6. Which of the following types of software collects information about marketing effectiveness and market trends?

7.

Which of the following is a programming language?

8.

Which of the following is a file format used to store music?

9.

Which of the following consumes the least power?

10.

Which of the following is (are) true regarding integrated circuits and microprocessors? I. Integrated circuits contain more electrical components than microprocessors. II. Microprocessors must be manufactured for each application separately, while integrated circuits can be reused.

11.

Which of the following is not an essential component of present-day computers?

 (a) Storage  (b) None of the above  (c) Input  (d) Output

12.

Which of the following is a thin slice of silicon packed with microscopic circuit elements such as wires, capacitors, and resistors?

13.

Which of the following uses holes following specific patterns to represent stored data or instructions to the machine?

14.

How many hexadecimal digits are needed to represent the decimal number 32?

15.

Which of the following is the binary representation of 16?

 (a) None of the above  (b) 1110  (c) 1111  (d) 1100

16.

Which of the following represents the decimal number sequence 0, 1, 2, 3 in binary?

17.

The ASCII code for the character ‘a’ is 97. How can the character ‘a’ be represented in binary using ASCII codes?

18.

A kilobyte is equal to 1,024 bytes or 2^10 bytes. How many bytes constitute a megabyte, considering that a megabyte is equal to 1,024 kilobytes or 2^10 kilobytes?

19.

Which of the following is (are) true of modern microprocessors?

1. Microprocessors typically contain millions of transistors..

20.

Which of the following can be an advantage of buying a computer that contains a widely-used CPU or its equivalent clone?

1. A lot of established computer suppliers provide products using that type of CPU.

2. The cost of the CPU is likely to be lower because of the large quantities of the CPU that have been sold.

3. There will be more operating systems that work with that type of CPU.

21.

What is an area in the computer system unit that temporarily holds data before and after it is processed until the computer is turned off?

RAM

22.

Which of the following types of memory typically holds computer configuration settings and is powered by a small battery?

23.

The list of instructions that a CPU is able to execute is known as its

24.

The budget processor produced by Intel is called the

25.

Which of the following components is (are) typically found on the motherboard of a computer?

1. Expansion slots

2. The microprocessor

3. The CMOS memory chip

26.

Steps performed by the CPU during the fetch-execute cycle include which of the following?

1. Interpret

2. Store

27.

Which of the following memory types holds data but requires very little power to retain its contents?

28.

A computer clock with a speed of 100 MHz cycles how many times per second?

29.

CPU performance is influenced by which of the following?

1. Word size

2. Clock rate

3. Instruction set size

30.

Which of the following kinds of projects typically requires a special type of CPU that would not be found in a desktop or mainframe computer?

31.

Which of the following is (are) true of ROM?

1. The instructions needed to boot a computer are typically stored in ROM.

32.

An Arithmetic/Logic Unit typically performs which of the following operations?

1. Performance of greater-than and less-than comparisons

33.

Which of the following manufacturers provides the Pentium family of processors for desktop computers?

34.

Components of the CPU typically include which of the following?

1. The control unit

2. The Level 1 cache memory

3. The Arithmetic/Logic Unit

35.

Consider Computer A, which uses a 1.2-GHz CPU, and Computer B, which uses a 1-GHz CPU. For any given program P, which of the following is true?

36.

In order to retain data for future reference, volatile storage requires

37.

Which of the following is (are) true of CRT monitors?

1. CRT monitors use electron beams to create colored light.

38.

Which of the following are important considerations when purchasing a monitor?

1. The number of resolution modes supported

2. The different levels of color depth supported

3. The size of the viewing area that can be projected

39.

Computer output devices include which of the following?

1. Projector

2. Printer

40.

Which of the following are primarily input devices?

1. Mouse

2. Printer

41.

One advantage of an LCD monitor is

42.

A desktop computer expansion slot that is primarily used for graphics cards is the _____ slot.

43.

Which of the following components is (are) found on an accelerated graphics card?

1. A processor

2. Video memory

44.

The speed of a computer bus is measured in _____, whereas the transfer rate is measured in _____.

45.

Which of the following is a relatively new and flexible interface for connecting many diverse input/output devices to a computer through a single port?

46.

A computer bus that transfers data twice per cycle is said to be double

47.

Desktop computer expansion slots include which of the following?

1. PCI

2. AGP

48.

Laptop computers typically contain _____ slots.

49.

