Computer Basics-Test #2

Which of the following allows the transmission of voice over the internet?

VGA and DVI ports provide connections to monitors

Two categories of laser printers are:

Which of the following is not a character encoding standard?

The most widely used personal computer operating system is

Frequently-accessed information is held in

When you reboot your system, the computer follows start-up instructions stored in this type of memory

Which of the following offers a combination of the features of RAM and ROM

What is the operating system used for handheld devices

What coordinates all communication between computers in a network

This type of mouse emits and senses light to detect mouse movement

OMR, OCR, and MICR are all types of

This character encoding scheme allows non-English characters and special characters to be represented

A type of specialty processor devoted exclusively to protecting your privacy

This reading device is used in banks to read the numbers on the bottom of check and deposit slips

Before sending a large file over the internet, you might want to use one of these programs

This operating system is widely used by servers, mainframe computers, and very powerful personal computers

A byte is formed by a group of

The most widely used audio-input device is the

The most widely used input devices are monitors, printers, and keyboards

What is it called when a single computer operates as if it were two or more separate computers

Utility suites come with one program only

In a virtualized environment, this operating system runs on the physical machine

With these systems, input and output devices are located outside the system unit

A keyboard key, like Caps Lock, that turns a feature on or off is called a ___key

Parallel processing requires a computer to perform one complete task before beginning the next task

Type of keyboard that uses a touch screen as the input device is

Which of the following printer features enables you to print on both sides of a sheet of paper?

A computer can become infected with viruses in all the following ways, except by

Optical scanners recognize individual letters or images

Term used to describe the number of bits that a CPU can access at one time

Smartphones generally include a network operating system

Which of the following types of character recognition systems is used for multiple-choice testing?

Pathways that support communication among the various electronics on a system board are called

The operating system allows the user to interact with the application programs and hardware through a user interface

The operating system is often referred to as the software platform.

Which of the following ports is used for connecting musical instruments to a sound card?

The study of human factors related to things people use

The size, or ____, is measured by the diagonal length of a monitor's viewing area

The control unit directs the movements of electronic signals between the memory and the ALU