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Text information in a cell.

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Label

formula

value

cell address

The basic operation performed by a computer is.

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Arithmetic operations

Logic operations

Storage and retrieval operations

All of above

A set of electronic signal pathways that allows information and signals to travel between components inside or outside of a computer is called.

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Data Bus

System Bus

Control Bus

Expansin Bus

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

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VOL

VOLU

VALUM

VOLUME

In Multiprogramming, the process of confining each program to certain defined limits in memory is called.

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Spooling

Time sharing

Program scheduling

Memory protection

The earliest file management systems that required users to accumulate transaction and feed them into computers in large groups used.

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Transaction processing

Interactive processing

Decentralized processing

Batch processing

The date gathering vehicle that permits high-volume anonymous answers.

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observation

unstructured interview

questionnaire

Structured interview

The lowest level of management is concerned with

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Operational information

Traditional information

Long term planning

Strategic information

Time scaling in analog computers is done to make them

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Operate fast

Operate slowly

Operate in time delay mode

Either operate fast or operate slowly

Data and stored instructions in a digital computer consists of .

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Numerals

Alphabets

Characters

Bits

When a database stores procedures or instructions along with data, rather than in table sor hierarchies, it is called.

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Graphical user interface

User friendly

Object oriented

Query format

Which of the following storage devices the cannot support both direct

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Magnetic drum

Magnetic tape

Megnetic disk

None of the above

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

An assembly language uses.

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English words

Mnemonic codes

Os and Is

Binary digits

The factors contributing to static errors in analog computer are.

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Finite amplifier gain and dielectric absorption in capacitors.

Amplifier fall off and phase shift at high frequency

Shunt capacitance of input or feed back resistance and leakage resistance of input or feedback capacitance.

Drift voltage int eh amplifier and current into the amplifier input and incorrect values of input and feedback impedance.

An emerging technology that provides nonvolatile memory chips is .

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Flash memory

PROM

CMOS

CISC

People whose jobs will be changed or eliminated by computers in the coming decade include.

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Factory workers

Clerical workers

Farmers

All of th abvoe

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

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Inaccurate results

Poor reliability

Delayed results

Limited capabilities

Which of the following most accurately describe the hierarchical organization of a database.

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Characters, files, records, bits.

Files, fields, records

Fields, records, files

Database are organized hierarchically

Most of the errors in computer system could be attributed due to

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virus

Programming errors

Data entry

Hardware problem

A basic operation performed by a computer is.

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Arithmetic operation

Logic operations

Storage and retrieval operations

All of above

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

The history of computer is divided into the following generations.

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Two

Three

Four

Five

The name for the screen clarity is.

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Resolution

Discrete

Pixel

LCD

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

Even though it is seldom used by professional programmers, this is probably the most widely used programming lapguage in the world today.

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BASIC

COBOL

Machine languages

PASCAL

Charles Babbage set out to create a device that could carry out any calculation to twenty digits of accuracy called a.

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Computer

Analytical engine

Calculator

Mainframe

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

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

When a database stores procedures or instructions along with data, rather than in table sor hierarchies, it is called.

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Graphical user interface

User friendly

Object oriented

Query format

What are the two main approaches to artificial intelligence?

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IBM-PC /Macintosh

Modeling human behavior/general intelligence

Functional programming/object-oriented programming

PC/Mainframe.

A connection for similar networks.

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Satellite

gateway

bridge

fax

A chart that represents only one value for each variable.

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Function

Pie

Line

Bar

Pick out the WRONG statement

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Information stored in RAM can be changed by over writing it.

Information stored in ROM can not be changed by over writing it.

Information Can be stored in any location of RAM

Computer main memory can be accessed only sequentially

CPU stand for

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Central processing unit

Central process unit

Commercial process unit

None of the above

An advantage to having a distributed database system over having a centralized one is that.

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Consistency is easy to maintain

It can adjust to differences in user needs

All data is entered in standard formals

It is easier to achieve data accuracy

Specifying the kind of input, processing, and output required for a program occurs when

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Planning the solution

Flowcharting the problem

Coding the problem

Defining the problem

Software to peruse the internet:

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gate way

EFT

Browser

Teleconferencing

The most common from of computer crime is.

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Stealing hardware

Theft of money, goods, information, and computer resources

Spying on other people in the network

Writing viruses.

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

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.

A computer based system in which a telephone message is recorded in digital form and then forwarded to other is.

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A teleconferencing

Voice mail

A bulletin board

Telecommuting

___________ means rearranging of data in a sequence.

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Editing

Updating

Batching

Sorting

A group of characters that are treated as a single entity.

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bit

byte

word

address

A data base files is a collection of which of.

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Cells

Records

Keys

Name and address

The key factor in a computer installation that has met with disaster is the.

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Equipment replacement

Loss of hardware

Insurance coverage

Loss of processing ability

The output impedance of an ideal operational amplifier is

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Infinity

zero

1 ohm

10 ohm

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

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2727

3648

2717

3717

This works like a specialized prefabricated worksheet, automatically recalculating as a number is entered or changed.

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Tax preparation software

Audit trials

Mathematics processors

Transaction software

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

The abacus emerged in _______________

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Asia Minor

Central Asia

Europe

America

Personal computer that can use software designed for the IBM PC are called.

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Cores

emulators

Clones

tubunded

The presence of both data and its related instructions in an object is.

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C++

Encapsulation

Orientation

Inheritance

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

An A/D converter does the conversion from

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Digital to analog

Analog ato Digital

Voltage to ampere

Direct to alternate current

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

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SOL

COBOL

1-2-3

Word perfect

Software piracy include

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badge theft

Copyrighting

Program duplication

Data alternation

The most commonly used output device today is a.

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CRT monitor

Keyboard

Mouse

Card punch

Computer supported cooperative work is possible if.

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Groupware and telecommunications are available

Workers have close proximity

Workers live in the same time zone for interactivity to take place

None of these CSCW is a futuristic ideal that, for the most part, hasn't been acknowledged

Take turn time- sharing.

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Spooling

Interfacing

Roun (d) robin scheduling

Prompting.

Why is CAD preferred over the older technique of drafting board, pencil, and T-square?

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CAD programs can produce the initial design for you

Software is cheaper to purchase than a drafting board

CAD Designs ae easily modified paper designs are not

CAD is only used when pencils can't do the job

Spreadsheet program that include macro capabilities.

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Can automate repetitive spreadsheet construction tasks

Are necessary for block modeling

Are necessary to create work sheets with linked cells

Aren't possible in a mouse based graphic user interface.

Machine language is a ........... language,

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Low level

High level

Middle level

None of these

A plan to trace data to its source is called.

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an audit trail

a vector

Sampling

Volume testing

A computer is capable of performing almost any task, provided that it can be

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Coded

Memorized

Analyzed

Reduced to series of logical steps.

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.

Micro processor is based on

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Thermionic values

Transistors

Single integrated circuit or chip

Integrated circuit

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

In a spreadsheet program an _______ typically appears on the screen as a grid of numbered rows and alphabetically lettered columns.

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Cell

Address

Location

Worksheet

The Mark-I was built by

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Thomas Watson

Dr. John Mauchly

John V. Atanasoff

Howard Aiken

Most worksheet include_____ at the tops of columns and at the edge of rows.

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Grids

Addresses

Locators

Labels