Below is a screen capture of an FTP session.  Imagine you are clicking, dragging, and dropping the COMMAND.COM file circled to the lower window where the arrow is pointing:




 
1. Which of the following letter pairs represents FROM where and TO where the COMMAND.COM 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 “Giga” (as in GigaBytes)?
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. According to the reading in the textbook, which of the following refers to “Pipelining”?
A) The old fashion way of putting a message in a canister and dropping it into an air tube so the canister is pushed to another part of a building for pickup.
B) The way many streams of data are coded in different colors and joined into a single beam of white light and sent down a fiber optic cable.
C) How Ethernet cables are pulled through the old plumbing spaces inside a building that is being wired for Internet Service.
D) The way a CPU begins executing a second instruction before the first instruction is completed, yielding faster processing.
E) How a person aboard ship can talk into a tube and be heard in a different area of a the ship.

4. Which of the following lists of types of computers is closest to the correct order from MOST TO LEAST powerful?
A) Supercomputer, PDA, Unix workstation, laptop, Web server, Minicomputer, Microcomputer, Mainframe host.
B) PDA, Desktop, Microcomputer, Supercomputer, Unix workstation, Web Server, Macrocomputer, Mainframe host.
C) Supercomputer, Mainframe host, Web server, Unix workstation, laptop, palmtop, PDA, calculator.
D) Unix workstation, notebook, Web server, Microcomputer, Mainframe host, PDA, palmtop, supercomputer
E) Calculator, PDA, palmtop, notebook, Unix workstation, Web server, Mainframe host, Supercomputer



5. Which of the following best explains the biggest problem with the graph above?
A) The legend is missing
B) The colleges and schools should be arranged in alphabetical order
C) The total should not be included
D) The graph should be a line graph instead of a pie chart
E) The font should be serif and re-sized

6. According to the link from the last lecture web page on how Compact Disc players work, which of the following best describes how the information is stored on a CD?
A)  Sequences of tones are stored as binary numbers in a series of tracks and sectors on the disc.  These are read by a laser and translated into voltages that drive speakers.
B)  The sound on a CD is stored in analog where the width of the “pit” defines how strong the pressure wave is that the pit codes for.  These pressure waves are modified into electric signals whose strength determines the sound strength that comes out of headphones or speakers.
C)  Music on a CD is a string of 0s and 1s that are coded by the angle of reflection of laser light on the mirrored surface of the CD.  Each sound wave is coded by a 24-bit number.  This number is modulated into an analog pulse that drives headphones or speakers.
D)  Tones on a CD are series of light oscillations of different wavelength (or colors).  The sound is produced by a color demodulator that converts the color phase into a sound pitch.  The colors are stored in concentric rings on the surface of the CD and translated into electric pulses that drive the speakers or headphones.
E)  The music on a CD is stored in a long series of pits and lands that represents sequences of 16-bit numbers, each representing a wave amplitude.  These are arranged in a spiral on the disc and are demodulated into an electric signal that drives speakers or headphones.

7. 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

8. 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




9. Which of the letters in the image above points to where memory modules (SIMMs or DIMMs) would be installed?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E

10.  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

11.  According to the video we have been watching on the history of PC Operating Systems and Bill Gates, which of the following was the dominant PC operating system in the late 1970s, and early 1980s when IBM was looking for an operating system for their new IBM-PC project?
A) MS-DOS
B) Linux
C) Unix
D) CP/M
E) Lotus 1-2-3

12.  According to the same video, which of the following best explains why Microsoft made so much money in the 1980s?
A) Microsoft manufactured the microprocessor chips that went into IBM-PCs .
B) Microsoft got $50 per IBM-PC sold (royalties) for their MS-DOS operating system.
C) Microsoft sold MS-DOS to clone makers like Compaq and Dell at $50 per PC.
D) Microsoft owned the rights to all the software sold on each IBM-PC.
E) None of the above.

13.  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) Silde 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