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GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Which of the following is not considered to be a computer peripheral 1 CPU mouse keyboard monitor device? A place in a system unit that allows transfer of data between a variety 2 drive keyboard ROM port of devices and computer, is... Computer memory in which user cannot write new information or 3 RAM CMOS ROM RWM instruction is … 4 A group of 8 bits Decimal Byte Hexadecimal Mega bit 5 a Megabyte is equivalent to …………. Bytes. 1024*1024 2 1000 1024..allow particular input or output devices to communicate with the rest 6 Utilities Operating Systems Translators Device Drivers of the computer system 7 The two basic types of memory in a computer are Primary and Secondary Primary and major Minor and Major Main and virtual 8 A non-erasable disk that stores digitized audio information is CD-W CD-ROM DVD-R DVD-RW 9 The process of producing useful information for the user is called Outputting Processing Processing Inputting The output unit converts the data entered by the user into computer 10 TRUE FALSE understandable form The devices that used to give digitalized form of many printed papers 11 VDUs Scanners Printers Monitors are 12 Line Printers that print one line at a time are ___ Chain Printers Laser Printers Drum Printers Inkjet Printers A __________ monitor looks like a television and are normally used with 13 LED Flat Panel Monitors LCD CRT non-portable computer system... It supplies the data and It produces results that It supplies the data and It accepts the results instructions to the 14 Which of the following is not a function of the Output Unit? can be easily understood instructions to the produced by the computer for further by the user outside world computer processing 15 The smallest unit of data in computer is __ Byte Nibble Bit Nibble It supplies the data and It converts the data into It reads instructions and It makes the data into instructions to the 16 Which of the following is not a function of the Input Unit? computer acceptable data from the outside user understandable computer for further format world format processing ____________ is the raw material used as input and __________ is the 17 Data, information Program, Code Data, Program Instructions, Program processed data obtained as output of data processing 18 Which of the following is not a characteristic of a computer? Speed Accuracy I.Q Capacity Any electronic holding place where data can be stored and retrieved 19 memory drive disk circuit later whenever required is _____ 1 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Size of the ________ memory mainly depends on the size of the address 20 Cache Main Secondary Virtual bus. 21 Which of the following is independent of the address bus? Main memory Cache memory Onboard memory Secondary memory Memory accessible 22 MAR stands for ___________ Main address register Memory address register Main accessible register register Optical disks are proved to be a promising random access medium for 23 TRUE FALSE high capacity secondary storage 24 The technology used in optical disks is __ Diffraction Refractive Laser Beam Reflective Number of sectors * Number of sectors * Number of sectors * Number of sectors * 25 The storage capacity of an optical disk is given by: number of bytes per 0.5(number of bytes per 3(number of bytes per 2(number of bytes per sector sector) sector) sector) 26 Rotation of the disk must vary __________ with the radius of the disk concurrently accordingly inversely directly 27 The tracks are divided into sectors whose size ___ remains the same keeps decreasing remains uneven keeps increasing 28 The range of access times of optical disks is generally ______ 20 to 40 milliseconds 10 to 30 milliseconds 100 to 300 milliseconds 200 to 400 milliseconds 29 Which of the following use laser beam technology DVD LCD Flash memory HDD 30 A bar code reader is an example of a(n) output device input device processing device storage device The computer to which a user’s computer connects in order to access 31 PDA desktop computer server supercomputer the Internet is called a Which of the following is not one of the three fundamental 32 speed reliability storage capability high cost characteristics of a computer? 33 Another name for memory is disk storage tape storage primary storage secondary storage 34 Which is not a computer classification? notebook computer microcomputer maxicomputer mainframe Computer users who are not computer professionals are sometimes 35 librarians information officers peripheral users end-users called 36 The most powerful computers are supermainframes supercomputers super PCs workstations The process of allocating main memory to programs and keeping the 37 memory protection virtual storage memory management real storage programs in memory separate from one another is called 38 The primary storage unit is also known as mass storage a register memory secondary storage 39 Which is not a type of memory? QRAM SRAM DRAM ROM 40 Another name for a logic chip is microprocessor PROM memory ROM 41 Data is represented on a computer by a two-state on/off system called a word a byte RAM the binary system 42 A letter, digit, or special character is represented by a megabyte kilobyte byte bit 43 Memory capacity may be expressed in cycles Megabytes MHz microseconds 2 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING 44 cache is built into the CPU chip L1 L2 external disk 45 The processor speed for top-end personal computers is measured in kilohertz megahertz gigahertz terahertz 46 The distance between the pixels on a screen is called OCR LCD dot pitch refresh rate A pictorial screen symbol that represents