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HTTP is best described as
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A protocol used for communication between Web browsers and Web servers
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The part of the central processing unit that adds and subtracts numbers is called the
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ALU
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The File Allocation Table used by most Windows computers in the early 90's used a 16-bit cluster address. How many different cluster addresses were possible using this scheme?
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2^16
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The 16-bit cluster address became a problem in the mid-90's due to the continuing increase in
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disk size
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Napster is no longer with us in its original form, because it had an unresolvable problem involving
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intellectual property
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RISC is best described as a
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design philosophy for computer CPUs
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The ability of a communication system to handle multiple data transmissions on the same physical medium (for example, many TV channels on a single cable) is called
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multiplexing
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An IP address that your computer gets from its ISP, and which may be different each time you connect, is called
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dynamic
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Linux and MacOS are examples of this type of program, which is essential for a computer system to run:
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operating system
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Name three compression techniques
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GIF,Perceptual encoding and JPG
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Copying the text of president Adam's convocation speech for a satire or parody is
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A protected activity under the fair use doctrine
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The ASCII code is used to represent
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Plain text characters
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The term codec is best defined as
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An algorithm for encoding and decoding digital media files
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Web pages with snazzy graphics can be visually stunning but unfortunately the images may take a long time to download. A technology specifically designed to deal with this problem is
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Compression
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Name a protocol specifically for getting Email messages from a server
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IMAP
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The number of bits per second that can be transmitted accross a network connection is called
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Bandwidth
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When a large organization decides to link the separate computer systems in all its branches and departments into a single organization-wide system, they have entered the domain of
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Enterprise computing
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Large central computing resources such as OASIS achieve a very high level of reliability through
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redundancy
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Renaming the file "Secret Message.doc" to "Secret Message.spy"
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Is not adviseable, because the operating system will not know what application to use to open this file
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If you were creating a database table called a "member" to keep the names and addresses of members of the UGA Anime society, the information kept about one member would occupy one
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record
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A piece of data that you collect for each member such as wether or not the member speaks Japanese would be a single
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field
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In an HTML document that is viewed in a browser, characters inside angle brackets like <H1>
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Are only visible if you choose special from the view menu
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Expressions like <H1> in HTML documents are called
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tags
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Gnutella uses what technologies
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TCP-IP,Peer-to-peer,MP3
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Excel provides SUM, AVERAGE, and COUNT as useful
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functions
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This company started by a couple of scruffy teenage kids in California made millions by selling the first computers that were affordable and easy to use
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Apple
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The possibility of affordable personal computers is due to this hardware invention
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microprocessor
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If Bob sends a message to Alice encrypted with Alice's public key, it must be decrypted using
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Alice's private key
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The message Bob sends using Alice's public key can only be read by
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Alice
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For what purpose would Bob typically encode a message for Alice using Alice's private key?
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Under no normal circumstances could Bob do this
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A technology that allows you to start listening to an MP3 music file from the Web before the file has finished downloading is
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streaming
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When a small business becomes successful, it may grow out its business information systems. Dealing with this welcome problem involves the issue of
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scalability
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Which filename extension marks an executable support module?
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DLL
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Several computers in the same household can share a fast internet connection using what technology?
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Routers
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Which computer language is found embedded in Web pages?
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Javascript
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A performance enhancing feature found on Macintosh computers but not windows machines is
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RISC
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According to the lecture on voting machines Georgia was the first to do what?
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to hold a statewide election using only electronic voting machines
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Data transmitted on the internet is divided into separated units called
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Packets
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These data units are steered to the destination computer, which may be all the way on the other side of the world using
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IP addresses
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The speed of a microprocessor chip is measured in
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megahertz
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What is the effect of the dot com bubble on the current IT job market?
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Collapse of the bubble has left many IT professionals temporarily unemployed
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Two computers are able to communicate with each other over a network if and only if they
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Use the same protocols
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In order to improve voter confidence and eliminate suspicion about the Diebold voting machines
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The machines are tested and evaluated by an independant laboratory before the election
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According to the lecture on jobs in the information technology area, the most serious long-term threat to IT job prospects is
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overseas outsourcing
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The ARCHES computing resource at UGA is an example of a
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cluster
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Which phase in the software lifecycle comes first?
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Analysis
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Which application program is best suited for maintaining the membership list of a church or a city soccer league?
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Access
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In order to save a word document under a diffferent file name you would use
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The file menu
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In order to sort the data in an Excel spreadsheet, you would use
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The Data menu
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A computer program is basically a long list of
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Machine language instructions
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Which would be most likely the task of an event handler?
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Responding when the user clicks a button in a program
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In the movie database example covered in class, movies and reviews were kept in separate
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tables
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The graphic below represents the operation of a(n)
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Distributed virtual supercomputer
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Which type of unwelcome virus is most likely to arrive hidden in an email message?
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a worm
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Forgetting to remove diskettes from the computer when you turn it off increases the vulnerability of
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Boot sector viruses
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What happens if two computers in your CS lab attempt to transmit data at the same time?
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The two senders back off after a delay
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Which technology uses an alternate method for dealing with the problem situation that arises when two computers in the same network transmit data at the same time?
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Token Ring
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If you have just finished typing your term paper using Microsoft word and decide that the concluding paragraph is so good that it should be colored in pink and displayed in a large fancy font, the first thing you must do is
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select the paragraph whose formatting you want to change
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Which memory and storage components have the fastest access time?
