Intro to Information Technology

What does PC stand for?

• Personal Computer

• Processed Calculations

• Professional computation

• Persistent connectivity

All of the following are examples of mobile devices except?

• Servers

• Smartphones

• GPS devices

• Tablet computers

What are the four phases of the digital revolution?

• Giant computers, personal computers, networked computers, and cloud computing.

• Supercomputers, networked computers, smartphones, and servers.

• Smartphones, tablets, GPS devices, and personal computers.

• Supercomputers, networked computers, smartphones, and servers.

In the 1960s the Department of Defense funded a project that produced a network of computers for data transmission between different geographic locations. What was this project called?

• LAN

• ENIAC

• ARPANET

• CAPTCHA

What is augmented reality?

• The cloud used for storage and applications

• The way in which bills are paid online.

• A view of the live world that has been enhanced with computerized graphics, sound, or other outputs.

• Software-defined networking

Which software class can be used for cloud-based backups?

• Software as a service

• Software-defined storage

• Software-defined networking

• Software-defined networking

What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?

• The internet is a global network of networks and the World Wide Web is collection of information which is accessed via the internet.

• The Internet is the networked location of all e-mail servers: the world wide web houses everything else.

• The two terms mean the same thing

• The Internet is a global network of computers, where the World Wide Web is limited to the United States.

Which of the following is not a common characteristic of an embedded computer?

• continuous operation

• Easily seen and accessed

• Programmable

• Reliability

The ________ is most commonly defined as the gap between those individuals’ communities and countries having access to the information technologies that transform life and those who do not have this access.

• Digital divide

• Technological separation

• Digital middle class

• PC partition

What prefix means “relation to computers or computer networks?”

• Info-

• Techno-

• Cyber-

• Inter-