Cosc 1301 Exam 2 Final
Online practice of creating a fake profile to form relationships with unsuspecting users.
cat-fishing
Real-time typed conversations that take place on a computer or mobile device with many other online users.
Chat
Term that describes the trend of computers and devices with technologies that overlap.
Convergence
Website or web app that allows users to collect and compile content from a variety of websites about a particular topic or theme.
Curation website
Harassment, often involving teens and preteens, using technology.
Cyberbullying
Text-based name that corresponds to the IP address of a server that hosts a website.
Domain name
A scanner is a light-sensing output device.
False
An all-in-one contains a separate tower.
False
Bill Gates is recognized as the "father of computers" because he designed the Macintosh computer?
False
Grace Hopper developed the DOS Operating System?
False
Icons on the Windows Desktop require a single-click to start the associated program.
False
It is not important to turn on all peripheral devices before you turn on the system unit.
False
Operating systems are a widely recognized example of application software.
False
Steve Jobs developed Microsoft Corp.
False
Steve Wazniak invented the Mouse.
False
The "Internet" actually evolved from the WWW.
False
The first microcomputer was introduced in 1995?
False
Users typically do not pay additional fees for mobile hot spot and tethering services.
False
Xerox Corporation believed that "ordinary people did not need to own a computer.
False
Named collection of stored data, instructions, or information.
File
___ is a set of rules that defines how webpages transfer on the Internet.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Term used to refer to the major carriers of network traffic.
Internet backbone
___ consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and the data needed by those instructions.
Memory
Set of programs that coordinate all the activities among computer or mobile device hardware.
Operating system
In a(n) ___ number system, such as the binary number system or the decimal number system, the value of a digit is determined by its position in a relation to other objects.
Positional
Series of related instructions, organized for a common purpose, that tells the computer what tasks to preform and how to perform them.
Software
Storage device that typically uses flash memory to store data, instructions, and information.
Solid-state drive
During the Windows "boot process" the computer.
all of the choices
Using paper and pencil to convert the binary number 10001 to its decimal equivalent. Your answer is
17
Using paper and pencil to convert the decimal number 35 to its binary equivalent. Your answer is
100011
Using paper and pencil to convert the decimal number 36 to its binary equivalent. Your answer is
100100
Using paper and pencil to convert the binary number 1101 to its decimal equivalent. Your answer is
13
The place values for the binary number system are:
32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
Technique that transforms a smartphone or Internet-capable tablet into a portable communication device and shares its Internet access with other computers and devices wirelessly.
Tethering
Small, flat, rectangular pointing device that is sensitive to pressure and motion.
Touchpad
A byte is the basic storage unit on a computer or mobile device and represent a single character.
True
A dynamic webpage's contents generate each time a user displays the page.
True
A printer is a type of output device.
True
Although some forms of memory are permanent, most memory keeps data and instructions temporarily.
True
Boolean algebra was developed by George Boole.
True
Icons on the Windows Taskbar requires a single-clicks to start the associated program.
True
Information conveys meaning to users, and data is a collection of unprocessed items, which can include text, numbers, images, audio, and video.
True
Larry page is recognized for developing Google.
True
One way to protect your computer from malware is to scan any removable media before using.
True
Smartphones typically communicate wirelessly with other devices or computers.
True
The phrase "The bug in the Machine- 1945" originated when a moth flew into the Harvard Mark I computer and caused a short circuit.
True
The terms, web and Internet, are not interchangeable.
True
Collaborative website that allows users to create, add, modify, or delete website content via a browser.
WIKI
Computer that delivers requested webpages to your computer or mobile device.
Web server