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| Who was instrumental in designing the first mechanical computer that would eventually become the modern day computer? |
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| Computers have changed the way humans go about their day-to-day lives. Events and ideas radically change the way people work, live, and think. This dramatic change is known as a(n): |
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| Programs such as Internet Explorer that serve as navigable windows into the Web are called: |
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| Protecting Intellectual Property |
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| When a student posts a clip from a recent movie on her Web site, the ethical issue of ________ is at issue. |
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| This computer correctly predicted that Presidential candidate Eisenhower would be elected: |
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| Tasks that have traditionally been performed by people but are now duplicated in an application are part of the software that is known as: |
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| Contain thousands of microprocessors |
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| The first general-purpose commercial computer was known as the: |
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| When multiple users sharing data and hardware resources need access to one application, a ________ is necessary. |
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| Due to a need for smaller and more powerful computers, the ________ was invented and replaced the transistor-based computers by the mid-1960s. |
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| The Silicon Valley, where numerous microprocessor manufacturing companies are located, is in: |
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| The time in our history in which large masses of the population moved from farms to factories was the: |
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| The future could bring the emergence of ________, computer chips embedded within human bodies. |
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| Probably the fastest growing segment of the PC market is the area of: |
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| This experimental network developed by the U.S. government, scientists and others eventually became the Internet? |
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| Vacuum tubes are eventually replaced by: |
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| Relatively high price and upgrade difficulties |
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| A negative aspect of a laptop computer is: |
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| The storage area for the next likely data or instruction to be processed, preventing bottlenecks and slowing of the system, is known as: |
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| The input, output, and storage devices are known as: |
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| American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
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| Communicating information to the outside world |
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| Producing output involves: |
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| The most widely used code that represents each character as a unique 8-bit code is: |
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| The ________, by Intel, is a 64-bit processor. |
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| The most common input devices include: |
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| Timing device that produces electrical pulses to synchronize the computers operations |
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| The clock of a computer system is the: |
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| External devices such as printers, keyboards, and modems are known as: |
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| The primary output device for computers is a: |
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| The CPU is also known as the: |
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| By putting multiple CPUs on a single chip, chip makers have created: |
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| In ASCII, ________ characters can be created. |
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| There are two possibilities: on and off |
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| __________ is the early operating system developed by Microsoft. |
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| In comparison to a traditional mouse, a newer type of mouse uses ____________ to detect movement. |
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| The pointing device that comes built in to a laptop computer can be any EXCEPT a: |
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| Which input device resembles an upside-down mouse? |
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| Bar-code readers use light to read: |
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| A ___________ is used to create a digital representation of a printed document or photograph. |
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| Optical Character Recognition |
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| If employees reside in different parts of the country and need to meet monthly, useful computer technology would be: |
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| Must be trained to recognize individual voices |
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| A limitation of software that digitizes voice data is that it: |
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| The display size of a monitor is measured: |
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| Picture element or dot on a screen |
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| The science of creating work environments that are safe and efficient for workers is known as: |
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| How is a magnetic disk drive read? |
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| Zip disks can hold up to ____________ of information. |
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| A tall, upright computer with relatively more expansion slots and bays is known as a(n): |
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| Having a modem and/or network connection to communicate with other computers |
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| Connectivity for a new computer means: |
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| A standardized test that you may have taken in school could have been scored by a(n): |
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| ___________ is a high-speed connection developed by Apple. |
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