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Question 1

A floppy disc is

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A small storage device

Question 2

RAM stands for

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Random Access Memory

Question 3

BIOS stands for

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Basic Input Output System

Question 4

A hard drive is a device which

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Is fast secondary storage and generally is attached directly to the motherboard

Question 5

The purpose of a heat sink is to

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Provide heat transfer away from components on the motherboard

Question 6

MS Word is an example of

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Application software

Question 7

Linux is an example of

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Operating system software

Question 8

Microsoft Excel is an example of

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Spreadsheet software

Question 9

An example of utility software is

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Winzip

Question 10

The purpose of validation is to

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Provide reasonable data

Question 11

Having “not null” for a database field

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Is a form of validation

Question 12

Date is

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A data type for a database

Question 13

$surname=$_POST[‘surname’]; is used to

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Collect data from an HTML form

Question 14

A database field name that follows our naming convention is

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Field_date

Question 15

A primary key is used to provide

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A unique identifier for a database record

Question 16

Usually a key field in a database table would be

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Not null, auto increment, integer

Question 17

Not null for a database field provides the simplest form of

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Validation

Question 18

When writing an SQL query the keyword INSERT is used to

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Insert a new record and values in the database table

Question 19

The WHERE clause in an SQL query is used to

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Restrict which records will be affected by the query

Question 20

Which piece of code is correctly written

Answer 20

echo ‘hello world’;