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| 3) The File Allocation Table used by most Windows computers in the early 90’s used a 16-bit cluster address. How many different cluster addresses were possible using this scheme? |
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| 4) The 16-bit cluster address became a problem in the mid-90’s, due to the continuing increase in |
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| 5) Napster is no longer with us in its original form, because it had an unresolvable problem involving |
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| 8) The ability of a communication system to handle multiple data transmissions on the same physical medium (for example, many TV channels on a single cable) is called |
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| 9) An IP address that your computer gets from its ISP, and which may be different each time you connect, is called |
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| 10) Linux and MacOS are examples of this type of program, which is essential for a computer system to run: |
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| 12) Copying the text of President Adam’s convocation speech for a satire or parody is |
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| b) A protected activity under the Fair Use Doctrine |
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| 13) Fast access to the Internet from home is provided by which technology? |
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| 15) The term codec is best defined as |
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| c) An algorithm for encoding and decoding digital media files |
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| 16) Web pages with snazzy graphics can be visually stunning, but unfortunately the images may take a long time to download. A technology specifically designed to deal with this problem is |
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| 18) Clicking the middle of the three buttons shown in the picture above |
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| 19) Which of the following is a protocol specifically for getting Email messages from a server? |
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| 20) The number of bits per second that can be transmitted across a network connection is called |
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| 21) When a large organization decides to link the separate computer systems in all its branches and departments into a single organization-wide system, they have entered the domain of |
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| 22) Large central computing resources such as OASIS achieve a very high level of reliability through |
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| 23) Renaming the file “Secret Message.doc” to “Secret Message.spy” |
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| Is not advisable, because the operating system will not know what application to use to open this file |
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| 24) If you were creating a database table called “member” to keep the names and addresses of members of the UGA Anime society, the information kept about one member would occupy one |
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| 25) Continuing with the question above, a piece of data that you collect for each member, such as whether or not the member speaks Japanese, would be a single |
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| 28) All of the following are graphic formats except |
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| 29) Gnutella uses all of the following technologies except: |
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| 30) Excel provides SUM, AVERAGE, and COUNT as useful |
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| 31) This company, started by a couple of scruffy teenage kids in California, made millions by selling the first computers that were affordable and easy to use: |
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| 32) The possibility of affordable personal computers is due to this hardware invention: |
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| 33) If Bob sends a message to Alice encrypted with Alice’s public key, it must be decrypted using |
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| 34) The message in the question above |
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| 35) For what purpose would Bob typically encode a message for Alice using Alice’s private key? |
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| 36) A technology that allows you to start listening to an MP3 music file from the Web before the file has finished downloading is |
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| 37) When a small business becomes successful, it may out grow its business information systems. Dealing with this welcome problem involves the issue of |
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| 38) Which filename extension marks an executable support module? |
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| 39) Several computers in the same household can share a fast Internet connection using this technology: |
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| 40) Which computer language is found embedded in Web pages? |
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| 41) A performance-enhancing feature found on Macintosh computers but not Windows machines is |
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| 42) According to the lecture on voting machines, |
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| a) Georgia was the first state to hold a statewide election using only electronic voting machines |
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| 43) Data transmitted on the Internet is divided into separate units called |
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| 44) These data units are steered to the destination computer, which may be all the way on the other side of the world, using |
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| 45) The speed of a microprocessor chip is measured in |
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| 46) What is the effect of the dot-com bubble on the current IT job market? |
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| Collapse of the bubble has left many IT professionals temporarily unemployed |
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| 47) Two computers are able to communicate with each other over a network if and only if they |
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| In order to improve voter confidence and eliminate suspicion about the Diebold voting machines, |
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| 49) According to the lecture on jobs in the information technology area, the most serious long-term threat to IT job prospects is |
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| 50) The ARCHES computing resource at UGA is an example of a |
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| 51) Which of the following phases of the software lifecycle comes first? |
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| 52) When your computer is turned off, which of the following is stored in the RAM memory? |
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| 53) Which application program is best suited for maintaining the membership list of a church or a city soccer league? |
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| 54) In order to save a Word document under a different file name, you would use |
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| 55) In order to sort the data in an Excel spreadsheet, you would use |
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| 56) A computer program is basically a long list of |
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| Machine language instructions |
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| 57) Which of the following would be most likely the task of an event handler? |
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| Responding when the user clicks a button in a program |
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| In the movie database example covered in class, movies and reviews were kept in separate |
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| 59) The graphic below represents the operation of a(n) |
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| Distributed virtual supercomputer |
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| Which type of unwelcome thing is most likely to arrive hidden in an email message? |
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| 61) Forgetting to remove diskettes from the computer when you turn it off increases your vulnerability to |
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| 62) What happens if two computers in your CS lab attempt to transmit data at the same time? |
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| The two senders each back off and retransmit after a delay |
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| 63) Which technology uses an alternate method for dealing with the problem situation mentioned in the question above? |
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| 64) If you have just finished typing your term paper using Microsoft Word, and decide that the concluding paragraph is so good that it should be colored pink and displayed in a large fancy font, the first thing you must do is |
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| 65) Which of the following memory and storage components has the fastest access time? |
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| 66) Which of the following memory and storage components has the largest storage capacity? |
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| 67) Surprise! You find a nice new laptop computer under the tree this Christmas. Which of the following would be the most likely amount of RAM memory on this machine? |
