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

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bit

byte

word

address

The part of the computer system which performs the house keeping functins is called.

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Interpreter

Compiler

Operating system

Assembler

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

A chart of positions and departments within an organization .

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A data flow diagram

A project management report

An organization chart

A Gantt chart

A memory chip has 1 K bytes of memory. What is the highest available memory address in the octal system.

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1023

1777

7777

None of these

The signal that the computer is awaiting a command from the user

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Promt

Time slice

Event

Interrupt

What are the three things that can be in the cell of a spreadsheet/

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Numeric values, Letters, symbols

Percents, ranges, numeric values

numeric values, labels, formulas

Numeric values, tables, sums

The purpose of intellectual property law is to.

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Allow the creator to make money

Justly reward mental labor

Encourage innovation

All of the above

Charles Babbage worked closely with_________ to develop his device.

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Ada lovelace

Joseph Marie Charles

Herman Hollerith Jacquard

Lord Byton

A chart of positions and departments within an organization is.

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A data flow diagram

A project management report

An organization chart

A Gantt charet

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

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2727

3648

2717

3717

The person who fills the role of change agent is the.

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System user

System analyst

Administrator

Client

To activate an object, send

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a message

an instance

a method

an attribute

Researchers today are developing RISC processors and parallel processing in a quest for.

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Smaller computers

A society that only uses embedded computer

Speed

Agents

In BASIC,Which one of the following is something that does not change its values during execution of the program?

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Variable

Constant

Command

None of these

A device that prevents electrical problems from affecting data files.

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site license

trojan horse

hot site

surge protector

Programs that allow programmers to create other software are.

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Accounting spreadsheets

application programs

Translator program

Word processors

This type of system software stands between the software application and the hardware.

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Multitask

Operating system

Utility program

Peripheral device

Equal to, less than, and greater than are examples of.

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Logical operations

Location

Subtraction

Arithmetic operation

__________ can be used to transform photos and hand drawn images into documents that are readable by a computers.

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Standard 35 mm cameras

Scanners

Charting

Graphics

A bus line consists of

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Registers

Accumulators

Parallel data paths

Machinie cycles

Pick out wrong definition.

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Access time -time needed to access the output

EDP -acronym for Electronic Data processing

COBOL - a language used for business I data processing

Control unit-heart of a computer

The analog computer deals directly with.

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Number of pulses

Measured values of continuous physical magnitudes

Signal in the form of 0 or 1

Signal in discrete values from 0 to 9

A management information system (MIS) can be used by.

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Only top -level managers in the company

Only mid - level managers in the company

Only low level managers in the company

Only MIS can be used by all levels of management

Binary systems use a base of.

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Eight

Two

Ten

zero

Error reports are an example of.

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Scheduled report

On demand reports

Exception reports

External reports

Charles Babbage worked closely with__ to develop his device.

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Ada Lovelace

Joseph Marie Charles

Herman Hollerith Charles

Lord Byron

The main advantage of analog computers compared to digital computes is that they are more.

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Efficient in continuous calculations such as differentiation and integration

Efficient in handling vast data

Accurate and precise

Reliable.

The concept of sending/receiving text etc, on computer networks is called.

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On-line database

Electronic mail

Teleprinting

Teleconferenceing

An application package is used to.

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Meet specific needs of a user

Run the computer system better

Run the compiler smoothly

Enable operating system control harware better

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

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ASCII code

Binary

Octal

Decimal

First generation computers were characterized by the use of the______

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Microprocessor

Vacuum tube

Transister

Integrated circuit

The native language of a computer is called __________ language.

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Machine

Assembler

Pascal

COBOL

What is an expression in a computer programme?

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A combination of variables, constants and operators.

A set of instructions

A list of information

none of these

The size of the printed characters is called.

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Point size

Word size

Print size

None of these

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

Copyright are issued by the Federal Government to protect.

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The pricing of software

Intellectual property

Textbooks only

The author's identity

A collection of software that controls the overall operation of a comptuer is called.

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Application software

Programming language

Operating System

System software

The programming language that was designed to encourage programmers to write structured program was.

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PASCAL

COBOL

BASIC

FORTRAN

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

In the course of a systems project, systems design

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Follows systems analysis

Follows development

Procedes systems analysis

Is the fourth phase

Multimedia documents can contain.

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Animation computer graphics that move on the screen

Video information film clips shown on the computer's screen

Audio information music, sound effects, and spoken words

All of the above

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.

The major components of modern computer are.

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CPU

Main Memory

I/O units

All of the above

Pixel depth is one of two technological factors limiting an artist's ability to create realistic images with a bitmapped graphics program. The other factor is.

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Imaging

Resolution

Pixel strength

Monitor measurement

MS-DOS is an example of _____________ interface.

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GUI

CLI

MAC

All of the above

Pick out the wrong statement about modern computer systems.

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These are simple and easy to take care of

Even beginners, untrained persons can safely handle them

They requre a highly disciplined approach

It is important to understand the proper handling of each element and proper overall procedures must be followed

Software that is designed to automate the creation of visual aids for lectures and demonstrations is called.

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Presentation graphics

visual representation

Graphics reality

Graphics automation

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

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

Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company eventually became _________

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IBM

AT 7 T

APPLE

General Electric

Who is regarded as the Father of computers.

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John Napier

Pascal

Charles Babbage

Hollerith

Many experts predict that internet will be replaced by.

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Prodigy

Milnet

UREN

Usenet

Excel is a/an

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Word processor

Operating system

Spreadsheet

None of these

The Mark-I was built by

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Thomas Watson

Dr. John Mauchly

John V. Atanasoff

Howard Aiken

The computer program consists of mainly the following number of parts.

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2

3

4

5

The widely used code in data communication is.

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7 bit ASCII

EBCDIC

None of these

A bit ASCII

The problem of protecting the privacy in computer system is aggravated by the increased use of.

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Command line user interfaces

Workstations

New CPU hardware

Networks

A proprogrammed formula

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Function

range

group

cell

Loading the operating system into a personal computer is called.

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Booting

Prompting

Interrupting

Paging

This types of font allow more room for wide characters like we than for narrow characters like is.

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Sans serif

Proportionally spaced

Courier

None of these

Computer ENIAC was built in:

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1935

1939

1941

1945

Which of the following is a spreadsheet.

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MS-Word

MS-Excel

MS-Power point

Both a and b

In preparing a program, desk cheeking and translation are example of.

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Coding

Planning

Testing

Documenting

What major area of artificial intelligence deals with distinguishing eats from dogs in a computer's view?

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Pattern recognition

Expert systems

Resolution analysis

Natural language

___________ is are the most powerful computers.

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Super minis

Supere micros

Super mainframe

Super computers

The concept of relational model was created in?

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1945

1964

1955

1970

A collection of logically related data elements that can be used for multiple processing needs is called.

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Data base

Files

Register

Organizing

Which of the following components is the "brain" of the computer

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Memory

CPU

Input

Output

CPU stand for

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Central processing unit

Central process unit

Commercial process unit

None of the above

Analog computers are_____ accurate as compared to digital computer is.

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More

Less

Nearly same

Unpredictable