Question # 1

_____________ are programs which are written to cause computers to function in a desired way.

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Hardware

Instruction

Software

Sorting

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 first high level language to be introduced was.

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COBOL

FORTRAN

PASCAL

ADA

A conceptual error in a program is a/an

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Logical error

Execution error

Syntactical error

None of these

The first few working computers.

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Were all made by American scientists

Were used almost exclusively for text processing

Generally had back and white CRT screens

Were, for the most part, developed for wartime uses.

What is the best reason for using a simulation to model long range movements of the Earth's continents?

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The speed of simulation

Operator safety

The simulation is less work

Simulations are always occurate

In the computer world the word digital mean information that in an.

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Discrete units

Units that can be counted

Continous, smooth form

a and b

A computer cime in which money is embezzled in small amount over time is.

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The salami technique

The Trojan Horse

Blue collar crime

Data diddling

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

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Storing

Sorting

Processing

Classifying

Software program designed to be managed, rather than manipulated by the user, are called.

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Icons

knowledge workers

Enablers

Agents

Three major issue that have an impact on the success of successes of educational technology.

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Money, teacher training, motivation of students.

Money, teacher training, restructuring of schools.

Geographical location of school,parental communitment, student interest.

IQ of the students teacher interest, student involvemnt.

A proprogrammed formula

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Function

range

group

cell

The disadvantages of analog computer over the digital computer lies in its.

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Set up being closely resembling the physical system

Having parallel struc

Being readily tied up with a physical system without uinsg expensive inter phase.

Need for scaling, limited number of units, limited accuracy

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

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Auditing

outsourcing

Preliminary investigation

Prototype

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

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Windows

Menu

Icons

GUIs

Which SQL statements is used for changing the values of specified fields?

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Update

Select form

Delete form

Insert into

The lowest level of programming language is.

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Nonprocedural language

Assembly language

BASIC

Machine language

Computer that used transistors by transferring electricity across a resistor were considered to be.

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First generation

Second generation

Third generation

Fourth generation

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

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Newsgroup problems

Physical problems

Electrical problems

Viruses

Unicode can represent up to.

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60635 symbols

56532 symbols

64739 symbols

65536 symbols

the abacus emerged about__________ years ago in Asia Minor.

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4,000

5,000

6,000

7,000

The evolution of computer software can be summarized as the following sequence of developments

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Natural language, algorithm and electronic mail

Algorithm natural language and programming language

Machine language, assembly language, and high level langauge

Instructions , assembly language and MS work

According to Alan Kay of Apple Computer, what is the best way to predict the future.

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Invent it

Look at the major research tabs.

Project current trends into the future.

Figure out what made past products successful.

What is the turing test?

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A spreadsheet cross -check

A test for machine cognition

A database selection rule

A test for electronics reliability

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

Formula can be applied on:

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Values

Labels

Unmerged cells

None of the above

Communication circuits tht transmit data in both directions but not at the same time are operating in

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Simplex mode

Half Duplex mode

Full Duplex mode

None of above

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

In 1945 Arthur C, Clarke predicated that satellites would.

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Replace many telephone cables

Replace radio towere

Allows electronic signals to be beamed oceans

All of the above

When the control unit directs the ALU to perform an operation on the data, the machine cycle is involved in the.

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First steps

Third steps

Second steips

Fourth steps

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.

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

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Register

CPU

Accumulator

Bus line

Electronic banking.

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Token ring

Mosale

EFT

BBS

Architecture of modern computers is similar to a counting machine designed by.

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Charles Babbage

Neumann

George

Jack Kilby

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.

The Media Access Control sublayer resides in which OSI layer?

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Physical

Data link

Net work

Transport

The heart of a digital computer is.

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Control unit

Memory unit

Logic unit

Visual display unit

Error reports are an example of.

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Scheduled report

On demand reports

Exception reports

External reports

What is MICR?

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Magic in Character Redo

Magnetic ink character

Magnetic ink character Reader

None of these

Productivity tools that help computer users solve problems are called.

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Systems software programs

Translator program

Application program

None of above

Which of the following is decreasing as computer technology progresses.

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Hardware reliability

Efficiency

Speed

Hardware cost.

The clock speed of a computer is measured in.

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Megahertz

Kilobytes

Megabytes

Binary digits

What is an expression in a computer programme?

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A combination of variables, constants and operators.

A set of instructions

A list of information

none of these

Program maintenance means.

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Maintaining a program exactly the way it was initially developed

Changing a program due to changes in the organization

A dopting an altogether new program

Removing the errors from a program

A collection of related fields in data organizing is called.

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Group

Register

File

Record

Today, the most popular desktop computing environments are.

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MS-DOS , Macintosh, and Windows

OS/2 , UNIX, and MS-DOS

PS/2 , OS/2, and UNIX

MS-DOS , P(C) DOS, and BASIC

When a secretary is moved from a job that involves filing, dictation, and reception work to a repetitive keyboarding job, it is called.

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up skilling

Computer monitoring

Information overload

De skilling

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.

CD(C) 6600, IBM-1401, IBM-7030 etc. belong to the

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First generation of computer

Second generation computer

Third generation computer

Fourth generation computer

Excess-3 code is known as

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Weighted code

Cyclic redundancy code

Self complementing

Algebraic code

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

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The second phase

The preliminary investigation

The system development

The system analyst

A digital computer performs its computations by___________

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Mechanical means

Analogy

guessing

Counting

Monochrome graphics programs are efficient and easy to learn but limited in their ability to produce.

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Realistic images

Simulated shades of gray

One bit graphics

Single colors

Smart cards

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Have a microprocessor and memory in them

Are currently only used for checking and credit card services

a and b

None of these

An ___________ is also defined as a set of mathematically meaningful symbols, letters and numbers.

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Documentation

Expression

Programme

none of these

Parallel processing is normally under

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Batch processing Mode

On-line processing mode

Batch and online mode

None of above

The history of computer is divided into the following generations.

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Two

Three

Four

Five

A set of software tools for automated design is called.

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Prototypes

Data flow diagrams

CASE

Ganit clrarts

Selling information about people is.

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Always against the law in the UNited States.

Highly unethical in a capitalist society

A contradiction of terms information can't sold

An increasingly important aspect of modern business

The memory area for programs with highest priority.

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Frames

Foreground

Page table

Dafault drive

In time division Multiplexing

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Time is doubled between bits of a byte

Time slicing at CPU level takes place

Total time available in the channel is divided between several useres and each user is allotted a time slice

None of these

While the details of the querying process vary, this is consistent from database program to database program.

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Software applications

Documentation

Underlying logic

User interface

Tool to change PROM chips are called.

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Chip kits

RAM Burners

PROM Burner

None of these

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

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Ring network

Node

Information utility

Star network

First generation computers were characterized by the use of the______

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Microprocessor

Vacuum tube

Transister

Integrated circuit

The abacus emerged in _______________

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Asia Minor

Central Asia

Europe

America

Charles Babbage worked closely with_________ to develop his device.

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Ada lovelace

Joseph Marie Charles

Herman Hollerith Jacquard

Lord Byton

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

Excel is a/an

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Word processor

Operating system

Spreadsheet

None of these

Data items are generally classified into which type of codes

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Numeric

Alphanumeric

Character

All of the above

In preparing a program, one should first.

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Plan the solution

Code the program

Document the problem

Define the problem