Monday 22 Feb 1999 Lecture CDAE 85
First Exam
1. Which of the following best describes the hardware in a computer that holds the Memory or RAM in a
modern PC?
A) CD-ROM
B) Hard Disk
C) Microprocessor
D) SIMMs or DIMMs
E) Expansion bus
2. Which of the following would NOT be considered a personal computer?
A) Desktop computer B) Notebook Computer
C) Microcomputer D) Minicomputer
E) Laptop computer
3. According to the reading assignment, which of the following is closest to how long it is taking the Internet
to double in size?
A) 10 years B) 5 years
C) 2 years D) 4 months
E) 2 weeks
Here's a picture of a system board (See your text book, page 3.4):
4. Which of the following letters on the picture point to the CPU?
A) A B) B C) C D) D E) E
5. Which of the following letters on the picture point to the memory slots?
A) A B) B C) C D) D E) E
6. Which of the following letters on the picture point to the ISA bus expansion slots?
A) A B) B C) C D) D E) E
7. Which of the following letters on the picture point to the battery?
A) A B) B C) C D) D E) E
8. Which of the following letters on the picture point to the printer connector?
A) A B) B C) C D) D E) E
9. Which of the following is NOT an operating system?
A) AIX (Unix) B) OS/2
C) Windows 98 D) MacOS
E) Telnet
10. Which of the following commands in AIX would you use to see what files are on your home directory on
zoo?
A) dir
B) ls
C) double click on My Computer
D) show files
E) display all
11. Which of the following is NOT a valid URL?
A) http://www.uvm.edu
B) gopher://crs.uvm.edu/
C) ftp://www.census.gov/
D) kpadoole@zoo.uvm.edu
E) http://cit.uvm.edu/
12. According to the reading, unwanted messages and unwanted posting to newsgroups on the Internet are
called which of the following:
A) Pooh B) Hooey
C) Spew D) Spam E)Gack
13. Which of the following best explains why reverse engineering was so important to Microsoft's success,
as shown in the video in class?
A) It made copying or cloning IBM PCs possible so Microsoft
could make lots of money from the sale of the hardware.
B) It allowed other companies to clone IBM PC, and these companies had to buy their operating system
software from Microsoft.
C) Microsoft manufactured the microprocessor that was used in every IBM PC and clone machine. The
more reverse engineered clones, the more $ Microsoft made.
D) Reverse engineering allowed IBM to duplicate the CP/M operating system for their PC. Microsoft
got royalties for each IBM PC sold.
E) Reverse engineering allowed IBM to legally duplicate the microprocessor and the ROM-BIOS chip.
Microsoft supplied the operating system at $80 per machines sold.
Here's a Windows Explorer screen:
14. Which of the following does the plus sign in front of the Cdae85 folder mean?
A) It is the folder on the hard disk with the largest number of files.
B) It is an empty folder with no files inside.
C) The folder is formatted and ready to store files
D) The folder has more than one file type inside, for example picture files AND text files.
E) The folder has other folders inside it.
15. Imagine you go to the Waterman Lab to print out a color image on the HP Paintjet color printer. Your
image is stored on your working diskette in a file called PIC.GIF. As you are walking over to Waterman,
a friend meets you who has just come from the lab. Your friend tells you there is an outbreak of a new
variant of the Monkey virus and that all the lab's machines are infected. Is there any way you can print
your picture without getting your diskette infected? Which of the following options will prevent your
diskette from getting infected?
A) Put duct tape over the diskette write-protect tab hole.
B) Slide the write protect tab shut on the diskette.
C) Slide the write protect tab open on the diskette.
D) Dip the diskette in antiseptic fluid after use.
E) There is nothing you can do, other than not put the disk in the machine, to prevent a virus infection on
your diskette.
16. Imagine you are walking by the computer lab when you suddenly realize you forgot to e-mail to a friend
a text file called READ.TXT that is saved on your home directory on your zoo account. You sit down at
one of the machines in the lab. Which of the following software do you use to connect to and log in to
zoo?
A) Telnet Terminal
B) FTP
C) Unix (AIX)
D) Pine
E) Pico
17. Following along from the previous question. You log in to zoo and get into pine. You compose a
message to your friend and are ready to insert the READ.TXT file from your home directory. Which of
the following commands will work?
A) Alt-Print Screen
B) Ctrl-I
C) Edit?Insert
D) Ctrl-R
E) Shift-enter
18. Which of the following Prefixes refers to approximately 1,000,000,000?
A) Kilo
B) Mega
C) Giga
D) Tera
E) Peta
19. Which of the following lists computers in the correct order from least powerful to most powerful?
A) Microcomputer, laptop, P.D.A., minicomputer, mainframe.
B) Minicomputer, Desktop, file server, supercomputer, mainframe.
C) Web server, palm-top, microcomputer, laptop, minitower.
D) P.D.A., minitower, web server, mainframe host, supercomputer.
E) Unix workstation, microcomputer, palm-top, file server, supercomputer, mainframe host.
Here's a BASIC program:
10 SCREEN 9
20 A=60
30 B=300
40 C=100
50 CIRCLE(A,B),C
20. If the above QBASIC source code were executed, which of the following would be the place on the screen
where the circle would show up?
A) Upper right corner of the screen
B) Upper left corner of the screen
C) Lower right corner of the screen
D) Lower left corner of the screen
E) Middle of the screen