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Question 1:    Which of the following is NOT true of a computer?

                         It is a programmable machine
                          All computers are electronic and mechanical
                          All computers are systems of input, processing, output, storage, and control components
                          A and B
                          A and C

Question 2:   If I had 3 bits, how many messages could I convey?

                         1
                          2
                          4
                          6
                          8

IQuestion 3:    Which of the following does NOT describe a byte?

                         8 bits
                          the basic addressable unit in RAM
                          the basic unit used in calculations
                          used to represent a character
                          All of the above

Question 4:    A gigabyte (GB) is used to express which one of the following approximate measures?

                         1,000 bytes of storage
                          1,000,000 bytes of storage
                          1,000,000,000 bytes of storage
                          1,000,000,000,000 bytes of storage
                          1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of storage

Question 5:    Which of the following was NOT true about the ENIAC?

                         Developed at Harvard University
                          Required 19,000 vacuum tubes
                          Required 1,500 square feet of storage
                          Had no moving parts
                          Weighed about 30 tons

Question 6:    The driving technology of first generation computers was

                         punch cards
                          transistors
                          vacuum tubes
                          integrated circuits
                          magnetic core

Question 7:    The driving technology of third generation computers was

                         punch cards
                          transistors
                          vacuum tubes
                          integrated circuits
                          magnetic core

Question 8:    Why did the fourth generation of computers begin?

                         Transistors were introduced
                          Integrated circuits were introduced
                          Metal Oxide Semi-conductors were introduced
                          Microprocessors were introduced
                          IBM decreed it

Question 9:    Which of the following did NOT become a major business focus in the 4th generation?

                         Organizational efficiency
                          Intra-Organizational effectiveness
                          Inter-Organizational effectiveness
                          Global positioning
                          Overall Business effectiveness

Question 10:   Which one of the following statements would best describe a network server?

                         Support applications with heavy mathematical computing and graphics display demands such as computer-aided design (CAD).
                          Used to coordinate telecommunications and resource sharing in small local area networks (LANs) and Internet and intranet web sites.
                          Designed for convenient mobile communications and computing using touch screens
                          All of the above apply
                          None of the above

Question 11:  Which of the following is an example of an Information Appliance?

                         cell phone
                          PDA
                          PC
                          A and B
                          B and C

Question 12:  Pen-based computing technologies are most commonly found in which of the following computers?

                         Personal computers
                          Client/server computers
                          Personal digital assistants
                          Network computers
                          Supercomputers

Question 13:  Conceptually, the circuitry of a central processing unit (CPU) can be subdivided into two major subunits. Which one of the following units would obtain instructions from software segments stored in the primary storage unit and interpret them?

                         ALU
                          Control unit
                          RAID unit
                          Fuzzy logic unit
                          Neural net unit

Question 14:   What is the internal storage unit of the CPU?
                         The component in a digital computer that uses electrical signals to direct instruction execution.
                          The component in a digital computer that executes all arithmetic and logical operations
                          The component in a digital computer that interprets computer program instructions and processes data
                          The component in a digital computer that temporarily stores instructions or data
                          The component in a digital computer that retrieves instructions or data from secondary storage for processing

Question 15:  What is a picosecond?

                         1 thousandth of a second
                          1 millionth of a second
                          1 billionth of a second
                          1 trillionth of a second
                          1 quadrillionth of a second

Question 16:  What is a teraflop?

                         Billions of Instructions per second
                          Trillions of Instructions per second
                          Millions of floating point operations per second
                          Billions of floating point operations per second
                          Trillions of floating point operations per second

Question 17:  Which of the following is an output device?

                         A LCD
                          A GUI
                          A CPU
                          A and B
                          A and C

Question 18:  Which one of the following would NOT fit the typical classification of a computer peripheral?

                         Monitors and printers
                          Scanners and hard disk drives
                          CD-ROM drives and backup systems
                          Central processing unit
                          All of the above classify as computer peripherals

Question 19:  Which of the following optical disks can NOT be written to?

                         CD-RW
                          CD-RW/DVD
                          DVD+RW/+R with CD-RW
                          DVD-ROM
                          All of the above can be written to

Question 20:  What are some of the business applications of optical disks?

                         Long-term archival storage of historical files of document images
                          Publishing medium for fast access to reference materials in a convenient compact form
                          Computer video games, educational videos, multimedia encyclopedias and advertising presentations
                          A and B
                          All of the above