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