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A portable operating system.

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Generic

Backup

Allocated

Utility

You want to produce personalized form letters, so you sue the ____ capability of the word processor.

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Sort

Mail merge

Style and grammar checker

Desktop publishing

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

The ENIAC, using ABC principes, wea designed by

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Charles Babbage

Bell Laboratories

John V. Atanasoff

Mauchly and Eckert

Which of the following is not a category of network problems.

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Newsgroup problems

Physical problems

Electrical problems

Viruses

First generation computers were characterized by the use of the______

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Microprocessor

Vacuum tube

Transister

Integrated circuit

Memory capacity may be expresed in .

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Microseconds

Kilobytes

Bits

Cycles

A language designed to generate routing business reports is.

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COBOL

LISP

RPG

ALGOL

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

Pick out the wrong statement about computers.

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It is logical machine

It can access any piece of information that it hs in store.

It is devoid of emotion, has no feelings or instincts

It approaches its information is unrestricted manner.

Which of the following keyboard shortcut is used to change the case?

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Ctrl + F3

Shift + F3

Alt + F3

Ctrl+Shift +F3

In the paperless office of the future, it is predicated that.

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Magnetic archives will replace fill cabinets

Electronic communication will replace memos and letters

Information utilities will replace newspapers

All of the above

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

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DES

Identical passwords

The trojan Horse

Data diddling

Which of the following is not component of telecommunications?

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Sender

Office device

Medium

Receiver

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

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Hard ware

Instruction

Software

Algorithm

In ADC the analog voltage signal is compared with the signal from a.

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Pulse generator

Flip-flop

Stair case generator

Register

The digit used for hexadecimal number system are.

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A trough Z

1 through 16

0 through 15

0 through and A through F

The small logical data entity in organizing data for computer processing is.

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File

Field

Record

Data base

An approach to increae speed is

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CISC

Parallel processing

Serial processing

CMOS

Which of the following is associated with second generation computer.

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Transistor

Magnetic core memory

High level procedural language

All of above

A computer is very high speed, accuracy and reliability .Its intelligent quotient could be of the order of.

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0

10

15

20

Applications designed specifically for a particular business or industry are sometimes called.

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Vertical market applications

Closed applications

Horizontal market applications

Restricted application

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

Unicode can represent up to.

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60635 symbols

56532 symbols

64739 symbols

65536 symbols

A network of geographically distant computers and terminals is called a.

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bus

WAN

Gate way

LAN

FORTRAN is an acronym for

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Formula translator

Formula transducer

For translating high level language

both a and b

Computer follows a simple rule called GIGO,GIGO stand for

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Good input, good output

Great instructions, great output

Garbage in , garbage out

Gated input, gated output

Which of the following is termed ad minimum error code?

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Binary code

Gary code

Excess 3- code

Octal code

Will are the two inherent characteristics computers have that most leave them open to attack or operating error?

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A computer is difficult to hide/hardware is portable.

Every computer network is easily accessible/files are easy to copy

A computer will do exactly what it's programmed to do a computer can do only what what it's programmed to do.

Computers are so programmable that they don't have any inherent characteristics.

Bill Gate and Paul Allen formed Microsoft to produce and market.

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A version of BASIC

MS-DOS

P(C) DOS

A personal computers.

A flashing cursor is sometimes called an

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ENTER key

Ready signal

Insertion bar

C

Two complement of 1011.01 is

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0100.10

0100.11

1011.10

0100.01

When all access and processing is done in one location, a computer system is said to be

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Networked

Distributed

Contralized

Linked

A data base files is a collection of which of.

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Cells

Records

Keys

Name and address

A TI line handles.

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25 million BPS

2100 BPS

1.0 Million BPS

1.5 Million BPS

The lowest level of programming language is.

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Nonprocedural language

Assembly language

BASIC

Machine language

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 term word in computer terminology refers to.

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bits formed into groups

Coded instructions

Memory size

Language used

Alan Kay says we can predict the future by recognizing the four phases of any technology or media.

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Hardware, software, people finance,

Hardware, software, service, way of lime

People , machines, service, finance.

Hardware, program, people , ideas

Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company eventually became .

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IBM

AT & T

Apple

General Electric

Popular object -orinted languages.

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Pascal, Modul 3

C++ , Smalltalk

LOGO, PRO LOGO

COBOL + BASIC

When a program becomes a part of the silicon chip it is called.

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Software

Firmware

embedded

Hardware

When a user posts software on a BBS for others to use, the process is called.

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Uploading

Offloading

Downloading

Copying

The transfer of encoded information from one location to another by a communication channel is called.

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Data processing

Data distribution

Data communication

Data encryption

Most computers have two separate memory caches L1 cache, located on the _____________ and L2 cache, located between the CPU and DRAM.

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RAM

ROM

CPU

EEPROM

The concept of sending/receiving text etc, on computer networks is called.

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On-line database

Electronic mail

Teleprinting

Teleconferenceing

A device that prevents electrical problems from affecting data files.

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site license

trojan horse

hot site

surge protector

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

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Coding

Decoding

Encoding

Encrypting

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.

A chart of positions and departments within an organization is.

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A data flow diagram

A project management report

An organization chart

A Gantt charet

The major operational problem of the early firs generation computers was.

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Inaccurate results

Poor reliability

Delayed results

Limited capabilities

Excess-3 code is known as

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Weighted code

Cyclic redundancy code

Self complementing

Algebraic code

Software to peruse the internet:

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gate way

EFT

Browser

Teleconferencing

Arranging classified data in a predetermined sequence to facilitate processing is called.

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Storing

Sorting

Processing

Classifying

One particular use for the abacus is teaching children simple mathematics and especially.

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Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Software that is free for the taking, with no strings attached, is called.

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Public domain

Share ware

Copy righted

Copy protected

Which of the following is not hardware.

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Meganetic tap

Printer

Assembler

VDU Terminal

Which of the following is not used in educational software?

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Simulation

Drill and practice

Hypermedia

All of these are used

A standardized business language is.

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CODASYL

BASIC

COBOL

Ada

Each address in storage has a ___________ number

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discrete

Character

Unique

General

Programs that allow programmers to create other software are.

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Accounting spreadsheets

application programs

Translator program

Word processors

A person who gains illegal access to a computer system.

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Hacker

Worm

Software

Zapper

The size of the printed characters is called.

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Point size

Word size

Print size

None of these

Binary coded decimal numbers express each decimal digit as .

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Binary digits

Nibble

Word

Byte

A temporary lincup of print requests waiting to be printed on a printer.

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Print request

Print queue

Print Waiting

None of the abvoe

What is MICR?

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Magic in Character Redo

Magnetic ink character

Magnetic ink character Reader

None of these

A network type in which all computers have equal status.

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Communication links

peer to peer

WAN

direct connect

A virus that replicates itself is called is

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Bug

Worm

Viccine

Bomb

Research is bringing down the cost of solid state semiconductor storage , which me.

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the cost computers will rise.

Rewritable cards will probably replace most disks and ROM

Storage capacity will become fixed

We will conserve our store of silicon.

Take turn time- sharing.

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Spooling

Interfacing

Roun (d) robin scheduling

Prompting.

A program that provides synonyms is called an

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indexing program

editing program

form letter program

thesaurus program