a computer activity is called 47 pointer icon touch screen MICR a(n) 48 A soft copy of an image refers to showing it in printed output music sounds screen output digitizing 49 An ink-jet printer is an example of a(n) laser printer impact printer LCD printer nonimpact printer 50 The rate of screen refreshment is called pixel speed bit-map speed raster rate scan rate 51 “Mark sensing” is another term for MICR POS OMR XGA 52 A(n) is a device that is used for optical character recognition wand reader cursor stylus MICR reader A(n)..... monitor shows single-colour characters on a contrasting 53 monochrome blank addressable liquid crystal display background 54 Voice input devices convert voice input to digital codes bar codes OCR-A optical marks 55 Document imaging uses what device to input data? scanner bar-code reader icon tablet 56 The pointer can be moved by rolling this device on a flat surface: mouse UPC wand reader interactive tablet 57 A(n)….... is a screen that is lighter and slimmer than a CRT. OCR graphics card flat-panel terminal 58 Another name for secondary storage is cylinder storage density auxiliary storage memory 59 A magnetized sport on disk or tape represents cpi a zone MB 1 bit 60 Optical disk technology uses helical scanning DAT a laser beam RAID 61 The disk storage that uses both a magnet and a laser beam is called hashing CD-ROM magneto-optical WORM 62 Several small disk packs that work together as a unit are called CD-ROM WORM RAID MO The ability to write a changed disk record back to its original location is 63 magneto-optical multimedia rotational delay updating in place called 64 The action of moving a page up or down on the screen is called scrolling linking lurking framing 65 Which of the following is harmful program? freeware virus shareware antivirus Swapped out from the swapped in to the 66 Most recently used data or program instructions are deleted none of them memory memory 67 Saving data and instructions to make them readily available is the job of Storage Unit Cache Unit Input Unit Output Unit 68 Software that is written especially for a single type of business is called freeware word processing shareware vertical market software 69 Making illegal copies of copyrighted software is called software piracy collaboration eletronic distribution 3 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Software that allows the production of professional newsletters and 70 database management groupware spreadsheet desktop publishing reports is called The type of software that can store, update, manipulate, and retrieve 71 desktop publishing spreadsheet database management graphics data is called 72 Another name for commercial software is secondary software pagkaged software systems software peripheral software A record of personal finances is best maintained by using which of the 73 word processing software spreadsheet software database software presentation software following? Information about a coin collection is best kept by using which of the 74 word processing software spreadsheet software database software presentation software following? 75 Which application is not typically included in an office suite? word processor spreadsheet antivirus database 76 Software that is used to make a personal computer act like a terminal is fax bridge videoconferencing emulation The software on a user’s computer that provides a graphical interface 77 URL FTP ISP browser to access the Internet is called a(n) Portable Document 78 Adobe Acrobat files are stored in what format? Adobe Acrobat File (AAF) Document (DOC) Text (TXT) Format (PDF)....... operating systems have the ability to run one application program 79 Single-tasking Multitasking Extra Hyper at a time. 80 The OS uses....... memory as an extension of RAM virtual primary secondary controllable....... interface, uses a graphics environment made up of objects, icons, 81 command-line single GUI multi buttons and menus keyboard to inter data and issue commands 82.......is the first preemptive multitasking operating system Linux MS-DOC windows 2000 UNIX 83 Loading the operating system into a personal computer is called....... prompting interrupting paging booting 84....... is the first O.S that use graphical user interface in 1984. Linux MS-DOC windows XP MAC OS 85 Which of the following is not an operating system MS Access Unix Win Linux 86 In mac, when you delete a file, the file is sent to Recycle Bin Trash Deleted Item none of them …. is a set of programs that perform certain basic functions such as 87 Drivers Operating System System Utilities Translator managing program and distribute memory 88 The operation of duplicating a file in another location is called....... Scan Cut Paste Copy 89....... runs simplified versions of Windows programs Win NT Win CE Win 2000 Win 3.11....... operating systems have the ability to run more than one 90 Single-tasking Multitasking Extra Hyper application program at a time 4 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING....... interface, uses a graphics environment made up of objects, icons, 92 command-line GUI single multi buttons and menus keyboard to enter data and issue commands 93....... is the first O.S that use graphical user interface in 1984 Linux MAC OS MS-DOC windows XP allow particular input or output devices to communicate with the rest 94 Language Translators Utilities Device Drivers Operating Systems of the computer system 95 In Win OS, when you delete a file, the file is sent to …………………….. Recycle Bin Trash Deleted Item none of them ……………………. is a set of programs that perform certain basic 96 Operating System Drivers System Utilities Translator functions such as manging program and distributed memory 99 VDU stands for __________ Virtual Display Unit Visual Display Unit Virtual Detection Unit Visual Detection Unit Standard Visual Graphics Super Visual Graphics Standard Video Graphics Super Video Graphics 100 What does SVGA stand for Array Array Array Array 101 The only language which the computer understands is __ Assembly Language Binary Language BASIC C Language 102 Loading the operating system into a personal computer is called booting interrupting prompting paging 103 The entire computer system is coordinated by the ALU the control unit registers arithmetic operators 104 Some POS terminals are similar to calculators Touch-Tone telephones UPCs cash registers 105 A …… is the actual speed of data transfer achieved bandwidth accuracy capacity throughput 106 A hard disk is divided into tracks, which are further subdivided into ……. vectors cluster heads sectors Swapped out from the swapped in to the 107 Least recently used data or program instructions are … deleted none of them memory memory 108 The Last step in the machine cycle is....... fetch execute decode store A ……………. is the maximum speed at which data can be transmitted 109 performance bandwidth capacity throughput between two nodes 110....... is the amount of time needed to execute an instruction. CPU cycle Machine cycle Primary cycle Main cycle 112 A touchscreen device is an example of a(n) …………… device processing input storage input/output 114 a Megabyte is equivalent to …………. Bytes 8 1 1000 1000000 115....... is the amount of time needed to execute an instruction Machine cycle CPU cycle Primary cycle Main cycle 117 A hard disk is divided into tracks, which are further subdivided into … vectors cluster heads sectors 118 Components that provide internal storage to the CPU are …... Controllers Registers Program Counters Internal chips 120 Which of the following is used to hold running program instructions? Primary Storage Minor Devices Virtual Storage Internal Storage 121 Which of the following is non-volatile storage? Secondary Backup Cache Primary 5 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Only one type there is no 122 Which of the following are types of ROMs SROM & DROM PROM & EPROM PROM & EROM further classification Reusable array of Redundant array of Redundant array of Reusable Array of 123 RAID stands for __________ individual disks independent disks individual disks independent disks A special request originated from some device to the CPU to acquire 124 Noise Interrupt Attenuation Disturbance some of its time is called _____ Partial Component Partial Component Peripheral Component Peripheral Component 125 PCI stands for __ Interaction Interconnect Interconnect Interaction Which unit is responsible for converting the data received from the user 126 Output Unit Memory Unit Arithmetic & Logic Unit Input Unit into a computer understandable format? The part of a processor which contains hardware necessary to perform 127 Cache Controller Registers Data path all the operations required by a computer Extended Binary Coded Extended Binary Extended Binary Coded Extended Binary 128 What does EBCDIC stand for? Decimal Intermediate Converted Decimal Decimal Interchange Converted Decimal Code Interchange Code Code Intermediate Code 129 In EBCDIC, a maximum of 128 different characters can be represented. TRUE FALSE 130 The EBCDIC code for the character A is ____ digit : 1100 zone : 0001 digit : 1111 zone : 0001 digit : 1100 zone : 1010 digit : 1111 zone : 1010 CPU has built-in ability to execute a particular set of machine 131 Sequence Set Instruction Set User instructions Registers instructions, called as ___ 132 Opcode indicates the operations to be performed TRUE FALSE 133 The length of a register is called ___ register size register limit word size word limit New CPU whose instruction set includes the instruction set of its 134 forward compatible backward compatible fully compatible compatible predecessor CPU is said to be ___________ with its predecessor. What is the high speed memory between the main memory and the 135 Virtual Memory Storage Memory Cache Memory Register Memory CPU called? Computer has a built-in system clock that emits millions of regularly 136 second microsecond minute millisecond spaced electric pulses per _____ called clock cycles 137 The operation that does not involves clock cycles is ___ Decode Fetch Execute Installation of a device 138 The number of clock cycles per second is referred as ___ Clock speed Clock timing Clock frequency Clock rate Complex Information Complex Intelligence Complex Instruction Set Complex Instruction Set 139 CISC stands for ____ Sensed CPU Sensed CPU CPU Computer 140 Which of the following processor has a fixed length of instructions? RISC Multi-core CISC EPIC 141 Processor which is complex and expensive to produce is __ EPIC RISC CISC Multi-core 6 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING The architecture that uses a tighter coupling between the compiler and 142 EPIC RISC CISC Multi-core the processor is _____ Memory accessible 143 MAR stands for ___ Main accessible register Memory address register Main address register register A circuitry that processes that responds to and processes the basic 144 Processor CU ALU Memory instructions that are required to drive a computer system is ___ The memory implemented using the semiconductor chips is ___ 145 Main Cache Secondary Registers memory. 