Which of the following is (are) true of a bus on the motherboard?

1. A bus is used to transport data between components on the motherboard.

2. The CPU and other components use a bus to read and write data into RAM.

50.

Which of the following technologies uses a gun-like mechanism to spray the screen with dots of color?

51.

A parallel port can be used to connect a computer to a

52.

Input devices for a computer include which of the following?

1. Digital cameras

2. Scanners

53.

Which of the following is not true when comparing ink-jet printers with laser printers?

54.

Which bus transfers data between the CPU and the chipset?

55.

Which of the following is (are) true of computer printers?

1. Typically, ink-jet printers have a lower cost per page than laser printers.

2. Ink-jet printers are typically faster than laser printers.

None

56.

Which of the following are true of Universal Serial Bus (USB)?

1. A large number of devices can potentially be interconnected using the USB.

2. It is used with many types of devices for transferring large amounts of data.

57.

Which of the following statements is true?

 (a) The mean time between failures is longer for a magnetic disk than for an optical disk  (b) Writing to magnetic disks is faster than writing to optical disks  (c) Magnetic disks cost less per megabyte of storage than optical disks  (d) None of the above

Correct answer is

(d)

58.

Of the following types of storage, which provides the fastest access to data?

59.

Of the following, which best describes what happens when a user opens a document for editing?

60.

Which of the following can be used to set up a device as a master or a slave device on an EIDE interface?

 (a) All of the above  (b) Cable select  (c) Jumper settings for master or slave  (d) None of the above

61.

Which of the following statements is true about hard disk drives?

62.

Which of the following optical media can be erased and re-written ?

 (a) CD-ROM  (b) None of the above  (c) DVD-R  (d) DVD+R

63.

Which of the following devices are solid-state storage media?

64.

What is the capacity of a single-layer single-side (SLSS) DVD disk?

65.

Which of the following statements is true?

66.

Which of the following best describes a USB thumb drive?

67.

Which of the following statements is false?

68.

Which of the following applies electric fields using in-circuit wiring to erase predetermined sections of the chip so those areas can be rewritten?

69.

Which of the following components usually is not a potential bottleneck for business applications?

70.

Which of the following is likely to be adversely affected by a server receiving a large number of concurrent requests?

71.

Which of the following can be used to find bottlenecks in software programs?

72.

Which of the following can be the latency for transferring data of 100 MB from a server with a maximum throughput of 2 Mbps?

73.

What is the minimum latency that one can expect for transferring data of 50 MB from a server with a throughput of 10 Mbps?

74.

Which of the following describes Moore’s Law?

 (a) Storage capacity of RAM doubles every 12-18 months.  (b) None of the above  (c) Processing power (speed) doubles every 12-18 months.  (d) Disk storage capacity doubles every 12-18 months.

75.

Which of the following components could potentially be a bottleneck for an application involving extensive arithmetic operations?

76.

Which of the following refers to the rate at which data flows through the system?

77.

Which of the following best describes the term “latency”?

78.

Which of the following describes Parkinson’s law?

104.

The maximum file size supported on a FAT32 partition is:

105.

Which of the following is true about the names of files and subfolders that reside in the same folder?

106.

Which of the following is (are) true regarding the New Technology File System?

I. NTFS has built-in recoverability feature. II. The cluster size varies in NTFS depending on the size of the disk. III. NTFS supports data access control and ownership privileges.

107.

Which of the following file systems provides encryption, data access control, and ownership privileges to restrict unauthorized access to data in a multi-user environment:

108.

In Windows, the file type is determined by:

109.

In the original DOS file system, also used in early versions of Windows, file names were limited to

110.

In UNIX, which of the following files is the same as ContactList.txt?Section 3.4.1, Sub-section “Files” “Other operating systems, such as Unix, are sensitive to capitalization. In these operating systems, the files Friends.txt and friends.txt are different.”

 (a) None of the above.  (b) All of the above.  (c) contactlist.txt  (d) CONTACTLIST.TXT

111.

Which of the following statements is true?

112.

Which of the following is (are) true regarding the cluster size of a disk drive?

I. A cluster is the smallest amount of space that a file can occupy in a disk

113.

What is the maximum disk capacity that can be formatted with the FAT16 file system, assuming the cluster size to be 64 sectors.

114.

FAT16 can be used on disk drives with a capacity of over 2 GB by:

115.

The advantage of FAT32 over FAT16 is: