CGS 2060 Midterm
If your debit card has been compromised and you wait more than 2 days, but fewer than 2 months after you learn about the loss, you can be liable for up to ______
$500dig
Put the steps of the boot process in the correct order
1. The device is powered on and the CPU activates BIOS 2. The power-on self-test is executed 3. The OS is loaded into RAM 4. The OS checks the registry settings and loads saved configuration settings
Popularized with transistor radios in the 1950s, this connector is used with nearly all cell phones today. It is a ________
3.5 mm connector
Also known as additive manufacturing (AM), ______ printing sprays successive layers of material to create an object
3D
What is the most complex program language generation? 1G or 5G?
5G
_________ use technologies have resulted in many hands-free devices
Adaptive
What company popularized the use of the mouse for PCs?
Apple
Literally meaning "life measure", ________ technologies enable accurate identification
Biometric
Using extremely low power radio signals, short-distance wireless connections are often made using ________ technology
Bluetooth
Two factors that affect a processor's speed are clock speed and _______ width
Bus
What programming languages work best for PC games?
C and C++
_____ was developed by Microsoft and works well with Window-based OS
C#
Most touchpads use _______ to "sense" when a finger has moved across the pad
Capacitance
Keyboard shortcut for select all
Command + A
Keyboard shortcut for find
Command + F
Keyboard shortcut for save
Command + S
Keyboard shortcut for screenshot
Command + shift + 3
Two characteristics of thermal printing:
Commonly used for printing receipts Paper turns black when heated
A digital device that accepts input, processes and stores the input, and provides output is a ________
Computer
A description of the difference in the luminence of a display's white pixels compared to the black pixels is called _______ ratio
Contrast
Printer manufacturers advertise the quality of their products by stating how many ____ the produce
DPI (dots per inch)
A type of camera that allows you to look directly through the lens is a ______ camera
DSLR
The most common digital cameras (2)
DSLR and point-and-shoot
__________ is one of the most difficult parts of the PDLC process
Debugging
Devices with a separate system unit and a relatively large footprint are called ________ computers
Desktop
A digital presence created online by an individual or organization using a digital device as called a __________
Digital identity
What is true about RFID?
Does not require line-of sight scanning Can transmit signals more than 90 feet Can be used to identify a variety of objects
Using a stylus and touchpad to mad the signature and measure pressure, pen angle etc. is called ________ signature recognition
Dynamic
What technology allows for the electronic communication of business-oriented transactions and information between people and organizations?
EDI
In the US the federal ______ covers most consumer oriented electronic transactions
EFT Act
Free openly licensed learning resources that are available online for instructors and students to use are called Open _______ Resources
Education
Gigahertz
Equal to one billion cycles (or instructions) per second
Megahertz
Equal to one million cycles (or instructions) per second
Hertz
Equals one cycle (instruction) per second
T/F International laws on internet privacy are very similar
F
The main government organization that oversees internet privacy is the _____
Federal Trade Commission
Intel
Founded in 1968, largest manufacturer of processors
AMD
Founded in 1969, in all video game consoles
Nvidia
Founded in 1993, produces mobile consoles
A separate processor in your computer that enhances your video is called the _________
Graphics processor
HDMI stands for:
High definition multimedia interface
Characteristics of a laser printer (4):
Higher initial costs Popular in offices Use toner Far faster when printing multiple copies
A ________ allows programmers to convert source code line-by-line
Interpreter
6 steps of SDLC:
Investigation Analysis Design Development Implementation Maintenance
The most common method of eye recognition uses the ______
Iris
______ is an object-oriented programming language that is popular when writing Android apps
Java
By efficiently turning electrons into photons, _____ backlit displays provide very bright screens with very little energy
LED (light-emitting diodes)
L1 cache
Located directly on the processor itself
L3 cache
Located next to the processor
The technology (chips) that allow cell phone microphones and hearing aids to be so small is the _____ chip
MEMS
_______ are mini-programs that allow you to program easily by streamlining processes
Macros
Characteristics of an inkjet printer:
Makes fast single copy color pages Uses ink Popular for home use Low initial cost
NFC
Near Field Communication A short range wireless technology used for data transfer and electronic payments
___________ focuses on categorizing inputs and outputs for reusability
Object oriented programming
Writing software follows a 5-step process called the
PDLC Program Development Life Cycle
Printer manufacturers often advertise how fast their printers are using the acronym:
PPM (pages per minute)
The 4 major steps in the software development process are:
Planning Programming Debugging Beta Review
A type of printer that is used to print large graphic images such as blueprints by mechanically moving a pen over a large sheet of paper
Plotter
PDLC
Product Development Lifecycle
_________ is the shorthand programmers use while building an algorithm
Pseudocode
RFID
Radio Frequency Identification Used to track physical items
_______ is an easy to use camera with an extremely strong optical zoom
Superzoom
Apple developed ______ to work better with Mac OS and iOS
Swift
Checking the hard drive on a device using Windows 10 can be done using the _______ app
This PC
The programming design that forces programmers to consider how the algorithm can be written in computer code by first breaking it down into smaller tasks is called
Top-down programming design
A terabyte is equal to approximately 1 _________ bytes
Trillion
Disk cache
Used to increase disk efficiency
_______ was designed to display documents on the web. It provides a smooth interface between natural language and machine language by wrapping data in "tags" for web display
XML (extensible markup language)
Bus
a channel over which information flows in a computer
In ASCII, eight bits=one ______
byte
A ________ checks for errors and converts an entire program from source code to machine language
compiler
The part of the processor that tells the computer's memory, arithmetic logic unit and input and output devices how to respond to a program's instructions is called the ______ unit
control
For audio output, digital devices use _________ converters
digital-to-analog
Audio output is created by converting...
electrical impulses into air movement
DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs are examples of _______ media storage
optical
Rank the storage capacities from highest to lowest:
petabyte terabyte gigabyte megabyte kilobyte
SDLC
software development lifecycle
T/F A transceiver can both send and receive information
t
Bus width
the amount of data that can be transferred at a given time
File server
used for data storage
Web server
used to control access to resources on the web
Network server
used to control access to resources such as printers and applications on a network