MIS 3013 - EXAM 1 - Chapter 4

A _______________________ is equivalent to 1,024 bytes.

kilobyte

When an individual buys a program for his or her personal computer, he or she is actually buying a software _________________.

license

Main memory is also known as _________________________________.

random access memory

Programs that perform business functions, such as general ledger and accounting tasks, are examples of _____________________.

application software

Which of the following mobile operating systems is licensed by Google?

Android

Which of the following is an open-source Web browser?

Firefox

A thin-client application is designed to run within a program such as _______________________.

Internet Explorer

______________________ refers to data delivered to the user at the precise moment it is needed.

Just-in-time data

Which of the following is an example of a closed source project?

Microsoft Office

Which of the following is an example of an application program?

Microsoft Word

The process by which a personal computer hosts several different operating systems is known as __________________________.

PC virtualization

Which of the following is an advantage to an organization if its BYOD (bring your own device) policy holds the employee responsible for any kind of damage?

The policy appears to be permissive without actually being so.

Which of the following refers to a small, portable storage device that can be used to back up data and transfer it from one computer to another?

USB flash drive

Which of the following is an example of a mobile device?

a smartphone

A client-server application that requires nothing more than a browser is called ______________________.

a thin-client application

Bits are used for computer data because they _____________________.

are easy to represent physically

The term "open source" means that the source code of the program is __________________.

available to the public

Bits are grouped into 8-big chunks called ___________________________.

bytes

Which of the following memory devices is volatile in nature?

cache memory

Machine code ________________________.

cannot be modified by humans.

A _____________________ is also called "the brain" of the computer.

central processing unit

Which of the following is a characteristic of volatile memory?

contents are lost when power is off

The speed of a CPU is expressed in cycles called ___________________.

hertz

A __________________________ is a small, lightweight, power-conserving, computing device that is capable of wireless access.

mobile device.

Java, C#, and VB.NET are examples of ___________________________.

object-oriented languages

Linux is an example of a(n) __________________________.

open source operating system

Which of the following is an example of nonvolatile memory?

optical disk

Source code is computer code ___________________.

that is written by humans