NEW
Font size
Worksheetsновый икт
Total questions: 77
Worksheet time: 39mins
What is the number one concern about cloud computing?
· Too expensive
Security concerns
· Too many platforms
· Accessibility
1. Which one of these is not a cloud computing pricing model
· Pay Per Use
· Subscription
Ladder
· Perpetual License
Which of these is not a major type of cloud computing usage
Hardware as a service
Platform as a service
· Software as a service
· Infrastructure as a service
“Cloud” in cloud computing represents what
· Wireless
· Hard drives
· People
Internet
Which of these should a company consider before implementing cloud computing technology. I: Employee satisfaction, II: Potential cost reduction, III: Information sensitivity
· Only I
· Only II
· Only III
I, II, and III
What exactly is cloud computing
· A way to organize desktop computers
· Lightweight software that takes up little space on a hard drive
Computing resources that can be accessed on demand, like electricity from a utility
· The World Wide Web
What widely used service is built on cloud-computing technology? I: Twitter, II: Skype, III: Gmail, IV: YouTube.
· Only I
· Only II
· Only III and I
I, II, III and IV
1. Cloud computing embraces many concepts that were previously touted as the next big thing in information technology. Which of these is not an antecedent of the cloud?
· Utility computing
· Remote hosted services
· Grid computing
Desktop computing
1. Which SQL statement is used to extract data from a database?
Select
GET
· OPEN
Extract
1. Computerized representations of models and attributes of real or simulated entities are?
Data
Knowledge
Information
Information
Representation of the results of a computational process, such as statistical analysis, or the transcripts of some meanings assigned by human beings is
Data
Knowledge
Information
Database
1. Representation of the results of a computer-simulated cognitive process, such as perception, learning, association, and reasoning is
Data
Knowledge
· Information
· Database
1. Continuous representation, similar to the actual information it represents is
Analog data
Digital data
Continuous data
Discrete data
1. A discrete representation, breaking the information up into separate(discrete) elements is
Analog data
Digital data
Continuous data
Discrete data
1. Two bits can represent
· Four things
Two things
Eight things
Ten things
The extended version of the ASCII character set is not enough for international use
Unicode
Barcode
EBCDIC
· Binary code
1. The Unicode character set uses _________ per character
16 bits
8 bits
4 bits
32 bits
List the levels of computer systems from top to down
users, application software, operating system software, and the hardware system
application software, operating system software, users, and the hardware system
application software, users,operating system software, and the hardware system
hardware system, operating system software, application software, and users
List the levels of computer systems from bottom to up
users, application software, operating system software, and the hardware system
application software, operating system software, users, and the hardware system
application software, users, operating system software, and the hardware system
hardware system, operating system software, application software, and users
Which software refers to application software?
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Windows
Unix
Mac OS
Which software refers to application software?
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Windows
Unix
Mac OS
1. What is the master controller for all activities that take place within a computer
Operating System
Application Software
· DBMS
1. What does send data from a computer over a network, and collects incoming data sent by other computers
A network interface card (NIC)
A modem
Phone line or cable
Internet service provider
1. What is a device that enables data from a computer to be transmitted via phone lines or television cable lines to reach other computers on the Internet?
A network interface card (NIC)
A modem
Phone line or cable
Internet service provider
1. What does serve as a socket on the motherboard into which an expansion card maybe inserted?
Expansion slot
Motherboard
· Power supply
Microprocessor
1. What does enable a computer to control peripheral devices such as the monitor and the microphone?
Expansion card
Motherboard
Power supply
Microprocessor
1. What does transfer data from storage devices to the motherboard?
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) cable
Motherboard
Power supply
Microprocessor
1. What does store data permanently (even after the computer is turned off)?
Disk drives
Motherboard
Power supply
Microprocessor
What step of the fetch-execute cycle enables the control unit of the CPU to decode the instruction and direct the necessary data to be moved from memory to the ALU
Interpret
Fetch
Execute
Store
1. What science studies how to refine the design of products to optimize them for human use?
Ergonomics
HCI
Economics
ICT
1. Which of the following computer attack methods does not require a hardware or software tool?
· Port scanning
Social engineering
Spoofing
Packet sniffing
1. What does a packet sniffer do?
Captures data packets that are transmitted through a network
Renders a computer network unusable
Renders a computer network unusable
Converts encrypted passwords to plain text
1. A computer attack that uses handler computers to control agent computers to attack a target computer is known as a _____ attack.
Smurf
SYN flood
network connectivity
distributed denial of service
1. Attacking a computer by sending it an excessive number of email messages is known as
· Smurfing
Spoofing
Spamming
· Pinging
1. With respect to security on the Internet, what is the purpose of digital signatures?
To verify the identity of a message sender
To request receipts for all sent messages
To post anonymous messages to bulletin boards
To encrypt mail messages
1. One of the most common applications of encryption is transmitting data securely over the Web is ______
the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
a Trojan horse
a simple substitution code
Which encryption method uses a pair of digital keys?
Active-X
SSL
Public key encryption
S-HTTP
1. Embedding different types of data, such as sound and graphics, within Internet electronic mail requires which of the following formats to be used for encoding the data?
TCP/IP
GIF
MIME
Encryption
ISPs can be accessed by which of the following ways? I. Telephone lines II. Cable television systems III. Personal satellite dishes
· I only
I and II only
I, II, and III
II only
The numbers in IP addresses are separated by
points
periods
colons
commas
What knits the Internet together and allows data to travel smoothly over the communications links provided by NSPs worldwide?
· FTP
TCP/IP
· HTTP
URL
What networks are useful in environments where wiring is difficult to install?
