CGS 1060 Honors
Fall 2001
Final Exam
Name : _______________________
12/5/01
Directions: Please answer the questions in the space provided. Keep
answers as succinct as possible. Each question is worth either 1 or 2
points, for a total of 140 points.
Chapter 1
1) Define each of the following terms:
a) hardware
b) software
c) workstation
d) Internet appliance
2) What do each of these acronyms stand for?
a) CPU
b) GUI
c) OS
d) ASP
Chapter 2
3) This organization's five supercomputer centers handled the bulk of Internet
communications from 1986 through 1995. _____________________________
4) A modem converts a _____________ signal from your computer to a _____________
signal, which is understood by telephone lines.
5) The specific computer is identified by the ____________ number in the IP address.
6) A spider is a program that _______________________________________________.
7) List two search engines listed in the text. ______________ and _________________.
8) A __________ web page offers a variety of Internet services from a single location.
9)Two standard graphics file formats are ____________ and ____________ .
10) VR stands for _______________ _________________ .
11) What does FTP allow you to do? __________________________________________
Chapter 3
12) The text separates application software into four categories. These are
__________________________________ , _________________________________
__________________________________ , _________________________________
13) An operating system and utility programs are examples of ____________________
software.
14) What is a Macro in Word? ______________________________________________
15) Arial and Times New Roman are examples of ___________ .
16) A thesaurus allows you to ______________________________________________ .
17) What is the difference between copying formulas and values in a spreadsheet?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
18) What is a query in a database program? ____________________________________.
19) CAD stands for _____________________ ___________ ________________ .
20) What is a wizard in various application programs?
_______________________________________________________________________ .
Chapter 4
21) All machine instructions are executed in the ______, which stands for ____________
____________________ ___________ .
22) Describe the idea of pipelining.
23) MIPS stands for _______________ _______________________ ____ _________ .
24) A _______________ temporarily holds data and instructions in the CPU.
25) Which system has a faster clock, a 1 GHz processor or a 1200 MHz processor?
__________________________
26) Name two Intel processors: _____________________ and ____________________ .
27) What is parallel processing?
28) Unicode is capable of representing __________________________________ .
(According to the text anyway...I think the claim is a bit unreasonable...)
29) When people refer to a computer's memory, they are usually specifically referring to
its _______ . (acronym)
30) What is the goal of a cache? __________________________________________ .
31) What's the difference between a standard ROM chip and a PROM chip?
______________________________________________________________________
Chapter 6
32) How does a CRT work?
33) What does it mean if a monitor has a scan rate of 30 Hertz?
34) How many different colors can be displayed with a 8-bit video card? _____________
35) What is landscape orientation? ___________________________________________
36) Dot matrix and line printers are both ____________ printers.
37) A laser printer uses toner, which is essentially __________________ ______ .
Chapter 7
38) You should keep __________ disks away from magnets.
39) If a floppy disk had 50 tracks, 10 sectors per track and .5 KB per sector, what is the
total storage of the floppy disk?
40) What is the purpose of a RAID system of disks?
41) Describe briefly how a CD is read?
HTML
42) Briefly describe the function of each of these tags:
a) <b> __________________________________________________________________
b) <i>___________________________________________________________________
c) <p>__________________________________________________________________
d) <pre>_________________________________________________________________
e) <title>________________________________________________________________
f)<hr>__________________________________________________________________
g) <ol>__________________________________________________________________
h) <li>__________________________________________________________________
i) <h3>__________________________________________________________________
j) <a href ...> </a>_________________________________________________________
k) <a name...></a>________________________________________________________
l) <img src>_____________________________________________________________
m) <tr>_________________________________________________________________
n) <td>__________________________________________________________________
o)<em>_________________________________________________________________
Chapter 8
43) What is the difference between a cold and warm boot?
________________________________________________________________________
44) MS-DOS provides the user with a ________________ interface.
45) How does virtual memory work? (Keep this relatively short!)
46) What is a buffer? ______________________________________________________
47) What is a shortcut? ____________________________________________________
48) What operating system was the operating environment Windows 3.x built to work
with? _____________________________
49) What was Microsoft's first true multitasking operating system? __________________
50) What is Linux? ________________________________________________________
Unix commands
51) What do each of these unix commands do?
a) ls
b) cd
c) mkdir
d) rm
Word
52) If you want to view how a printout of a document would look, what feature under the
File menu would you use? _______________________________
53) If you want to change each occurence of the name "Bob" with the name "Gary" in a
document, what option under the Edit menu would you use? ______________________
54) What common tools would your English teacher implore you to use before you turn
in a final draft of a paper? __________________________________________________
55) To the left of the Zoom box on the tool bar there appears a backwards 'P'. What
occurs when you click on this?
________________________________________________________________________
Excel
56) Name one method to adjust the width of columns. ____________________________
57) If you have student information entered, one student per row, and you would like the
rows arranged in order of the students' last names, what would you do? (Assume they are
not arranged like that yet.)
58) If you want to graphically display some information from your spreadsheet, what
toold would you use? _____________________________________________________
59) Explain the capabilities of the conditional formatting feature.
60) If you have values entered in cells A2 through A50, how can you quickly find their
average?
Power Point
61) What is the Slide Sorter view? ___________________________________________
62) Name two different types of slide transitions.
______________________________________ , ________________________________
63) What does the rehearse timings option in the slide show menu do?
________________________________________________________________________
64) What is promoting and demoting?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
65) What options are provided in the Slide Transition option in the Slide Show menu?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Access
66) What are two ways you can create a table? _________________ , _______________
67) If you had a database of people with an entry for their age and their sex, how would
you find and print out all information for all 21 year old males in the database?
68) Can a database have more than one table?
Yes
No
69) What does a Form allow the user to do? ____________________________________
70) What country hosts the Tour de France every year? ___________________________