AGRI 85 EXAM 1, 20 Feb 2003
1. Which of the following letter pairs represents FROM where and TO where
file is going?
A) A to B
B) A to C
C) B to D
D) C to B
E) D to A
2. According to the Units of Memory and Storage page, which of the following
refers to “Tera” (as in TeraBits)?
A) 1,000,000,000 (Billion)
B) 1,000,000,000,000 (Trillion)
C) 1,000,000,000,000,000 (Quadrillion)
D) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (Quintillion)
E) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (Sextillion)
3. Which of the following is the correct URL for the AGRI85 home page?
A)http://www.uvm.edu/~agri85/home.html
B)http://www.uvm.edu/~jleonard/AGRI85/Spring2003/labook.html
C) http://www.uvm.edu/~cdae85/spring2003/syllabus.html
D) http://agri85.uvm.edu/~spring2003/homepage.html
E)http://www.uvm.edu/~agri85/jleonard/spring2003/syllabus/index.html
4. Which of the following best explains the biggest problem with the graph
above?
A) The legend is missing
B) The method of escape should be arranged in alphabetical order on the
X- axis
C) The lines connecting the dots should be removed
D) The graph should be a bar graph
E) The graph should be an X-Y scatter plot
5. Which of the following is the address to subscribe to the AGRI85
listserv?
A) agri85@uvm.edu
B) jleonard@zoo.uvm.edu
C) listserv@list.uvm.edu
D) agri195@listserv.uvm.edu
E) Jonathan.Leonard@uvm.edu
6. Which of the letters in the image above points to the CPU or processor?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
7. Which of the following is the port I showed you in the pictures
above?
A) Parallel port
B) Network port
C) Serial port
D) Monitor port
E) USB port
8. BeOS, Unix, Windows, Linux, AIX, and CP/M are all examples of which of
the following?
A) Spreadsheets
B) Data Bases
C) Programming Languages
D) Operating Systems
E) Word Processing programs
9. Which of the following was the website displayed in class that has newspaper
articles from countries outside the United States?
A) www.internationalnews.com
B) foreign.media.net
C) www worldpress.org
D) www.alternativenew.org
E) news.world.com
10. Imagine you wish to prevent any computer viruses from being written
on to your diskette. Which of the following will be most effective?
A) Slide the diskette write protect tab shut
B) Use anti-virus software regularly
C) Slide the diskette write protect tab open
D) Dip the diskette in antiseptic fluid, then dry completely before use
E) There is no effective way to prevent computer viruses from infecting
your diskette
11. Which of the following would be the correct formula to enter in to the
active cell above to calculate the balance?
A) =C4-D6
B) =A4-D6
C) =C4-C6
D) =A4:B4-D4
E) =C4-D4
12. According to the reading in the textbook, which of the following
media is fastest at retrieving information and displaying it on the screen?
A) Hard Disk
B) Compact Disc (CD)
C) Memory (RAM, SIMMs or DIMMs)
D) DVD
E) Floppy diskette
13. Imagine you want to graph how the elevation level of Lake Champlain
changes over a 12-month period. Which of the following graph types would
be most appropriate?
A) Pie chart
B) Line or area graph
C) Bar chart
D) Column graph
E) X-Y scatterplot
14. Which of the following is considered by most computer people to
be a memory device, rather than a storage device?
A) SIMM
B) Floppy Diskette
C) Hard Disk
D) DVD
E) CD
15. According to the assigned reading about RFID tags, which of the following
is how the tiny chips are powered?
A) They are powered by tiny nuclear reactors on board the chip itself.
B) They use the power from the initial radio signal to transmit a response.
C) All RFID tags have tiny batteries.
D) The tags do not need any power. They are scanned by a reader.
E) RFID tags use solar power from tiny solar cells.
16. You are trying to find out if year of women suffrage is at all
related to the percent of woman who are literate. You gather data from
all the countries of the world.
Year Woman % of Women
that
Country
Suffrage
are literate in 2002
Albania
1948
47
Austria
1918
98
Australia
1921
100
.
.
.
.
.
.
Which of the following would be the best type of graph to use to show the
relationship between suffrage year and literacy in 2002?
A) Pie chart
B) Bar chart
C) Line graph
D) Area graph
E) X-Y scatter plot
17. Which of the following lists of types of computer systems are
arranged from least to greatest processing power?
A) Supercomputer, Mainframe, Server, Unix Workstation, Notebook, PDA, Calculator
B) PDA, Minicomputer, Laptop, Unix Workstation, Supercomputer, Mainframe
C) Calculator, PDA, Notebook, Unix Workstation, Server, Mainframe, Supercomputer
D) Mainframe, Minicomputer, PDA, Notebook, Calculator, Server, Supercomputer
E) Notebook, PDA, Mainframe, Unix Workstation, Server, Supercomputer
18. Which of the following activities will most likely infect your
PC with a computer virus?
A) Reformat an unlabeled diskette that you found lying around the computer
lab.
B) Visiting the http://www.uvm.edu website
C) Having someone sneeze violently on your PC without covering their mouth.
D) Opening an email attachment from an unknown sender.
E) Burning an audio CD from a friend.
19. Imagine you are in the Morrill Computer lab. You have connected
to zoo and have your zoo> prompt on the screen. Which of the following
commands do you use to display a list of files in the default directory?
A) ls
B) show files
C) dir
D) sf
E) Pull down the File menu, choose list
20. In the conceptual picture above, which of the following is the letter
that represents the place where your .signature file is stored?
A) A
B) B
C) A or B
D) A or C
E) C or D
ANSWERS:
1. B
2. B
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. E
7. B
8. D
9. C
10. C
11. A
12. C
13. B
14. A
15. B
16. E
17. C
18. D
19. A
20. E