Question # 1

The purpose of intellectual property law is to.

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Allow the creator to make money

Justly reward mental labor

Encourage innovation

All of the above

Most of the errors in computer system could be attributed due to

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virus

Programming errors

Data entry

Hardware problem

Who is regarded as the Father of computers.

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John Napier

Pascal

Charles Babbage

Hollerith

The three essential components of any computer system are.

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Hardware and software network

Hardware software application program

Hardware software training

Hardware software people

The complex set of electrical circuitry that executes program instructions is called the.

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Register

CPU

Accumulator

Bus line

Data gathering and data analysis take place.

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After the system survey

After system Analysis

During evaluation

When it comes to educational simulations, people believe.

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that children learn best through exploration and invention.

that games are no way to spend classroom time

That simulations are no substitute for reality

People believe all of these thing about educational simulations, whether they are true or not.

The length of IP address is.

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8 bits

16 bits

32 bits

64 bits

Time sharing of resources by users is usually

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Based on time slices

Based on input

Event driven

Operated by spooling

Word processing electronic filling and electronic mail are part of .

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Office automation

Electronic typewriter

Electronic industry

None of the above

A TI line handles.

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25 million BPS

2100 BPS

1.0 Million BPS

1.5 Million BPS

The operation of arithmetic logic unit is directed by.

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the ALU Itself

Program

Control Unit

Memory unit

The secret words or numbers to be typed in on a keyboard before any activity can take place are called.

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Biometric data

Data encryptions

Passwords

Private words

The entire computer system is coordinated by.

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The ALU

The accumulator

The control unit

Arithmetic operators

Which of the following is not a logical prediction for the future?

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Computers will be smaller and lighter.

Computer will be less expensive

Computer are not going to get any faster, we've reached a limit already

Computer will be easier to use.

For calculating taxes, input to computer could be

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Numbers representing wages

Income

Tax tables

All of the above

Blocks that appear at the top and bottom of every page, displaying repetitie information such as chapter titles are called.

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Leaders and trailers

Headings and footnotes

Titles and footnotes

Headers and footers

The process of writing a program from an algorithm is called.

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Coding

Decoding

Encoding

Encrypting

The program that uses a personal computer to transform written words into polished, printed publicatios is called.

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A spreadsheet

Telecommunications

Desktop publishing

A database

Turning an entire project over to an outside firm for development is called.

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Auditing

outsourcing

Preliminary investigation

Prototype

Intersection of a row and column.

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Active address

cursor

cell

formula

Most word processors today include this feature, which compares teh words ina document with words in a disk based dictionary.

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rhymer

Spell checker

Outliner

Processor

A LAN is a combination of.

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Network adapter cards

LAN Cables

LAN Application software

All of above

Comments in the program itself are part of.

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Compiling

Translating

Linking

Documenting

One of the primary limitations of ASCII is that.

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It does not facilitate multilingual computing

It has a character set of over 200

The patterns are ot ordered

It uses only upperecase letters.

Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company eventually became .

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IBM

AT & T

Apple

General Electric

CPU is divided into how many parts.

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2

3

5

6

Researchers today are developing RISC processors and parallel processing in a quest for.

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Smaller computers

A society that only uses embedded computer

Speed

Agents

Which component is responsible for comparing the contents of two pieces of data?

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ALU

Control Unit

Memory

None

Which is not associated with the main memory of computer.

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Semiconductor memory

Core memroy

Read only memory

Sequential memory

One way a database manager might be able to see if an intruder has been on the system is by using.

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A encryption device

Audit control software

A copy protection scheme

A password

The basic operation performed by a computer is.

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Arithmetic operations

Logic operations

Storage and retrieval operations

All of above

A computer programme is a list of __________ that tells the computer what to do and how to do.

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Documents

Information

Instructions

Alphabets

Each address in storage has a ___________ number

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discrete

Character

Unique

General

The result of a formula in a cell

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Label

range

Value

Displayed value

DROP TABLE statement is used for.

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Deleting record

Inserting record

Deleting table

Retirieving records

What are Numeric constants?

