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Self-test questions
1. The World Wide Web (www) refers to the part of the internet that presents
information in multimedia form.
2. The two main types of microcomputers are the PC deskop, Which sits
on the deskop, And the PC tower, which usually is placed on the floor.
3. "comunication
communications.
technology"
merges
komputing
with
high-speed
are
high-capacity
machines
with
thousands
of
16. The general term for all the machinery and equipment in a computer,
system is hardware.
17. Keyboard and Mouse are the two mos common input devices.
18. The processor chip, commonly called the processor or a CPU, is a tiny
piece of silicon that contains millions of miniature electronic circuits.
19. One gigabyte is approximately 1 milyar characters.
Multiple-choice questions
1. which of the following devices converts computer output into displayed
images?
b. monitor
2. which of the following computer types is the smallest?
c. microcontroller
3. which of the following is a secondary storage devices?
c. floppy-disk drive
4. Since the days when computers were first made available, computers
have developed in three directions what are they?
b. miniaturization
5. which of the following operations constitute the four basic operatios
followed by all computers?
c. programming
6. suprcomputers are used for?
c. weather forecast
7. what is the leading use of computers?
d. word processing program
8. which is the main board in the computer?
c. motherboard
9. A terabyte is approximately?
c. one trillion characters
10. speakers are an example of?
B. An output device
True/false questions
1. Mainframe computers process faster than microcomputers.
True
2. Main memory is a software component.
false
3. The operating system is part of the system software.
True
4. Processing is the manipulation by which a computer tranforms data into
information.
True
5. Primary storage is the area in the computer where data or information
is held permanently.
false
6. The keyboard and the mouse are example of input devices.
True
7. Movies area a form of multimedia.
True
8. Computers are becoming larger, slower, and more expensive.
false
9. Modems store information.
false
10. A microcomputer is used to view very small objects.
false
11. A floppy disk is an example of software.
false
12. computers continue to get smaller and smaller.
True
13. A CD-ROM can store more data than a floppy disk can.
True
14. supercomputers are particularly inexpensive.
True
short-answer questios
1. What does online mean?
using a computer or other information sources are connected to the
network to access information and services from other computers or
resources.
2. What is the diference between system software and application
software?
system software used to help computer key operational tasks, while
the application functions software to help with specific tasks such as
problem solving, task, or simply seeking entertainment.
3. Briefly define cybeyspace.
terms are not limited to the online world and the Internet in
particular, but also the world's wired and wireless communications in
general as non-physical area created by computer and communication
systems
4. What is the diference between software and hardware?
the hardware is all the machinery and equipment on the computer
while the software or program consists of instruction-electronic
instructions that ask the computer doing certain tasks step by step
5. What is the local area network?
LAN (Local Area Network) is a network that is usually connected by
cable, consisting of a set of desktop PCs and other devices, such as
printers, located in an office or building.
6. what is multimedia?
Multimedia (derived from the multi / many) is a technology that
provides information on more than one media, such as text, images,
video, sound, and animation, in the form of integrated communications.
CHAPTER REVIEW 2
Self-test questions
1. Today's data transmission spedds are measured in bps, Kbps, mbps,
and gbps.
Multiple-choice questions
1. Kbps means___bits per second.
b. 1 thausand
2. A location on the internet is called a(n)
c. domain
3. In the email addres kim_lee@earthlink.net.us, kim_lee is the.
d. user ID
4. Which of the following is not one of the four components of a URL?
c. name of the browser
b. phising
True/false questions
1. POP3 is used for sending email, and SMTP is used for retrieving email.
True
2. A dial-up modem is an ISP
false
3. Replying to spam email message with the statement "remove" will
always get spammers to stop sending you unsolicited email.
false
4. All computer communications use the same bandwidth.
false
5. A T1 line is the slowest but cheapest form of internet connection.
false
6. A dinamic IP addres gives you faster internet acces than a static IP
addres does.
true
7. A bookmark lets you return a favorite website quickly.
true
8. Radio buttons are used for listening to radio stations on the internet.
false
9. Spofing means using fake email sender names.
true
10. Hypertext refers to text presented with very lsrge letters.
false
short-answer questios
1. Name three methods of data transmission that are faster than a regular
modem connection.
