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1
_______ may be distributed across locations and shared with other IT users.
Rain
Clouds
Tornadoes
Storms
2
Data warehouses contain data taken from sources, including external sources such as the ______.
Intranet
IBM
Internet
HTML
3
Hard disks use ______ to store data.
Cables
Pins
Magnets
Punched tape
4
What is the definition of Information Technology?
Computer storage
The use of computers to store, retrieve, and transmit data
Binary codes
Hexidecimals and binary code used for storing
5
The relational database model introduced a programming-language independent ______ _____ _____.
Personal home page
Structured Query Language.
Extensive markup language
Hypertext markup language
6
The term information technology was coined by the ________ ________ ________.
Information technology bureau
Federal investigations bureau
Central Intelligence agency
Harvard Business Review
7
Business applications use programs to ______, _______, or ________ data for a business purpose.
Transmit, store, or send
Change, read, or send
Manipulate, consolidate, or disperse
Send, read, or manipulate
8
Business applications include databases like the _____ __________.
Power point
Image Editor
SQL server
Word Processor
9
Data transmission has three aspects: ____________ ____________ and ____________.
Large, small, and medium
Transmission, propagation, and reception
Binary, hexidecimal, and html
Green, yellow, and blue
10
________ management systems were made to store and retrieve data accurately.
Large
Storage
Input
Database
11
Although XML data can be stored in file systems, it is often held in __________ databases.
Relational
Small
Colourful
Large
12
What is a type of technology in Information Tech.?
Graphic Designing
Programming
Networking
Hardware
13
All database management systems, made of a number of ______, allow data they have to be used.
Components
Numbers
Disks
Magnets
14
Early computers like Colossus used ______ ______, a long strip of paper represented by holes.
Punched tape
Construction paper
Green cards
Gamma tape
15
Software developers _____ and ______ programming code for computer applications and hardware.
Bug, program
Make, destroy
Design, make
Create, write
16
IBM introduced the first _____ ______ drive in 1956.
Solid state
Hard disk
Hybrid storage
Hard drive
17
Humans have been ______,________, and _______ information since the Sumerians in Mesopatamia.
Hacking, stealing, and retrieving
Trading, selling, and programming
Eating, serving, and changing
Storing,manipulating,and communicating
18
Computer scientists ________, ________, and _______ new computer hardware and devices.
Use, break, and develop
Innovate, develop, and design
Destroy, delete, and make
Upkeep, make, and destruction
19
Network engineers are responsible for the design and use of ________ and __________ _______.
Data and storage upkeep
Programming and writing servers
Destroying and making networks
Computer and telecommunications networks
20
Information Tech. includes several layers of physical equipment called ________.
Monitors
CPU's
Hardware
Towers
21
One of the earliest database management systems was IBM's _______ Management System(IMS).
Image
Information
Impossible
Infared
22
Anything stored is ____, but is information when it's organized and presented meaningfully.
Data
Information
Large
Binary
23
IMS stores data ________.
Smallest-to-largest
Wrongly
Biggest
Hierarchically
24
Most of the world's digital data is _______.
Unstructured
Wrong
Blue
Organized
25
Information technology specialists work in positions using computer-based ________ _________.
Hardware systems
Information systems
Graphic designing
Information technology
26
Information tech. also includes the virtualisation and management of automation tools called:
Storage
Software
Programming
Hardware
27
Storage includes volatile ________ _______ ________.
Binary code programs
Random access memory
Network storage servers
Algebraic numerical answers
28
_________ __________ began to be developed in the 1980s to integrate these disparate stores.
Data Servers
Hexi-decimals
Binary code
Data Warehouses
29
The Structured Query Language is based on _______ ________.
Pre-calculus
Large numbers
Relational Algebra
Programme codes
30
Information technology is considered to be _______.
The computer monitor
The action of writing computer programs
Working on the inside of the computer towers
A subset of information and communications technology (ICT).