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RAM memory
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Which memory and storage components have the largest storage capacity
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Internal hard disk
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Surprise!You find a nice new laptop computer under the tree this christmas. What would most likely be the amount of RAM memory on this machine?
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256 megabytes
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The UGA email system uses a filtering heuristic to attempt to detect junk email. If the mail system thinks that a particular message is junk mail, it will
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move the message to a special junk folder and delete it after nine days
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Another term for junk email is
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spam
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USB is a type of
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cable for connecting peripheral devices
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In a web page underlined text that can be clicked on to go to a different page is called a
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hyperlink
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The number of different colors available in a digital image is controlled by its
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color depth
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In which computer language can we specify a correct result without telling the steps which the computer must take to get the result
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SQL
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A virus scanning program maintains a list of unique bit patterns that identify different viruses. These patterns are called
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signatures
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The network hardware used in our computer labs is
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Ethernet
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A destructive action taken by a virus is called its
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Payload
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MP3 players such as Winamp use the following technique to compensate for variable delays in transmitting music packets via the TCP-IP protocol
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buffering
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A special piece of software that allows applications on your computer to control a graphics card is called a
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device driver
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When a cache is full and more data needs to be cached the system must pick up some data to be removed from the cache. The system makes this decision using the
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Least-recently-used-principle
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Which part of your computer belongs to the operating system layer
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your TCP-IP software
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In our movie database example we separated the data into two tables instead of maintaining all the data in a single table. What were the entities represented by each table?
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movies and movie reviews
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The process of revising tables and entities as we did with the movie database is called
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normalization
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In a three-tier database, the middle tier is the
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Web server
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The location of a Web Page on the internet is given by its
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URL
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A file virus can reproduce itself and take destructive actions only when
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an executable file infected with the virus is launched
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The operating system used on the computers in our CSCI 1100 labs is
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Microsoft Windows XP
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Distributing public encryption keys is the task of a
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certificate authority
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The part of your computer that actually executes program instructions is the
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CPU
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Two types of computers that are both large powerful and expensive but used for different purposes are
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Mainframes and supercomputers
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One billion bytes is approximately equal to one
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gigabyte
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In order to make re-connecting to a Web site more convenient, the Web site is allowed to store certain information on your computer's disk. Then when you reconnect, the web site can retrieve this information so you do not have to type it in a second time. These chunks of stored information are called
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cookies
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If you were setting up a database to maintain tourist information about Georgia, you would probably include a table of hotels in Georgia. The information about one particular hotel would occupy one database
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Record
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When we use the database to look up hotels near Athens with swimming pools this would be a database
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attribute
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The GNU project is involved with
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open source software
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The key hardware invention that made affordable personal computers possible was
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the microprocessor
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A firewall protects your computer by
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shutting off TCP ports
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What type of virus might be contained in a word document
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a macro virus
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A small piece of software that interprets generic commands for a specific hardware device, such as “print” commands for a particular printer, is a(n)
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device driver
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When we say that a file virus has replicated, we mean that
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Part of the virus code has been executed and has made a new copy of the virus hidden inside an executable file
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A file whose name is ctrl3d.dll is most likely
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an executable support program
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One gigabyte is approximately equal to
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One thousand megabytes
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RISC is best described as a
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Design philosophy for computer CPUs
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Which of the following problems would be solved or prevented by a defragmentation utility?
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File contents scattered in dispersed locations on the hard disk
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This type of destructive code hides inside another file, but does not reproduce itself
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Trojan horse
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One million bytes is approximately the same as one
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Megabyte
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Preparing a disk for storing data by laying down its sector and cluster boundaries is called
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formatting
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This component of the CPU allows the CPU to quickly access needed data:
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Cache
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DirectX and OpenGL are both
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interfaces to graphics cards
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Little outlets on the exterior of your computer into which you plug printers, mice, digital cameras, etc. are called
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ports
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Temporarily storing disk contents in RAM memory and Web pages on the disk are both examples of
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the caching principle
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Which language is preferred for specifying the color, font, and size of text on a Web page?
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CSS
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GPL is a type of
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software license
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This language is widely used to encode data for transmission between computers
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XML
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Which of the following jobs is considered most vulnerable to being replaced by offshoring?
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Computer programmer
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Which communications protocol translates alphabetic host names such as www.uga.edu into their corresponding numeric addresses?
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DNS
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Steve Jobs' most important contribution to computing was
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Marketing the first commercially available computer with a GUI
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A field in a database record can refer to a record in a different table by using a
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foreign key
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Which communications protocol breaks a message into packets for transmission across the network?
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IP
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The process of redesigning a data model to eliminate redundant data and improve efficiency is called
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Normalization
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A ____ license allows software to be used on any and all computers at a specific location, such as on a university campus.
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site
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The P, TABLE, and UL elements are all HTML
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container elements
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Which communications protocol creates a seamless “data pipe” to connect two applications across the Internet?
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TCP
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A web server returns this number to the web browser, indicating whether the request was successful and if not, what type of error occurred:
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status code
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A small piece of software that interprets generic commands for a specific hardware device, such as “print” commands for a particular printer, is a(n)
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device driver
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Microsoft’s Janus and Apple’s FairPlay are both
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digital rights management systems
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