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T/F: Information processing is a vital activity today because the success of many businesses depends heavily on the wise use of information.

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T

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T/F: The use of cookies provides no benefits to consumers.

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F

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T/F: Most browsers maintain a history list, which is a record of all Web pages visited in the last few weeks.

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T

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T/F: Many networks use a network server to manage the data flowing through the network devices and the resources on a network.

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T

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T/F: Antispam programs are used to detect and remove any viruses or works that find their way onto your computer.

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F

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T/F: To identify a secure web page, look for a URL that begins with https instead of http.

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T

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T/F: A strategy that is sometimes used with keywords is the wildcard approach.

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T

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T/F: The external hardware components are located inside the main box or system unit of the computer.

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F

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T/F: The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA) enables all Americans to get a free copy of their credit report, upon request, each year from the three major consumer credit bureaus.

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T

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T/F: Storage devices are hardware used to store data on or access data from storage media, such as CD discs, DVD discs, or flash memory cards.

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T

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T/F: A Computer does not always do whatever the instructions, or program, tell it to do.

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F

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T/F: Direct internet connections are much slower than dial-up connections.

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F

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T/F: Denial of service attacks are usually of insignificant cost in terms of business lost.

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F

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T/F: Unauthorized use involves using a computer resource for unauthorized activities.

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T

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T/F: Users are people who use the internet for activities, such as to look up a telephone number, browse through an online catalog, make an online purchase, download a music file, or send an e-mail message.

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T

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T/F: Fortunately, identity theft is declining and does not pose a real danger to individuals today.

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F

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T/F: Computer literacy is the knowing about and understanding computers and their uses.

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T

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T/F: Application service providers (ASPs) supply the information that is available through the internet.

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F

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T/F: Lack of feedback is a disadvantage of web-based training and distance learning.

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F

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T/F: A firewall is a security system that essentially creates a barrier between a computer or network and the internet in order to protect against unauthorized access.

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T

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A ____ is a malicious program that masquerades as something else - usually as some type of application program.

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Trojan Horse

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____ are businesses or other organizations that provide internet access to others, typically for a fee.

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Internet service providers (ISPs).

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____ access systems use physical objects for identification purposes and they are frequently used to control access to facilities and computer systems.

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Possessed object.

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One objective of the ____ project was the create a computer network that would allow researchers located in difference places to communicate with each other.

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ARPANET

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Online shopping and online investing are examples of ____.

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E-commerce.

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Anyone who uses a computer is a(n) ____, including an accountant electronically preparing a client's taxes.

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Computer User

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____ occurs when data is entered into the computer.

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Input

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____ refers to the act of breaking into a computer or network.

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Hacking

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A ____ provides a secure private tunnel from the user's computer through the Internet to another destination and is most often used to provide remote employees with secure access to a company network.

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Virtual private network.

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____ identify users by a particular unique biological characteristic.

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Biometric access systems.

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Similar to the way an IP address or domain name uniquely identifies a computer on the Internet, a ____ uniquely identifies a Web page.

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Uniform resource locator (URL).

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Many web pages today use ____ small text files that are stored on your hard drive by a web server, typically the one associated with the web page being viewed - to identify return visitors and their preferences.

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Cookies.

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A(n) ____ is a collection of an individual's work accessible through a web site.

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E-portfolio.

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Computer crime is sometimes referred to as ____.

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Cybercrime.

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____ is an etiquette for guiding online behavior.

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Netiquette.

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The most common input devices today are the keyboard and ____.

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Mouse.

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The primary infrastructure that makes up the ____ is typically owned by communications companies, such as telephone and cable companies.

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Internet backbone.

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____ is charged with such responsibilities as IP address allocation and domain name management.

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ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)

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A(n) ____ is a medium-sized computer used to host programs and data for small network.

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Midrange server.

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In the early 1980s, things began to change. ____ were invented and computer use increased dramatically.

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Microcomputers.

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T/F: Each location in memory has an address.

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T

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T/F: Instead of the temporary, ever-changing hard copy that a monitor produces, printer produce soft copy.

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F

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T/F: Each pixel in a monochrome graphic can be only one of two possible colors (such as black or white.

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T

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T/F: Several of the original ports used with desktop computers - such as the parallel ports or traditionally used to connect printers - are now considered standard ports.

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F

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T/F: Automating the data entry process is referred to as source data automation.

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T

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T/F: Storage media are volatile.

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F

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T/F: The main circuit board inside the system unit is called the megaboard or system board.

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F

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T/F: Storage devices can be internal (located inside the system unit), external (plugged into an external port on the system unit), or remote (located on another computer).

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T

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T/F: Early computers required programs to be written in machine language.

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T

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T/F: A graphics tablet is also called a digitizing tablet.

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T

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T/F: Flash memory storage systems are not subject to mechanical failures like hard drive and optical disc systems, and are therefore more resistant to shock and vibration.

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T

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T/F: Recordable optical discs can be written to, but the discs cannot be erased and reused.

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T

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T/F: RFID tags need to be within the line of sight of a reader.

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F

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T/F: When scanning, lower resolution is acceptable if the image is to be enlarged significantly or if only one part of the image is to be extracted and enlarged.

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F

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T/F: As a hard drive beings to get full, it takes less time to located and manipulate the data on the drive.

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F

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T/F: Users do not have to be concerned with how files are physically stored on a storage medium.

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T

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T/F: The binary numbering system users only two symbols - the digits 0 and 1 - to represent all possible numbers.

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T

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T/F: Since retrieving data from memory is much faster than from the hard drive, disk caching can speed up performance.

