Quiz 1 Flashcards
The _____________ refers to the part of the Internet that presents information in multimedia form
a. VoIP
b. Net
c. Cyberspace
d. World Wide Web
e. IM
World Wide Web
Which of the following devices takes computer output and forms displayed images?
a. printer
b. monitor
c. modem
d. processor
e. hard-disk drive
monitor
Which of the following computer types is the smallest?
a. mainframe
b. microcomputer
c. microcontroller
d. supercomputer
e. workstation
microcontroller
Which of the following is a secondary-storage device?
a. processor
b. main memory chip
c. hard-disk drive
d. printer
e. modem
hard-disk drive
Supercomputers are used for
a. forecasting weather.
b. playing games.
c. writing books.
d. browsing webpages.
e. watching television.
forecasting weather.
Which is the main circuit board in the computer?
a. RAM chip (random access memory)
b. CPU processor chip (central processing unit)
c. motherboard (system board)
d. hard drive
e. power supply
motherboard (system board)
Speakers are an example of
a. an input device.
b. an output device.
c. a storage device.
d. a processor.
e. a modem.
an output device
What is the leading use of computers?
a. web surfing
b. email, texting, and social networking
c. e-shopping
d. word processing
e. management of finances
email, texting, and social networking
A feeling of anxiety and incapacity experienced when people are presented with more information than they can handle is known as:
a. digital anxiety.
b. information overload.
c. computerized stress syndrome.
d. digital distress.
e. information distress.
information overload.
Collaboration, or mass collaboration, is made possible by software systems that make it simple to share anything instantly, and sometimes enhance it along the way. Examples are group-edited websites called _____ and social networking services.
a. spreadsheets
b. communal web
c. apps
d. wikis
e. modems
wikis
_____________ describes the combining of several industries through various devices that exchange data in the format used by computers.
a. Personallization
b. Collaboration
c. Portability
d. Artificial intelligence
e. Convergence
Convergence
Online education programs are called computer learning.
T/F?
False
The operating system is part of the system software.
T/F?
True
A(n) ___________ is a communication system connecting two or more computers.
Network
The __________ is a worldwide network that connects hundreds of thousands of smaller networks.
Internet
