CGS 2060 Midterm

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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


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