146 What is the location of the internal registers of CPU? Motherboard Internal On-chip External If M denotes the number of memory locations and N denotes the word 147 2M-N M*N M+N 2M+N size, then an expression that denotes the storage capacity is _____ A ____________ disk consists of a circular disk, which is coated with a 148 optical compact hard magnetic thin metal or some other material that is highly reflective protocol disk 149 PDA stands for primary digital assistant processor digital add-on personal digital assistant administrator The technique whereby part of the program is stored on disk and is 150 prioritized memory interrupts virtual storage memory allocation brought into memory for execution as needed is called 151 A bus line consists of parallel data paths registers megabytes machine 152 Data and instructions are put into primary storage by secondary storage the ALU memory the control unit 153 During E-time the ALU elicits the instruction enters the instruction executes the instruction examines the instruction 154 The main circuit board in a personal computer is called the fatherboard motherboard ASCII board ram/bus board 155 Which of the following is/are not part of the CPU? Control Unit ALU Registers Primary storage 156 Using computers to design and manufacture products is called detailing CAD/CAM imaging inscribing Magnetic characters representing the check amount are entered onto 157 OCR bar-code readers mice MICR inscribers your bank checks by 158 Computer animation is a form of video graphics CAD/CAM LCD colour printer output The time required to position the access arm over a particular track is 159 rotational delay head switching seek time data transfer known as 160 A way of organizing data on a disk pack to minimize seek time uses hashing cylinders sequential files sequential order 161 The speed with which a disk can find data being sought is called direct time data transfer time cylinder time access time 162 The RAID method of duplicating data is called zoning data striping the sector method data mirroring 7 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Housing all hardware, software, storage, and processing in one site 163 a distributed system a host computer centralized processing time-sharing location is called Transmission permitting data to move both directions but only one way 164 half-duplex start/stop full-duplex simplex at a time is called 165 Which is not a Boolean operator? AND NOT OR IN 166 A markup language called …… is used to create Web pages standard PDF html BASIC Network in which every computer is capable of playing role of client, 167 round peer-to-peer client-server application -server server or both at the same time is called … A ….. is a WAN network connection point that enables customers to 168 cable router switch point of presence access the WAN by making a local telephone call Computer Network that spans a limited physical area, usually ranging 169 FAN MAN WAN LAN from a small office to a building is …………………. 170 Web browser looks for uniform resource locator, which is website’s… code file extension protocol address 171 Which of the following is not a web browser example? Unix Firefox Google Chrome Internet Explorer 172 Which of the following is not a search engine example? Google Infoseek Yahoo Google Chrome 173 The extension of a web page is....... doc ppt mdb html A ……. is any device connected to a network such as computer and 174 router none of them node switch printer 175 Transferring information from computer to internet is called … uploading downloading pasting down seizing interconnection of wide interconnection of local collection of different 177 What is internet? a single network area networks area networks networks 178 To join the internet, the computer has to be connected to a ____ Router Different computer Hub Switch Internet access by transmitting digital data over the wires of a local 179 leased line digital signal line digital leased line digital subscriber line telephone network is provided by ___ 180 ISP exchanges internet traffic between their networks by __ internet exchange point subscriber end point internet end point isp end point 181 Which of the following protocols is used in the internet? HTTP DHCP DNS DNS, HTTP and DNS 182 The size of an IP address in IPv6 is ____ 265 bits 128 bits 64 bits 32 bits both packet switching 183 Internet works on ___ data switching circuit switching packet switching and circuit switching Which protocol assigns IP address to the client connected in the 184 DHCP IP RPC RSVP internet? fiber distributed data 185 Which one of the following is not used in media access control? digital subscriber line ethernet packet switching interface 186 A home page is part of a(n) Lan NC Web site terminal 8 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING The device that reconciles the differences between computers and 188 modem LAN TCP/IP wand reader phones is the 189 Software used to access the World Wide Web is called a server Web a browser e-mail 190 A Web site may be found on the PDA WWW CPU TCP/IP 191 …........... is the protocol that governs communications on the Internet EFT TCP/IP MAN EDI A computer that has no hard disk storage but sends input to a server 192 transponder MAN host thin client and receives output from it is... 193 Devices that send and receive satellite signals are called modems tokens earth stations servers The device used with satellite transmission that ensures that strong 194 microwave transponder modem cable outgoing signals do not interfere with weak incoming signals is the 195 …......... is the medium that is least susceptible to noise. twisted pair fiber optics microwave cellular phone 196 The Token Ring network controls access to the network using ISDN contention a bus token passing The arrangement in which most of the processing is done by the server a client/server electronic data 197 simplex transmission a file server is known as relationship interchange 198 Distortion in a signal is called amplitude noise IP switch phase 199 A ….................... provides