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T

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T/F: Optical character recognition (OCR) is a technology confined primarily to the banking industry, where it is used to facilitate high-volume processing of checks.

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F

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T/F: ROM (read-only memory) also called main memory, is used to store the essential parts of the operating system while the computer is running.

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F

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A ____ is an electronic path over which data can travel.

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Bus

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____ are used to input data about a person into a computer system so that the individual can be identified based on a particular unique physiological characteristic.

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Biometric readers

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Video data - such as home movies , feature films, and television shows - is displayed using a collection of ____.

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Frames

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To keep files organized, related documents are often stored in ____ (also called directories) location on the storage medium.

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Folders

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The ____ takes instructions from the prefetch unit and translates them into a form that the control unit can understand.

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Decode unit.

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____ means that data can be retrieved directly from any location on the storage medium, in any order.

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Random access.

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Terascale computing is the ability of computers to process one ____ floating-point operations per second (teraflops).

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Trillion

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One factor affecting digital camera quality is the number of pixels, measured in ____, used to store the data for each image.

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Megapixels

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A ____ is the hardware where data is actually stored.

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Storage medium.

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A ____ is equal to 1,024 bytes.

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Kilobyte (KB)

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With bitmapped images, the color of each ____ is represented by bits. the more bits used, the better the image quality.

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Pixel

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A(n) ____ connects to a computer, and any output that is sent to the computer monitor is also projected through it onto a wall or projection screen.

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Data projector.

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____ devices are high-performance storage servers that are individually connected to a network to provide storage for the computers connected to that network.

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Network attached storage (NAS).

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Partitions are sometimes referred to as ____.

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Logical drives.

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A ____ is the smallest unit of data that a binary computer can recognize.

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Bit

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The number of bits used to store color information about each pixel is called _____.

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Bit depth

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In a printer, the number of ____ affects the quality of printed output.

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Dots per inch (dpi).

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____ input data from special forms to score or tally exams, questionnaires, ballots, and so forth.

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Optical mark readers (OMRs).

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The ____ is the section of the CPU that performs arithmetic involving integers and logical operations.

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ALU (arithmetic logic unit).

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Each hard disk is divided into pie-shaped groups of ____.

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Sectors.

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T/F: Public domain software is not copyrighted; instead, the ownership rights to the program have been donated to the public domain.

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T

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T/F: There are many stand-alone utility programs available as an alternative to the operating system's utility programs.

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T

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T/F: When you issued the command for your computer to store a document on your hard drive, the application software must make sure that such a drive exists.

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F

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T/F: In a typical work processing program, a footer is text entered by the user that appears at the top of each page.

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F

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T/F: Microsoft Office is available for Windows, Linux, or Solaris users.

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F

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T/F: File compression programs reduce the size of files so they take up less storage space on a storage medium or can be transmitted faster over the internet.

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T

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T/F: Most spreadsheet programs do not have built-in web capabilities.

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F

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T/F: Different browsers and screen resolutions allow different amounts of room to display web page content.

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T

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T/F: Files and folders deleted from removable media cannot be restored by any method.

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F

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T/F: Multimedia refers to any type of application or presentation that involves more than one type of media, such as text, graphics, video, animation, and sound.

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T

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T/F: XML focuses on identifying the format of the data - not the data itself.

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F

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T/F: As you work on your computer, the operating system is in charge of managing system resources and making them available to devices and programs when they are needed.

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T

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T/F: Once a file management program is open, you can look at the folders and files stored on your PC.

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T

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T/F: Linux is increasing being used with both mainframes and super computers.

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T

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T/F: The HTML tag turns bolding on for the text that follows the tag until the tag is reached.

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T

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T/F: In spreadsheet programs, when absolute cell references are used, formulas are copied exactly as they are written.

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T

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T/F: Using virtual memory is faster than just using RAM.

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F

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T/F: To add simple animation to a web page, java applets and animated GIFs are frequently used.

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T

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T/F: Graphics software - also called digital imaging software - is used to create or modify images.

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T

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T/F: After the objectives, intended audience, and basic content to be included in a web site have been determined, the structure and layout of the site can be designed.

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T

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Creating a(n) ____ means making a duplicate copy of important files so that when a problem occurs, you can restore those files using the backup copy.

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Backup.

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Rearranging the data on the hard drive so all files are stored in contiguous locations is called ____.

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Disk defragmentation.

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A ____, when used to design a website, describes how the pages in the site relate to one another.

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Flowchart.

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Once a website has been carefully designed, it is time to create it. This process is called ____.

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Web site development.

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____ includes all the programs that allow a used to perform specific tasks on a computer, such as writing a letter.

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Application software.

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For designing the layout of a webpage, ____ are commonly used when designing animated components.

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Storyboards.

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____ is the proprietary operating system for computers made by Apple Corporation.

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Mac OS

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Related software programs are sometimes sold bundled together as a ____, such as groups of graphics programs, utility programs, or office-related software.

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Software suite.

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A ____ is a small program inserted into a web page that performs a specific task, such as changing the values in a stock portfolio, scrolling text or images across the screen, and so forth.

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Java applet.

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____ refers to using a PC to combine and manipulate text and images to create attractive documents that look as if they were created by a professional painter.

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Desktop publishing.

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A(n) ____ is a named, preprogrammed formula, such as to compute the average of a group of cells or calculate a mortgage payment amount.

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Function

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When a markup language is used, markup ____ are inserted around the web page content to identify where elements are to be displayed and how they should look when displayed.

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