Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Previous Quiz Questions

1) Convert this binary number to decimal:
10101
a) 19
b) 20
c) 21
d) 22

2) The CPU contains the ALU and the ________

3) Which of the following is an example of long-term memory?
a) CPU registers
b) CD-ROM
c) CD-RAM
d) RAM

4) One kilobyte = how many bytes?

5) Which will be faster, a compiled language or an interpreted language?
a) compiled
b) interpreted
c) same speed
d) neither, because there is no such thing


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1) Convert this decimal number to binary:
25
a) 11001
b) 10001
c) 11011
d) 11000

2) The fetch-execute cycle fetches instructions from ________

3) Which of the following is an example of volatile memory?
a) hard disk drive
b) CD-ROM
c) CD-RAM
d) RAM

4) One trilobite = how many bytes?

5) C++ is an example of a
a) low-level language
b) high-level language
c) interpreted language
d) none of the above

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1) The collection of HTML documents, linked together, across many countries is best called:
a) the Internet
b) the World Wide Web
c) the Intertubes
d) CSS

2) The HTML document you view on your web browser usually initially comes from
a) a web client
b) a web server
c) an http
d) Microsoft Word

3) Using the party trick I discussed in class, using your ten fingers, you could count up to:
______________

4) A GUI is _____________________________

5) A 256 color bitmap can store a pixel in how many bytes?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
b) 4

6) If I tried to solve the traveling salesman problem for 100 cities, using the algorithm I described, 
and started it now, it would finish:
a) in one minute
b) in one hour
c) in one day
d) in more than a trillion years

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1) If I used my algorithm for traveling salesman for five cities, my program
would finish executing in:
a) less than an hour
b) a day
c) a year
d) more than a trillion years

2) A web page will typically be in the following format:
a) HTML
b) HTTP
c) FTP
d) DOC

3) The sum of the numbers 1 through 20 is:
______________

4) ASCII is:

5) Which is likely the smallest of images?
a) a BMP bitmap
b) a JPEG image
c) an SVG vector graphics image


6) If a collection of numbers are sorted, then I can use binary search
a) true
b) false


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1) The Internet is a synonym for the World Wide Web:
a) true
b) false

2) A web page will typically be in the following format:
a) HTML
b) HTTP
c) FTP
d) DOC

3) The sum of the numbers 1 through 50 is:
______________

4) A hexadecimal digit is in base: ________________

5) A "true-color" bitmap can store a pixel in how many bytes?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
b) 4

6) Linear search through a collection is faster than binary search, on average:
a) true
b) false


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1) Give one way in which Solver is better than Goal seek.

2) If I want to figure out how much to deposit now in order to
retire with a million bucks, I would use the _______ function.
a) FV
b) PV
c) PMT
d) RATE

3) What is hotlinking?

4) Which of the following is a relative reference?
a) A1
b) $A$1
c) $A1
d) R1C1

5) What does the trace precedents tool do?

what is the domain?


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New:
1) Which of the following is used for client-side scripting?
a) C++
b) JavaScript
c) Python
d) PHP

2) In CSS, the level which takes highest cascading precedence is:
a) internal
b) inline
c) external
d) web browser settings

3) Give one reason cookies are bad:

_______________________


4) In CSS, we can target:
a) a tag
b) a bunch of related items, by class
c) one individual item, by id
d) all of the above

5) Really, dates and times are stored in Excel and Access as:
a) text
b) dates
c) whole numbers and fractional numbers
d) none of the above

6) The following text will be matched by h??lo
a) hOOOLO
b) bkjlo
c) helo
d) hello

7) Descartes walked into a bar. When he turned down a drink:
a) he appeared
b) he disappeared
c) he reappeared
d) all of the above

8) A foreign key is: ______________________

9) A record is a collection of:
a) records
b) rows
c) fields
d) views

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