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| AppleTalk, NetBIOS, IPX/SPX, and TCP/IP are examples of what? |
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| A _________ monitor can access 4 bit video when it operates at a resolution of 640x480 or less. |
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| VGA (video graphics array) |
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| What computer encoding scheme is designed to support all modern written languages of the world? |
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| On a disc, what is a multi-sector unit? |
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| TIFF is a popular cross-platform _________ file. |
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| A method of having high speed data transfers between memory and I/O devices without the intervention of the microprocessor is called what? |
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| direct memory access (DMA) |
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| What document language do World Wide Web clients interpret to create the hypertext documents that make it so popular and easy to use with the Internet? |
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| HTML (hyper text markup language) |
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| What high-level programming language was developed for the US Department of Defense? |
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| A section of memory used to store an image to be displayed on a monitor is a _________. |
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| This data backup method is used to remove files from a primary storage media to an offline media when the files are no longer needed. |
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| 'Big Blue' is a nickname for this computer company. |
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| IBM (International Business Machines) n |
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| What is the programming language developed by Adobe Systems that is used with laser printers to describe the appearance of the pages to print? |
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| Dot matrix, line, and daisy wheel printers are examples of this kind of printer. |
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| This federally sponsored program was initiated to encourage computer product manufacturers to create computers, printers, and monitors that reduce power consumption. |
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| When using floppy disks, what does HD stand for? |
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| What programs enable musicians to record keystrokes played on a synthesizer and then edit their performances? |
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| How is a microprocessor's clock expressed? |
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| Which of the following international computer software industry associations is a strong advocate of anti-piracy of software as well as the protection of intellectual property against copyright infringement? |
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| Software Publishers Association |
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| What operating systems are designed to allow users to complete several jobs in the time it once took to finish one? |
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| What is the noise that occurs adjacent to the connectors at either end of a network cable? |
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| Devices in a computer can get the attention of the microprocessor by causing what? |
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| What federal organization requires computer hardware to be classified as either Class A or Class B? |
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| FCC (Federal Communications Commission) |
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| This data compression technique is commonly used with image and sound files because the methods used eliminate part of the data to create smaller files. Though information from the original image is missing, the differences between the decompressed and the original file are difficult to notice. |
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| What is the process by which the data in a file is altered to a form that is unusable by others? |
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| This device inside a computer provides the internal timer to synchronize events between system components. |
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| What is WORM and acronym for? |
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| In late 1978, Software Arts introduced the first spreadsheet software for PCs. What was its name? |
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| Which of the following best describes the techniques used to produce text in different printers? |
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A. Rod Canion
B. Steve Wozniak
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D. Bill Gates
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| V.22, V.32, and V.42bis are examples of protocol definitions for what computer device? |
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| Which of the following is a way that two or more people can share an electronic workspace to develop or refine ideas using computers connecting to a network? |
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| This type of input device is a hand-held control typically used with computer games and other applications requiring a pointing mechanisms. |
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| An array of bits, each corresponding to one dot on the page, is called what? |
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| What is the common language of mainframe, minicomputer, and personal computer database management? |
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| Structured Query Language (SQL) |
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| The bus architecture EISA stands for what? |
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| Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
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| This visual technology transforms one image to another by creating a sequence of images that dissolve and warp into the destination. |
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| In imaging technologies, what does OCR stand for? |
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| optical character recognition |
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| What is a program designed to enter a user's system without their knowledge and interfere with normal operations, whether merely to display a message or to cause the loss of data? |
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| A method of manipulating the information in an image to improve visual quality or to analyze information contained in an image is what? |
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| In November 1990, IBM introduced the XGA monitor. What does XGA stand for? |
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| MIPS is a common speed measurement for computers. What does it stand for? |
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| Millions of Instructions per Second |
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| What kind of program has at least word processing, data base, and spreadsheet softwares? |
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| What is the concept of having two routes for data: one for the memory to the processor and the other for the I/O? |
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| This term is used to describe any program, operation or device that transfers data to or from a computer and to or from a peripheral device. |
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| Who is credited with the development of the Analytical Engine? |
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| The trend for microprocessors is towards RISC design. What does RISC stand for? |
