Exam Two, AGRI 85, Spring 2003
3 April 2003

1. Which of the following is the binary sum of the binary numbers 10101 and 11011?
A) 101010
B) 110111
C) 110000
D) 101110
E) 111001

 

2.  Which one of the following graph types best describes the graph above?
A) Bar Chart
B) Line Graph
C) X-Y Scatter plot
D) Radar graph
E) Curve graph

3.  Which of the following would be the best interpretation of the above graph?
A) Countries that have a high birth rate tend to have a high GNP.
B) The graph proves that increasing the GNP will raise the birthrate in a country.
C) Of the countries listed there is a weak inverse relationship between birth rate and GNP.
D) Countries that have a low birth rate have a low GNP.
E) There is no relationship between birth rate and GNP.

4.    Which of the following tags would be the correct tag to take the image of Ira Allen Chapel (ira.jpg) and make it into a link on a web page so that when you click on the chapel, the UVM page comes up?
A) <IMG SRC=ira.jp/http://www.uvm.edu>
B) <A HREF=http://www.uvm.edu><IMG SRC=ira.jpg></A>
C) <Link=www.uvm.edu><IMG SCR=ira.jpg></LINK>
D) <A HREF=www.uvm.edu><ira.jpg></A HREF>
E) <IMG SRC=ira.jpg>http://www.uvm.edu</IMG>

5. According to the article "How Hackers Break In", which of the following was the way that Abednego slipped through the firewall and gained access to the victim company computer systems?
A)  Abednego used a port scanner and found a guest account with no password.
B) Abednego discovered a modem connected to a computer at the company.  By dialing into the modem and then using a password guesser, he gained root access on a Silicon Graphics machine running the Irix operating system.
C) Abednego sneaked past the night watch security guards at the company and opened one of the PCs and took the hard disk home.  He was then able to install the stolen drive into his machine and discovered the passwords to the company's other computer systems.
D) Abednego used "Strobe", a war-dialer, to log in to all available ports on the company's internal network.  One port was not protected and he was able to slip behind the firewall.
E) Abednego caused one of the company's web pages to crash and he was able to core-dump the machine and steal the password shadow file.

6.  Imagine you were analyzing the color of a .bmp file pixel.  The raw red-green-blue color data for this pixel was as follows: 11111111  00000000  11111111.  Which of the following colors would this pixel be?
A) Yellow
B) Blue
C) Green
D) Chartreuse
E) Magenta
 

7.  When you are using pico as the editor of your web page, which of the following letters from the picture above best matches where the edited html file will be saved?
A) A
B) B
C) C or D
D) B or C
E) A or B

8.  Imagine you are hired by a used CD store to help create a new data base of the store’s CD inventory.  Because of you expertise, you are asked to come up with a binary coding system so each CD will have a unique binary number.  There is space for 15,000 CDs.  Which of the following is the minimum number of bits you would need to code for each CD, so each CD has its own unique binary number?
A) 3
B) 14
C) 64
D) 1875
E) 15,000

9.  Imagine you are creating a web page and you find this really sweet image of a sunrise that you want to use in your page. You decide to include the tag:
<IMG SRC=http://www.photos.org/sunrise.jpg> in your web page.  Which of the following is the main advantage of using this tag instead of using a tag like <IMG SRC=sunrise.jpg>?
A) The first tag method will always load the image faster than the second method.
B) The first tag method is safer because the image is stored on its own server.
C) The first tag method is easier to code than the second method.
D) The first tag method is more precise because it locates the image in cyberspace.
E) The first tag method will save disk space in your web directory or folder.

