Leibniz built on Pascal’s work by creating the Leibniz Wheel. This device was capable of what kind of calculations in addition to the ones Pascal’s could do?

The Jacquard loom is important in the history of computing for what innovation?

IBM has some of its origins in what 1890 event?

Name the four important elements of Babbage’s Engine that are components of today’s computer.

What logical elements did Charles Sanders Peirce realize electrical switches could emulate in 1880?

The U.S. military used the ENIAC computer for its intended purpose during World War II.

What important concept is attributed to John Von Neumann?

What company controlled 70% or more of the computer marketplace in the ’60s and ’70s?

What features of transistors made them superior for computers, compared with vacuum tubes?

What important pastry helped move your job up in the queue in second-generation software, and what third-generation software development made that pastry unnecessary?

In hardware, the next step up from the transistor was the transmitter.

 What magazines can you thank for the first microcomputer?

What important concept did the Altair use, which was borrowed by its competition, including the IBM personal computer?

The Apple computer became very popular. What was its largest market, and what software made it interesting to that market?

In 1990, what software company dominated the software market, and what major product did it sell?

Today, Microsoft considers its major competition in operating systems to be what system?

ARPA was created in response to what major event in world history?

Name the three most likely critical large-scale developments of the fifth generation of software development from this list of options:

Marc Andreessen released what application that made browsers widespread?

Computer security affects:

John Draper created:

The term “hacker” originally had a negative connotation.    

The term “script kiddie” refers to what?

What is the likely motivation of an undirected hacker?

What is the likely motivation of a directed hacker?

The term hacktivists refers to:

The Hacker’s Manifesto does what?

What was the backdoor on a basic e-mail program in early versions of UNIX?

Trojan programs are different from viruses because they need to be transported by an e-mail program and viruses do not.

One of the most notorious social engineers of the 1990s was:

In a social engineering attack, a company phone book can be the target.

What does a modification attack do?

One way to ensure that you have a backup of information is to use a UPS.

Which of the following doesn’t stop virus and worm attacks?

The best passwords are 8 to 10 letters long.

A virus-checking program that uses heuristics uses:

Encryption algorithm standards used in computers today are:

SSN is a more secure way of transferring files than Telnet.

What kind of service is best placed in a DMZ?

The legal protection usually sought for software source code is:

Utilitarianism is a set of ethical principles that focuses on individual consequences of an action.

The set of ethical principles that puts principles in terms of natural rights is:

According to an argument in the chapter concerning piracy, an egoist would consider piracy unethical because:

You should always reply to spam e-mail with “Unsubscribe” in the subject line.

Which of the following circuit types is used to create SRAM?

Which of the following is not one of the basic Boolean operators?

Transistors are made of ________________ material.

Which of the following is not one of the bus signal groups?

Which type of memory can’t be written to easily?

Which of the following memory types is the fastest?

In a truth table, inputs are represented on which side?

Any Boolean expression can be represented by a truth table.

Inputs of 1 and 0 to an XOR gate produce what output?

In a computer, what function does a decoder usually perform?

Boolean expressions are simplified through the use of:

Which type of I/O processing is most efficient?

Which of the following defines the display quality of a monitor?

Most computers today are based on:

Which part of the CPU is responsible for mathematical operations?

A _______________ in computer terminology is a set of wires and protocols designed to facilitate data transfer.

Most computers these days use the ________________ bus.

The _______________ contains instructions and data that provide the startup program for a computer.     

High-speed __________________ is used to speed processing in a computer system

The quality of printer output is measured in _______________________.     

Which is a better signal-to-noise ratio?

Fiber-optic cable is made of:

Which is a faster networking cable?

Which of the following standards is used in wireless networking?    

Which of the following is not one of the OSI model layers?

Which of the OSI layers is responsible for guaranteed delivery of data?

Which of the OSI layers is involved with a network’s electrical specifications?    

Which of the following is a LAN topology?

A hub has a single input and a single output.

Normal speeds of a cable modem are approximately:

DSL speeds range from:

Standard voice-grade lines are designed to carry frequencies in the range of:

Modems convert binary digits into sounds by modulating tones.

Which of the following is not a network device?

Which of the following is used to connect a computer to a network?

What factor reduces the strength of an electrical signal as it travels along a transmission medium?     

Which of the following is the most commonly used twisted pair cable category?     

Which type of guided medium is the least susceptible to attenuation and inductance?

Which topology has become more popular with the advent of the Internet and home networking?     

DSL is a combination of what two types of multiplexing?

The Internet is owned by:

Internet providers maintain a switching center called a:

The purpose of HTTP is to:

Which of the following is not an Internet-related protocol?

How many possible ports are allowed in TCP?

Which portion of the TCP/IP protocol suite provides error detection and correction?    

How many different hosts can be granted a Class A IP address allocation?

Which Internet protocol is used to assign IP addresses dynamically?

Routers are critical to the operation of the Internet.

Which Internet component is responsible for decrementing the TTL field?

Which of the following is an example of a high-level protocol?

Which of the following protocols makes the Web possible?

Which of the following is an example of a URL?

How many DNS servers does the Internet have?

What is the standard port number for HTTP?

How many IP addresses are presented to the Internet when NAT is used?

Which of the following is an example of an HTML tag?

Which HTML tag is used to provide links to other pages?

XML is just another name for HTML.

Bots are used by ______________ to crawl the World Wide Web.

Which of the following is not a valid DBMS?

A table is divided into databases.

A column is divided into tables.

What is the set of possible values for a column?

What specifies how the information in an entity is organized?

First normal form says:

Second normal form says:

Third normal form says:

What uniquely identifies a row in a table?

A composite key is a column containing unique information.

Which is not a step of the database design process?

When creating a table in SQL, you must specify whether the column is NULL or NOT NULL.

The SQL INSERT INTO statement allows adding multiple records in one statement.

By default, data returned by the SQL SELECT statement is in descending order.

Which of the following SQL SELECT options is used to organize the data being returned?