Midterms true false questions

A thumb drive is an example of a plug-and-play input/output device.

True

Only some of a computer's functionality is planned in advance by the computer hardware designers and manufacturers

True

Many household appliances now contain a processor

True

Storing one typical movie in 4K format can use 100% of a 1 Terabyte
disk

False

SSD is a type of computer storage

True

Programming is intellectually hard and non-trivial programs will likely contain minor errors

True

The first step for a programmer assigned to create an application to solve a problem is to write the code for that application

False

A perfect copy can be made of a digital data object

True

 If a program is ambiguous, a computer cannot guess how to proceed

True

Memory and storage are large containers that can hold any type of digital information

True

 If a clock has a round face, it must be analog

False

Sending one Mebibyte of data over a network that operates at one
Megabyte per second takes exactly one second because one Mebibyte,
20 bytes, equals one Megabyte, 10% bytes = 1,000,000 bytes.

False

Today, graphics applications are regularly carried out using special-purpose processors like GPUs

True

Clicking on an icon to launch an application sends a notification of the click and its position on the display screen to the application software. The application then loads itself from storage into memory and starts execution

False

A program that causes an image to be displayed must contain a copy of the image to be displayed

False

A user must exercise caution when changing the suffix on a file name because the suffix controls the choice of app selected by the operating system to open the file, and the app determines how the file contents are interpreted

True

Every record in a database table has the same fields in the same order

True

A router can connect three networks, each using different network technologies

True

Traditional Internet search engines (e.g., Google, Bing, Yahoo) can recommend pages not reached by the web crawler (spider)

False

A computer with a single-core processor uses an operating system to run applications named Appl and App2 concurrently. When the time slice for Appl ends, the core executes a final machine instruction from Appl, and the very next instruction executed by the core will be a machine instruction from App2.

False

The terms sample-hold, resolution (number of bits), linearity, quantization error, sample rate, and jitter each name a difficulty that must be faced when performing analog to digital conversion (ADC) of analog audio signals.

True