CPSC 110 FINAL CNU (Hawkins)

When using Google or Bing, what keyword can be used to provide you with a definition of a certain term

define

What word is interchangeable with computer?

processor

What educational background is required to write algorithms?

none

An agent could be

all of the above

What is a UI?

user interface

What is not a common computer metaphor?

door handles

Which of the following is not an instance?

menu (image, song, word document are correct)

Computers do

exactly what you tell them to do

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

click around

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

a copy

What does ^C mean to the user

command+c or control+c

When computers went mobile this popular device became a problem

mouse

What company introduced the mouse?

Apple

Saving information for possible reuse is called

caching

4 computers makes 6 connections

5 computers makes 10 connections

How many connections are possible with 10 computers?

45

What is a potential number of IPv4 addresses available

4,294,967,296

Root name servers

maintain the relationships between IP addresses and symbolic computer names

This is a type of communication that results in sending and receiving information at different times

asynchronous

The internet and the World Wide Web are different names for the same thing

false

What can folders contain?

both files and folders

In order for something to be considered a computer it must have a keyboard attached?

False

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

Punch cards and punch card readers

________ was the name of the first electronic computer, and it was located in ________.

INIAC, Philly

__________ made computers more affordable and allowed them to have more complex CPU's.

transistors

______________ were three technologies that increased one's desire to own a personal computer.

Emails, games, and word processing

Complexity is ___________ to manufacture, through it remains ____ to design.

cheap, expensive

Software is a collective term for

programs

Abstracting requires you to separate information into two categories

relevant and irrelevant

A program acts on ________ and results in _________

inputs, outputs

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

perfect reproduction

Software designer 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

digital information

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

edit

three steps of the placeholder technique

Hide, edit, and restore

____________ is any indication that the 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

All IP addresses of authorative name servers for TLD's are maintained and managed by 13 ______ servers.

route

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

multitask

A hierarchy of related computers on a network is called a

channel

___________ is the main technology for local 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

webservers

In a Web address, the htpp:// 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 customers computer is the ____ and the business computer ______

client, server

When we get files from a server, we are _____ them. When we put files on a server we are ______ them.

uploading, downloading

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

domain names

In URL's _______ are not case sensitive, but _____ may be.

domain names, path names

When moving inside a directory hierarchy, moving _____, and moving down is the same as moving _____

higher, lower

HTML tag names

case does not matter

Space inserted to make a document more readable is

white space

indicate the beginning and end of what

a paragraph

The attribute specifying the blue background color is

style="background-color:blue"

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

open the parent folder

The dimensions for an image on a web page

are set using the height and width attribute

What tags are required for an html page?

html, head, body

What tag creates the darkest and largest heading?

HTML ________ white space

ignores

How many symbols can be represented by four bits?

16

PandA representation is what kind of system?

binary

What was used to help structure the digitalization of the Oxford English Dictionary?

tags

This defines how characters relate to each other when they are compared?

collating sequence

When using physical phenomena to encode information, name one potential solution if there are more than two alternatives

adopt one as present and all other alternatives as absent

Information describing information is called

metadata

Kbits in a sequence yield how many symbols

2^k (2 to the power of k)

PandA is short for

present/absent

_______ encode information on to DVD's and CD's

bumps and pits

Hexadecimal is a base _____ system

16

Grouping binary into groups of four is the easiest way to convert to _______

hexadecimal (hex)

Information is put into two categories

discrete or distinct

The number of digits is the ______ or the _______ of the numbering system

base, radix

Representing numbers with symbols is

Digitizing

People tend to be sensitive about small changes in _________, but not to small changes in ________

brightness, color

Analog information is

continuous

According to the Nyqvist, the sampling rate for sound should be

twice what humans can hear

The accuracy of digitized sound is determined by

the sampling rate

Do GIF files display horizontal or vertical bands better

horizontal

Jessica Simpson's "A Little Bit" is 3 minutes 47 seconds long. How many bits is it

320,342,400

Raymond Kurzweil is the inventor of

text to speech generation

RGB values are usually store as three

bytes

Limit that defines the maximum rate that information can be transmitted

speed of light

Term for converting digital values converted to create an analog sound

interpellation ( entripilation)

_____ sound removes the highest and lowest sampling values as a part its compression algorithm

MP3

Pixel color is solely determined by the _____ of the color

intensity

On the computer, ___________ means to store or transmit information with fewer bits

compression

GIF images are limited to ______ colors

256

A machine instruction uses how many bytes of memory

4

Converting a code that a programmer writes into assembly code is called

compiling

What has made computers faster?

making everything smaller

Which of the following is responsible for input and output?

hard disk

The processor has how many moving parts?

zero

What is the correct order of prefixes

kilo, mega, giga, tera

Modern computers know

about a hundred instructions

Rerunning a program with the same data produces

exactly the same result every time

If this.Opacity +=1.0 increases the opacity, what line decreases it?

this.Opacity -=1.0

Which of the following relies the number of Fetch/Execute Cycles it performs per second?

speed

________ deterministically execute instructions to process information

computer