ISDN lines, DSL, and IT
and
download
with
intermediaries
wired
or
wireless
13. How would you answer a person who asked you the questions " who
owns the internet?"
Internet is not actually owned by one person alone, but shared by all users. However,
each user should follow the rules made by the ISOC
CHAPTER REVIEW 3
self-test qustions
1. System software enable the computer to perform essential operating
tasks.
2. Utility program is the term for programs designed to perform specific
tasks for the user.
3. Multitasking is the activity in which a computer works on more than
onne process at a time.
4. Flagmentation is the scattering of portions of files about the disk in
nonadjacent areas, thus greatly slowing access to the files.
6. Which of the following are specialized software program that allow input
and output device to communicate with the rest of the computer system?
7. Which of the following is not an advantage of using database software?
True
9. Rentalware is software that users lease for a fee.
True
10. Public-domain software is protect by copyright and so is offered for
sale by license only.
false
11. The records within the various table in a database are link by a key
field.
True
12. QuarkXpress, Adobe inDesign, and Adobe pageMaker are professional
deskop-publishing programs.
True
13. The best-known graphical user interface is the command-driver one.
false
14. Microsoft powerpoint and corel presentations are example of financial
software.
false
15. Drawing program create vector images and painting program produce
bit-mapped images.
True
16. General computer users can design their own web page using
macromedia flah, and microsoft frontpage.
false
Short-answer questions
1. Briefly define booting.
Booting is the process of placing the operating system into the
computer's main memory.
2. What is the difference between a command-driven interface and a
graphical user interface(GUI)?
b. Deskop-publishing software.
desktop-publishing software functions
characteristics of typography and colorful work.
to
adjust
the
c. Database software.
database software functions to create and manage the
database as well as to access the data.
d. Spreadsheet software,
spreadsheet software is used to make tables and financial
scheduling by
entering data and formulas in a row not a column in the
grid is formed as a layer.
e. Word processing software.
function word processing software to create, edit, format, print
and save text
material.
13. Which programs is more sophisticated, analytical graphics or
presentation graphics? Why?
presentation graphics, because presentation graphics uses graphics,
animation sound, and data or information to make visual presentation
while analytical graphics only convert numeric data into graph to make it
easier to analyzed.
14. How are the following different? pop-up menu; pull-down menu;
cascading menu.
pop-up menu contains a series of commands in any part of the
screen when you click the right mouse button, pull-down menu contains a
set of commands that is pulled from the menu bar in the upper layer,
while the cascading menu is a new menu that appears when selecting one
command.
15. What is impirting? Exsporting?
import file is the retrieval of data from other sources and then
convert it in a form that is compatible with the program being executed,
while the export file is the conversion of data into a form that can be used
in another program and then transmitted.
16. Briefly campare drawing programs and painting programs.
drawing program to make users able to design and illustrate an
object or product in the form of vector image, while the program for
coloring allows users to perform on-screen color simulation that produces
an image bit-map or raster images are composed of tiny dots.
17. Explain what computer-aided design (CAD) programs do.
program computer-aided design (CAD) is aimed at designing
products, structures, civil engineering drawings, and maps.
18. Discuss the various software licenses: site licenses, concurrent-use
licenses, multiple-user licenses, single-user licenses.
site license means the software can be used on all computers in a
specific location, concurrent-use license means the number of copies of
the software can be used at the same time, multiple-user license means
limiting the number of people who can use the software, while a singleuser license means that only one user at a time
CHAPTER REVIEW 4
Self-test questions
1. A(n) kilobyte is about 1,000 bytes; a(n) megabyte is about 1 million bytes; a(n)
gigabyte is about 1 billion bytes.
2. The chip is the part of the microprocessor that tells the rest of the computer
how to carry out a programs instructions.
3. The process of retriving data from a strorage device is referred to as read the
process of copying data to a storage device is called write.
