Question # 1

Which of the following is not a advantage of an integrated package.

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Generally less expensive than purchasing individual packages

Are not copyrighted so multiple copies can be made

User don't need to memorize as many commands

Allow for quick and easy transfer between applications.

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.

What service does a typical computer bulletin board provide?

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It allows users to send and receive e-mail

It gives special interest groups a communication tool

It allows group projects to develop

All of the above

___________ is are the most powerful computers.

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Super minis

Supere micros

Super mainframe

Super computers

An integrated circuit is.

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A complex circuit

An integrating device

Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip

Another name for chip

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

Which of the following circuit is known as half adder?

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Exclusive and circuit

Flip-Flop circuit

Inclusive or circuit

Exclusive or circuit

Excess-3 code is known as

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Weighted code

Cyclic redundancy code

Self complementing

Algebraic code

The technique in shared system that avoid interspersed printout from several programs is.

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Paging

Queuing

Slicing

Spooling

The main advantage of analog computers compared to digital computes is that they are more.

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Efficient in continuous calculations such as differentiation and integration

Efficient in handling vast data

Accurate and precise

Reliable.

The following are all programming languages except for.

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FORTRAN

C

Pascal

MS-DOS

A bus line consists of

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Registers

Accumulators

Parallel data paths

Machinie cycles

Prewritten standard file handling programs are called.

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Pull down menus

Pages

Supervisors

Utilites

Type of language processors are.

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2

3

4

8

The highest level language are called.

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4 GLs

High level

Assembly

Natural

Idea processors take a variety of forms, but most are built around this concept.

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Writing

Reading

Processing

Outlining

Micro processor is based on

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Thermionic values

Transistors

Single integrated circuit or chip

Integrated circuit

Octal number system used the digits 0 to 7. The equivalent of Octal 130 in decimal system is.

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88

82

86

81

A byte is a collection of.

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800 bits

Eight bits

28 bits

2 bits

A data base files is a collection of which of.

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Cells

Records

Keys

Name and address

A language designed to generate routing business reports is.

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COBOL

LISP

RPG

ALGOL

Picture that represent files, folders, and disks are called.

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Windows

Menu

Icons

GUIs

Pixel depth is one of two technological factors limiting an artist's ability to create realistic images with a bitmapped graphics program. The other factor is.

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Imaging

Resolution

Pixel strength

Monitor measurement

Which of the following true of spreadsheets in general?

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They are used only in business applications

They can be used for simulations

Their formulas can only refer to cells that are in the same row or column as the formula

It is very difficult to generate deceptive results with a spreadsheet.

The part of the computer system which performs the house keeping functins is called.

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Interpreter

Compiler

Operating system

Assembler

The general purpose processor on chip is otherwise known as the

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ENIAC

Microcomputer

Pocket calculator

Microprocessor

A letter, number, or a special character is represented by a

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bit

kilobyte

Megabyte

byte

Types of software that can be freely distributed without violating copyright laws are called.

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Shereware

Public domain

Copy protected

a and b

Which of the following would work to keep a class gradebook that automatically upgrades totals when grades are entered?

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Word processor

Spread sheet

MS-DOS

None of these

The hardware on which the software runs is called the.

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DOS

Icon

Menu

Platform

A general purpose program or system of program that can manipulate data in a large collection of files is called.

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Data base management system

Data base security system

File manager

Data base multiple platform system

Error messages provided by a compiler are called

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Bug

Diagnostic

Translations

Mistakes

Why do many companies use call-back security systems, in which the computer calls the user on the phone before allowing access.

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To identify user by voice recognition

A check phone lines for modern taps

To prevent unauthorized use stolen passwords

Actually, call back systems are outdated.

Logical security for on line systems is achieved primarily by_ and authorization codes.

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MIS

Passwords

Tactical

None of the abvoe

Software to use the internet is.

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Gateway

EFT

Browser

Teleconferencing

Error in computer results could be due to

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Encoding of data

Transmission of data

Manipulation of data

All of the abvoe

The SDLC is defined as a project involving.

