Put Your Campus ID (Example: Nkeller4) Under This Line

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Test 1: ch 1-4

CSC 1010Tuesday and Thursday 5:30pm - 6:45pm

Nicholas A. Keller

September 15, 2016

Put your name; first then last, (example: Nicholas Keller) under this line:

Put your campus ID (example: nkeller4) under this line:

Put your Panther # (example: 123 - 45 - 6789) under this line:

(important!) Read before beginning:

1) Each question has one answer.

21)put cellphones away

) Circle the whole answer and not just the letter of the answer.

Chapter 1

1. Which of these is system software?

A. minesweeper game

B. mouse device driver

C. Microsoft Word

D. painting program

2. Which of these is a specialized application?

A. Microsoft Word

B. professional photo editing software - Photoshop

C. Microsoft Paint

3. Pritchard hacks a bunch of desktops and uses their collective computing capacity to solve a big computational problem (mine bitcoins for example) the computer (Note: singular not plural) he uses to solve his problem is called a:

A. desktop

B. laptop

C. super computer

4. Hurricane flooding in New Orleans cuts power to your house; but your computer data is safe in:

A. secondary storage

B. RAM

C. input device

5. Which of these statements about solid-state storage is FALSE:

A. cheaper per GB than HD's

B. no moving parts

C. less shock resistant

D. uses less power

6. CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray use what to read and write data:

A. magnetic fields

B. capacitance

C. induction

D. focused light

7. I take historical temperatures and feed them into a climate model. The historical temperatures are:

A. information

B. data

8. Assume a small single location store and a chain of stores both currently use Excel spreadsheets to store all of their information. Which one would benefit the most from switching to a database?

A. small single location store

B. chain of stores

9. Who owns the internet:

A.government

B. no one

C. W3C

D. Verizon

E. Comcast

F. illuminati

Chapter 2

10. The internet was launched in:

A. 1949

B. 1969

C. 1984

D. 1994

11. A mocking web developer says to me: "Your Computers and Applications website is so ______!"

A. web 1.0

B. web 2.0

C. web 3.0

12. What was the Internet's first "killer app":

A. text chatting

B. email

C. video chatting

13. Which of these statements is true:

A. the web is built on the internet

B. the internet is built on the web

C. the internet and the web are the same thing

14. ISP stands for:

A. internet selection processor

B. internet service provider

C. International selection processor

15. Your bank's website should be using what protocol

A. http

B. https

C. www

D. wwws

16. Even the most basic webpages MUST use:

A. JavaScript

B. CSS

C. AJAX

D. HTML

17. A bank can send me a confidential document using:

A. rtf

B. rtfs

C. ftp

D. ftps

18. Which of these is not an advantage of cloud computers:

A. cloud computers are faster

B. companies can rent instead of buy computers

C. companies don't have to worry about hardwaremaintenance

19. EBay is a ______company:

A. B2C

B. C2C

C. B2B

Chapter 3

20. The "G" in GUI stands for:

A. genuine

B. graphical

C. geometric

D. good

21. Excel can't:

A. do basic math

B. tally the values in columns

C. store highly structured data

22. The "M" in DBMS stands for:

A. micro

B. macro

C. management

D. multiple

23. Which of these is the best primary key:

A. first name

B. last name

C. complete name

D. Social Security number

24. Each record in a database has a unique:

A. primary key

B. field

C. form

D. hash

25. The screen resolution on my (very) old computer is 10 by 20. How many pixels does it have?

A. 1/2

B. 2

C. 10

D. 20

E. 30

F. 200

26. I hire an artist to design a logo that I will print on the designer staplers I sell. I make it big in the boutique stapler market and want to expand my logo and put it on my private plane. The logo will look best if it is a:

A. raster image

B. vector image

C. hexer image

27. A software suite is most beneficial to a consumer if:

A. they will use all of the programs in the suite

B. they will use only one program in the suite

C. they want to save HD space

D. they want to save RAM space

28. Google Docs:

A. is cloud software

B. software that you download onto your computer

C. doesn't require an internet connection

Chapter 4

29. The system software DOESN'T include:

A. operating system

B. a text editor

C. device drivers

30. Is Power Point considered part of the operating system if it comes pre-installed when you buy a computer?

A. Yes

B. No

31. I start a class by displaying the updated class website, then I minimize the browser and open up a power point; the browser is now in the:

A. foreground

B. background

C. both foreground and background

32. Timmy's fancy electric wheelchair has an operating system, which is considered a:

A. embedded operating system

B. network operating system

C. stand-alone operating system

33. Which of these operating systems is free:

A. Mac OS

B. Windows

C. UNIX

D. LINUX

34. Open source programs are almost always:

A. proprietary

B. free

C. small and useless/trivial

35. On my Mac I used virtualization software to run a free operating system. The free operating system I'm running is called the:

A. parasitic operating system

B. symbiotic operating system

C. host operating system

D. guest operating system

E. goa'uld system lord

36. Which of these is NOT a utility program:

A. antivirus program

B. backup program

C. text editing program

D. file compression

37. What is true about a disk defragmenter:

A. it erases unneeded files

B. it reduces the size of files by compressing them

C. it re-arranges files on a hard disk

38. Which is NOT true about hard disks:

A. they are hermetically sealed

B. they are impervious to shocks (high accelerations)

C. they are divided into tracks and sectors

D. They have a motor which spins platters