Final Exam Ch. 1-4

In order for something to be considered a computer it must have a keyboard attached. (T/F)

False

What was used to make analyzing results faster for the 1890 census

Punch cards and punch card readers

When using a search engine, what keyword can be used tp provide a definition of a certain term

define

What word is interchangeable with computer

processor

What educational background is required to write algorithms

no educational background is required

an agent could be a

(computer, human, program) all of the above

what was the name of the first electronic computer and where was it located

ENiAC, Philadelphia

The instructions written in software are followed or executed by

hardware

What made computers more affordable and allowed them to have more complex CPUs?

transistors

_____,__ _____,__ and _____ were three early technologies that increased one's desire to own a personal computer

email, games, word processing

Complexity is \_____ to manufacture, though it remains \_________ to design.

cheap, expensive

Software is a collective term for...

programs

Abstracting requires you to separate information into two categories: \________ and \__________.

relevant, irrelevant

a program acts on .... and results in .....

inputs, outputs

What is a UI?

user interface

Which of the following is not a computer metaphor?

door handles

Which of the following is NOT an instance

menu

Computers do

exactly what you tell them to do

A good way to learn how to use a new application or piece of software is to

click around

Each time you paste, what is made of that saved version?

copy

What does ^C indicate to the user?

Ctrl C or Command C

When computers went mobile, this popular device was now a problem.

mouse

What company introduced the mouse?

apple

Digital is better than analog encoding of information because with digital it is possible to have ...

perfect reproduction

Software designers help users understand their software through the use of \_______.

metaphors

Open, New, Close, and Save can usually be found in the \____ menu.

File

Perfect reproduction is a property of \_______ information.

digital

In application menus, Undo, Cut, Copy, and Paste can usually be found in the ... menu

Edit

__*, ____, and ____* are the three steps of the placeholder technique

Hide, edit, restore

\_____ and \______ are important to keep in mind using a placeholder.

Easy to type, not used anywhere else

\_____ is any indication that a computer is still processing a task or has already completed it

Feedback

Overlapping windows were first used in the user interface of the \_______.

Xerox Alto

Usually applications from the same vendor are \____

consistent

Saving information for possible reuse is called

caching

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?

45

What is the potential number of all IPv4 addresses available

4.294 billion

Root name servers

maintain the relationship between IP addresses and symbolic computer names

This type of communication results in the sending and receiving of information at different times.

asynchronous

the internet is fast enough to mimic this type of communication

synchronous

the internet and the world wide web are different names for the same thing

false

What can folders contain?

both files and folders

All IP addresses of authoritative name servers for TLDs are maintained and managed by 13 \_____ servers.

Root name

A communication that goes out to many people within a specified target audience is called?

multicast

a hierarchy of related computers on a network is called

domain

Computers on an Ethernet network "tap" into a cable called the \_______.

channel

\_____ is the main technology for local area networks

ethernet

Local networks that support communications wholly within an organization are called

intranets

Special computers that send files to web browsers elsewhere on the internet are known as

Web Servers

In a web address, the http:// is the

protocol

Files are often sent over the internet via a process known by the acronym

FTP

The source file for a webpage contains the \_____ of the page, not the actual image of the page.

Description

In the client/server structure, the customer's computer is the \______ and the business' computer is the \_______

Client, server

When we get files from a server we are \___________ them. When we put files on a server we are \_________ them.

downloading, uploading

Instead of typing in the IP address, we use symbolic names, which are also called

domain names

In URL's, ____ *are not case sensitive, but ____* may be case sensitive

Domain names, pathnames

When moving inside of a directory hierarchy, moving up is the same as moving \______, and moving down is the same as moving \_____.

higher, lower

HTML tags must be

case does not matter

Space inserted to make a document more readable is called

white space

The tags indicate the beginning

paragraph

The attribute specifying a blue background is

style\="background-color:blue"

the ../ notation in a relative path of hypertext reference means to

open the parent folder

To place an image on the right side of the window with the text filling the area the left would need to look like

the dimensions for an image on a webpage

are set using the width and height attributes

Betsy created some nested tags as displayed here: . Did she nest the tags appropriately?

yes, tags are nested correctly

What tags are required for an HTML page?

html, head, body

If you want to display an image without any text around it, you should nest it inside of which tag(s)?

The \____ tag is a way to get more than one consecutive space in line of a web page

\_____ tags are tags between other tags

nested

Specifications inside a tag are called

attributes

The src in an image tag stands for

source

To put the 10 greatest inventions of all time, in order, on a webpage, you should use a

ordered list

\______ is the main language that defines how a webpage should look

CSS

is the tag for the heading that is the largest and the darkest.

HTML \_____ white spece

ignores

\______ separates the content from the border

padding