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A set of positive and negative numbers

A sets of characters enclosed in quotation marks.

both of these

None of these

The following command is used is DOS for copying one of more files to another location.

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BACKUP

SAVE

COPY

None of these

Rearranging data is a new sequence is known as.

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Up dating

Batching

Sorting

Summarising

Loading the operating system into a personal computer is called.

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Booting

Prompting

Interrupting

Paging

Computer supported cooperative work is possible if.

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Groupware and telecommunications are available

Workers have close proximity

Workers live in the same time zone for interactivity to take place

None of these CSCW is a futuristic ideal that, for the most part, hasn't been acknowledged

Digital sound in a multimedia production can come from.

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A standard audio compact disc in a CD-Rom drive controlled by computer

Data in the computer's memory

A synthesizer controlled by a computer

All of the above

Tje binary number 101000101011 is equal to the hexadecimal number.

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A2D

C2D

A2B

B2C

"Hot Spots" that respond to mouse clicks in a Hyper Card stack are called.

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Buttons

Fields

Links

Cards

A data coding scheme that is the American standard is.

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ASCII

KB

SIMM

Gigabyte

Language was developed in

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1945

1956

1972

1977

If a disk can hold 800 K bytes of information . It can store a text file of about.

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800,000 words

800 words

800 megabytes

800,000 characters.

A computer programmer

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Enters data into computer

Does total planning and thinking for a computer

Changes flow charts into instructions

Provide solutions to compled problems.

Using computer to design and manufacture products is called

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Inseribing

Detalling

CAD/CAM

Imaging

When a user issues a command to find all the records that match a set of criteria, it is called a.

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Merge

File

Query

Sort

Pick out the WRONG statement

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Information stored in RAM can be changed by over writing it.

Information stored in ROM can not be changed by over writing it.

Information Can be stored in any location of RAM

Computer main memory can be accessed only sequentially

Primary storage for the UNIVAC was via

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Punched cards

Transistors

Magnetic cores

Disk packs

Most modern word processors allow users to control the formats of .

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Individual characters

Lines

Paragraphs

all of the above

An approach to increae speed is

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CISC

Parallel processing

Serial processing

CMOS

Computed fields in a database can contain.

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Text values only

Memeric values only

Formulas and numeric values

Formulas and text values.

A computer can be defined as an electronic device that can that most precise definition.

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Carry out logical functions.

Carry out arithmetical operations

Accept and process data using a set of stored instructions.

Present information on a VDU

Which one of the following is a graphical shell?

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UNIX

Page

GUI

Utility program

An operating system is a.

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System software

System utility

Software pakage

Application software

When all hardware, sofware, storage, and processing is housed in one location it is called.

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A time sharing system

Centralized processing

A DDP system

A host computer system.

Excel is a/an

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Word processor

Operating system

Spreadsheet

None of these

Equal to, less than, and greater than are examples of.

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Logical operations

Location

Subtraction

Arithmetic operation

Testing of each individual program or module is called.

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Program testing

Volume testing

System testing

Unit testing

An example of a high level language is.

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DOS

An algorithm

FORTRAN

An assembler

Copyright are issued by the Federal Government to protect.

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The pricing of software

Intellectual property

Textbooks only

The author's identity

Information travels between components of a computer through groups of wires called.

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Cards

Busses

Slots

Ports

The signal that the computer is awaiting command from the user

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Prompt

Time slice

event

Interrupt

Why would computer programs that teach reading sills be a good idea in adult literacy education?

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Most teachers refuse to work with adults

Adults adapt to computers more quickly than children to.

Illiterate adults know that the computer will not think they are stupid all of these

All of these

Computers process instructions in their"native" language, whichis called.

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COBOL

Machine language

BASIC

Natural language

One Megabyte is equivalent to.

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2¹⁰ bytes

2²⁰bytes

2³⁰bytes

None of these

At the beginning of the instruction cycle, the contents of the instruction Register specify.

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Operand for the instruction being executed.

Instruction itself

Operand for the instruction to be executed next

None of the above

Program written to cause computers to function in a desired way are called.

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Hard ware

Instruction

Software

Algorithm