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CGS2100 Exam 1 Review In the early 19th century a computer was a person who performed calculations 1 2 Computers grew out of a need to quantify 3 Programs such as Internet Explorer that serve as navigable windows into the Web are called browsers 4 Which of the following is true regarding supercomputers a Supercomputers are the fastest most powerful computers made 5 The special purpose computer that allowed British military intelligence to eavesdrop on even the most secret German messages was named Colossus 6 PDA stands for personal digital assistant 7 Law predicted that the number of transistors that can be packed into a silicon chip of the same price would roughly double every two years a Moore s 8 The Mark I computer proved its worth by computing ballistics tables for the U S Navy 9 The time period in which there was a shift from an industrial economy to an economy based on the value of information is known as the information age 10 The first successful general purpose commercial computer built in the United States was called 11 Which technological advancement made it possible for computers to become as small as they the UNIVAC 1 are today a Silicon chip a iPad about anyone 12 Apple launched a new product in 2010 called a n which was designed to bridge the shrinking gap between the smart phone and the notebook netbook PC 13 How are the World Wide Web WWW and the Internet different a The WWW is a vast tract of the Internet and makes the Internet accessible to just 14 When a student posts a clip from a recent movie on her personal website the ethical issue of the action is known as protecting intellectual property 15 Computers have changed the way humans go about their day to day lives Events and ideas radically change the way people work live and think This dramatic change is known as a n paradigm shift 16 In 1943 the founding father of IBM predicted the world would not need more than 5 17 The following calculating tool had an immediate and profound effect on the human race 18 Computers can threaten our privacy security and way of life TRUE 19 The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ENIAC broke down on average every 7 20 The ENIAC could calculate 500 times faster than the existing electromechanical calculators which was about as fast as a modern pocket calculator 21 Many of the jobs that have existed for hundreds of years are no longer needed due to 22 The future could bring the emergence of computer chips embedded within human computers abacus minutes automation bodies a Biodigital technology 23 Transistors were invented in 1948 as a substitute for the vacuum tube They appeared in computers 8 years later 24 The first programmable general purpose digital computer was called the Z1 25 The World Wide Web has been around since the 1990s 26 The software tools that enable a user to interact with a computer for specific purposes are 27 Which invention developed in 1948 replaced vacuum tubes known as applications a Transistors 28 A negative aspect of laptop computers is the relatively high price and upgrade difficulties 29 The most widely known code of conduct for computer professionals is the Association for Computing Machinery Code of Ethics 30 Word processing applications are used for producing which of the following 31 developed the microprocessor a a Letters Intel the ABC 32 A computer invented in 1939 that was capable of solving systems of linear equations was called 33 Which of these items is included in the guidelines of the AMC Code that might help you to decide how to do the right thing when faced with ethical dilemmas at school at work or at home a Think scenarios carefully consider potential impacts of design decisions 34 The convergence of computer and network technology was responsible for the shift from the industrial economy to a n information economy 35 An example of biodigital technology would be a computer chip embedded in a person s body 36 Silicon Valley where numerous microprocessor manufacturing companies are located is in California 37 The agricultural age lasted until about two centuries ago when advances in machine technology triggered what has come to be known as the industrial age 38 In the early 19th century Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace conceived an idea for a mechanical computer that they referred to as a n Analytical Engine 39 What is a computer that provides software and other resources to computers over a network 40 A computer s clock speed is measured in gigahertz 41 To speed up processing CPUs obtain data that is likely to be used next from cache 42 The CPU is also often known as the microprocessor 43 Which of the following is the largest storage unit a Server a Petabyte 44 The word size of a typical PC s CPU is 32 or 64 bits 45 When newer processors can process all of the instructions handled by earlier models the processor is considered backward compatible 46 Hardware components are physical parts of a computer system 47 To save energy you can set your laptop computer to go to sleep 48 An advanced coding scheme that incorporates Arabic Chinese Hebrew and Japanese is known 49 Approximately 1 000 megabytes is a gigabyte 50 If a user needs information instantly available to the CPU it should be stored in RAM 51 The memory used to store the computer s date and time while the computer is powered off is as Unicode CMOS 52 To represent values larger than 255 processor designers combine bytes Two bytes with 16 bits can represent all the number from 0 to a 65 535 53 CMOS stands for complementary metal oxide semiconductor 54 The most common input devices include mice and keyboards 55 The CPU and main memory are housed in chips on the motherboard and other circuit boards inside the computer a Silicon 56 Putting multiple CPUs on a single chip is defined as a multicore processor 57 An Mbit is equal to one million bits 58 The design that determines how individual components of the CPU are put together and work together on the chip is called the architecture 59 One byte can represent any number between 0 and 255 60 The hardware device commonly referred to as the brain of the computer is the CPU 61 Which of the following is NOT an output device a Trackball is stored 62 The primary difference between RAM and secondary storage devices is the length of time data 63 One billion clock cycles per second is gigahertz 64 Linux is a n operating system 65 Optical computing is sometimes called photonic computing because it uses instead of electrons to transmit


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