1. Which of the following is a non-impact printer?

dot matrix printer ink jet printer daisy-wheel printer line printer Ink Jet Printer A non-impact printer produces text and images without even touching the paper. An ink-jet printer is a non-impact printer because it just sprays ink onto paper to produce text and images. 2. An FTP program is application software that deals with what? graphics and multimedia software home, personal. and education software business software communications software Communications Software FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a feature where a computer user uploads and downloads various files to and from websites. Here's where the communication part comes in. Communication is involved in uploading when a file goes on sites such as YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc. Communication-wise, downloading requires interaction between user and website to get web files (i.e. pictures, videos, and songs) onto a computer. 3. What is the first thing that happens when booting a computer? The processor chip locates the ROM chip that contains the computers startup instructions. the power supply sends a signal to the system unit The BIOS performs the power on self test The BIOS scans system files and the kernel of the operating system, The power supply sends a signal to the system unit The power supply transfers electrical currents to the entire system unit, which contains electrical components. That activates the processor chip which then locates the ROM chip that contains the computer's startup instructions. 4. B2B, B2C, and C2C are all types of what? terminals CPUs E-Commerce IP addresses

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E-Commerce E-Commerce, short for electronic commerce, deals with conducting business transactions online. B2B (Business to Business) applies to one business exchanging with another, mainly done in between countries. B2C (Business to Customer) pertains to commerce to the general public, primarily done on E-Bay and Amazon. C2C is where one online user conducts business with another online user; that is frequently done on sites like PayPal. 5. What is the binary equivalent of 29? 11001 11101 11100 10111 11101 Computers use the digits of the binary numeric system when it comes to computer programming. The binary numeric system is a combination of 0s and 1s that represents natural numbers. Numbers are translated into a binary code by using the pattern 1, 2, 4, 8, etc (the pattern reads the other way around). Now bit 0 and bit 1 determines which of these numbers add up to a certain number. Since bit 0 means that the circuit is off, then the number(s) that correspond to bit 0 is not used. Since bit 1 indicates that the circuit is on, and then the number(s) that correspond to bit 1 is used. Now the question is to find the binary equivalent to the number 9. The necessary pattern to use is 16, 8, 4, 2, and 1 considering that the number is less than 32. The binary equivalent to 29 is 11101 because 16, 8, 4, and 1 are used to add up to 29, and 2 isn't. 6. Which network operating system is Solaris a version of? Netware Windows CE Mac OS X UNIX UNIX Solaris is a version of Unix developed by Sun Microsystems. The things Solaris deals with are e-commerce, multithreading, and symmetric multiprocessing. 7. What computer virus replicates itself, shutting down the computer system in the process? worm botnet Trojan horse back door Worm A worm can also replicate itself to the point where it uses up the entire computer's storage capacity.

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8. What technology connects a user to the internet through copper telephone lines? satellite technology DSL Wi-Fi CATV technology DSL DSL is short for Digital Subscriber Lines. It provides high speed Internet access by transmitting digital data from a DSL modem to the DSL line that's connected to it. 9. What network connects computers all across a college campus? VAN LAN MESH MAN LAN LAN is short for Local Access Network. It is a network that connects computers limited to certain urban and rural areas such as homes, agencies, and schools. 10. What is the correct order of relationships of data when it comes to databases? characters, records, fields, files characters, files, fields, records characters, fields, records, files characters, records, files, fields Characters, Fields, Records, Files Characters are various bits and bytes used to form texts. A series of related text marks make a field. More than one field of characters is a record. Records of field containing characters are known as files.

