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110 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following systems deals with planning for, development, management, and use of information technology tools for management?
A) Strategic Support Systems B) Operational Systems C) Administrative Systems D) Management Information Systems |
Management Information Systems
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Which of the following terms is used to describe the computer-based tools used by people in an organization to support their information processing needs?
A) Information Technology B) User Systems C) Artifacts D) Computer Tools |
Information Technology
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Which terms refers to the extent of detail provided in information; for instance, some information may provide summary information while others may provide a great amount of detail?
A) Information Depth B) Aggregate Data C) Information Granularity D) Data Detail |
Information Granularity
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Which type of technology allows you to enter information and commands into a computer?
A) Data entry B) Input C) Processing D) Telecommunication |
Input
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Which type of technology allows you to send information from one computer to another?
A) Output B) Telecommunication C) Connecting D) CPU |
Telecommunication
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Which of the following are raw facts that describe a particular phenomenon and are stored in the computer for an organization's processing needs?
A) Information B) Data C) Records D) Business Intelligence (BI) |
Data
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Which of the following is collective information about customers, competitors, business partners, competitive environments, and internal operations?
A) Aggregate Data B) External Knowledge C) Business Intelligence (BI) D) Information Granularity |
Business Intelligence (BI)
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What term is used to describe information coming into a computer that is in bad form, or is incorrect, and will improperly affect the decision-making process?
A) GIGO B) Tainted data C) Dirty information D) Scrubbed data |
GIGO
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Which type of worker knows how and when to apply technology?
A) Computer scientist B) Technology-literate knowledge worker C) Technology analyst D) Computer savvy |
Technology-literate knowledge worker
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Which type of software coordinates the interaction of technology devices?
A) Application software B) Utility software C) RAM D) Systems software |
Systems software
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What type of computer tool allows you to save data, information, and programs into a computer?
A) Output device B) Input device C) Storage device D) Telecommunications device |
Storage device
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What type of software is anti-virus software?
A) Systems software B) Utility software C) Applications software D) Operating systems |
Utility software
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What type of computer tool allows you use to store information for use at a later time?
A) Input device B) Output device C) Storage device D) Telecommunications device |
Storage device
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What type of computer supports hundreds of people at any given time?
A) Desktop computer B) Super computer C) Minicomputer D) Mainframe computer |
Mainframe computer
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What type of application software is developed specifically for a particular industry?
A) Personal productivity software B) Applications software C) Decision support systems D) Vertical market software |
Vertical market software
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When you are working with a variety of computer tools at the same time, what are you doing?
A) Working efficiently B) Using open-source systems C) Working in a UNIX environment D) Multitasking |
Multitasking
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Which type of software provides the public with its source code free of charge?
A) Open-source software B) Multitasking systems C) UNIX D) Systems software |
Open-source software
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What is the smallest unit of computer information?
A) Byte B) Bit C) Pixel D) Binary dot |
Bit
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What is a terabyte?
A) An optical storage medium capable of storing vast amounts of information B) A multifunctional operating environment C) Flash memory D) Roughly a trillion bytes |
Roughly a trillion bytes
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What part of the computer interprets and executes instructions that are posed to it?
A) RAM B) CPU C) ROM D) Cache |
CPU
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What type of system tracks inventory and related business processes across departments and companies?
A) Strategic information systems B) Data processing systems C) Inventory management systems D) Supply chain management systems |
Supply chain management systems
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What type of system tracks and analyzes transactions made by customers?
A) Decision support systems B) Tactical systems C) Customer relationship management systems D) Knowledge base systems |
Customer relationship management systems
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What type of system tracks and analyzes all of the activities in the sales process?
A) Customer information systems B) Decision support systems C) Sales force automation systems D) Sales process management systems |
Sales force automation systems
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What terms is used to identify technology that is used to support many people working together on one project?
A) E-collaboration B) I-technology C) Social networking D) Knowledge management |
E-collaboration
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What term is used to identify people coming together from various geographical locations to complete some task?
A) I-team B) Virtual team C) Online work group D) Distributed team |
Virtual team
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What type of Web site allows visitors to create and maintain information posted on its site?
A) Open source site B) Wiki C) Knowledge construction sites D) FTP site |
Wiki
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Which person oversees an organization's entire information system?
