MacKenzie Hickox October 20 2014 CGS 2100 Midterm Study Guide Midterm Chapter 1 1 Which of these items is included in the guidelines of the ACM 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 2 The special purpose computer that allowed British military intelligence to eavesdrop on even the a Remember the golden rule most secret German messages was named a Colossus 3 The most widely known code of conduct specifically for computer professionals is the a Association for Commuting Machinery Code of Ethics 4 PDA stands for a Personal Digital Assistant a ABC a 5 Computers 6 7 a Analytical Engine 5 A computer invented in 1939 that was capable of solving systems of linear equations was called the In 1943 the founding father of IBM predicted that the world would not need more than In the early nineteenth century Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace conceived an idea for a mechanical computer that they referred to as a n 8 The agricultural age lasted until about two centuries ago when advances in machine technology a a triggered what has come to be known as the Industrial Age 9 In the early nineteenth century a computer was a person who performed calculations 10 The Mark 1 computer proved its worth by a Computing ballistics tables for the US Navy 11 The future could bring the emergence of computer chips embedded within a Bio digital technology 12 Which of the following is true regarding supercomputers a Supercomputers are the fastest most powerful computers made 13 The first programmable general purpose digital computer was called the 14 The ENIAC could calculate 500 times faster than the existing electromechanical calculators which a Z1 was about as fast as a A modern pocket calculator 15 What is a computer that provides software and other resources to computers over a network 16 Many laws and rules of organizations are reflections of 17 Computers can threaten our privacy security and way of life a Server a Moral Principles a True 18 Which technological advancement made it possible for computers to become as small as they are today a Silicon Chip a Letters 19 Word processing applications are used for producing which of the following 1 20 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 a Automation 21 Many of the jobs that have existed for hundreds of years are no longer needed due to 22 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 about 23 Computers grew out of a need to anyone a Quantify known as a protecting intellectual property industrial economy to a n a Information economy 24 When a student posts a clip from a recent movie on her Web site the ethical issue of the actions is 25 The convergence of computer and network technology was responsible for the shift from the 26 The software tools that enable a user to interact with a computer for specific purposes are known as 27 Which invention developed in 1948 replaced vacuum tubes a Applications a Transistors 28 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 a Information Age 29 The first general purpose commercial computer built in the United States was called the 30 Silicon Valley where numerous microprocessor manufacturing companies are located is in 31 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 32 Apple launched a new product called a an which is designed to bridge the shrinking gap between the smart phone and the notebook netbook PC 33 The World Wide Web has been around since the 34 The following calculating tool had an immediate and profound effect on the human race 35 Developed the microprocessor 36 Programs such as Internet Explorer that serve as navigable windows into the Web are called 37 The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ENIAC broke down on average every 38 Transistors were invented in 1948 as a substitute for the vacuum tube They appeared in computers a UNIVAC 1 a California a Paradigm Shift a Ipad a 1990 s a Abacus a Intel a Browsers a 7 Minutes a 8 Years Later 39 A negative aspect of laptop computers is a The relatively high price and upgrade difficulties 40 An example of bio digital technology would be a a computer chip embedded in a person s body 2 Chapter 2 1 The most common input devices include a Mice and Keyboards 2 A byte can represent any number between 0 and a 255 together on the chip is called a Architecture 4 Hardware components are 3 The design that determines how individual components of the CPU are put together and work a Physical parts of a computer system 5 The time for the processor to receive data from memory is measured in a Nanoseconds 6 A computers clock speed is measured in a Gigahertz a Unicode 7 An advanced coding scheme that incorporates Arabic Chinese Hebrew and Japanese is known as 8 To represent values larger then 255 processor designers combine bytes Two bytes with 16 buts can represent all the numbers from 0 to a 65 535 9 putting multiple CPU s on a single chip is defined as a a multicore processor 10 The smallest unit of information a computer can understand and process is known as a 13 When newer processors can process all of the instructions handled by earlier models the processor is 15 A special low energy kind of RAM that can store small amounts of data for long periods of time on a Bit 11 Approximately 1 000 megabytes is a a Gigabyte 12 CPU stands for a Central processing unit a Backward compatible 14 A logical group of 8 bits is also known as a n considered a Octet battery power is known as a CMOS 16 Which of the following is NOT an output device a Trackball 17 CMOS stands for a Complementary mental oxide semiconductor 18 This is used to represent one character on a computer a Byte a 2 19 The binary systems uses the power of 20 The CPU is also often known as the a Microprocessor 21 Produced the first 64 bit processor a AMD 22 Binary means a There are two possibilities on and off 23 This type of computer uses less energy than a desktop computer 24 24 The word size of a typical PC s CPU is a Notebook a 32 or 64 bytes 3 26 If a user needs information instantly available to the CPU it should be
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