Computers Before the PC 1. Which of these were NOT used to input data into computers? paper tapes with holes punched in them telephones reel-to-reel tapes telegraph keys Source: http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sci__tech/computers/general_computing.html

Telegraph Keys Digital Equipment, among others, used paper tapes for their programs. Special teletypes were created with paper tape punchers attached to make the tapes. Modems were used, though they looked like they really belonged on the set of "Get Smart" instead of a computer. I don't know of any computers which understood Morse code. 2. Tracy Kidder's 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Soul of a New Machine" was written about the development of which Massachusetts company's "super minicomputer" system? Data General's MV/8000 IBM's S/360 DEC's VAX Bell Labs' Unix Data General's MV/8000 Tracy Kidder wrote this book about the team at Data General who designed the MV/8000, one of the first superminicomputers. 3. Who was Grace Hopper? The person who gave IBM the nickname "Big Blue". The designer of the ENIAC computer. Bill Gates's first secretary. The inventor of COBOL. The inventor of COBOL Admiral Hopper wrote COBOL to be a programming language for general business use. It was supposed to be easier to understand than either Fortran or assembly language. 4. What is "core"? power transformers memory the building the computer was housed in the center of the computer Memory Core memory was so called because each bit was stored in a doughnut-shaped piece of iron, with three wires running through its center, or core. Even the largest systems had very little memory when 2 Mb of core would fill a space the size of a refrigerator! 5. Which of these programming languages was invented at Bell Labs? BASIC COBOL Source: http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sci__tech/computers/general_computing.html

C FORTRAN C C was written by Dennis Ritchey, who also helped design the Unix operating system. Grace Hopper was working at Rand when she designed COBOL. BASIC was invented at Dartmouth College. FORTRAN was invented by IBM. 6. Which company's computers ran the Multics operating system? IBM Digital Equipment Compaq Honeywell Honeywell Multics incorporated many ideas which would be used by later operating systems, such as tree-structured directories. Unix was designed to be a simple Multics. 7. Xerox founded the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), but which company is best known for introducing their ideas of the graphical user interface? Prime Computer IBM Sun Microsystems Apple Computer Apple Computer Apple based their Lisa (later Macintosh) operating system on work done on graphical user interfaces at PARC. 8. Who manufactured the pdp series of processors? IBM Digital Equipment Co. Data General Sun Microsystems Digital Equipment Co. Digital Equipment (DEC) made the pdp and later the VAX series of computers. Your Palm Pilot, cell phone, or digital camera probably has more memory and a faster processor than their minicomputer, the pdp-8, did! 9. For what machines were punch cards originally designed? cash registers Source: http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sci__tech/computers/general_computing.html

computers weaving looms printing presses weaving looms The Jacquard Loom used the holes punched in cards to create intricate patterns in woven fabrics. Punch cards were also used in player pianos and music boxes. 10. No computer has been built which does not use transistors or integrated circuits. True False False Some of the first computers were built solely with vacuum tubes and mechanical relays. Transistors and integrated circuits have allowed computers to be smaller and faster. GENERAL COMPUTING 1. Which is not associated with computers? FPU Manifold Babbage Engine Turing Machine CPU Overdrive FPU Manifold The Turing Machine is a hypothetical computer first proposed by the British mathematician Alan Turing in 1937. It is the basis for today's stored-program computer. Charles Babbage designed the Babbage Analytical Engine during the 19th Century, and employed many of the same concepts used in modern computers. CPU Overdrive is not a rock band. Many companies provide devices to make Intel x86 CPUs run faster than they normally do, usually by a technique called over-clocking. 2. What does the "E" in MOS-FET stand for? Extended None of these Emitter Effect Effect Sometimes seen as MOSFET, this acronym stands for: Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor. Source: http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sci__tech/computers/general_computing.html

3. "LET A$=B$" is valid syntax for which computer programming language? ALGOL BASIC APL FORTH BASIC The Beginners' All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) assigns values to variables with the "LET" statement. Experienced BASIC programmers know, however, that one can omit "LET" and write the above statement as "A$=B$". 4. The following joke is based on which computer programming language? "GOD is REAL, unless declared INTEGER." C BASIC FORTRAN IV COBOL FORTRAN IV Unlike the languages C or COBOL, FORTRAN does not require the programmer to declare all variables used in the program. If a variable is undeclared in FORTRAN, then it is assigned a default data type depending on the first letter of the variable name. Variables beginning with I, J, K, L, M or N are of type INTEGER by default. All others are REAL by default. So, GOD is a REAL number variable unless the programmer declares it as an INTEGER in the program. 5. Which term is not a computer hardware acronym? MMU FPU BCD UART BCD BCD stands for Binary Coded Decimal and is a standard for representing decimal numbers internally. FPU is a floatingpoint unit. UART is Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, and MMU is Memory Management Unit. 6. The term "destructive read" applies to which computer technology? Core Monitor Disk Source: http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sci__tech/computers/general_computing.html

Paper Tape Core Core (an early type of Random Access Memory using magnetic rings) and many solid-state memories actually destroy the contents of a memory bit location when the data is read. The memory unit must write back the original value to the location when it passes the value to the requesting device. 7. Which company did/does not design and manufacture computers? Nippon Electric Co. Digital Equipment Corp. Computer Sciences Corp. International Business Machines Computer Sciences Corp. Computer Sciences Corp. is a service company that helps other companies better use their computers. Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) was famous for its PDP and VAX line of computers. International Business Machines (IBM) should be known to all, and the Nippon Electric Co. (now known as NEC) has a long history of building computing devices. 8. What company manufactured and marketed the first commercial digital computer? IBM NCR DEC DG NCR NCR sold the 304. The memory banks, based on work done by their engineers during WWII on designing and building code-breaking machines for the German 4-wheel Enigma machines, were a key element to the computer's success. 9. The ACLU in a computer controls the arithmetic logic. True False False The Arithmetic Control Unit (ACU) controls the arithmetic logic. 10. Which comic strip featured the Banana Junior 6000 Self-Portable Personal Computer System? Bloom County The Far Side Non Sequitur Source: http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sci__tech/computers/general_computing.html

Calvin and Hobbes Bloom County Tag line: "Gene Simmons never had a personal computer when he was a kid . . . Say NO to spandex and chrome. Say YES to silicon." TIE-BREAKING QUESTIONS: 1. This is known as the worlds fastest computer as of August 2011. The said computer was developed by two Japanese computer RIKEN and Fujitsu and it has 672 computer racks, 68,544 CPUs and 8.162 petaflops calculation speed. It won the fastest supercomputer in the Top500 ranking of the worlds supercomputers considering that is only half completed, surpassing the 2.507 petaflops of Chinas Tianhe-1A that won the 2010 fastest supercomputer in world. Note: petaflop = quadrillion floating-point operations per second. Answer: K Computer 2. Computer worms, viruses, as well as Trojans are generally grouped into one big group. What is this group called? Answer: Malware Since computer worms, computer viruses, and Trojans are all malicious software codes, it is safe to put them in one general category, which is called "Malware". As you may have guessed, mal means evil, while ware is short for software, so together; it's Malware, as in, evil software. 3. Which of these services was originally designed for network administrators to work remotely on different computers in their network but is now mostly used by malicious hackers?
SMTP Telnet SMTP POP3 ICMP

Answer:

Telnet

Telnet is a specialized service which was originally used by network administrators, although these days, there are many other uses for it, such as connecting to a web-server and spoofing (providing fake) information about yourself. I will also give you a short description of the other services: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol): This service basically allows you to send outgoing emails. POP3 (Post Office Protocol Version 3): This service allows you to receive emails. ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol): This service allows you to perform various functions, such as checking if a host is alive. 4. One of the text emoticons below actually originated in the funny papers to represent swearing. Can you spot which one?
:- ) @%&$%& #-o (-)

Answer: @%&$%& So, :-) is a smile. The #-o is Doh!. The (-) is needs a haircut. 5. Who may have said, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"? Answer: IBM Chairman Thomas Watson In 1943 Thomas Watson, former chairman of IBM, was reported to have said "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." He was wrong.

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