Computer Information Systems Exam 2

A shelf or opening in a computer used for the installation of electronic equipment is called a __________.

bay

Which of the following is NOT a part of the CPU?

bay

Security devices that identify a person through fingerprint, voice-integration, or retinal identification are examples of which technology?

biometric systems

Each zero and one signal represents a ________.

bit

Electrical data roadways through which bits are transmitted within the CPU and other components of the motherboard are called _________.

buses

Communications signals represented in a binary format are said to be ________.

digital

Which of the following is NOT a type of non-impact printer?

dot matrix

The amount of space between centers of adjacent pixels is called __________.

dot pitch

Which of the following terminals is not capable of processing data?

dumb terminal.

What is the vacuum tube used as a display screen in older computers or video display terminals called?

cathode ray tube

What is the amount of information that is stored in a dot (pixel) and expressed in bits called?

color depth

Which of the following is NOT an analog device?

computer

Which device converts digital data into speech like sounds?

Voice output device

Which monitor has the highest color and resolution standard?

WUXGA

The CPU is made up of two parts: the control unit and the __________.

ALU

Laser printers use a particular type of software to lay out pages and control how pages look; this software is called __________.

page description language.

Which of these ports is commonly used for printers?

parrallel

The two units used in binary are

1 and 0

how many bytes are in a kilobyte?

1024

How many calculations could the ENIAC perform a second?

5,000

One megabyte equals

500 pages of text.

The tiny piece of silicon that houses millions of microminiature electronic circuits is called?

A chip.

Which device uses a light-sensitive processor chip to capture real-life images in digital form on a diskette or on flash-memory device?

A digital camera

In which type of flat-panel display is each pixel on the screen controlled by its own transistor?

Active Matrix Display

Which of these is/are processors commonly used in personal computers?

All of these

Which of the following devices records analog sound and translates it for digital storage and processing?

Audio Input Device

Big-box store and supermarket self-scanning checkout systems use what source data-entry method?

Barcodes

Which Company Developed the First Transistor in 1947

Bell labs

The type of optical disk designed to enable recording, rewriting, and playback of high-definition (HD) video, as well as storing large amounts of data, is __________.

Blu-Ray

Which of the following disks can be rewritten many times?

CD-RW

People who use keyboards a lot may suffer from which physical problem?

Carpal tunnel syndrome.

Using a computer screen with poor resolution or glare problems could cause which problem?

Computer Vision Syndrome

Which type of secondary storage is least used today, used mainly in legacy systems?

DVD

Which of the following is NOT a use of a radio-frequency identification device?

Detecting Ice Build up on Airplane Wings.

Which pointing device uses a mouselike copying apparatus called a puck to convert drawings to digital data?

Digitizer

Which printer uses a print head of small pins, which strike an inked ribbon against paper to form characters or images?

Dot Matrix

A byte is made up of

Eight bits

Which port, along with a special card and cables, supports the connection of microcomputers, modems, and printers in a local area network (LAN)?

Ethernet

Which device converts images and sends them to the same kind of device over a telephone line?

Fax

__________ devices are small, nonvolatile secondary storage media with no moving parts. They are portable and often used with digital cameras, handheld computers, laptops, and the like.

Flash Memory

Data and information that is printed out is called __________.

Hardcopy

Data entered into a computer for processing is called __________.

Input

Data entered into a computer using a keyboard is called __________.

Input

What are devices called that translate data into a form the computer can process?

Input Hardware

Which of the following ports allow cableless connections over a few feet?

IrDA

What kind of computer is a touchpad most often used for?

Laptop

What is a non-impact printer that creates characters and images with dots by using a drum and toner called?

Laser

Every brand of computer has their own language called

Machine Language

Which kind of device reads the numbers printed at the bottom of checks?

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

Which of the following is NOT an output device?

Microphone

Which of the following is NOT an input device?

Monitor

A byte represents

One character

Which kind of device reads "bubble" marks and converts them into computer-usable form?

Optical Mark Recognition

Results of processing are referred to as __________.

Output

Devices that translate information processed by the computer into a form that humans can understand are called __________.

Output Hardware

Which of these is a hard-disk technology for large computer systems?

RAID

Which of the following is NOT a form of nonvolatile memory?

RAM

Which of the following is NOT a secondary storage device?

ROM

Which of the following memory chips are used to store fixed (permanent) start-up instructions?

ROM

Which of the following is NOT a use of a sensor?

Reading Credit Card Information.

Which of these would not be a possible use of a speech-recognition system?

Recording a message on an answering machine

The number of times per second that pixels are recharged is called the __________.

Refresh Rate

High-speed storage areas that temporarily store data during processing are called __________.

Registers

What is the image sharpness of a display screen called?

Resolution

Which device uses light-sensing (optical) equipment to convert images of text, drawings, and photos into digital form? Which of these is NOT a pointing device? Which of these devices can be used to transfer a hardcopy document or graphic image to a digitalized format?

Scanner

A scientist wishing to collect data directly from the environment will use which of these?

Sensor

Which port is used to transmit slow data over long distances?

Serial

Data and information that is shown on a display screen is called __________.

Softcopy

Of the two basic methods of data entry, keyboards use keystrokes to enter data and instructions; what is the nonkeyboard method called?

Source Entry Device

Which of these converts what a person says into digital signals and stores them in the computer?

Speech Recognition System

Which of the following is a good technology for backing up large files?

Tape Drive, Blu-ray, DVD

In __________, molecules are used to create tiny machines for holding data or performing tasks.

The Singularity

Which of the following ports transmit data to up to 127 devices in a daisy chain?

USB

27. Which of the following is not a method of speeding up data traveling between memory and CPU?

caching

For now the largest byte unit is the

exabyte

A display device made up of two plates of glass separated by a layer of a substance in which light is manipulated is a __________.

flat-panel display

1 billion bytes

gigabyte.

One billion cycles (ticks) of the system clock per second equal 1 __________.

gigahertz

Which of the following is a form of superscalar architecture?

hyperthreading

The process in which the CPU alternates communication between two or more memory banks is called _________.

interleaving

Power supply units are rated in __________.

joules

Data is represented by magnetized or non-magnetized spots on a hard disk, as well as on a(n) __________.

magnetic tape

One million cycles (ticks) of the system clock per second equal 1 __________.

megahertz

20. Which of the following is NOT an expression of floating point, or flop, operations?

microflops

A smart card looks like a credit card, but it has a _________ built into it.

microprocessor.

Which type of cards are used for remote communications via phone lines?

modem cards

Which of these pointing devices is used most often on microcomputers?

mouse

17. Which type of processor is designed to let the operating system divide the work over more than one processor?

multicore processor.

Which of the following cards allow remote communication via cable?

network interface cards

A ________ is one-trillionth of a second.

picosecond

The smallest unit on the screen that can be turned on or off or made different shades is a __________.

pixel

Which device prints large, three-dimensional high-quality color graphics?

plotter

Which of these devices would a user need to utilize icons in window-based software?

pointing device

What is the eraser-shaped pointing device normally found on the keyboard of laptop computers called?

pointing stick

The device that converts AC to DC to run the computer is called __________.

power supply

Using which technology can tolls be automatically charged to drivers' accounts when they pass tollbooths?

radio frequency identification

An integrated circuit embodies what is called ... technology

solid state

Smart cards are well-suited for prepaid, disposable applications such as __________.

telephone debit cards

What do you call a video display screen that can receive input from the touch of a finger?

touch screen

A small, flat surface used mostly on laptop computers over which users slide their finger to move the cursor is called a __________.

touchpad