COC3400 EXAM 1 SPRING 2004

DR. G.HASKINS FORM A

Please select the BEST answer to each of the following questions on the basis of material covered in class, the assignments, and the classroom movie.

Which of the following was NOT mentioned in lecture as a way to predict the future?

a. keep up on internet newsgroups b. look at current research

c. invent it yourself

d. consider the stages which developing technology passes through

e. all the above were mentioned

The first successful use of punched cards for processing data was the:

a.Pascaline b.Census machine c.Jacquard loom

d.Difference engine e.Analytical engine

The person credited with being the first programmer is:

a. Babbage b. Ada c. Von Neumann d. Mauchley e. Atanasoff

Which event below was NOT discussed in lecture as a turning point in the history of technology?

a. The beginning of the social security system in the US

b. The invention of the printing press

c. The push to put a man on the moon

d. The social security act

e. The first world war

The Gogator Auto parts store sends out billing statements monthly. On the last day of the month, the billing system prints a statement for every customer with an outstanding balance, This type of processing is best described as _______ processing.

a.interactive b.remote c.batch d.direct e.transaction

The inventor of the first large-scale electronic digital computer was:

a. Babbage b. Ada c. Von Neumann d. Mauchley & Eckert

e. Atanasoff

7. If you wanted to connect the LAN on the 2nd floor of CSE with the LAN on the 1st floor of the Architecture building, you would need a:

a. modem b.gateway c. bridge d. router WAN

8. The type of storage that can be described as volatile is:

A. secondary storage. B. RAM. C. disk storage.

D. ROM. E. external storage.

9. What is the POSITION VALUE associated with the digit "1" in the binary number 00100?

A.1

B.2

C.4

D.8

E.none of the above

10. The multiplication of two numbers takes place in (the):

a. control unit b.number conversion unit c.calculator logic unit d.primary storage e.alu

11. Traditionally, land, labor, and capital were considered the cornerstones of an economy. Today, we add:

a. computers b.information c.money d.ethics e.television

12. A computer which controls the anti-lock brake feature on an automobile is BEST described as a/an _________________ computer.

a. mini b. super c. mainframe d. special purpose e. analog

13. The directors of Enron decide to hide from the public some of their company’s losses by characterizing them as loans. Investors who rely on the company’s financial statements are mislead because the information is neither ___________ nor ___________ .

a. timely;complete b. accurate; complete c. relevant; accurate

d. timely; relevant e.relevant; concise

14. The principal electronic component of third generation computers was the:

A.keyboard

B.monitor

C.silicon chip

D.transistor

E.vacuum tube

15. Two numbers, 10 and 25, are stored in internal storage. During the execution of a program, the numbers are multiplied, and the result is stored in another location in internal storage. After the multiplication operation, 10 and 25 are:

a. still present in their original internal storage locations.

b. no longer available for use.

c. modified to indicate they have already been used by the program.

d. destroyed.

e. automatically returned to secondary storage.

16. What is the decimal equivalent of the binary 110110?

A) 110,110 B) 108 C) 22 D) 54 E) 44

17.When a machine using even parity sends the coded byte, 10001011, to what should the parity bit be set?

a. 0 b.1 c. Unable to determine from information given

18 All terminals must include the following:

a. A CPU b. A connection to the main computer c. A printer

d. A hard drive e. All of the above

19.Herman Hollerith developed what important data processing machine?

a. ENIAC b. difference engine c. census machine d. UNIVAC

e. pascaline

20. The time it takes to move the read/write head to a given track on a disk is called:

a. Switch delay b. Seek time c. Data transfer time

d. Rotational delay e. None of the above

21. Which of the following input media is NOT based on reflected light?

a. OCR b. MICR c. Optical mark d. UPC

e. Optical character

22. Which of the following philosophers believed that the morality of an act is primarily determined by the surrounding culture?

a. Kant b. Mill c. Spinoza d. Plato e. Aristotle

23. Which of the following does not involve what we called “The Oz Syndrome”?

a. The tech support person tells the secretary that she wouldn’t understand the commands he uses to change her screen saver.

b. The programmer uses unnecessary acronymns while talking to the user

c. The TA calls the computer “she”.

d. The doctor tells the patient he has gastroentritis horribilis instead of telling him he has stomach flu.

e. All of the above involve “The Oz Syndrome”.

