Exam

Question 1

What does a firewall do?

Answer 1

Filters information

Question 2

What does a network interface card do?

Answer 2

Connects to a network

Question 3

Fibre optic cable is?

Answer 3

Contains glass fibre

Question 4

What does a system unit do?

Answer 4

Protects data

Question 5

System unit contains what?

Answer 5

Supply unit, memory, processor

Question 6

What is a motherboard?

Answer 6

Main circuit board

Question 7

What does a CPU do?

Answer 7

Interprets basic instructions

Question 8

Different processors are?

Answer 8

Multi, dual, quad

Question 9

What is 8 bits converts to?

Answer 9

Byte

Question 9

What is a system clock?

Answer 9

Times operations measured in gigahertz

Question 10

What is memory?

Answer 10

Stores instructions waiting to be executed

Question 11

What does memory hold?

Answer 11

Operating systems and data

Question 12

Primary storage?

Answer 12

Volatile, temporary, ram

Question 13

Secondary storage?

Answer 13

Nonvolatile, permanent, rom

Question 14

Adapter purpose?

Answer 14

Connects to peripherals and enhances functions

Question 15

Port?

Answer 15

Peripherals attaches to

Question 16

What is a server?

Answer 16

One or more computers can join

Question 17

What is peer to peer?

Answer 17

Less than 10 computers can join

Question 18

What is a bus?

Answer 18

Consists of central cabling

Question 19

What does a router do?

Answer 19

Forwards data

Question 20

What does a switch do?

Answer 20

Speeds everything up

Question 21

How does media transmit?

Answer 21

Optic fibre

Question 22

What is malware?

Answer 22

Designed to damage a computer

Question 23

Advantage of ecommerce?

Answer 23

Search large catalogues

Question 24

What is a privacy act?

Answer 24

Legal rights to privacy

Question 25

What is a vlookup?

Answer 25

Searches values in columns

Question 26

What does a power supply do?

Answer 26

Converts wall outlet ac to dc power

Question 27

What is Internet?

Answer 27

Worldwide connection of networks

Question 28

Examples of multimedia?

Answer 28

Animation and videos

Question 29

What is ecommerce?

Answer 29

Business over networks such as emails

Question 30

What is system development?

Answer 30

Components that interacts and achieve common goals

Question 31

What are compositional rules?

Answer 31

Opposition and size

Question 32

Rule of thirds?

Answer 32

Aligning subjects with guide lines

Question 33

What order is reading gravity?

Answer 33

Right, bottom left, right

Question 34

What is file format?

Answer 34

The organisation of files

Question 35

Explain the differences in JPG, TIF, PNG

Answer 35

JPG is lossless and TIF, PNG are lossless but best quality

Question 36

Examples of file format

Answer 36

.doc, .htm

Question 37

Audio/music files?

Answer 37

MP3 and WAV

Question 38

Video files?

Answer 38

MPEG

Question 39

What does HTML stand for?

Answer 39

Hypertext markup language

Question 40

CSS stands for?

Answer 40

Cascading style sheet

Question 41

What is cloud computing?

Answer 41

Network of computers away from user

Question 42

Examples of output devices?

Answer 42

Headphones, speaker

Question 43

Examples of input devices?

Answer 43

Mouse and keyboard

Question 44

Peripheral devices?

Answer 44

Mouse and keyboard

Question 45

Operating systems?

Answer 45

Windows, Mac, Linux

Question 46

Networks?

Answer 46

WAN, MAN, LAN

Question 47

LAN does?

Answer 47

Connects in limited area

Question 48

WLAN has?

Answer 48

No wires

Question 49

Advantages of network?

Answer 49

Speed and security

Question 50

Disadvantages of network?

Answer 50

The cabling