MANG 3778 Ch. 7 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
A trading partner agreement for a shipment has text in two languages, English and Chinese. The
________ coding standard can be used to digitize this document. - answer✔Unicode (UTF-16)
The BIOS are stored in _________________. - answer✔Read only memory (often EPROMs or E-
EPROMs)
A mnemonic ADD is used for a 32 bit sequence of 1's and 0's instruction to the CPU. This is used
in _____________ language. - answer✔assembly
_______________ focused on ease of use and required a small footprint, in terms of computer
resources. In addition, early versions of this language were designed to be very forgiving, i.e.
the language allowed poor coding practices. As a result, a beginning programmer could write
code, and see some result, which could help work to a solution. - answer✔BASIC
______________ was developed in the 1950's and has been widely used in engineering and
scientific computing. A vast library of code modules have been developed in this language for
scientific and engineering purposes, and the language is used for many high performance
computing applications which require a lot of computing resources. - answer✔none of the
other choices
One feature of ______________ is the enforcement of clear object types, in the code, which
ensures that programmers need to consistently define all object types used in the code before
they are used, and then use them consistently. - answer✔PASCAL
_____________, is a procedural programming language that is very widely used in business
code development. It has been the lingua franca of business computing, and one estimate puts
the total code in this computer language worldwide at over 200 billion lines - answer✔COBOL
The ________________ is the brain of the computer. - answer✔CPU
The CPU performs the ________________________. - answer✔mathematical processes in the
systems
logical processes in the system
controls the system
By the time the manufacturing process (in 2016) is complete, the CPU may have over
______________ etched one on top of the other, separated by insulating layers. - answer✔20
layers
A program compares the value of current inventory (500 units) with the re-order point (750
units) and places a new inventory order if the current inventory is below the re-order point.
This comparison is performed in the ________________. - answer✔ALU of the CPU
Two numbers are added to get a result. The addition operation is performed by the
____________. - answer✔ALU of the CPU
The clock speed of a CPU is expressed in _________________. - answer✔Hertz
Computer hardware has seen a rapid improvement in performance accompanied by a steady
decline in prices over the past five decades. This progress has been documented in Moore's
law. Because of this ongoing improvement, the share of hardware, in the investment required
for a business information system, has ________ over time. - answer✔decreased
A computer has a DRAM with a capacity of 8 GB. If there is a power loss to the DRAM device for
just one second, the data _____________________. - answer✔in the DRAM is lost for ever.
A computer has an EPROM with 256 MB capacity. If there is a power loss to the EPROM device
for just one second, the data _____________________. - answer✔is not deleted because a
EPROM does not need electrical power to retain data. It can be read once power is restored.
A DRAM has a capacity of 8GB. This is _________________. - answer✔8 billion bytes
When compared to main memory, auxiliary memory is _______________. - answer✔cheaper,
slower and not volatile
The read-write head of a hard drive ________________________ surface of the hard drive. -
answer✔none of the other choices
The tracks on the surface of a hard drive are __________________. - answer✔none of the
other choices
Hard drives store data using _________________. - answer✔magnetic fields on the magnetic
material coated on the drive surface.
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