a connection between similar networks router bridge gateway fax 200 The physical layout of a LAN is called the switch topology link contention 201 The network type in which all computers have equal status is called WAN a communications link a gateway peer-to-peer Signals produced by a computer to be sent over standard phone lines 202 modems digital signals analog signals microwaves must be converted to Microwave transmission, coaxial cables, and fiber optics are examples 203 routers modems communication media ring networks of A network of geographically distant computers and terminals is called 204 WAN Bus ATM LAN a(n) 205 Two dissimilar networks can be connected by a bus node gateway server 206 Graphics and other paperwork can be transmitted directly by using transponder CSMA/CD facsimile token passing 207 ….............. refers to the range of frequencies that can be used EFT EDI bandwidth WAN The protocol for downloading files over the Internet carries the 208 FTP HTTP URL ISP abbreviation A message to be sent to another computer over the internet is divided 209 hyperregions URLs packets frames into 9 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Internet Switching 210 ISP stands for Internet Service Provider none of the above International Serial Port Protocol 211 A Web site’s initial page is called a(n) home page mother page primary page entry page 212 The first major computer network was World Wide Web BIGnet EarthNet ARPANet 213 The most used top-level domain is.gov.com.edu.net Internet Renewable Internet Ready 214 IRC stands for Internet Resource Check Internet Relay Chat Charges Communication …..convert the programming instructions written by programmers into 215 Operating Systems Device Drivers Translators Utilities the computer language 216 Equal-to, less-than, and greater-than are examples of logical operations subtraction locations arithmetic operations A set of instructions that tells the computer how to behave, what to do Pseudocode 217 Algorithm Program Programming and derive at a solution to a particular problem is A set of logically sequenced instructions that allows to find the solution Pseudocode 218 Algorithm Program Programming to a problem is: Define, Analyze, Define, Analyze, Write, Define, Write, Develop, Define, Develop, Write, 219 The six stages of program development in logical order are: Develop, Write, Test and Test, Document, Debug Analyze, Test, Document Test, Document, Debug Debug, Document The programming language that is used to show pupils the concept and 220 Basic Cobol Pascal Java structure of programming is cal... 221 ava is an example of which generation programming language 2nd 3rd 4GLs 1st Which of the following generations of programming language executed 222 3rd 4GLs 1st 2nd code faster: Logical 223 Algorithms must be all of the following except: Ambiguous Precise Concise Which of the following had executes programming codes line by line, 224 Translator Executer Compiler Interpreter rather than the whole program: 225 The central processing unit is an example of Hardware Software An output unit A Program Additional data and programs not being used by the processor are 226 Output units Secondary storage The CPU Input units stored in 227 Step-by-step instructions that run the computer are software CPUs hardware documents supercomputers 228 Desktop and personal computers are also known as microcomputers peripheral equipment mainframes a program 229 The raw material to be processed by a computer is called information data software 230 A home page is part of a terminal LAN NC web site 10 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING 231 A bar code reader is an example of a processing device input device storage device output device The computer to which a user’s computer connects in order to access supercomputers 232 notebook server PDA the Internet is called 233 Printers and screens are common forms of output units storage units input units processing units 234 The unit that transforms data into information is the CPU bar code reader disk drive wand reader disk drive 237 An example of peripheral equipment is the microcomputer printer spreadsheet A stripped-down computer that accesses resources on a network is 238 PDA supercomputer thin client desktop computer called a Which of the following is an input device that, when moved by the user 244 keyboard wand reader bar code reader mouse on a flat surface, causes a p... 247 Raw data is processed by the computer into number sheets information updates paragraphs 248 Laser beam technology is used for keyboards terminals optical disks magnetic tape 249 The processor is also called the central processing unit, or CPU TRUE FALSE The secondary storage units contain the instructions and data to be 250 TRUE FALSE used immediately by the processo... 251 The home page is the main page of the website. TRUE FALSE The most powerful personal computers are known as a 252 TRUE FALSE supercomputers A modem is the hardware device that is the go-between for computers 253 TRUE FALSE and telephones. 254 The internet is an example of a peripheral device. TRUE FALSE These computers are arranged from least powerful to most powerful 255 TRUE FALSE (microcomputer – midrange computer – mainframe, supercomputer) 256 WebTV is the most common home computer TRUE FALSE An internet service provider provides internet connection to its 257 TRUE FALSE customers. 