IT St 1a – College Essay
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Which of the following consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and data needed by those instructions?
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Memory
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What is the definition of a website?
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a collection of related webpages
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What consist(s) of a series of related instructions that tells the computer what tasks to perform and how to perform them?
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Software
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What involves reducing the electricity consumed and environmental waste generated when using a computer?
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Green computing
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Which of the following is a collection of computers and devices connected together, as shown in the accompanying figure, often wirelessly, via communications devices and transmission media?
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network
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Collections, such as that pictured in the accompanying figure, allow computers to share which of the following?
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resources
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What manages the resources on a network?
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server
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You do not want to store your data locally on your hard disk. You would rather store it using an Internet service. What is this kind of storage known as?
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cloud storage
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With which of the following can users transfer items to and from other computer on the Internet?
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FTP
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Which of the following enables users to speak to other users over the Internet?
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VoIP
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Word processing software, spreadsheet software, database software, and presentation software are examples of what category of computer software?
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Application software
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Duplicating Copyrighted software is called ___________
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piracy
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It is _______________ to access information stored on someone else's computer without their permission.
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Unethical and illegal
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When a person creates an artistic or written work, it is protected from other's stealing their work by ______________.
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Copyright
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When a company has a brand (a company logo or name) it is protected from other's stealing this brand by ______________.
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Trademark
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In today's world, ethics in computing is important. Which of the following would be considered unethical?
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logging in as someone else without their knowledge, creating a virus, Reading someone's email on their screen
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What is the name of the modern technology that allows you to use application software that is stored on the Internet to create projects?
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Web 2.0
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Storing files on the Internet is convenient because you can access them from any Internet connected machine. This is called ____________________.
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Cloud Computing
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Not all websites have "valid" (accurate) information on them. We need to be careful when evaluating web sites to see if they are credible and if we can trust the information on them. Putting false information on a web page and making it look as if it is accurate is considered _____________________.
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unethical
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When someone poses as a legitimate company just so they can get personal account information from you, it is an example of _____________.
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phishing
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Which of the following is the term for unsolicited mail messages?
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spam
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What is the term for the picture/video message service available on smartphones and other mobile devices?
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MMS
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What is the term for the smallest element in an electronic image?
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pixel
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Which of the following is the process of initiating contact between two Bluetooth devices and allowing them to communicate with each other?
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pairing
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A computer salesman refers to the shape and size of your new computer by a specific term. What term does he use?
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form factor
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When an instrument in the dashboard of your car informs you the air pressure in the right rear tire is low, what type of computer determines the air pressure is low?
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embedded computer
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You are looking for a port that will work for an audio device. Which of the following is likeliest to work?
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HDMI
