Cs 1 Final

Front 1

When you issue the command for your PC to store a document on your hard drive, the application software must make sure that such a drive exists

Back 1

false

Front 2

Stand alone utility programs are often available in a suite of related programs

Back 2

True

Front 3

Microsoft office is available for windeows, linux or solaris users

Back 3

false

Front 4

many web-based animations require a java applet(a free small program that adds additional capabilities to your browser) to be viewed

Back 4

False

Front 5

Large computer systems- such as high end servers, mainframes, and supercomputers- sometimes use operating systems designed solely for that type of system

Back 5

true

Front 6

Some e-comerce web sites use 3D images of products to better convey product characteristics to potential purchasers; other utilize _____

Back 6

virtual reality

Front 7

With a streaming audio file, only a small portion of the audio file is initially downloaded and ____, and then the audio file can begin playing while the remainder of the file downloads simultaneously

Back 7

buffered

Front 8

Similar to software suites are ____ such as Microsoft Works and Apple Works

Back 8

integrated software programs

Front 9

_____ is a set of rules for exchanging data over the Web.

Back 9

XML

Front 10

Portable barcode readers are always used in point of sale systems

Back 10

False

Front 11

Superdiskettes aer high-capacity removable storage media that are usually proprietary

Back 11

True

Front 12

Storage servers are often used to provide storage for home networks

Back 12

False

Front 13

The control unit takes the instructions fetched by the prefetch unit and translates them into a form that can be understood by the control unit, ALU and FPU

Back 13

False

Front 14

A strategy for speeding up hard drive performance is _____

Back 14

disk caching

Front 15

Partitions look and act like independent disk drives and are sometimes referred to as _____

Back 15

logical drives

Front 16

A ____ is the hardware where data is actually stored.

Back 16

storage medium

Front 17

Information processing is a vital activity today because the success of many businesses depend heavily on the wise use of information

Back 17

True

Front 18

Although the internet is only part of the Web, it is by far one of the most popular and one of the fastest growing parts

Back 18

false

Front 19

Posessed knowledge access system use physical objects for identification purposes and are frequently used to access facilities and computer systems

Back 19

False

Front 20

In the early 1980s, things began to change. ______ were invented and computer use increased dramatically.

Back 20

microcomputers

Front 21

A growing trend in the area of enterprise system is the concept of computer-aided design.

Back 21

False

Front 22

When an instruction or other necessary feature cannot be performed using SQL and the other tools available through the DBMS, assembly programming is typically used to write more specific instructions.

Back 22

False

Front 23

Pseudocode expresses the steps in a program, but uses English-like statements in place of the flowchart's graphic symbol.

Back 23

True

Front 24

In general, a CRM system can assist an organization in improving sales and sales management

Back 24

True

Front 25

The goal of supply chain management (SCM) is to organize and correlate all information about a product to help companies improve products, more efficiently create and manage the production of products and better track costs and profits

Back 25

FALSE

Front 26

ERP refers to the transfer of data between different companies using networks, such as the internet.

Back 26

FALSE

Front 27

Syntax errors, or execution time errors, stem from a logic problem in the program's design and are often difficult to detect

Back 27

False

Front 28

The property that makes 4GLs easier to use is that they are declarative, rather than procedural, as the third generation languages are

Back 28

True

Front 29

Much of the time, information systems are used by decision makers such as managers

Back 29

True

Front 30

The first major program written in C was the UNIX operating system

Back 30

True

Front 31

Middle managers supervise nonmanagement workers

Back 31

False

Front 32

At the top of the hierarchy is the database, which consists of a group of related records

Back 32

False

Front 33

There are many stand alone utility programs available as an alternative to the operating system's utility programs

Back 33

True

Front 34

Linux is increasingly being used with both mainframes and supercomputers

Back 34

True

Front 35

Factors such as the amount of RAM and cache memory and the bus width and bus speed greatly affect the overall processing speed of the computer

Back 35

True

Front 36

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a technology confined primarily to the banking industry, where it is used to facilitate high volume processing of checks

Back 36

False

Front 37

Arithmetic requiring decimals is usually performed by floating points unit (FPU)

Back 37

True

Front 38

Some network printers are line printers but most are page printers

Back 38

True

Front 39

Parallel ports typically connect nearby printers to a PC

Back 39

True

Front 40

A common RAID technique is disk mirroring, in which data is written to two duplicate drives simultaneously

Back 40

True

Front 41

Many networks use a network server to manage the data flowing through the network devices and the resources on a network

Back 41

True

Front 42

____ is the term used for any software program that is installed without the user's knowledge and that secretly gathers information about the user and transmits it through his or her internet connection

Back 42

spyware

Front 43

Integrated circuits incorporate many transistors and electronic circuits on a single tiny silicon chip, allowing ____ to be even smaller and more reliable than earlier computers

Back 43

third generation computers

Front 44

The ____ is the place where instructions and data flow in and out of the CPU

Back 44

bus interface unit

Front 45

____ transport bits and bytes from one component to another, including the CPU, cache, RAM, and peripheral devices

Back 45

Buses

Front 46

____ is the phrase of system development in which the problem area is studied in depth and the needs of system users are assessed

Back 46

System analysis

Front 47

Before data can be entered into a database table, the table must be created by defining the _____ to be contained in that table and then saving the table

Back 47

fields

Front 48

Program _____ use geometric symbols and relational operators such as < for "less than" and = for " equal to", to graphically portray the sequence of steps involved in a program

Back 48

flowcharts

Front 49

The objective of ____ is to gather information about the system under study to try to ascertain what resources users need to better perform their jobs

Back 49

data collection

Front 50

A record is a collection of fields, either a specific ____ from a single table or a collection of related fields from multiple tables.

Back 50

row

Front 51

With a ____, both systmes are operated in tandem until it is determined that the new system is working correctly, and then the old system is deactivated

Back 51

parallel conversion

Front 52

OOP focuses on an application's data and the ___ or instructions that can be used to manipulate that data

Back 52

methods

Front 53

_____ i a broad term to describe creating and managing an application throughout its entire lifecycle-- from design through testing

Back 53

ALM
application lifecycle management

Front 54

___ uses each record's primary key field to determine a unique address identifying where the record will be physically stored in the database file

Back 54

direct organization

Front 55

A ___ is used to describe the characteristics of data used in a database or other type of computer systems

Back 55

data dictionary