Question # 1

Instructional software is often referred to as.

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Eduware

Courseware

Firmware

School ware

Most mainframe computers are basically_______ machine.

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4 bit

8 bit

16 bit

32 bit

The signals produced by a computer or terminal to be sent over phone lines must be converted to.

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modems

analog signals

digital signals

microwaves

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.

Retaining data for future reference is called.

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Sorting

Storing

Memorizing

Outputting

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

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Auditing

outsourcing

Preliminary investigation

Prototype

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

Computers that ae used in consumer goods, such as cars, are called.

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Enhanced

Software

Analog

Embedded

Which of the following is not component of telecommunications?

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Sender

Office device

Medium

Receiver

Most computer crimes are committed by.

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Hackers

International spies

Highly trained computer consultants

Company insiders who have no extraordinary technical ingenuity

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

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Update

Select form

Delete form

Insert into

An organized collection of information,stored on a disk, like a word processed letter or a program, is referred to as an

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Address

Record

File

Kilobyte

An analog computer can be worked directly with

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Magnetic tapes

Punched card

Magnetic disk

None of the above

What is the name of the process of finding and removing errors from a computer program?

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Scanning

Refreshing

Debugging

None of these

DROP TABLE statement is used for.

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Deleting record

Inserting record

Deleting table

Retirieving records

Text information in a cell.

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Label

formula

value

cell address

A bus line consists of

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Registers

Accumulators

Parallel data paths

Machinie cycles

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

Because assembly language programming requries the programmer to think on the machine's level and to include an enormous amount of details it is called.

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Decimal

Hexadecimal

Machine

Low level

The Mark-I was built by

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Thomas Watson

Dr. John Mauchly

John V. Atanasoff

Howard Aiken

Which is not a professional computer job?

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Systems analyst

Programmer

User

Data entry operator

Control unit is the part of

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ALU

CBT

CPU

None of these

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

What is an expression in a computer programme.

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a combination of variables, constants and operators.

A set of instructions

A set of information

None of these

An area that runs across the bottom of the Windows desktop is called.

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Property bar

Title bar

System Tray

Task bar

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

Memory capacity may be expresed in .

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Microseconds

Kilobytes

Bits

Cycles

A CPU has

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Control unity consisting of program counter and instruction decoder, and arithmetic unit haivng accumulator.

Bubble memory

Visual display unit

Auxiliary storage unit.

If users of different systems use programs with incompatible file formats, they need ___________ to read and modify each other's files.

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An emulator package

Data translation software

File transfer softeare

None of these

Data and stored instructions in a digital computer consists of .

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Numerals

Alphabets

Characters

Bits

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

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First Generation computer

Second generation computer

Third generation computers

Fourth generation computers

The CPU Comprises of.

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Memory, VDU, and printer

Input device, output device, and memory

Store, arithmetic and logic unit, and control unit

Software, hardware, and power supply unit.

Which one of the following is extension of header file?

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.CPP

.DOC

.h

.inp

The process of detecting, locating, and correcting logic errors is called.

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Desk-cheeking

translation

debugging

Documenting

_________ is pictorial representation of a program or software function or feature.

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Picture

Symbol

Icon

Graphical Image

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

When a program becomes a part of the silicon chip it is called.

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Software

Firmware

embedded

Hardware

Charles Babbage worked closely with_________ to develop his device.

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Ada lovelace

Joseph Marie Charles

Herman Hollerith Jacquard

Lord Byton

The person who requests study or work on a system is the.

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Client

Analyst

Change agent

User

Document imaging system include.

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Scanners

Magnetic and optical storage disk drives

Fax machines

All of the above

For calculating taxes, input to computer could be

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Numbers representing wages

Income

Tax tables

All of the above

COBOL and FORTRAN are examples of.

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Machine languages

High level languages

Assembly languages

Obsolete languages

Data is represented on a computer by means of a two-state on/off system called.

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The otcal system

The binary system

A word

ROM

Charles Babbage workd closely with ______ to develop his device.

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Ada Lovelace

Joseph Marie Charles

Herman Hollerith Jacquard

Lord Byron.

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

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ASCII code

Binary

Octal

Decimal

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

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Charles Babbage

Neumann

George

Jack Kilby

The major components of modern computer are.

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CPU

Main Memory

I/O units

All of the above

A computer devices its basic strength from

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Speed

Accuracy

Memory

All of above

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

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observation

unstructured interview

questionnaire

Structured interview

Distributed, parallel computing systems,inspired by the structure of the human brain are called.

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Kurzweil machines

Speech synthesizers

Neural networks

Robots

The entire new system is used by a portion of the users.

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Direct conversion

Pilot conversion

File conversion

Parallel conversion

Which of the following can be used to launch Word Art?

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Status bar

Ruler

Standard tool bar

Drawing tool bar

Which of the following is a word processor?

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Adobe Acrobat

Photo express

MS-Words

MS-Excel

Software to use the internet is.

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Gateway

EFT

Browser

Teleconferencing

Implementation of a program involves.

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Compilation of the program

Debugging the program

Testing the program with data

All of the above

The following register keeps track of the program during Execution.

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Address register

Program counter

Data register

Accumulator

The box representing the intersection of a row and a column of a spreadsheet is called an

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Address

Cell

Axis

Matrix

Data and program not being used by computr are stored in.

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Secondary storage

Cache

Primary storage

Printer

The binary information contained in a computer is referred to as.

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Hard ware

Memory

Program

Instruction

The command to transfer text to another location without deleting it from its original location is.

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Scroll

Copy

Search

Move

A program that can identify unnecessary ward and word phrase is called an.

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Pull down menu

Headers

block

Halftone

People on a LAN can share.

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Printer

CD/ROM disk drive

Modem

All of above

The cell containing the cursor in a spread sheet is called an.

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Active cell

Console

Formula bar

Heading

Unicode can represent up to.

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60635 symbols

56532 symbols

64739 symbols

65536 symbols

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

A digital computer performs its computations by___________

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Mechanical means

Analogy

guessing

Counting

A computer program written in a high level language is called a.

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Source program

Object program

Machine language program

None of these

A fast and accurate electronic data manipulation system that can accept and store data, process it, and provide output results as per the instructions of stored progrm is called.

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Calculator

Manipulator

Information machine

Computer

Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company eventually became .

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IBM

AT & T

Apple

General Electric

What are Numeric constants?

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A set of positive and negative numbers

A sets of characters enclosed in quotation marks.

both of these

None of these

What is a computer program?

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A type of peripheral

A set of instructions

A form of data

A type of processor