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The microphone converts the sound into.

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Mechanical signals

Electrical signals

Computer file

Software

According to Alan Kay's for rules for predicting the future, how long does it take for new technology to go from the research lab to the market place?

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About six months

About three years

About ten years

About a generation

The preliminary investigation of a system project is also called a.

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Analysis survey

Systems design

Feasibility study

Evaluation

People on a LAN can share.

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Printer

CD/ROM disk drive

Modem

All of above

Using computer to design and manufacture products is called

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Inseribing

Detalling

CAD/CAM

Imaging

A person who gains illegal access to a computer system.

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Hacker

Worm

Software

Zapper

A collection of software that controls the overall operation of a comptuer is called.

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Application software

Programming language

Operating System

System software

Screen displays for video games and embellished photographic images involve the use of.

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Bitmapped image editing

Object oriented drawing

Illustration software

One of these

A group of electronic , magnetic, or mechanical devices that store data is called.

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Register

Address

Program

Software

Much early AI work focused on game like checkers and chess because.

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They are easy to represent in the computer's digital memory

They have clearly defined rules

The goals of the game are unmistakable

All of the abvoe

Language was developed in

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1945

1956

1972

1977

___________ is are the most powerful computers.

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Super minis

Supere micros

Super mainframe

Super computers

A virust that replicates itself is called a.

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bug

worm

Vaccine

bomb

What is the main difference between a local area network and wide area network .

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the distance over which they operate

LAN and WAN use different protocols

LAN is digital, WAN is analog

There is no difference

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

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ALU

Control Unit

Memory

None

A program that performs a useful task and at the same, time, carries out some secret destructive act, is known as a.

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Sabotage

Trojan horse

Worm

Logic bomb

Computer user who are not computer procfessionals are sometimes called.

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Librarians

Peripheral users

Information officers

End users

In preparing a program, one should first.

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Plan the solution

Code the program

Document the problem

Define the problem

What major area of artificial intelligence deals with distinguishing eats from dogs in a computer's view?

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Pattern recognition

Expert systems

Resolution analysis

Natural language

The first high level language to be introduced was.

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COBOL

FORTRAN

PASCAL

ADA

Who Invented the modem?

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IBM

DEC

AT & T information system, USA

Apple computers Inc.

WAN stand for

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World area network

Wide Area network

Westran Area network

Wilson Ara network

Phase one of a system project involves.

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A system survey

Data gathering

A system analysis

questionnaires

The general purpose processor on chip is otherwise known as the

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ENIAC

Microcomputer

Pocket calculator

Microprocessor

Step - by-step instructions that run the computer are.

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Hardware

Documents

Program

CPU

Desktop and personal computers are other names of

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micro computers

Mini computers

Main frame computer

Peripheral equipment

The computer dedicated to screening access to a network from outside the network

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hot site

cold site

vaccine

firewall

Another name for a logic chip is.

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PROM

ROM

Memory

Microprocessor

In desktop publishing systems, this software is used to combine the source documents into a coherent, visually appealing publication.

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Page layout software

Database software

Spreadsheet software

Telecommunication software

What is the most common computer crime of these listed below?

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Extortion of bank funds

IRS database sabotage

Putting people on junk mailing lists

Software piracy

All of the following aspects of the writing process can be at least partially computerized with widely available commercial software except.

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Organizing ideas

Producing an index

Checking for grammatical errors

Checking for holes in the plot of a novel

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

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Coding

Decoding

Encoding

Encrypting

A LAN is a combination of.

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Network adapter cards

LAN Cables

LAN Application software

All of above

Storage of 1 K means that it has following number of storage location.

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1000

964

1024

1032

The emerging standard for programming complex queries in a database is called.

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SOL

COBOL

1-2-3

Word perfect

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.

Most mainframe computers are basically.

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4 bit machines

8 bit machines

16 bit machines

32 bit machines

A program that can identify unnecessary words and wordy phrases in called.

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Indexing program

Grammar/Style program

From letter program

Thesaurus program

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

How many input leads will be required for a chip containing our two input NOT gates?

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7

12

13

14

An area that runs across the bottom of the Windows desktop is called.

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Property bar

Title bar

System Tray

Task bar

In multiprogramming, two or more programs can be executed.

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By optimizing computer

With two computer

Simultaneously

Concurrently

Pick up the correct statement

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Most mainframe sare 48 -bit machines

Thousands of super computer are currently being built

Supercomputers are usually designed to process accounting applications

Mainframes my have multiprocessor components that permit several tasks to be processed at the same instant is time.

The most widely used word processor for non GUI computers is the

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MS-DOS version of Word

MS-DOS version of Word perfect

MS-DOS version of 1-2-3

Windows version of Word

Data and instructions are put into primary storage by

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Memory

The control unit

Secoundary storage

The ALU

An assembly language uses.

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English words

Mnemonic codes

Os and Is

Binary digits

___________ means rearranging of data in a sequence.

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Editing

Updating

Batching

Sorting

Primary storage for the UNIVAC was via

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Punched cards

Transistors

Magnetic cores

Disk packs

While database contains only facts, a knowledge base also contains.

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a system for determining and changing the relationship between facts.

Rigidly organized categories

A comprehensive dictionary

All of the above

program need to be entered into the computer's memory saved as a disk file and translated into the computer's native machine language before they can be executed or run . to enter and save a program, you can use an.

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Fornatter

CAD program

Text editor

Interpreter

Which university built the first all electronic computer in late 1945?

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University of portland

University of California

University of Pennsylvania

University of Taxes

Historically, the first computer were use for.

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Text processing

Data storage

Simulation and modeling

Arithmetic calculations

The scope and true nature of the problem is determined during .

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The second phase

The preliminary investigation

The system development

The system analyst

In which processing method any file record can be directly located and updated without the need to read preceding file records

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Batch

Serial

Random

sequential

Pick up the wrong statement in the analogy of mechanical and electrical devices.

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Resistance is analog of damping

Inductance is analog of mass

Capacitance is analog of spring constant

Charge is analog of displacement.

The signal that the computer is awaiting a command from the user

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Promt

Time slice

Event

Interrupt

The program that contains instructions to operate a device is called.

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Device driver

Device linking

Device operator

Device system

A chart that represents only one value for each variable.

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Function

Pie

Line

Bar

The "what you are" criterion for computer system access involves.

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a badge

biometrics

a pass word

a magnetized card

The number 10000 would appear just immediately after

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FFFF (hex)

1111 (binary)

7777 (octal)

All of above

Software programs designed to allow several networked users to work on the same documents at the same time are called.

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share ware

groupware

Bulletin boards

LANs

Which inpute device is used for playing computer game?

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Scanner

Mouse

Joy stick

Light pen

_________ computers are special purpose computers.

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Digital

Hybrid

Microcomputer

Supper Computer

The set of choice on the screen is called an

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Menu

Editor

Reverse video

Template

An error in a computer hardware and software is called a bug another name for it is.

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Glitch

Hacker

Virus

Pixel

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

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COBOL

Machine language

BASIC

Natural language

The person who requests study or work on a system is the.

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Client

Analyst

Change agent

User

Ragged right means the right margin is set to be

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Uneven

even

Variable

wide

The feature that allows viewing any part of a document on the screen is

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Searching

Pasting

Scrolling

editing

Who is responsible for introducing the concept of stored program.

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Blaise Pascal

Herman Hollerith

Charles Bababage

John von Neumann

Data and program not being used by computr are stored in.

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Secondary storage

Cache

Primary storage

Printer