258 Secondary storage is the another name for memory TRUE FALSE 259 Processed data is called information TRUE FALSE 260 TCP/IP is hardware that connects to the internet. TRUE FALSE 261 Magnetic tape is most often used for backup purpose. TRUE FALSE 262 A LAN is usually set up between two cities. TRUE FALSE 263 A notebook computer is a small, portable computers TRUE FALSE 264 Most users use supercomputers to access the internet TRUE FALSE 11 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING 265 A location on the world wide web is called a site TRUE FALSE A modem is used to accept handwritten input on a pen-based 266 TRUE FALSE computer. 267 A computer professional who writes and tests software is called a(n) hardware programmer librarian operator 268 Step-by-step instructions that run the computer are called programs documents hardware CPUs Commercial Internet Computer Internet Collaborative Computer Information 269 CIS stands for System System Information Systems Systems collaborative 270 Which of the following terms is not a description of a type of software? freeware custom download The department within an organization that is designed to help users 271 help desk browser network SOHO with software is the Complete Interactive Channeled Input Output Computer Integrated 277 CIO stands for Object Chief Information Officer Operation word-processing 278 Pie charts are typically created by using which of the following? database software browser software spreadsheet software software Which of the following would you use to keep track of your daily word-processing database software 279 PIM software presentation software schedule? software electronic distribution 281 What type of software is used for collaborative efforts? groupware vertical-market software software user-friendly software 282 Where can you find documentation for software applications? on CD-ROM or DVD/ROM all of the above printed in hard copy form on the Internet 283 E-mail means electronic mail easy mail effortless mail enhanced mail desktop publishing communications 284 Which of the following is a tax preparation program an example of? none of the above groupware software software software accounting software desktop publishing 285 Which of the following would not be considered to be SOHO software? groupware presentation software 287 A browser is software that is used to access the internet. TRUE FALSE 288 Making illegal copies of copyrights software is called software piracy. TRUE FALSE 289 Users must purchase a license to use open-source software. TRUE FALSE 290 Workers using groupware must be physically in the same office. TRUE FALSE 12 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Software documentation might be printed or might be included as part 291 TRUE FALSE of the software 292 The operating system is an example of applications software. TRUE FALSE 293 The term "user-friendly" refers to a special kind of computer. TRUE FALSE 294 Custom software is specially tailored to user needs. TRUE FALSE 295 Word processing is type of task-oriented software. TRUE FALSE Desktop publishing software is used to manage numbers in columns 296 TRUE FALSE and rows. 297 The network manager is the person who plans new systems. TRUE FALSE 298 Another name for groupware is SOHO. TRUE FALSE 299 Copyrighted software is in the public domain. TRUE FALSE 300 An advantage of groupware is the ability to collaborate with others TRUE FALSE 301 A site license entitles an individual to use freeware. TRUE FALSE As long as you paid for a software application, you are allowed to give 302 TRUE FALSE copies of it to others. 303 A system analyst designs and maintains computer networks. TRUE FALSE A help desk is a place where you can call for assistance with hardware 304 TRUE FALSE and software problems. 305 You are legally required to pay for shareware after a trail period. TRUE FALSE The price of an applications suite is less than the combined prices of 306 TRUE FALSE the included applications. The devices that used to give single or multiple colored images and 317 VDUs Plotters Printers Monitors drawings are ____________ ____________ is the raw material used as input and __________ is the 323 Data, Program Instructions, Program Data, information Program, Code processed data obtained as output of data processing. 335 Which of the following is not a type of optical disk? Winchester WORM DVD CD desktop computer 337 A computer that interacts with a television set is the PDA supercomputer net computer 354 Soft copy refers to screen output screen output digitizing printed output....... interface, uses a graphics environment made up of objects, icons, 387 single command-line multi GUI buttons and menus keyboard to enter data and issue commands. ….............. is a set of programs that perform certain basic functions 402 Translator System Utilities Drivers Operating System such as manging program and distribute memory 13 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING....... is the distance between each pixel on the screen measured in 413 Resolution Screen size LCD Dot pitch millimeters. A....... is a printer that uses a pen that moves over a large revolving 417 Touch printer scanner plotter multifunction printer sheet of paper........ is a peripheral device that produces a physical copy or hard copy 423 Printer touch-screen Monitor Scanner of the computer’s output....... printer is a printer that has a print head that contacts the paper to 424 Touch Impact Multifunction Nonimpact produce a character A....... printer combines the functions of a nonimpact printer, scanner, 425 Touch Nonimpact multifunction Impact fax machine, and copier in one unit 449 Cache Memory is implemented using the DRAM chips. TRUE FALSE 451 It takes one clock cycle to perform a basic operation. TRUE FALSE 460 Cache memory is the onboard storage TRUE FALSE 461 The memory implemented using the semiconductor chips is ___ Cache Registers Main Secondary 471 Computer operations are synchronized by E-mail the CPU clock the binary system megabytes A design technique that allows the CPU to begin processing one 472 pipelining RISC serial processing parallel processing instruction before the previous instruction is finished is called 474 The Intel processor that is used on IBM compatible computers of the Quantium Pentium Power PC none of the above 545 What does an operating system consist of? a from of time - sharing a set of programs a kernel program a set of users 546 What is the main program in an operating system called? Kernel NOS File manager Directory 547 What is another name for an operating environment? Shell Page Layer Supervisor 548 What is loading the operating system into a personal computer called? Prompting Interrupting Booting Paging 549 Which one of the following uses graphical icons? Utility program Page Command-line interface GUI What is an onscreen picture that represents an object, such as a 550 Page Spool Icon NOS program or file? What is the combination of hardware and operating system for which 551 Platform Operating environment Interrupt Shell an application program is written called? Which of the following operating systems contained the first 552 Mac OS Windows Linux Unix commercially successful GUI? Which of the following describes the process of loading the operating Object linking and 553 Bootstrapping or booting Home networking Plug and Play system into memory? embedding 14 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Managing the computer’s Executing and providing resources, such as the Establishing a user Formatting a word 554 Which of the following is NOT a function of an operating system? services for applications central processing unit, interface document software memory, disk drives, and printers Microsoft Windows defines the operating environment standard for 555 TRUE FALSE computers with Linux processors. Mac OS defines the operating environment standard for computers 556 TRUE FALSE with Intel processors. Microsoft Windows defines the operating environment standard for 557 TRUE FALSE computers with Intel processors. Microsoft Windows defines the operating environment standard for 558 TRUE FALSE computers with Unix processors. __________ is a set of programs that lies between applications software 559 An operating system Systems software and the hardware. The most important program in the operating system is the __________, 560 platform kernel which manages the entire syste... The two basic forms of user interfaces are the __________ interface and 561 Mac OS command-line the graphical user interface (GUI). To execute a given DOS program, you must type a(n) __________, a 562 order command name that invokes a specific DOS program. 563 Applications software can operate directly with hardware. TRUE FALSE The term platform refers to a combination of computer hardware and 564 TRUE FALSE operating system software. 565 The Windows operating system only serves home PC users. TRUE FALSE 566 The electrical circuitry that executes program instructions is the operator bus line central processing unit register 569 Equal-to, less-than, and greater-than conditions are tested for in logical operations subtraction arithmetic operations locations 573 A letter, digit, or special character is represented by a code in a bit kilobyte megabyte byte 577 The most widely used coding scheme is: Hexidecimal. Unicode. ASCII. EBCDIC. central processing unit 578 A microprocessor is a: memory module transistor. motherboard. on a chip. 579 What is defined as the number of bits that the CPU processes as a unit? A computer phrase A computer sentence A computer term A computer word 15 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING The two parts of the __________ are the control unit and the 580 central processing unit primary storage arithmetic/logic unit. Memory is also known as primary storage, primary memory, __________, 581 main storage secondary storage internal storage, and main memory. The first two steps that the CPU performs on each instruction are 582 machine cycle I-time called instruction time, or ______... 583 The electrical circuit that execute the program instruction Central processing unit. Operator. Bus line. Register. 585 The control unit consists of the CPU and the ALU TRUE FALSE 586 Secondary storage holds data only temporarily. TRUE FALSE 587 The control unit directs the entire computer system. TRUE FALSE The electronic circuit that controls all the arithmetic and logical 588 TRUE FALSE operations is contained in the ALU. 589 Registers are temporary storage area located in memory. TRUE FALSE All computers except personal computer can execute more than one 590 TRUE FALSE instruction at a time. The machine cycle consists of four steps, from the first step of fetching 591 TRUE FALSE the instruction to the las... 592 Computers represent data using the two-state binary system. TRUE FALSE 593 A bit is commonly made up of 8 bytes. TRUE FALSE 594 A kilobyte (KB) is 1024 byte TRUE FALSE 595 __________ is the protocol that governs communications on the Internet. EDI EFT TCP/IP MAN What is a computer that has no hard disk storage but sends input to a 596 host thin client transponder MAN server and receives output from it called? 597 What are devices that send and receive satellite signals called? earth stations Modems servers tokens Transmission permitting data to move both directions but only one way 599 half-duplex simplex full-duplex start/stop at a time is called ______. 600 What is the process of converting from analog to digital is called? telecommuting demodulation line switching modulation 601 Which medium is the least susceptible to noise? fiber optics microwave twisted pair cellular phone 603 What is distortion in a signal called? phase IP switch Noise Amplitude Two or more computers connected to a hub computer is a 604 Node Ring network CSMA star network _______________. Which of the following provides a connection between similar 605 bridge router gateway fax networks? 