4. To avoid losing data, user should always backup their files
5. Formatted disks have lands and pits that the system software uses to
referance data locations
6. The chip microprocessor / CPU is often referred to as the brain of a computer
7. The electrical data roadways through which bits are transmitted are called bus
8. A cable connected to a serial port sends bits one at a time, one after the
other; a cable connected to a parallel port sends 8 bits simultaneously
9. Part of the diskdrive mechanism, the read / write head transfers data between
the computer and the disk
10. RAM chips also called main memory and are critical to computer performance
11. Arithmetic operations are the fundamental math operation: addition,
substraction, multiplication, and division. logikal operations are comparisons
such asequal to,greater than,or less than
12. A group of 8 bits is a byte
13. The extrabit attached to the end of a byte for error checking is a parity bit
14. A tiny electronic device that acts as an on/off switch, switching between on
and off millions of times per second is called a transistor
15. Flash memory chips is a form of flash memory media that plugs into a
special port in a digital camera, camcorder, notebook PC, or photo printer and
holds up to 1 gigabyte of data.
Multiples-choice questions
1. Which of the following is another term for primary storage ?
d. RAM
2. Which of the following is not included on a computers motherboard ?
c. keyboards
3. Which of the following is used to hold data and instruction that will be used
shortly by the CPU ?
c. RAM chips
4. Which of the following coding schemes is widely used on microcomputers ?
c. ASCII
5. Which of the following is used to measure processing speed in microcomputers
?
d. megahertz
6. Which expansion bus specializes in graphics processing ?
d. AGP
7. Which cmpany is the main manufacturer of microphone processors for non
apple computers ?
a. intel
8. Which element is commonly used in the making of solid state integrated
circuits ?
e. silicon
9. DVD-Rs allow
b.
True/false questions
1. A bus connects a computers control unit and ALU
false
2. The machine cycle comprises the instruction cycle and the execution cycle
True
3. Magnetic tape is the most common secondary storage medium used with
microcomputers.
True
4. Main memory is onvolatile
false
5. Pipelining is a method of speeding up processing
True
6. Todays laptop computers can perform more calculations per second than the
ENIAC an
enormous machine occupying more than 1,800 square feet and weinghing more
than 30 tons.
false
CHAPTER REVIEW 5
Self-test questions
1. A(n) dumb terminal is entirely dependent for all its processing activities on
the computer system which it is connected
2. The two main categories of printer are impact and non-impact
3. ergonomics is the study of the physical relationships between people and
their work enviroment
4. A (n) trackball is an input device that is rolled about on a desktop and
directs a pointer on the computers display screen
5. hardware input output consists of devices that translate information
processed by the computer into a form that humans can understand
6. biometric is the science of measuring individual body characteristic
7. CRT is short for cathode-ray tube
8. LCD is short for liquid crystal display
9. A PDL is software that describes the shape and postion of characters and
graphics to the printer
10.When people in different geographic locations can have a meeting using
computers and communications it is calles video conferencing
11.active matriks screens are much brighter and sharper than passive matrix
screens but they are more complicated and thus ,ore expensive
12.A debilitating condition caused by presurre on the median nerve in the
wrist producing damage and pain to nerves and tendons in the hands, is
called CTS
13.The measure of the numbers of dots that are printed in a linear inch is
called DPI or dots per inch
14.A printer that forms characters or images by striking a mechanism such a
print hammer or wheel against an inked ribbon, leaving images on a paper
, is called a(n) impact printer
15.laser printers enabled the development of desktop publishing
Multiple-choice questions
1. Which of the following is not a pointing device ?
c. keyboard
2. Which of the following is not a source data entry device ?
e. mouse
3. Which of the following display standars has the highest screen resolution ?
e. QXGA
4. Which of the following isnt considered hard copy output ?
d. word document computer file
5. Which of the following factor does not affect the quality of a screen
display ?
b. speed
True/false questions
1. On a computer screen , the more pixels that appear per square inch, the
higher the resolution .
