Quiz 5 Flashcards
The ________ provides the environment in which the application software runs.
a. multimedia
b. graphics software
c. personal productivity
d. general-purpose
e. operating system
operating system
______________ includes programs that you use to complete a specific task such as letters and presentations
a. refers to system utility programs.
b. provides the environment in which the operating system functions.
c. is used to find the source of computer malfunctions.
d. includes programs that you use to complete a specific task such as letters and presentations.
e. refers to background programs that prepare the computer to start up.
Application software
________ include word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation graphics, and personal information management applications.
a. Home and educational programs
b. Multimedia and graphics software
c. Operating systems
d. Applications that work through and run from the Internet
e. Personal productivity programs
Personal productivity programs
Power Point is an example of a:
a. spreadsheet application.
b. gaming program.
c. personal information manager.
d. database application.
e. presentation graphics program.
presentation graphics program.
________ include desktop publishing and multimedia authoring programs, animation programs, image-editing programs, and 3-D rendering programs.
a. System software
b. Applications that work through and run from the Internet
c. Personal productivity programs
d. Multimedia and graphics software
e. Home and educational programs
Multimedia and graphics software
Codecs use two different approaches to compression: lossless and ________.
a. lossy
b. rendered
c. rastered
d. bitmapped
e. decompression
lossy
Which of the following type of graphic format is designed to use lossless compression?
a. PGF
b. GIF
c. MP3
d. PNG
e. JPEG
PNG
Which of the following type of graphic is created by a drawing program?
a. Color
b. Post-Script
c. Raster
d. Bitmapped
e. Vector
Vector
The most professional software for publishing a book is ______________
a. word processing software.
b. a database program.
c. presentation graphics software.
d. personal information manager software.
e. desktop publishing software.
desktop publishing software
A spell checker may not find an error in the word “wave” when it should have been “waive” because
a. the two words are synonyms.
b. the two words are not in the thesaurus.
c. the two words are similar.
d. the two words are proper nouns.
e. spell checkers do not find context errors.
spell checkers do not find context errors.
Which of the following software is NOT copyrighted software?
a. Adobe
b. Public domain
c. Commercial
d. Freeware
e. Shareware
Public domain
The numbering system that is based on the digits 0 through 9 is called the:
a. digital system
b. hexadecimal system
c. base 9 system
d. binary system
e. base 10 system
base 10 system
The smallest unit of data a computer can recognize is a(n):
a. exabyte
b. bit
c. nit
d. nanomip
e. byte
bit
The term “byte” refers to:
a. the speed with which a processor can execute instructions.
b. a single binary digit.
c. the 8 of bits that are commonly used to represent a single character.
d. a single instruction written in machine language.
e. a unit of data for defining an image on a monitor.
the 8 of bits that are commonly used to represent a single character.
In the decimal notation, the binary number 11111 is equal to ________.
a. 33
b. 25
c. 23
d. 31
e. 19
31