606 What is the physical layout of a LAN called? contention switch link topology 16 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING In which of the following network types do all computers have equal 607 a gateway peer-to-peer WAN a communications link status? In which of the following networks are all nodes connected to a single 608 star bus switched ring network cable? Signals produced by a computer to be sent over standard phone lines 609 analog signals microwaves modems digital signals must be converted to ___________... Which device is used to transfer messages between LANs that use the 610 bus gateway token IP switch Internet protocol? Microwave transmission, coaxial cables, and fiber optics are examples 611 routers communication media modems ring networks of ___________. 612 Two dissimilar networks can be connected by a _______________. bus node gateway server Graphics and other paperwork can be transmitted directly by using 613 token passing facsimile transponder CSMA/CD _____________. Which of the following refers to the range of frequencies that can be 614 carried on a transmission medium and is a measure of the capacity of WAN EDI EFT bandwidth the medium? Computer systems that transmit data over communications lines, such data communications 615 home-based systems. centralized data systems. data networks. as telephone lines or cables are... systems. This system allows workers to transmit messages to other people’s 616 Videoconferencing E-mail Teleconferencing Chatting computers. This method allows businesses to send common business forms Facsimile technology Front-end processor Electronic data Electronic fund transfer 617 electronically. (FAX) (FEP) interchange (EDI) (EFT) The most common communications devices all use __________ 618 automatic analog transmission, a continuous electrical signal in the form of a wave. A(n) __________ adapter can move data at 128,000 bps, more than 619 ISDN fax double a standard modem 620 A __________ card connects each computer to the wiring in the network. network interface PC interface Simplex transmission allows data to move in both directions (sending 621 TRUE FALSE and receiving) at the same time. Digital transmission uses a continuous electric signal in a carrier wave 622 TRUE FALSE with a particular amplitude and frequency. In electronic fund transfer (EFT), people pay for goods and services by 623 having funds transferred from various checking and savings accounts TRUE FALSE electronically, using computer technology. 17 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025 ENGINEERING Physical components Programs stored on the 624 Hardware refers to: that you can see and Drivers The Operating System computer touch 625 Which is not a computer classification Notebook computer Maxicomputer Mainframe Microcomputer 627 Data is represented on a computer by a two – state on/off system called A word A byte The binary system RAM 628 Which input device is often attached to laptop computers? Inscriber Graphic display Wand reader Touch bad 629 A byte corresponds to 8 bits 16 bits 32 bits 4 bits 630 A Gigabyte represents 1024 Mbytes 1 million bytes 220 bytes 1024 bytes Fetching, decoding and 631 A machine instruction cycle refers to Clock speed Executing an instruction Fetching an instruction executing an instruction 632 Excel work sheet consists of …………………………. Paints Columns and rows Pens Brushes 633 Which of the following is not an output device? Speaker Keyboard Monitor Printer 634 What is the meaning of (CPU)? Crucial Processing Unit Central Printing Unit Critical Processing Unit Central Processing Unit The temporary holding area where data or program is stored while it is 635 Server Memory CD-ROM Register being used is called 636 The software that controls the computer operations Control panel Application Software Backup software Operating system Which of the following best suits the following statement? It's the main 637 PROM ROM Cache memory RAM memory of the computer system and it is volatile. System software and 638 The two main types of a computer software are Disk drive and Anti-virus Windows and mac Os Linux and Unix Application software The device that takes data from user and convert it into form that can 639 Pointing device Storage device Output device Input device be easily understandable by computer is 640 …………………… performs arithmetic or logical operations on data. Application software Input devices ALU RAM 641 ……………… is not an application software. Photoshop Android O.S Antivirus M.S word 642 The speed of a microprocessor is measured by Giga hertz Giga byte Mega byte Mbps 643 Group of sectors that used to store the data on the disk drive: Track Cluster Utility Index The process of converting text, numbers, sound, photos, and video into 644 Digitization Booting Revolution Compiling data that can be processed by... 645 A file of size 5 megabytes contains ……………. bytes 5 x 1024 x 1024 5 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 5 x 1024 5 If the size of a given hard disk size is 1 Terabytes, this means it is 646 1024 Gigabytes 1024 Megabits 1024 Megabytes 1024 Kilobytes equivalent to: The brain of the computer. This part does the calculation, moving and 647 Hard Drive Motherboard RAM CPU processing of information 648 Part of a computer that allows a user to put data into the computer Software Output Device Operating System Input Device 18 𝙁𝘼™_IT_1000_QB 30 GEN001 - Introduction to Information Communication Tech FARES HELAIL 2024-2025