24. Which of the following is the most expensive per stored byte?

a. Tape b. DASD c. Primary storage d. Registers

e. There is no difference.

25. A typical transistor would be approximately the size of a:

a. television screen b. Light bulb c. Fingernail d. Pencil eraser

e. Postage stamp

26.A series of procedures which computers go through in order to establish and maintain communication are known as a:

a. topology b. protocol c. concatenation d. connection e. modulation

27. Audio output in which a computer is given rules for pronunciation, rather than specific words, is called:

a. Speech therapy b. Rule-speak c. Synthesis by analysis

d. Synthetic analysis e. Synthesis by rule

28. Which of the following would be used to describe approximately 1 billion bytes of information?

a. Nanobyte b. Megabyte c. Terabyte d. Gigabyte e. Kilobyte

29. Cache Memory is used to:

A. Store data or a program that is not currently in use onto the hard disk

B. Store the entire operating system

C. Catch memory that is currently in a "leaking" state

D. Store data/instructions that are expected to be used by the CPU in the near future

E. Hide important data from the operating system

30. An intelligent communications management device which can combine signals from several low speed lines, and compress those signals so that smaller amounts of data can be sent over long-distance lines is best described as a:

a. collector b. front-end processor c. multiplexer d. concentrator e. controller

31. The op code in an instruction is ?

A. What values the instruction is going to use

B. What the instruction is going to do

C. Where the instruction is going to place the answer

D. Not really a part of the instruction

E. The location of the values the instruction is going to use

32 According to lecture, the most reliable of all network configurations is the:

a. star b. ring c. modified ring d. bus

e. All of the above are equally reliable.

33. Which transmission type allows concurrent 2 way transmission?

a. Half-duplex b. Polling protocol

c. Switched token protocol d. Modulation protocol

e. None of the above

34. In the movie “Demon Seed”, the computer, Proteus’ desire to be alive, was an excellent example of:

a. nanotechnology b. the “Oz Syndrome” c. anthropomorphism

d. relativism e. deontology

35. Which of the following is the fastest transmission medium?

a. Twisted Pair Cable b. Coaxial Cable

c. Fiber optic Cable d. Terrestrial microwave transmission

e. Satellite microwave transmission

36. You have a document named “report.txt”. You want to set correct permissions for it to let you and your group members can read and modify the file but anyone else can’t read or modify it. The file is not executable. Which command would you use?

A. chmod 644 report.txt B. chmod 664 report.txt C. chmod 750 report.txt

D. chmod 660 report.txt E. chmod 755 report.txt

37. Suppose ‘file1’ is a file and ‘dir1’ is a directory. Both of them are in the current working directory. The command ‘mv file1 dir1’ will NOT do which of the following?

A. Make ‘file1’ disappear from the current working directory

B. Overwrite the existing file named ‘file1’ in ‘dir1’

C. Create a new file named ‘file1’ in ‘dir1’ if no ‘file1’ exists there.

D. The content of new ‘file1’ remains unchanged compared to the original one in current working directory.

E. Rename ‘file1’ to ‘dir1’

38. Suppose there is a directory named "dir1" in your home directory and a file named ‘file1’ in ‘dir1’. You want to move ‘file1’ from ‘dir1’ to your home directory. Assume that you are currently in your home directory. Which command (suite) is NOT correct?

