decide what the new system must do, before anyone decides how it will do it?
Question 15 of 25A smartwatch connects by Bluetooth to a phone a few feet away. This connection is an example of a
Question 16 of 25A small firm pays a monthly fee per user to run accounting software in a web browser. The vendor hosts the program, stores the data, and installs all updates. This cloud service model is
Question 17 of 25Which task is performed by the operating system rather than by an application program?
Question 18 of 25In an object-oriented program, the classes Truck and Car are defined as subclasses of a class called Vehicle, so both automatically get Vehicle's attributes, such as speed, and its methods, such as brake(). This feature is called
Question 19 of 25An employee downloads a free invoice template from an unfamiliar website. The template works, but the file also quietly installs a program that lets an outsider control the computer. This malware is best described as
Question 20 of 25A company stores each customer's address in its sales file, its billing file, and its shipping file. After a customer moves, only the billing file is updated, so packages go to the old address. This problem is mainly caused by
Question 21 of 25A company wants to block outside computers from reaching its internal network except through a few approved connections, such as its public web server. Which tool is designed for this?
Question 22 of 25A shopper notices that a checkout page's address begins with https rather than http. What does the s indicate?
Question 23 of 25A program gives a discount when this condition is true: (age < 18 OR age >= 65) AND member = TRUE. Which customer gets the discount?
Question 24 of 25A national weather agency needs to run global climate models that call for the fastest computing power available, more than a quadrillion calculations per second. Which type of computer is designed for this kind of work?
Question 25 of 25A water utility collects meter readings throughout the month and then produces every customer's bill in a single run at the end of the month. This is an example of

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