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CIS 110
MIdterm Review
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 2
09/05/2013

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The difference between people with access to computers and the internet and those without access is known as the
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digital divide
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tags, when placed on a car can be used to record and track in a database all of the vehicles movements
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RFID
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A technology named lets any piece of of print in the real world host a live link to online information and video content
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quick response codes
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The goal of is to provide solutions to physical problems such as providing sight to the blind
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biomedical chip research
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The process of searching huge amounts of data with the  hope of finding a pattern is called
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data mining
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Unwanted email is called
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spam
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Computing relates to emotion or deliberately tries to influence emotion
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affective
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Being computer savvy means
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all of the above
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The is a strategic plan to focus on the young talented mathematical minds of Africa
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Next Einstein Initiative
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Ports are now the most common ports for connecting input and output devices to the computer.
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Universal Serial Bus USB
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A was the first devices with touch screen capabilities
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tablet pc
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Any computer parts that you can actually touch are considered to be
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hardware
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Is data that has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion
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information
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is the applied science concerned with designing and arranging things that people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely
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ergonomics
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Which of the following is not neccessarily part of being computer literate
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being able to build a computer
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one proposed answer to close the digital divide is to promote  as a means for low income families to access the internet.
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mobile devices
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are a form of permanent storage that can be seen and accessed from outside the system unit and are typically used for CD and DVD drives
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external drive bays
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By studying the data produced by  scientists hope to improve the prediction of weather phenomena.
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simulations
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Printers have tiny hammerlike keys that strike the paper through an inked ribbon
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impact
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A is keyword or term that is assigned to a piece of information such as a web page, digital image, or video and describes the site so that it can be found again by browsing or searching
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tag
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The Internet2 is a project
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to develop new internet technologies
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Podcasts enable you to
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broadcast over the internet using compressed audio and video files such as mp3s and mp4s
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The internet backbone refers to the
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main pathway of high speed communications lines through which all the internet traffic flows
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RSS stands for
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Really Simple Syndication
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In the URL http://www.prenhall.com the portion labeled http is the
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protocol
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If you wanted to keep a written online journal you would use
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a weblog
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The name of the free Internet browser from Mozilla is
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firefox
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The World Wide Web was invented by
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Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
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In the URL http://prenhall.com the portion labeled .com is the
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top level domain
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Which Microsoft program is used to create technical drawings map basic block diagrams and more
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visio
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System software does all the following except
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add graphics and pictures to files
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Which file format enables users to share view and print any file as long as they have the appropriate program installed
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PDF
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Software that does back office operations and processing functions such as billing production inventory management and human resources management is called
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enterprise resource planning software
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multimedia software includes all of the following except
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utility software
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A list of pages within a website that you have visited and that usually appears at the top of a page is referred to as a
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breadcrumb trail
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The text version of a web sites internet address is called the
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uniform resource locator (url)
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When available the best way to remove an unwanted software application is to
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use the applications uninstall program
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You can keep track of IM contacts by using a
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buddy list
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The cell address C5 indicates that the cell
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is a collumn C row 5 of the worksheet
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