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two phases

Four phases

Three phases

Five phases

Tool to change PROM chips are called.

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Chip kits

RAM Burners

PROM Burner

None of these

Broadband fiber optic cables can simultaneously transmit.

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Telephone cells and television signals

Two way computer communications

Software and firmware

a and b

Which of the following writer's tools is not available in a computer software form?

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Thesaurus

Dictionary

Outliner

All of these are available as software

One safeguard against theft or alteration of data is the use of .

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DES

Identical passwords

The trojan Horse

Data diddling

Mainframe computers are capable of communicating with several users simultaneously by.

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Using a terminal

Using a supercomputer

Using a workstation

Time sharing

Control unit is the part of

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ALU

CBT

CPU

None of these

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

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COBOL

Machine language

BASIC

Natural language

Which of the following descriptions relates to a floppy diskette.

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9 - track 1600 BPI

Double - sided double density

33 Mhz- zero -waid time

40 MB capacity

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.

One of the more computers connected to a hub computer is.

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Ring network

Node

Information utility

Star network

SQL stand for.

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Structure Query language

Super Query language

Superior Query languae

Selected Query langauge.

What is meant by the portion of the program that explain the program?

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Manual

Documentation

expression

None of these

_________ are the computers designed for complex scientific job.

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Mainframe computers

Mini computers

Micro computer

Super computers

One reason computers have difficulty processing natural language is because of the.

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Limited vocabulary of natural languages

Lack of subsets of natural languages

Large vocabulary of natural languages

Fact the natural languages have no syntax

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

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Individual characters

Lines

Paragraphs

all of the above

In the field of computer science a computer architecture specialist.

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Designs buildings on the computer

Deals with the way hardware and software work together

Deals with the way a construction worker and a contractor work together

There's no such thing as a computer architecture specialist

Which one of the following commands checks the validity of a disk and reports the total space, number of files,etc.

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CHECK

CHECKDISK

CHKDISK

CHKDSK

The focus of the fifth generation is .

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Connectivity

Symbolic languages

Silicon

Memory chips

Flat-Panel displays and solid state storage devices are.

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Rapidly improving because of intensive industry research

Ideal that aren't expected to become products.

Futuristics devices only seen on Star Trek

a and c.

Which one of the following statements is wrong in the analogy of mechanical and electrical devices?

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Resistance is analog of damping

Inductance is analog of mass

Capacities is analog of spring constant

Charge is analog of displacement

Time sharing of resources by users is usually

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Based on time slices

Based on input

Event driven

Operated by spooling

Which of the following does not provide a graphical user interface.

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OS/2

MS-DOS

Macintosh

Windows NT work station

Software that sotes a picture, not as a collection of dots, but as a collection of lines and shapes is called ________ software.

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Painting

Drawing

Modeling

Dragging

The sequential organization is most suitable for.

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Master files in a batch processing environment

Master files on direct access device

Transaction files

None of the abvoe

The number A9D in Hexadecimal system in equivalent to which number in decimal system.

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2727

3648

2717

3717

The programming language that was designed to encourage programmers to write structured program was.

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PASCAL

COBOL

BASIC

FORTRAN

The differential equations are solved by.

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analog computers.

Digital computers

Differenctial machine

Both analog and digital computers.

What technique is used to move text with a word processor.?

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Cut and paste

Drag and Drop

Both a and b

Neither a nor b

A hardware register used to hold the results or partial results of arithmetic and logical operations is called.

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Accumulator

Instruction Register

Status Register

Stack pointer

Four digit binary number 1011 is represented in the decimal system by.

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7

9

11

13

MS-DOS is an example of _____________ interface.

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GUI

CLI

MAC

All of the above

INSERT INTO statement is used for.

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Retrieving record

Adding new record

Changing values

Deleting record

The types of modulation that changes the height of the signal is called.

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frequency

phase

amplitude

Prophase

This types of font allow more room for wide characters like we than for narrow characters like is.

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Sans serif

Proportionally spaced

Courier

None of these