COSC 100 Final Exam with complete
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Crisis-mapping - Answer -________ tools gather information from sources such as e-
mails, text messages, and tweets and make the information instantly and publicly
available.
Social media - Answer -________ tools enable people to connect and exchange ideas.
Digital divide - Answer -The gap in ease of access to the Internet and technology is
known as the _____________.
Cognitive surplus - Answer -________ results when leisure time and available tools
allow us to engage in creative acts.
Web 2.0 - Answer -________ is a nickname for social media tools which allow users to
contribute content easily.
Crowdfunding - Answer -Connecting with one another to finance other people's dreams
is called ________.
Sharing Economy - Answer -Citi Bike is an example of which arena of technology?
Marketing
Collaborative consumption - Answer -________ is joining together as a group to use a
specific product more efficiently.
computer literate - Answer -The term ___________ describes someone who is familiar
enough with computers to understand their capabilities and limitations.
Software - Answer -________ provides the instructions that tell a computer what to do.
Spam - Answer -Unsolicited or junk e-mail is called ________.
Supervised learning - Answer -Teaching Siri or the Google Assistant how to recognize
your voice by reading to it is an example of ________.
Machine learning - Answer -________ analyzes patterns in data, then uses the patterns
to draw conclusions and adjust the actions of the AI system accordingly.
,Intelligence - Answer -The Turing test consists of a person asking written questions of a
person and a computer. If the questioner can't tell which one of the respondents is a
computer, then the computer has attained ________.
embodied agent - Answer -A robot which moves and acts much like a human is an
________.
Augmented reality - Answer -___________ is the addition of digital information directly
into our reality, either to add more detail or to remove unwanted visual effects.
artificial limbs - Answer -In medicine, 3D printing allows more stylish and less expensive
designs for ________.
virtual reality - Answer -________ replaces perceived reality with a different world.
computer forensics - Answer -Analyzing computer systems to gather potential legal
evidence is known as ____________.
unethical behavior - Answer -____________ is not conforming to a set of approved
standards of behavior.
Personal Ethics - Answer -________ is/are a set of formal or informal ethical principles
an individual uses to make decisions.
intellectual property - Answer -__________ is work that is the result of someone's
creativity and knowledge.
data mining - Answer -What technology allows retailers to better respond to consumer
buying patterns?
knowledge representation - Answer -Which of the following refers to the encoding of
information about the world into formats that artificial intelligence systems can
understand?
Data is numbers. Information is words. - Answer -What is the difference between data
and information?
binary language - Answer -Computers use a __________ consisting of 0s and 1s.
bits - Answer -In binary language, each letter of the alphabet, each number, and each
special symbol is made up of a unique combination of eight ________.
Megabyte - Answer -Which of the following is the smallest unit of measure?
, operating system - Answer -Apple's macOS and Microsoft Windows are examples of
________ software.
tablet - Answer -An Apple iPad and an Amazon Fire are examples of ________
computers.
supercomputer - Answer -Which of the following computers is large, expensive, and is
designed to execute a few programs as fast as possible?
Embedded computers - Answer -__________ are specially designed computer chips
that reside inside other devices, such as a car.
input devices - Answer -A keyboard and touch screen are the most common types of
__________.
stylus - Answer -A(n) ________ is an input device that looks like a pen.
mouse - Answer -A ________ is the most common pointing device.
resolution - Answer -The number of pixels displayed on the screen is known as the
screen's ________.
liquid crystal display (LCD) - Answer -The most common type of monitor for laptops and
desktop computers is a(n) ________.
inkjet printers - Answer -The two main categories of home and office printers are
________ and laser printers.
Laser printers - Answer -___________ use static electricity, toner, and heat to set an
image on a page very quickly.
motherboard - Answer -The ________ contains the central electronic components of the
computer.
network interface - Answer -Wireless ________ modules provide connectivity to Wi-Fi
networks.
RAM - Answer -The computer stores currently running programs and data in ________.
volatile - Answer -RAM is a ________ storage location.
ROM - Answer -The area that holds the initial instructions the computer needs to start is
________.
dual-core - Answer -A(n) ________ CPU has two processing paths, allowing it to
process more than one instruction at a time.
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