AGRI 002/085 Exam Two, Thursday March 30, 2006
1. According to the
reading, The Zombie Hunters, which of
the following terms is used to describe when bots surreptitiously
connect
hundreds, or thousands, of zombies to a channel in a chat room?
A) Z-gathering
B) zombie flocking
C) botnet collecting
D) schooling zombies
E) herding
2. According to the reading on How Hackers Break In,
which of the following best describes how the
villain Abednego broke into the victim’s computer systems?
A) Abednego’s port scanner found an unprotected open port
through the victim company’s fire wall.
B) He used a core-dump to discover the password file that
gained him access to all the victim company’s computers.
C) Abednego pretended to be a wall painter and while no one
was looking, he opened one of the computers at the victim’s
headquarters and
stole the hard drive which revealed all the company’s passwords.
D) His war-dialer discovered an unauthorized modem that was
attached to a company computer. He then
used his brute-force password guesser that figured out the password
within a
few hours.
E) Abednego remotely installed a key-stroke logger that
secretly emailed text files of all keyboard entries on one of the
victim’s
computer systems. These text files
included all the passwords to the victim’s computers and servers.
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3. Your own results
in your lab notebook from an experiment you did for an independent
study would
be considered which of the following types or sources of data?
A) Primary
B) Secondary
C) Tertiary
D) Quaternary
E) none of the above
4. Which of the
following binary numbers is equal to the decimal number 45?
A) 101011
B) 110101
C) 101101
D) 101010
E) 111001
5. Imagine you are
hired by a digital camera manufacturer to design a camera that is able
to
distinguish 2048 different shades of color for each pixel.
Which of the following would be the minimum
number of bits that could be used to code for each pixel, so each of
the 2048
different shades of color has its own unique binary number?
A) 9
B) 11
C) 512
D) 1,024
E)
16,384
6. Which of the following would be the color of a pixel from
a .bmp file that had the following binary code: 11111111 00000000
11111111?
A) Red
B) Cyan
C) Magenta
D) Dark Brown
E) Yellow
7. Assuming your netID or zoo login user name was jstudent,
which of the following would be the correct path to enter or paste into
the
space where the red arrow is pointing in the image above, for you to
open your
/backup/ directory or folder on the backup disk array?
A) /…/uvm.edu/fs/backup/jstudent
B) http://fs/uvm.edu/rack2g/ugrad/jstudent
C) /…/backup/fs/rackg2/ugrad/jstudent
D) ftp://uvm.edu/backup/jstudent
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8. Imagine you are
helping a friend with their web page.
Your friend is having trouble getting the background image to
come up on
his web page. Below is the HTML source
code for his web page:
<HTML>
<HEAD> <TITLE>My Spring Break
Vacation</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY BACKROUND=sunset.jpg>
<H1> My Spring Break </H1>
Here’s where I spent my spring break:
<IMG
SRC=dreamland.jpg>
</BODY> </HTML>
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Which of the following is most likely the problem with the
background?
A) The file permissions need to be changed on the sunset.jpg
file.
B) The background image file must be a .gif, a .jpg will not
work.
C) There is a spelling/syntax error in the BODY tag.
D) The background must be a solid color such as blue or
aqua.
E) All of the above
are equally likely to explain the problem.
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9. Which of the following should be considered when
evaluating the credibility of a Web Page source?
A) Determine whether it is a primary, secondary, tertiary,
or beyond, source.
B) Find out the Authority (credentials of the author and
sponsor organizations).
C) Look at the Accuracy (is it error free, is it edited or
reviewed) and Objectivity (bias).
D) Examine the Currency (date updated) and Coverage (how
in-depth).
E) All of the above.
Here is a set of standard shoe size measurements
of a group
of friends:
4
6
7
7
9
10
11 12
10. Which of the
following is the Mode of the above number set?
A) 7
B) 8
C) 8.25
D) 9.5
E) 12
11. Which of the following is the Median of the shoe size
measurements above?
A) 7
B) 8
C) 8.25
D) 9.5
E) 12
12. Imagine you are
interested in demographic transitions (How birth and death rates vary
in
countries over time). You get the
following data from the National Archives of New Guinea:
Year
Births
per thousand
Deaths per thousand
1950
127
55
1951
129
55
1952
129
54
.
.
.
.
.
.
2000
72
75
Which of the following types of graphs is used most often to
show the transition?
A) Bar Chart
B) Line Graph
C) Pie Chart
D) X-Y Scatter Plot
E) Stacked Bar Chart
13. You get a summer
internship with the Save the Turtles foundations where you are
investigating
the weight distribution of green turtle eggs.
After the field work is done, the following data are given to
you for
graphing:
Turtle egg number
Weight
in grams
1
15.32
2
17.15
3
13.67
.
.
All
4370 eggs and weights are listed here
.
.
4370
14.87
Which of the following types of graphs would be best to show
the results of the egg weight distribution?
A)
Histogram
B)
X-Y
Scatter Plot
C)
Pie
Chart
D)
Area
Graph
E)
Bar
Chart
14. Which of the
following errors during packet transmission would NOT
be detected by the “Check-Sum” algorithm or method of error
checking discussed in lecture?
A) One of the 1 bits was dropped from the core data of the
packet during transmission.
B) An extra 1 bit was added to the core data of the packet
during transmission.
C) Two zero bits were dropped from the core data, and one 1
bit was added during transmission.
D) The order of the 0 and 1 bits is re-arranged in the core
data, but no bits are dropped during transmission.
E) All of the above would be detected by the Check-Sum
algorithm.
15. In the
spreadsheet above, which of the following would be the appropriate
formula to
enter into the active cell so the total number of species would be
calculated?
A)
+ADD(A5:A10)
B)
=(A5++B10)
C) +SUM(B3-B11)
D) +B5:B11
E)
=SUM(B5:B10)
16. Which of the following best explains the biggest problem
with the graph above?
A) The graph should
be a line graph
B) The graph should
be a pie chart
C) The average hours
sleep should be on the X axis, while the student number should be on
the Y
axis.
D) There should be at
least five bars displayed instead of just four
E) The graph should
be a histogram
17. The map above is
an example of which of the following graphical display types?
A) Population pyramid chart
B) Cartogram
C) Isopleth map
D) Density map
E) Choropleth map
Imagine a friend from this class comes to you for
help with
her web page. She created her web page
using netscape composer. Your friend
created her web page and everything was working on her machine. She was able to view the image on her page in
her room on her own PC with either Mozilla, Foxfire, or Internet
Explorer. But, when she went to the
computer lab, or
the library, or any of her friend’s computers, the image would not come
up on
the page. Here’s the source code from
her html file:
<html> <head>
<meta
http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1"></head>
<body> <div align="Center">My Horse<br>
<img src="file:///C:/My%20Documents/Spring%202006/Horse.jpg"
alt="alt" width="700" height="473"> <br>
</div> </body> </html>
Refer to the picture below:
18. According to the HTML code above, where will the browser
look for the image file?
A)
A
B)
B
C)
C
D)
D
E)
None
of the above
Answers:
1. E
2. D
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. C
7. A
8. C
9. E
10. A
11. B
12. B
13. A
14. D
15. E
16. E
17. E
18. A