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In order for something to be considered a computer it must have a keyboard attached. (T/F)
False
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What was used to make analyzing results faster for the 1890 census
Punch cards and punch card readers
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When using a search engine, what keyword can be used tp provide a definition of a certain term
define
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What word is interchangeable with computer
processor
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What educational background is required to write algorithms
no educational background is required
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an agent could be a
(computer, human, program) all of the above
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what was the name of the first electronic computer and where was it located
ENiAC, Philadelphia
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The instructions written in software are followed or executed by
hardware
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What made computers more affordable and allowed them to have more complex CPUs?
transistors
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_____,__ _____,__ and _____ were three early technologies that increased one's desire to own a personal computer
email, games, word processing
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Complexity is \_____ to manufacture, though it remains \_________ to design.
cheap, expensive
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Software is a collective term for...
programs
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Abstracting requires you to separate information into two categories: \________ and \__________.
relevant, irrelevant
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a program acts on .... and results in .....
inputs, outputs
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What is a UI?
user interface
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Which of the following is not a computer metaphor?
door handles
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Which of the following is NOT an instance
menu
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Computers do
exactly what you tell them to do
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A good way to learn how to use a new application or piece of software is to
click around
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Each time you paste, what is made of that saved version?
copy
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What does ^C indicate to the user?
Ctrl C or Command C
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When computers went mobile, this popular device was now a problem.
mouse
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What company introduced the mouse?
apple
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Digital is better than analog encoding of information because with digital it is possible to have ...
perfect reproduction
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Software designers help users understand their software through the use of \_______.
metaphors
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Open, New, Close, and Save can usually be found in the \____ menu.
File
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Perfect reproduction is a property of \_______ information.
digital
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In application menus, Undo, Cut, Copy, and Paste can usually be found in the ... menu
Edit
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__*, ____, and ____* are the three steps of the placeholder technique
Hide, edit, restore
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\_____ and \______ are important to keep in mind using a placeholder.
Easy to type, not used anywhere else
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\_____ is any indication that a computer is still processing a task or has already completed it
Feedback
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Overlapping windows were first used in the user interface of the \_______.
Xerox Alto
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Usually applications from the same vendor are \____
consistent
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Saving information for possible reuse is called
caching
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If the Internet consisted of four computers, there would be six possible connections. If it consisted of five computers, there would be ten possible connections. How many connections are possible with ten computers?
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What is the potential number of all IPv4 addresses available
4.294 billion
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Root name servers
maintain the relationship between IP addresses and symbolic computer names
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This type of communication results in the sending and receiving of information at different times.
asynchronous
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the internet is fast enough to mimic this type of communication
synchronous
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the internet and the world wide web are different names for the same thing
false
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What can folders contain?
both files and folders
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All IP addresses of authoritative name servers for TLDs are maintained and managed by 13 \_____ servers.
Root name
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A communication that goes out to many people within a specified target audience is called?
multicast
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a hierarchy of related computers on a network is called
domain
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Computers on an Ethernet network "tap" into a cable called the \_______.
channel
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\_____ is the main technology for local area networks
ethernet
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Local networks that support communications wholly within an organization are called
intranets
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Special computers that send files to web browsers elsewhere on the internet are known as
Web Servers
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In a web address, the http:// is the
protocol
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Files are often sent over the internet via a process known by the acronym
FTP
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The source file for a webpage contains the \_____ of the page, not the actual image of the page.
Description
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In the client/server structure, the customer's computer is the \______ and the business' computer is the \_______
Client, server
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When we get files from a server we are \___________ them. When we put files on a server we are \_________ them.
downloading, uploading
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Instead of typing in the IP address, we use symbolic names, which are also called
domain names
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In URL's, ____ *are not case sensitive, but ____* may be case sensitive
Domain names, pathnames
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When moving inside of a directory hierarchy, moving up is the same as moving \______, and moving down is the same as moving \_____.
higher, lower
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HTML tags must be
case does not matter
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Space inserted to make a document more readable is called
white space
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The tags indicate the beginning
paragraph
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The attribute specifying a blue background is
style\="background-color:blue"
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the ../ notation in a relative path of hypertext reference means to
open the parent folder
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To place an image on the right side of the window with the text filling the area the left would need to look like
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the dimensions for an image on a webpage
are set using the width and height attributes
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Betsy created some nested tags as displayed here: . Did she nest the tags appropriately?
yes, tags are nested correctly
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What tags are required for an HTML page?
html, head, body
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If you want to display an image without any text around it, you should nest it inside of which tag(s)?
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The \____ tag is a way to get more than one consecutive space in line of a web page
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\_____ tags are tags between other tags
nested
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Specifications inside a tag are called
attributes
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The src in an image tag stands for
source
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To put the 10 greatest inventions of all time, in order, on a webpage, you should use a
ordered list
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\______ is the main language that defines how a webpage should look
CSS
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is the tag for the heading that is the largest and the darkest.
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HTML \_____ white spece
ignores
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\______ separates the content from the border
padding