10.  Which of the following are the two most important things to know when giving an oral presentation?
A) Your subject and your audience
B) Your objective and your capabilities
C) The room and audiovisual equipment
D) Your timing and pacing
E) Depends on the type of speech

11.  Imagine you had scanned an image of the American flag.  Which of the following graphic file formats would be most efficient in compressing the file to the smallest size?
A) .gif
B) .jpg
C) .bmp
D) .html
E) .gfo

12.  According to the reading in the textbook, which of the following is NOT an example of a telephone network connection?
A) ISDN
B) T-carrier Lines
C) 802.11 Wi Fi
D) DSL
E) Dialup modem connection

13.  Most people find which of the following easiest to read and least distracting in a PowerPoint presentation?
A) ALL UPPER CASE FONT
B) Serif fonts like Times New Roman
C) Lots of different colored fonts, especially reds and greens on a blue background
D) Sans Serif fonts like Comic Sans
E) Different transition types between each slide

14.  Which of the following file extension types is most likely used with a standard ASCII format file?
A) .mpg
B) .com
C) .doc
D) .xls
E) .txt

15.    Imagine your friend comes to you for help with a zoo web page problem.  An image of the pet cat on their page is not coming up on the screen.  Which of the possible problems below can you eliminate right away as NOT being a possible explanation of why the image is not working?
A)    The image file was accidentally uploaded to your friend’s home directory, instead if into their public_html directory.
B)    The image file was named pookie.jpg in the html code, but the file in the public_html directory is pookie.JPG.
C)    The image is not in the /IMAGE sub-directory under the public_html directory
D)    The image tag is <IMG SCR=pookie.jpg> where it should be <IMG SRC=pookie.jpg>.
E)    The image file was uploaded with an older version of FTP and the file permission on pookie.jpg need to be changed so the file is “public” and visible.

16.    HTTP stands for which of the following?
A) High Tension Transport Priority
B) Hyper Texture Transmission Protocol
C) Hairy Trailing Toe Projection
D) High Text Transition Proxy
E) Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

17.    Which of the following are the light sensors that take light and turn it into a voltage current in Fax machines and Digital Cameras?
A)    Digital to Analytical Converters (DACs)
B)    Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs)
C)    Analog to Digitized Converters (ADCs)
D)    Electro Static Devices (ESDs)
E)    Radio Frequency Identification (RFIDs)

18.    Imagine your PowerPoint presentation was saved as the file presentation.ppt.  Which of the following tags would work to use in your home page on zoo where someone could click on the image of the audience (audience.jpg) and download your PowerPoint presentation to a machine in the Morrill computer lab?
A)    <IMG SCR=audience.jpg link=presentation.ppt>
B)    <LINK=http://www.uvm.edu/~yourNetID/presentation.ppt> <IMG SCR=audience.jpg></LINK>
C)    <A HREF=audience.jpg><IMG SRC=presentation.ppt> </A>
D)    <presentation.ppt IMG SRC=audience.jpg>
E)    <A HREF=presentation.ppt><IMG SRC=audience.jpg></A>

19. Which of the following most accurately describes how to update, edit, or change your signature file for emails sent by pine on zoo?
A)  Log into zoo, use pico to edit your .signature file.  Make the changes you want, then Ctrl X to save, Y for yes, and Enter.
B)  Download your signature.txt file from your mail sub-directory or folder from zoo.  Edit with notepad, save locally, and upload using FTP to your mail folder.
C) Edit your signature.mail file stored on your local PC in the System32 folder in Windows using Notepad.  When finished editing, re-save the file to the System32 folder.
D) Log into zoo, cd into the public_html folder, use pico to edit the mail.signature file.  When finished re-save the file with Ctrl-S.
E) You need special permission from the zoo system administrator to edit or alter your signature file on zoo.  You can not do it without this permission.

20. Imagine you are constructing a web page as we did in the first web page lab (Lab 6).  Which of the following is the correct tag for putting a yellow background color on your page?
A) <BODY BGCOLOR=YELLOW>
B) <BACKGROUND=YELLOW.GIF>
C) <BODY BACKGROUND=YELLOW>
D) <BGCOLOR=YELLOW>
E) <COLOR=YELLOW>

Answer key:
1. c
2. c
3. c
4. b
5. b
6. e
7. c
8. b
9. e
10. a
11. a
12. c
13. d
14. e
15. c
16. e
17. b
18. e
19. a
20. a