Quiz 3 (Chapter 4) Hardware, Software and Mobile

A BYOD policy is a statement concerning employees' permissions and responsibilities when these employees use their company's devices instead of their own devices for organizational business. True and False?

False

Horizontal-market applications are developed for specific, unique needs of an industry. True or False?

False

The CPU is a computer that is designed to support processing requests from many remote computers and users. True and False?

False

Which of the following is an example of vertical-market application software? a) Tally software that is used to maintain business and personal accounts b) Microsoft PowerPoint used to create presentations c) Inventory tracking software customized for the automobile industry d) Adobe suite used by graphic designers

Inventory tracking software customized for the automobile industry

Which of the following statements is true about closed source projects? a) only trusted programmers are allowed to make changes to a closed source project b) Anyone can obtain the source code for a closed source project c) programmers can alter a closed source code based on their interests and goals d)Only users and developers are allowed to alter the source code in closed source projects.

Only trusted programmers are allowed to make changes to a closed source project.

Native applications are programs that are written to use a particular operating system. MS Access, for example will only run on the Windows Operating system. True and False?

True

PC virtualization is a technology for hosting several different operating systems for a desktop. True and False?

True

Which of the following statements is true about firmware? a) users do not need to load firmware into a device's memory b) firmware cannot be changed or upgraded c) The software is not coded like other software. d) Firmware is the same as cache memory

Users do not need to load firmware into a device's memory.

Bits are used for computer data because they ______. a) represent the orientation of a non-optical media b) can have more than two values at a time c) are easy to represent physically d) are represented exclusively as letters of the alphabet

are easy to represent physically

Which of the following is an example of nonvolatile memory? a) cache memory b) static random access memory c) optical disk d) main memory

optical disk