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| Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
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| Most word processing programs created since 1992 incorporate these features to allow the user to create more complex documents. |
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| What is considered the hardest part to design on a portable computer? |
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| What is the concept of having two routes for data: one for the memory to the processor and the other for the I/O? |
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| What kind of input was used for ENIAC? |
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| The central point of a network that uses a star topology is a _________. |
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| A trend in the computer software industry is to create _____ software which emphasizes object based compound documents for increased application interoperability. |
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| ________ is a personal computer in a network used to run applications and enter data. |
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| In 1949, a Cambridge University team developed the world's first large scale computer designed to store its own programs. |
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| These types of computers contain multiple processors working together on the same problems. |
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| This technology provides an electronic world which lets users navigate and view a 3-D realm in real time with 6 degrees of freedom. |
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| What are the 6 Degrees of Freedom? |
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| The ability to move back/forwards, left/right, up/down. |
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| What is the memory range of erasable optical disks? |
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| What was the first computer in the US built for commercial applications? |
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| In computer telecommunications, BBS stands for what? |
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| What type of program is a task based scheduling tool for planning and tracking the interrelated expenditures of time, resources, and money? |
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| What is defined as the number of cycles (in millions) that a microchip performs in one second? |
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| Machine language is a another term for what? |
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| What are the sequences of words, letters, numbers, abbreviated mnemonics, and symbols used to create a sequence of instructions for the computer to execute? |
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| What is the memory range of a CD-ROM? |
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| Who earned himself the nickname "The Wizard of Chippewa Falls? for his development of supercomputers? |
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| In programming, what is a set of instructions used repeatedly and designed to form part of larger segments, or routines, within a program? |
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| What programming languages are ones that approximate human languages and can create more than one instruction with a single statement? |
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| high level programming languages |
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| VLBus, ISA, PCI, EISA, and MCA are examples of __________. |
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| What is defined as being a subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers? |
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| What programming language was developed by John Kememy and Thomas Kurtz in Hanover, New Hammpshire, and has been a favorite with computer hobbyists ever since? |
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| How many bits are in a byte? |
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| In it's simplest form, a computer has two parts. What are they? |
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| A ______ is a power conditioning and supply system that affords protections against short term power outages. |
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| uninterruptable power supply |
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| Pascal was created in the late 1960s in an effort to improve on ALGOL. Who developed the popular computer programming language? |
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| What kind of error is a "syntax" error in computer programming? |
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| What is the small, fast memory unit that temporarily holds data in transit between the CPU and main memory? |
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| In 1965, Ulrich Steinhilpher, an IBM employee in Germany, coined a term for the electronic manipulation of words: Textverarbeitund. Translated into english, what does this mean? |
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| What is the only language a computer understands? |
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| A ________ converts the mnemonics of the assembly language directly into binary sequences of machine code. |
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| What type of computer network can be configured such that each node can act as both a client and a server to the other nodes of the network? |
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| _______, founded by Finis Conner and Alan Shugart, introduced the first 5.25 inch hard disk drive in 1979. The company still exists today and is one of the major hard disk manufacturers of the world. |
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| A group of related bytes stored on a magnetic tape is known as a _______. |
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| What is a program that converts a high-level programming language into machine code? |
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| What type of memory can be manipulated by the memory-management software to look and act like conventional memory for computers using MS-DOS or a compatible operating system? |
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| Vector processing is measure in: |
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| In what decade was the floppy disk introduced? |
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| What part of the computer mediates the flow of information into and out of the computer |
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| What part of a 3.5 inch disk is engaged by the disk drive's mechanism in order to rotate the disk? |
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| What part of the computer is the internal pathway for information? |
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| What are the three basic parts of a von Neumann computer? |
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| memory, CPU, connecting pathway |
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| What term describes the way that a computer is designed to handle data and perform calculations? |
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| The size of data operations that an 80386, 80486, and 68040 processors compute is at: |
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| A _______is a step by step plan of action. |
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| What is the unique space of each cell on a semiconductor memory chip? |
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| What type of port has the bits of information stream in one after another along a single path? |
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| What is the basic unit of semiconductor memory? |
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| What is a graphical representation of the steps of a program? |
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