Question # 1

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

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Newsgroup problems

Physical problems

Electrical problems

Viruses

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

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7

12

13

14

What is telecommuting?

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A special form of electronic mail

a new trend in robotics that may take the place of cars.

A trend towards working at home using personal computers and modems

None of these

A collection of logically related data elements that can be used for multiple processing needs is called.

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Data base

Files

Register

Organizing

When computers are brought into the workplace.

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Jobs are eliminated

New jobs are created

Jobs are up skilled to accommodate the new technology

Any or all of these can happen

Steps wise refinement is similar to.

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The process of developing a table of contents

The development of an outline of a paper

Writing an abstract after writing a paper

Writing an introduction to a paper

A connection for similar networks.

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Satellite

gateway

bridge

fax

The process of converting English-Like instructions to zero and ones is performed by.

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The programmer

The monitor

The translator program

Busses

All of the following are normally input devices except for

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A digital camera

A mouse

An LCD

A digitizer

One or more computers connected to a hub computer is a.

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Ring network

node

Star network

Information utility

A string of letters and numbers known only by the user and the computer is called a

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Login Name

Command

Password

Code

Type of language processors are.

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2

3

4

8

A standardized business language is.

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CODASYL

BASIC

COBOL

Ada

The analog computer deals directly with

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Number of pulses

Measured values of continuous physical magnitudes

Signals in the form of 0 or 1

Signals in discrete values from 0 to 9

When thomas J. Watson Sr. took over the computing tabulating Recording company, he renamed it.

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Digital Equipment Corporation

International Business Machines

Sperry UNIVAC

Social Security Administration

Summarizes inforamation related to a graph.

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plot area

label

axis

title

Which of the following is a major benefit of drill and practice computer assisted instructions

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Students who use CAI develop their social skills

There is immediate feedback for the student

All strudents can learn at the same, fixed pace none of the above.

None of the above

Prewritten standard file handling programs are called.

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Pull down menus

Pages

Supervisors

Utilites

The problem of protecting the privacy in computer system is aggravated by the increased use of.

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Command line user interfaces

Workstations

New CPU hardware

Networks

Another name for a logic chip is.

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PROM

ROM

Memory

Microprocessor

___________ are used for translating high language instructions in to machines code or an object code.

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Interpreters

Assemblers

Compiler

None of these

Computer class rooms.

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Improve memorization skills, but provide no help with learning analytical skills

Decrease school budgets by replacing teachers.

Allow students to work at their own pace

Improve student analytical sills, but provide no help with creative work

The decimal numbering system uses___________ digits

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Two

Eight

Nine

Ten

SQL stand for.

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Structure Query language

Super Query language

Superior Query languae

Selected Query langauge.

MS-DOS is an example of _____________ interface.

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GUI

CLI

MAC

All of the above

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

Computer follows a simple principle called GIGO which me.

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Garbage input good output

Garbage in garbage out

Great instructions gret output

good input and good output

Relevant knowledge produced as output of data processing operations and acquired to enhance understanding and to achieve specific purpose ins called.

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Data

Fact

Source

Information

When the word processor automatically transports, along with the cursor, any words that won't fit on the current line to the next line, it is called.

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Transpositioning

Word wrap

Editing

Formatting

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 major operational problem of the early first generation computers was.

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Inaccurate results

Poor reliability

delayed results

Limited capabilities

The first computer to use electrical power was developed by

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Herman Hollerith

Thomas J. Watson

John V. Atanasoff

Howard Aiken

Popular application of flip-flop are.

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Counters

Shift registers

Transfer registers

All of above

Which one of the following commands displays the volume label and serial number if they exist

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VOL

VOLU

VALUM

VOLUME

Transmitting a file from a BBS to personal computer is called.

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Booting

Downloading

Uploading

Everypting

Computer operation s are synchronized by

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The CPU clock

Megabytes

The binary system

E-time

Who developed the first automatic electronic digital computer prototype between 1935 and 1942

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John Atanasoff

J. Presper Eckert

William Shockley

Thomas J. Watson

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

The factor not necessary for calculating the storage capacity of a disk is.

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Track density

Recording density

Diameter of the disk

None of abvoe

The history of first generation computers extends from 1945 to.

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1953

1954

1955

1956

Software to peruse the internet:

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gate way

EFT

Browser

Teleconferencing

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

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DES

Identical passwords

The trojan Horse

Data diddling

The information infrastructure of computers and networks can be compared with.

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The railroads of the nineteenth century

The airline industry

Our modern highway system

All of the above

To be computer literate, it is not necessary for you to know.

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How to program a computer

How to use a computer

What computer can and can't do

How to repair a computer

The major disadvantage of pipelining is

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Initial se up time

If a branch instruction is encountered the pipe has to be flushed

High cost of individual dedicated units.

All of above

Which of the following will be technologies in the home the the future.

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Fiber optics will allow cable companies to do narrowcasting like "the surfing channel"

CD-ROM will allow software companies to make interactive movies like surfing in your garage.

Virtual reality software will allow you to explore a surfer's home

All of the above

For many who understand computers, the biggest issue of concern related to autonomous military system is.

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The unpredictability of the enemy

The these systems might not react quickly enough to an attack

Software reliability

Hardware capacity

A terminal program which allows a personal computer to function as a terminal is called an

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UNIX

Modem

Utility

Emulator

What is an advantage of object oriented graphics over bitmapped graphics?

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It's faster

It requires less processing

It allows ahading of individual pixels

Objects can be easily rearranged at any time

Software that translates assembly language into machine language is

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A binary translator

A compiler

An assembler

A link loader

A computer devices its basic strength from

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Speed

Accuracy

Memory

All of above

The term word in computer terminology refers to.

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bits formed into groups

Coded instructions

Memory size

Language used

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

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

What is the standard method of allowing only known and authorized users on a multi user computer system.

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Identification by fingerprints.

Passwords and or login name

Expert systems

voice recognition

Electronic banking.

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Token ring

Mosale

EFT

BBS

The main advantage of hexadecimal number is the case of conversion from hexadecimal to.

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ASCII code

Binary

Octal

Decimal

Which of the following cannot be entered into a typical spreadsheet cell.

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A formula

A numeric value

Graphics

All of the above are legal

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.

A portable operating system.

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Generic

Backup

Allocated

Utility

The software tools that allow a computer to be used for specific purposes are called.

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Firmware

Terminals

Hardware

Application programme.

Registers that collect the results of computations are.

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General purpose

Main storage

Storage Registers

Accumulators

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 focus of the fifth generation is .

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Connectivity

Symbolic languages

Silicon

Memory chips

The best graphic to show the relative proportions of the parts to a whole is a.

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Line chart

Bar chart

pie chart

scatter chart

Which of the following are logical structures within an algorithm that maintain the order in which instructions are carried out.

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Logic stateemnts

Program statements

Control structures

Data structures

What layer of OSI model does data compression?

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Network

Presentation

Data link

Physical

The main characteristic of fifth generation computers is.

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Artificial intelligence.

Windows operation

All of the above

None of these

During E-time the ALU

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Examines the instruction

Enters the instruction

Executes the instruction

Elicits the instruction

The widely used code in data communication is.

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A bit ASCII

7 bit ASCII

EBCDIC

None of these