A) CTO B) CSO C) CIO D) CPO |
CIO
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Which type of system includes all technology systems and software across an organization?
A) Knowledge based systems B) Strategic information systems C) Enterprise resource planning systems D) Management information systems |
Enterprise resource planning systems
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What is the term used to depict aged information systems that are technologically out-of-date?
A) Outdated information systems B) Obsolete systems C) Archaic systems D) Legacy information systemsLegacy information systems |
Legacy information systems
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Which type of system captures, organizes, and disseminates knowledge?
A) Tactical information systems B) Artificial intelligence systems C) Decision support systems D) Knowledge management systems |
Knowledge management systems
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Which of the following identifies a specific web page and its computer on the Web?
A) Web site B) Web site address C) URL D) Domain Name |
Domain Name
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Which of the following terms applies to all the web pages for Amazon.com?
A) Top-level domain B) Web site C) Web site address D) Web domain |
Web site
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Software, such as Explorer and Firefox, are referred to as _____.
A) Systems software B) Utility software C) Browsers D) Internet tools |
Browsers
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Which of the following is the second generation of the Web?
A) Voyager B) XML and CSS C) Web 2.0 D) SOAP |
Web 2.0
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If you wanted to be part of an online community that creates an educational web site that allows its members to add to or change its information, what type of web site would you need?
A) Educational or .edu B) Social networking site C) Wiki D) Web 2.0 |
Wiki
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If you wanted to create a broadcast that could be downloaded from the Internet, what would you create?
A) IBroadcast B) EShow C) Podcast D) ICast |
Podcast
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When data moves from one set of major connections to another on the Internet, we call these connections the Internet _____.
A) Pathway B) Backbone C) Communications system D) Routers |
Backbone
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When internet data leaves your campus, it normally goes to a(n) ______ before moving toward its destination.
A) Internet backbone B) Network access point C) Base station D) Communication system |
Network access point
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MCI and AT&T are examples of which of the following?
A) Social networks B) Communications systems C) Internet service providers D) Mobisodes |
Internet service providers
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What type of telecommunications hardware allows you to access the web?
A) Browser B) Modem C) FTP protocol D) IRC |
Modem
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Which type of database stores data in two-dimensional tables?
A) Network B) Hierarchical C) Table D) Relational |
Relational
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What part of the database stores information about the data?
A) Data dictionary B) Data depository C) Data warehouse D) Administrative data systems |
Data dictionary
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What database key uniquely identifies a record within a table?
A) Primary key B) Foreign key C) Secondary key D) Relational key |
Primary key
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What database key links one table to another?
A) Primary key B) Foreign key C) Secondary key D) Relational key |
Foreign key
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What are the rules called that limit how data is entered into a database?
A) Data restrictions B) Controls C) Constraints D) Database checks |
Constraints
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What do you create when you need to pose a question to the database?
A) Inquiry B) Rule C) Question D) Query |
Query
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What type of a database is multidimensional, providing layers to tables?
A) Multidimensional B) Network C) Hierarchical D) Data warehouse |
Data warehouse
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Which of the following is a subset of a data warehouse?
A) Relational database B) OLAP C) Intelligent Agent D) Data mart |
Data mart
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Which function in an organization plans for information resources?
A) Data administration B) Database administration C) Knowledge Management D) Information Management |
Data administration
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Which function in an organization manages information resources?
A) Data administration B) Database administration C) Knowledge Management D) Information Management |
Database administration
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What term is used to describe a collection of information that you can use to build reports or discover facts about an environment?
A) Database B) Web site C) Wiki D) Relation |
Database
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What is the most popular type of Database Management System used by business today?
A) Network database B) Relational database C) Artificial intelligent database systems D) Real-time database systems |
Relational database
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If you were collecting and storing information about your music collection, an album would be considered a(n) _____.
A) Relation B) Entity C) Instance D) Attribute |
Entity
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Each piece of information you collected about an album in your music collection would be considered a(n) _____.
A) Attribute B) Table C) Key D) Record |
Attribute
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If you were to assign a unique number or code to each album you owned in your record collection, this code would be considered a(n) _____.
A) Entity B) Instance C) Associate D) Primary key |
Primary key
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What type of graphical model is used to define a database?
A) Flowchart B) E-R diagram C) Organizational model D) Programming model |
E-R diagram
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After you develop a model for your database, you should then _____ it before building it.