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| 68) The UGA email system uses a filtering heuristic to attempt to detect junk email. If the mail systems thinks that a particular message is junk mail, it will |
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| Move the message to a special Junk folder, and delete it after nine days |
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| 71) In a Web page, underlined text that can be clicked on to go to a different page is called a(n) |
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| 72) The number of different colors available in a digital image is controlled by its |
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| 73) In which of the following computer languages can we specify a correct result without telling the steps which the computer must take to get the result? |
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| 74) A virus scanning program maintains a list of unique bit patterns that identify different viruses. These patterns are called |
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| 76) Uh-oh! The message shown at right indicates a possible attack by |
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| 78) MP3 players such as Winamp use the following technique to compensate for variable delays in transmitting music packets via the TCP-IP protocol: |
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| 79) A special piece of software that allows applications on your computer to control a graphics card is called a |
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| 80) When a cache is full and more data needs to be cached, the system must pick some data to be removed from the cache. The system makes this decision using the |
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| Least-recently-used principle |
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| 81) Which part of your computer belongs to the operating system layer? |
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| 82) In our movie database example we separated the data into two tables instead of maintaining all the data in a single table. What were the entities represented by each table? |
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| 83) The process of revising tables and entities as we did with the movie database above is called |
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| 84) In a three-tier database, the middle tier is the |
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| 85) The location of a Web page on the Internet is given by its |
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| 86) A file virus can reproduce itself and take destructive actions only when |
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| 88) Distributing public encryption keys is the task of a |
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| 89) The part of your computer that actually executes program instructions is the |
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| 91) Two types of computers that are both large, powerful, and expensive, but used for different purposes, are |
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| Mainframes and supercomputers |
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| the Web site is allowed to store certain information on your computer’s disk. Then when you re-connect, the Web site can retrieve this information so you do not have to type it in a second time. this stored information are called |
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| If you were setting up a database to maintain tourist information about Georgia, you would probably include a table of hotels in Georgia. The information about one particular hotel would occupy one database |
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| 95) Continuing the previous question, a piece of information that was kept for each hotel, such as the price or whether the hotel has a swimming pool, would be a database |
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| Continuing the previous question, when we use the database to look up hotels near Athens with swimming pools, this would be a database |
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| 100) A firewall protects your computer by |
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| In the film Paperback Computer, we see a psychological experiment involving a young boy drinking a glass of milk. The point of this experiment was to show |
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| The term true color refers to which property of a graphic image? |
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| Direct, parallel, and pilot are different methods for |
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| converting to a new computer system |
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| Which of the following would be an activity of the design stage of the software lifecycle? |
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| A compression scheme that maintains all of the original file information, so that the original file can be exactly reconstituted from the compressed version, is called |
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| Which type of software is used to make structured, routine decisions? |
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| Management information system |
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| In the expression the_bad_thang = document.getElementById(‘yo_mama’) , getElementById is |
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| The diagram shown below is intended to illustrate the trend of costs during which phase of the software development life cycle? |
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| To make all the H3 elements in a page be colored blue, you would use which language? |
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| When machine A wants to send an IP packet to machine B, machine A needs to figure out whether machine B is on the same local network as machine A. In order to make this determination machine A uses |
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| Continuing the previous question, if machine A determines that machine B is not on the same network, machine A |
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| Sends the packet to its gateway |
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| A digital video that flickers on the screen might have too low a |
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| A technique that uses a checkerboard effect of different-colored pixels to simulate the appearance of a smoothly changing color is |
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| A company whose business is providing Internet connectivity to consumers like you is a(n) |
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| An IP address that may change each time you connect is called: |
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| Which language is preferred for specifying the color, font, and size of text on a Web page? |
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| 26) “Downstream and upstream rates” refer to |
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| How fast your computer can receive and send bits to and from a server |
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| 27) Which of the following terms is a way of getting Internet access to your home across telephone lines? |
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| Which of the following terms is a way of getting Internet access to your home across telephone lines? |
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| 28) Which language is preferred for specifying interactive behavior of a Web page, such as items lighting up when you move the mouse over them? |
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| 29) In the HTML tag …. , className is best described as |
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| An argument for using open source software |
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| 32) If a digital image is described as “300 x 200,” this would be a specification of the image’s |
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| 35) A generic term for techniques that allow many computers to transmit data on the same wire or other physical medium is |
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a)GIF b)BMP c) JPG
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| Uploading and downloading files |
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| 41) MP3 is best described as a(n) |
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| 42) The computer wizards who developed the first graphical user interface worked at |
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| 43) These computer wizards came up with the idea for the graphical user interface by observing the thought processes of |
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| 44) The person who made the decision to develop and market the first commercially available computer with a graphical user interface was |
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| 45) What is the easiest way to get a firewall for your Windows XP system? |
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| Use the built-in firewall software in Windows XP |
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| 46) The practice of contracting jobs out to foreign countries instead of hiring American workers to do the same job is called |
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| 47) In order to set up a home computer network, your cable modem or DSL connection should be connected directly to a(n) |
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| 48) This technique is used by MP3 to reduce the file size of a track without compromising its sound quality: |
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| 49) The general term for techniques to reduce the size of a file without losing too much of its information content or perceived quality is |
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| 50) In an Ethernet network, if two stations attempt to transmit at the same time |
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