True
2. Photo taken with a digital camera can be downloaded to a computers
harddisk
True
3. Resolution is the amount of space between the centers of adjacent pixels
false
4. The abbreviation dpi stands for dense pixel intervals.
false
5. Pointing devices control the position of the cursor on the screen
True
6. Output consist of devices that translate information prosessed by the
computer into a form that humans can understand
True
7. Scanner use a driver called TWAIN
True
8. Optical character recognition software reads bubble marks and coverts them
into computer usable form
false
9. The lower the refresh rate, the more solid the image looks on the screen
false
10. CRTs comsume more power than flat panel displays do
false
11. Computers users have no need to be concerned about ergonomics
false
12. It has been proven that electromagnetic fields pose no danger to human
beings
false
13. Plotters are used to print architectural drawings and in computer aided
design
True
Short-answers question
1. What is a common use of dumb terminals ?
Dumb terminals are commonly used by employees to access online
aircraft mainframe computer containing flight information
2. What characteristic determine the clarity of a computer screen ?
characteristics that determine the level of sharpness of a computer
screen is a dot pitch, resolution, color depth or color depth, and refresh
rate.
3. Describe two situations in which scanning is useful ?
very useful to scan barcodes (barcode of goods in supermarkets)
and print media scan (scanner).
4. What is source data entry ?
Data entry is the source of the data to be entered into the computer
for processing
5. What is pixel short for ? wjat is a pixel ?
pixel (picture element) is the smallest unit that can be created on
the screen on and off or have different levels of darkness.
6. Briefly describe RSI and CTS, why are they problems ?
RSI (repetitive stress / strain injury) is a pain in the wrists, arms, and
neck muscles kareba must work quickly and repeatedly.
7. What is a font ?
letters (font) is the alphabetic character that is read by the
computer as a code (such as ANSI or ASCII code)
8. Discuss the different types of printers and their features
other types of printers are impact printers (forming characters or
images by a specific mechanism, such as print hammer or a ball on the
inked ribbon, which raises the image to paper) and non-impact printers
(form characters and images without the need for physical contact-direct
printing mechanism and paper).
9. Explain the different between CRT monitors and LCD monitors
CRT monitor is a monitor with a vacuum tube used as a computer
screen or a video terminal, while the LCD monitor is thinner, lighter and
more power efficient; made of two discs of glass separated by a layer
where light manipulation
10.What is OCR used for ?
OCR (optical character recognition) function to convert text from
scanned form image (image text) into text format that can be edited
(usually ASCII) that can be imported and be changed in the application
pngolah said.
CHAPTER REVIEW 6
Self-test questions
1. A(n) modem converts digital signals into analog signals for transmission
over phone lines
2. A(n) WAN network covers a wide geographic area, such as a state or a
country
3. optical fiber cable transmits data as pulses of light rather than as
electricity
4. analog refers to waves continously varying in stretgh and/or quality digital
refers to comunications signals or information in a binary form
5. A VPN is a private network that uses a public network usually the internet
to connect remote sites
6. A (n) file server is a computer that acts as a disk drive. Storing programs
and data files shared by users on a LAN
7. The HUB is the system software that manages the activities of a network
8. Modem is short for modulation / demodulation
9. bluetooth is a short range wireless digital standard aimed at linking
cellphones PDAs computers and peripheral up to distances of 30 feet; wifi is a short range wireless digital standard aimed at helping portable
computers and handheld wireless devices to comunicate at high speeds
and share internet conections at distances of 50-150 feet
10.antivirus programs can screen out objectionable material on the internet
11.Any device that is attached to a network is called a malware
12.A set of conventions governing the exchange of data between hardware
and software component in a comunications network is called a ethics of
file-sharing
Multiple choice questions
1. Which of the following best describes the telephone line that is used in
most homes today ?
c. twisted-pair wire
2. Which of the following do LAN enable ?
e. all of these
3. Which of the following is not a type of server ?
d. disk server
4. Which of the following is not a short distance wireless standard ?
b. PDA
5. Which type of LAN connects all devices through a central hub, such as a
file server ?
b. star network
6. Which is the type of LAN in which all michrophone on the network
communicate directly with one another without relying on a server ?
c. peer to peer
7. How do fiber optic cables trasmit data ?
e. via pulsating beams of light
True/false questions
1. In a LAN, a bridge is used to connect the same type of networks, whereas
a gateway is to