A) normalize B) design C) plan D) approve |
normalize
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What term refers to a field in one table in a database that is used to link to another table in the same database?
A) Link B) Index C) Relation D) Foreign key |
Foreign key
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Which of the following contains information about the structure of a database?
A) Database management system B) Data dictionary C) Data repository D) Data warehouse |
Data dictionary
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What terms is used to refer to a specific record in your music database; for instance; information stored about a specific album?
A) Relation B) Instance C) Table D) Column |
Instance
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Which of the following systems helps you with making a decision about a non-structured problem?
A) Artificial intelligence B) Neural network C) Genetic algorithm D) Decision support system |
Decision support system
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Which of the following systems analyzes spatial information?
A) Neural network B) Genetic algorithm C) Intelligent agent D) Geographical information system |
Geographical information system
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Which of the following systems mimics human thinking?
A) Artificial intelligence B) Intelligent agent C) Bot D) Database management system |
Artificial intelligence
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Which AI system provides a diagnosis to a specific problem?
A) Intelligent agent B) Expert system C) Geographical information system D) Data mining system |
Expert system
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Which AI system finds and identifies patterns; for instance; in the words you use?
A) Expert system B) Intelligent system C) Neural network D) Fuzzy logic |
Neural network
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Generally, AI systems analyze imprecise and subjective information. This information is called _____.
A) Blurred data B) Inclusive information C) Fuzzy logic D) Dirty data |
Fuzzy logic
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Which AI system will work for you to find information on the internet?
A) Intelligent agent B) Neural network C) Genetic algorithm D) Expert system |
Intelligent agent
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Which AI system will continue to analyze a problem until it finds the best solution?
A) Genetic algorithm B) Neural network C) Intelligent agent D) Expert system |
Genetic algorithm
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Which Intelligent Agent will monitor systems and report back to you when there is a problem?
A) Shopping bot B) Buyer agent C) Information agent D) Predictive agent |
Predictive agent
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Which Intelligent Agent can play an Internet game on your behalf?
A) Information agent B) User agent C) Predictive agent D) Game agent |
User agent
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When we describe, or define, the categories of information we collect in an Excel worksheet, what type of table are we creating?
A) Categorization B) Classification C) Explanation D) List definition |
List definition
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If you wished to limit what you would see on an Excel worksheet, what data function would you use?
A) Sort B) Filter C) Conditional format D) Data analysis |
Filter
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If you wished to hide all rows in a worksheet except those that meet some criteria, what data function would you use?
A) Sort B) Query C) Custom filter D) Table |
Custom filter
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If you wished to highlight, not hide, some information in a worksheet because it met some criteria, what Excel tool would you use?
A) Table B) Format C) Conditional Format D) Filter |
Conditional Format
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What Excel tool allows you to create quickly and automatically summary data from a large data set?
A) Conditional formatting B) Sorting C) Pivot tables D) Field lists |
Pivot tables
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What Excel tool allows you to create aggregate and statistical data from a large data set?
A) Conditional formatting B) Sorting C) Pivot tables D) Field lists |
Pivot tables
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What stops Excel from including a range of cells in the current analysis?
A) An encounter with a blank cell B) The stop function C) An encounter with a new calculation D) A table restriction |
An encounter with a blank cell
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What is a list definition table?
A) A single worksheet within a workbook. B) An itemized listing of the rows within a workbook. C) The identity of the list's developer and its users. D) A list of the columns and their descriptions that exist in a workbook. |
A list of the columns and their descriptions that exist in a workbook.
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What Excel tool allows you to create smaller lists from a large list?
A) AutoFilter B) List C) AutoList D) Table |
AutoFilter
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Which of the following is a good habit to get into when creating a worksheet?
A) Placing titles for columns in the first row of data B) Using conditional formatting to spot spelling errors C) Inserting comments in each cell to define that data or type of data D) Grouping records according to some classification |
Placing titles for columns in the first row of data
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When we describe, or define, the categories of information we collect in an Excel worksheet, what type of table are we creating?
A) Categorization B) Classification C) Explanation D) List definition |
List definition
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If you wished to limit what you would see on an Excel worksheet, what data function would you use?
A) Sort B) Filter C) Conditional format D) Data analysis |
Filter
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If you wished to hide all rows in a worksheet except those that meet some criteria, what data function would you use?
