CSE 180 Final Questions and Answers
Look up the following file extensions and select the associated file type. Note: do not close this window!
You should open a new tab/window in your web browser to look these up. - ANS-✅xlsx :Excel
bmp : an uncompressed...
jpg :JPEG/JIFF image
zip : Acomputer file
pdf :Acrobat por
html or htm :Hypertext mark
avi :Audio Video
mp3 :MPEG audio
swf :Flash Format
doc: Word doc
When GUIs are built using metaphors similarly (e.g. buttons and sliders), the result is a - ANS-✅consistent
interface
What is a GUI? - ANS-✅graphical user interface
To indicate that the computer is continuing to perform a time-consuming operation, the cursor is
replaced by an icon such as a(n): - ANS-✅hourglass
rainbow spinner
little dog running
(all of the above)
Placeholders can be inserted throughout your work for all long, commonly occurring phrases, and the
placeholders can later be changed easily using: - ANS-✅Find/ReplaceAll (F/RA)
Which of the following is an example of the computer providing feedback to the user? - ANS-✅Editing
changes become visible on the screen.
The cursor changes to indicate an operation is in progress.
A progress bar shows how much of the work is done.
( All of the above.)
The primary reason for consistency across computer applications is that certain operations are
fundamental to processing information no matter what the application is. - ANS-✅True
Which metaphor features file cabinets and wastebaskets as typical components? - ANS-✅desktop
metaphor
A good way to learn how to use a new application or piece of software is to - ANS-✅click around
The mouse was invented by: - ANS-✅Douglas Engelbart and others at Stanford Research Institute
Perfect reproduction is a property of: - ANS-✅digital information
A WAN is to TCP/IP as LAN is to: - ANS-✅Ethernet
Internet communications are sent strictly through the phone lines. - ANS-✅False
HTTP is the protocol of the web, what is the language used to describe how a Web page should look? -
ANS-✅HTML
Root name servers - ANS-✅maintain the relationship between IP addresses and symbolic computer
names
DSL stands for: - ANS-✅digital subscriber line
Getting files from a Web server is called: - ANS-✅downloading
In a client/server structure, there: - ANS-✅are transmissions to complete a request
The dimensions for an image on a Web page - ANS-✅are set using the width and height attributes When an image is inserted next to text in an HTML document, keep in mind that generally: - ANS- ✅images are inserted in the text where specified by the HTML and the text is aligned with the bottom of the image. The PandA system: - ANS-✅is binary Using even parity, a normal byte, for example, 1010 0011, would: - ANS-✅include a ninth bit set to 0 Which letter is used to represent decimal number 12 in the hexidecimal numbering system? - ANS-✅C The Digital Versatile Disc (DVD): - ANS-✅uses bumps (which appear as pits on the bottom side) to encode the information. How many bits does each hexadecimal digit (symbol) require? - ANS-✅ 4 The Hawaiian alphabet has 18 symbols. How many bits are needed to represent just these symbols? - ANS-✅ 5 What does ASCII stand for? - ANS-✅American Standard Code for Information Interchange Binary number 1101 is equivalent to decimal number ____. - ANS-✅ 13 Four bytes is the same as: - ANS-✅32 bits How many bits are needed to represent a space in ASCII? - ANS-✅8 bits In the Fetch/Execute Cycle, the action of retrieving the instruction's operands from memory occurs during the: - ANS-✅Data Fetch (DF) step Register is: - ANS-✅A small memory location inside the CPU. On the computer, one billion clock ticks per second is called: - ANS-✅gigahertz (GHz) Computer speed is dependent upon all of the following except: - ANS-✅byte size Which of the following is not an operating system? - ANS-✅Assembly Management of a computer's hardware is done with: - ANS-✅an operating system A program form which is directly executable by a computer is the: - ANS-✅binary object file (binary) The ALU is used in the - ANS-✅Instruction Execution The decode stage of the CPU cycle is used to - ANS-✅Translate the program's binary code into instructions that CPU understand From smallest to largest, the correct order is - ANS-✅kilo, mega, giga, tera A computer algorithm must have: - ANS-✅a specified input and output