A. mv file1 dir1/ B. mv dir1/file1 .

C. cd dir1

mv file1 ~

D. mv dir1/file1 ~

E. cd dir1

mv file1 ~

39. Which one is a valid HTML code sequence :

A. <html>

<head>

</head>

</html>

B. </html>

<html>

<head>

</head>

C. </head>

<head>

<html>

</html>

D. <head>

<html>

</head>

</html>

E. <head>

</html>

</head>

<html>

40. Which one of the permissions do you need to set for your ‘public_html’ directory and ‘index.html’ file to make your webpage viewable by all:

A. public_html: 770

index.html : 644

B. public_html: 755

index.html : 640

C. public_html: 771

index.html : 644

D. public_html: 644

index.html : 771

E. public_html: 771

index.html : 771

41. Supose you want to make link http://grove.ufl.edu/~u3063bnk clickable in your page. Which one is correct answer:

A. <a href http://grove.ufl.edu/~u3063bnk </a>

B. <a href = "http://grove.ufl.edu/~u3063bnk"> CGS 3063 </a>

C. <a http://grove.ufl.edu/~u3063bnk </a>

D. <a href "http://grove.ufl.edu/~u3063bnk" > CGS 3063 </a>

E. <href> "http://grove.ufl.edu/~u3063bnk" > CGS 3063 </href> </a>

42. What is the <pre> tag used for?

A. To preset the height and width of the webpage.

B. To present the text in the color of your choice.

C. To display the text exactly the way you type it in.

D. To add a picture before some text.

E. None of the above.

43. What tag and attribute would you use to set a picture as the

background picture on your webpage?

A. picture tag, background attribute

B. background tag, picture attribute

C. body tag, picture attribute

D. body tag, background attribute

E. body tag, bkground attribute

44. What html code would you write to add an email link named "Email

me" to the address on your webpage?

A. <a href Email me>mailto: </a>

B. <a href="mailto:">Email me</a>

C. <mailto:"">Email me</a>

D. <a href> mailto:"" Email me</a>

E. None of the above.

45. Which of the following is NOT true of the top-down searching

startegy?

A. The search begins from a specific topic and goes to a more general topic.

B. This type of search can reduce the amount of unnecessary information through a method called focusing.

C. It helps find information on a general topic of interest related to some specific topic.

D. One can find more key words to use with the search engine as one goes along.

E. None of the above.

46. Which of the following is a type of search engine?

A. Crawler B. Spider C. Webcrawler D. Hopper E. Google

47. What does the following code implement:

<table border=2>

<tr>

<td>CGS</td><td>3063</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>xyz</td><td>grv</td><td>hi</td>

</tr>

</table>

A. A table with 2 columns and 3 rows

B. A table with 2 rows and 3 columns

C. A table with 2 cells in the first column and 3 in the second column.

D. A table with 2 cells in the first row and 3 in the second row

E. None of the above.

48. What html code would you write to add an audio clip to your web page? Set the width of the player to 400 and the height to 50. It can start playing automatically.

A. <audioclip src="music.wav" width=400 height=50 autostart=true>

B. <embed src="music.wav" width=400 height=50 autostart=true>

C. <audioclip embed="music.wav" width=400 height=50 auto=true>

D. <embed="music.wav" width=400 height=50 auto=true>

E. <embed href="music.wav" width=400 height=50 autostart=true>

49. What is attribute ‘alt’ used for when works with ‘img’ tag?

A. Make a picture into a link.

B. Change the current picture to another one when the mouse goes over the current picture.

C. Pop up some text when the mouse is over the picture.

D. Enlarge or shrink the picture

E. ‘alt’ can’t work with ‘img’ tag at all.

50. Which statement is NOT correct about FTP?

A. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol

B. FTP provides a means to transfer files from the computer you are on to another computer.

C. You can choose ‘ASCII’ mode to transfer a picture.

D. The FTP window is usually divided into two sections. One is for remote system; the other is for local system.

E. You can create a new directory in your remote system using a FTP program if you have sufficient permissions.

If you have been given a “password” for this exam, do what you were told. If you weren’t given a password, forget about it.

HAVE A GOOD SPRING BREAK. GMH &CO.