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Phase one of a system project involves

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A system survey

Data gathering

A system analysis

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What is the standard method of allowing only known and authorized users on a multi user computer system.

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Identification by fingerprints.

Passwords and or login name

Expert systems

voice recognition

The arrangement in which most of the processing is done by the server.

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Simplex transmission

Electronic data interchange

File server

Client/Server

During E-time the ALU

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Examines the instruction

Enters the instruction

Executes the instruction

Elicits the instruction

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

What is MICR?

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Magic in Character Redo

Magnetic ink character

Magnetic ink character Reader

None of these

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.

Electronic banking.

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Token ring

Mosale

EFT

BBS

In desktop publishing systems, this software is used to combine the source documents into a coherent, visually appealing publication.

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Page layout software

Database software

Spreadsheet software

Telecommunication software

Type of language processors are.

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2

3

4

8

The smallest unit of information is an

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Byte

Element

Bit

Atom

A built in number that identifies a location in storage.

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Character

word

byte

address

K Represents.

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100010

210

102410

10002

Testing of each individual program or module is called.

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Program testing

Volume testing

System testing

Unit testing

The closest thing the United States has to a national telecommunications network is.

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Minitel

E-mail

Internet

Arpanet

The faster type of ADC is.

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Time intervel

Parallel

Closed loop

Successive

Base 8 is often used in computing because

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There are 8 bit in a byte

Calculations become casier by using base 8

Electronic circuits can be made economically

It can represent long string of binary I's in a more compact form.

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

The computer process Raw data into______

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Number sheets

Updates

Paragraphs

Information

The program that uses a personal computer to transform written words into polished, printed publicatios is called.

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A spreadsheet

Telecommunications

Desktop publishing

A database

The focus of the fifth generation is .

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Connectivity

Symbolic languages

Silicon

Memory chips

At the beginning of the instruction cycle, the contents of the instruction Register specify.

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Operand for the instruction being executed.

Instruction itself

Operand for the instruction to be executed next

None of the above

One or more computers connected to a hub computer is a.

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Ring network

node

Star network

Information utility

In spreadsheet program the active cell is the cell that.

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Is still empty

Contains data or text

Is doing acrobics

Can be modified

Programming and testing are elements of

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systems analysis

System development

systems design

Implementation

The result of a formula in a cell

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Label

range

Value

Displayed value

Computer operation s are synchronized by

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The CPU clock

Megabytes

The binary system

E-time

Which of the following are logical structures within an algorithm that maintain the order in which instructions are carried out.

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Logic stateemnts

Program statements

Control structures

Data structures

Another name for an antivirus:

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Vaccine

Worm

Trojan Horse

DES

The software tools that allow a computer to be used for specific purposes are called.

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Firmware

Terminals

Hardware

Application programme.

A hybrid computer is the one having combined properties of.

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Super and microcompuers

Mini and microcomputers

Analog and digital computers

None of the above

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

A disabled student uses a computer and modem to earn a college degree without leaving home. This is an example of

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Visualization

Distance learning

CAD/CAM

Virtual reality

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

NOS refers to

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The default drive

Booting

Operating system for a network

Roun ,robin scheduling

The binary addition, (1+1) will result in

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0

1

0 with no carry

1 with 1 carry

0 with 1 carry

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

Which of the following lists best describe the advantages of electronic mail.

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Quick, time shifted, usually has graphics, cheap

Long distance, quick, time shifted, can send data

Communicates attitude, can send data, time shifted popular

Trouble free, quick, time shifted, usually has a voice

When the word processor automatically transports, along with the cursor, any words that won't fit on the current line to the next line, it is called.

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Transpositioning

Word wrap

Editing

Formatting

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

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Inaccurate results

Poor reliability

delayed results

Limited capabilities

One particular use for the abacus is teaching children simple mathematics and especially.

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Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Which of the the following is an e-mail client?

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Internet explorer

Out explorer

Google

None of the abvoe

When a user issues a command to find all the records that match a set of criteria, it is called a.

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Merge

File

Query

Sort

All of the following are normally input devices except for

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A digital camera

A mouse

An LCD

A digitizer

To be computer literate, it is not necessary for you to know.

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How to program a computer

How to use a computer

What computer can and can't do

How to repair a computer

Four digit binary number 1011 is represented in the decimal system by.

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7

9

11

13

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

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Hardware

Instruction

Software

Sorting

When you are buying a typical computer software package, you are not actually buying the software, Instead you are buying a.

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Warranty

Software licence

Patent

Copy right

A standardized business language is.

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CODASYL

BASIC

COBOL

Ada

___________ is an external example of hardware.

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Monitor

Sound card

Modem

None of these

Diodes are used in analog computer circuit as

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Phase shifter

Rectifler

Binary logic

Limiter

The process of converting English-Like instructions to zero and ones is performed by.

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The programmer

The monitor

The translator program

Busses

Which of the following writer's tools is not available in a computer software form?

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Thesaurus

Dictionary

Outliner

All of these are available as software

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

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The second phase

The preliminary investigation

The system development

The system analyst

The digit used for hexadecimal number system are.

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A trough Z

1 through 16

0 through 15

0 through and A through F

Smallest unit of memory is

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Byte

Bits

Character

Word

If a disk can hold 800 K bytes of information . It can store a text file of about.

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800,000 words

800 words

800 megabytes

800,000 characters.

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

A type of computer that is faster because it has fewer instructions.

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Symbolic

RISC

ASCII-8

ROM Burner

Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company eventually became _________

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IBM

AT 7 T

APPLE

General Electric

Memory is devided into many numerically addressed.

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Logic

Location

Codes

cell

Programs that allow programmers to create other software are.

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Accounting spreadsheets

application programs

Translator program

Word processors

the abacus emerged about__________ years ago in Asia Minor.

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4,000

5,000

6,000

7,000

First generation computers were characterized by the use of the .

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Microprocessor

Vacuum tube

Transistor

Integrated circuit

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

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Low level

High level

Middle level

None of these

The hexadecimal number system is widely used in analyzing and programming in.

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Analog computer

Binary computer

micro computer

decimal computer

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

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Cores

emulators

Clones

tubunded

The highest level language are called.

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4 GLs

High level

Assembly

Natural

A physical system can be modeled by a set of

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Boolean equations

Logic equations

Differential equations

Linear algebraic equations

An empty shell in which a company may embedded chip to signal its wearer's location.

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hot site

Cold site

Restoration site

Hard ware

Which of the following is not hardware.

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Meganetic tap

Printer

Assembler

VDU Terminal