Twisted pair
Coaxial
Wirefree
Wireless
What top-level domain belongs to computers in the category of commercial businesses?
bus
com
org
bsn
What top-level domain belongs to computers in the category of networks and ISPs?
adm
int
net
html
What top-level domain belongs to computers in the category of professional and nonprofit organizations?
com
npo
org
edu
When you send an email to someone, it is sent to
the sender's email server
the sender's email client
the recipient's computer
the recipient's email server
Using a(n) _____ protocol, the sender and the receiver are synchronized by a signal called a clock
synchronous
asynchronous
analog
block
The bandwidth of a(n) _____ signal is usually measured in bits per second.
video
digital
satellite
analog
What type of cable is typically used to carry cable television signals because its high capacity allows it to carry signals for more than 100 television channels simultaneously?
BNC
STP
UTP
Coaxial
A communications _____ is a physical path or frequency for a signal transmission.
band
channel
protocol
bridge
Which of the following terms represents the transmission capacity of a communications channel?
Indexing
Frequency
Bandwidth
Resolution
Modems transfer data between computers by converting between
analog and digital
Ethernet and digital
video and sound
analog and Ethernet
What kind of waves provides wireless transmission for mobile communications, such as cellular telephones, and for stationary communications where it is difficult or impossible to install cabling, such as in remote, geographically rugged regions?
Infrared
Radio
Line-of-sight
UTP
What is a backbone provider (also known as a Network Service Provider)?
A group of small providers that work together to provide Internet access
Any company that provides Web-based services
A provider of national and international network links for the Internet
The largest provider of Internet access within a particular region
With respect to the Internet, routers are used to connect
a computer and a modem
a computer to the Internet
any two computers
different networks of computers
With respect to the Internet, companies need to register a unique domain name when
buying a new modem
establishing an electronic commerce Web site
buying a new computer
connecting a new computer to the Internet
What is the protocol used to transfer Web pages?
html
http
udp
ftp
What is the name of the Internet protocol used to make sure messages are reliably transmitted and received by the destination computer?
TCP
ISP
IP
POP
The World Wide Web is
the same as the Internet
a software package
a client/server application program used to access the Internet
a collection of Web servers throughout the world
When a fully explicit URL such as http://www.iitu.kz is provided to an Internet browser, "http" refers to the name of the
domain where the Web server resides
language in which the page is written
Web server containing the Web page
protocol used to perform the operation
IP host addresses on the Internet are composed of which of the following?
A 24-bit number
A single decimal number ranging from 0 to 255
Four decimal numbers ranging from 0 to 255
Any number of lowercase alphanumeric characters
Which of the following computer attacks is spoofing?
Using a program to decrypt passwords
Monitoring a network to intercept data
Using one computer to impersonate another
Accessing an unprotected port on a computer
The method of cracking a password by trying all possible alphanumeric combinations is known as a _____ attack
port scanning
dictionary
brute force
man-in-the-middle
After loading a word processor document from a floppy, a user's computer begins to show symptoms of being infected by a virus.Which of the following is true concerning this situation?
The document text could have contained an embedded virus
The word processing program checks all documents for viruses before using them, so the source the virus was not the document.
A document cannot contain a virus, so the source of the virus was not the word processing document.
The document could have contained a macro that contained a virus.
Which of the following is email spoofing?
Sending large amounts of unsolicited email
Sending viruses through email
Modifying an email header to fake the email source
Intercepting email by monitoring a network
How does a receiver of an encrypted message verify that the message originated from the sender?
The receiver compares the message with the decrypted signature of the sender
The receiver compares the message hashed with the sender's signature.
The receiver compares the message hashed with the decrypted signature of the sender.
The receiver compares the received message with the sender's signature
To encrypt a message using public-key encryption scheme, which of the following must be done?
Encrypt the message using the receiver's private key
Encrypt the message using the sender's private key.
Encrypt the message using the receiver's public key.
Encrypt the message using the sender's public key.
Encryption is used to
save storage space
store data files in a vault
protect privacy by encoding data
archive system files
Of the following processes, which best characterizes the authentication process?
Logging into a secure site
Verifying that software that is in use is not a pirated copy
Authorizing use of some resource by a particular user
Establishing a user identity
Which of the following is true about private-key encryption schemes?
The sender and the receiver have different private keys.
The sender and the receiver use the same private key.
The sender and the receiver have two private keys, one for encryption and one for decryption.
The sender must notify the receiver before sending a message.
Which of the following is correct with respect to customers providing highly personal information across the Internet through electronic commerce transactions?
Customers should never provide charge card information when asked to complete an electronic commerce transaction
Transactions are relatively secure between the consumer and a company's Web site if the data is encrypted
It is impossible for anybody to see the transaction on the Internet except for the intended Web site conducting the transaction
If a transaction is encrypted, any unauthorized parties intercepting the transaction will take ten or more years to decrypt the information
Which of the following comparisons between public-key encryption schemes and private-key encryption schemes is true?
It takes longer to transmit encrypted data using private-key encryption schemes than public-key encryption schemes
It is easier to decrypt data using private-key encryption schemes than public-key encryption schemes.
Private-key encryption schemes are more secure than public-key encryption schemes
Public-key encryption schemes involve more computations than private-key encryption schemes.
ANSI stands for
All National Standard of Information
American National System Information
American National Standards Institute
All National Standards Institute
_________ receives input from the user and processes this input through the computer to produce output.
Hardware
Software
Computer system
Network system
________________is the delay between the time when the memory device receives an address and the time when the first bit of data is available from the memory device.
Latency
RAM
Capacity
DRAM
Who designed a general-purpose calculating device, the Analytical Engine?
Augusta Ada King
Gordon Moore
Jack Kilby
Charles Babbage
PCI stands for
Peripheral Component Interconnect
Peripheral Computer Internet
Peripheral Component Interaction
Peripheral Computer Interaction
