TSA Practice 2

Super Sonic Transport

What does SST stand for?

sound

If you are flying at Mach 1, you are travelling at the speed of

twice the speed of sound

Mach 2 is

the number of cylinders

In a V-8 engine, the number "8" refers to

ohm

Unit of electrical resistance

volt

Unit of electric potential or electromotive force

ampere (or amp)

Unit of electric current

mass

In the metric system, grams (and kilograms) are the unit of measure for

force (and weight)

In the metric system, Newtons are the unit of measure for

art (or craft)

Techne is a Greek word meaning

slide rules

Prior to the invention of cheap calculators, people used \__________ to make quick calculations.

Trade-off

Giving up one thing in order to gain something else is called a(n) \_____.

bit

The smallest possible piece of binary code (a one or a zero) is a

8

How many bits in a byte?

byte

In a digital system, what is the basic unit of information storage (one of these can store on letter)?

1024

Exactly how many bytes are in a kilobyte?

thousand

The prefix kilo means

million

The prefix mega means

billion

The prefix giga means

trillion

The prefix tera means

troubleshooting

The systematic search for the source of a malfunction in order to fix it is called

dimensions

Size measurements, such as length and width, are called

power

Work divided by time equals

Watt

What is the standard unit of power?

Pneumatic Power

What type of power uses pressurized or compressed air to accomplish work?

Hydraulic Power

What type of power uses pressurized liquid to accomplish work?

resistance

Adding components to an electrical circuit increases the amount of \__________.

parallel circuit

An electrical circuit that has more than one path is a

series circuit

An electrical circuit that has only one path is a

geostationary orbit (sometimes somewhat incorrectly called geosynchronous orbit)

What kind of orbit allows a satellite to always be above a particular spot on Earth?

geosynchronous orbit

What kind of orbit allows a satellite to orbit the Earth one time in the same amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate one time?

binary code

What type of computer code is all ones and zeros?

pixels

The tiny dots of colored light that collectively form images on televisions or computer monitors are called

Uniform Resource Locator

The web address you see at the top of your browser is also known as a URL. What does URL stand for?

World Wide Web

In a web address, what does WWW stand for?

Tim Berners-Lee

Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?

bacteria

Antibiotics kill or inhibit the growth of

quality control

Inspecting products to ensure they meet standards and/or requirements is known as

studs

Vertical wall supports are also known as

Dubai

The tallest building in the world is in what city?

distributed denial-of-service

DDoS attack is a \__________ attack.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Name the two co-founders of Apple.

Botnet

\__________ - a network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge, e.g., to send spam messages.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

What does the acronym ASCII stand for?

ASCII

What is the acronym for the code for representing 128 English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127.

Internet Service Provider

An ISP in an

Internet Protocol

The "IP" in the phrase "IP address" stands for

Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart

CAPTCHA stands for