A) Sort B) Query C) Custom filter D) Table |
Custom filter
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If you wished to highlight, not hide, some information in a worksheet because it met some criteria, what Excel tool would you use?
A) Table B) Format C) Conditional Format D) Filter |
Conditional Format
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What Excel tool allows you to create quickly and automatically summary data from a large data set?
A) Conditional formatting B) Sorting C) Pivot tables D) Field lists |
Pivot tables
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at Excel tool allows you to create aggregate and statistical data from a large data set?
A) Conditional formatting B) Sorting C) Pivot tables D) Field lists |
Pivot tables
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What stops Excel from including a range of cells in the current analysis?
A) An encounter with a blank cell B) The stop function C) An encounter with a new calculation D) A table restriction |
An encounter with a blank cell
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What is a list definition table?
A) A single worksheet within a workbook. B) An itemized listing of the rows within a workbook. C) The identity of the list's developer and its users. D) A list of the columns and their descriptions that exist in a workbook. |
D) A list of the columns and their descriptions that exist in a workbook.
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What Excel tool allows you to create smaller lists from a large list?
A) AutoFilter B) List C) AutoList D) Table |
AutoFilter
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Which of the following is a good habit to get into when creating a worksheet?
A) Placing titles for columns in the first row of data B) Using conditional formatting to spot spelling errors C) Inserting comments in each cell to define that data or type of data D) Grouping records according to some classification |
Placing titles for columns in the first row of data
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What type of commerce is enabled by technology?
A) Path-to-profitability B) E-commerce C) EBuy D) Internet |
E-commerce
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What type of commerce occurs when a business sells its products over the Internet to other businesses?
A) B2B B) B2C C) C2B D) Enterprise commerce |
B2B
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What is term used when the government employs technology to deal with citizens, businesses, and other government agencies?
A) G2BC B) web C) consumer D) E-government |
E-government
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What term refers to an organization's ability to tailor its products and services to its customers?
A) Specialization B) Target commerce or T-commerce C) Mass customization D) Adaption |
Mass customization
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What term refers to the small web page that opens automatically with an ad when you visit some web sites?
A) Marketing page B) I-ad C) Affiliate ad D) Pop-up ad |
Pop-up ad
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When two companies are linked together by computers and they send business transactions through these computers, they are probably using _____.
A) Digital wallets B) Electronic data interchange C) B2C D) Smart cards |
Electronic data interchange
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What type of technology scrambles the contents of files sent via the Internet?
A) Encryption B) Secured data interchange C) Cryptogram D) Regulated code |
Encryption
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What type of Web technology creates a secure and private connection between two computers?
A) Secure socket layers B) Encryption C) Internet-locked connections D) Sheltered web sites |
Secure socket layers
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What term refers to your ability to connect to the internet and your company from a wireless device?
A) Net services B) Push technology C) Pull technology D) Mobile computing |
Mobile computing
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What age group was born after the digital revolution?
A) Digital natives B) Digital immigrants C) Digital boomers D) Web kids |
Digital natives
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What term is used to describe two or more computers that are linked to each other?
A) Star connection B) Computer system C) Computer network D) Net |
Computer network
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What interface card do you need to connect to a network?
A) ISP card B) Wireless card C) Router D) NIC |
NIC
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What is the most common interface card used to connect one computer to a network?
A) Cat 5 B) Router C) Ethernet card D) DSL card |
Ethernet card
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What type of network device allows you to share your connection to the Internet with other computers in your home?
A) Ethernet card B) NIC C) Router D) Cat 5 |
Router
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What is another name for a shared network?
A) WAP B) Switch C) Broadband router D) Hub |
Hub
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What type of network is commonly used in a college lab environment?
A) WAN B) MAN C) LAN D) CAN |
LAN
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What type of network is commonly used in an international organization?
A) WAN B) MAN C) LAN D) CAN |
WAN
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What is the term used to describe the amount of space you have to transmit to and from the Internet?
A) Internet speed B) Network speed C) Router D) Bandwidth |
Bandwidth
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Which of the following high-speed circuits is the fastest?
A) T1 B) T2 C) T3 D) DS3 |
DS3
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What type of communication media is infrared?
A) Wireless B) Wired C) Detached D) VoIP |
Wireless
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