CTH - answer✔✔Unit 1
Biologists often attach tracking collars to wild animals. For each animal, the following
geolocation data is collected at frequent intervals.
The time
The date
The location of the animal
Which of the following questions about a particular animal could NOT be answered using only
the data collected from the tracking collar? - answer✔✔
Identify the item that is not a computer using the continuing definition of providing calculations
(computation).
Television
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Correct answer:
Car Battery
Vending Machine
, Not Selected
Abacus - answer✔✔Car Battery
What is consistent about all of the definitions of a computer?
a computer is electronic.
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a computer must work with other devices.
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Correct answer:
A computer must handle calculations.
a computer must store data. - answer✔✔A computer must handle calculations.
What is an artifact?
a picture
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Correct answer:
a human creation providing documentation of a topic
a computerized answer to a problem
, Not Selected
a program that assists with correctly spelling and formatting data - answer✔✔a human creation
providing documentation of a topic
a computerized answer to a problem
What does CPU stand for? - answer✔✔Central Processing Unit
An algorithm is _______. - answer✔✔step by step problem solving.
What does RAM stand for? - answer✔✔Random Access Memory
What is the best definition of word processor software? - answer✔✔A program that provides a
basic document with cut, paste, undo, redo functions in addition to allowing images, special
formatting and organization.
What was Charles Babbage known for? - answer✔✔Not creating the physical computer from his
computer designs
What does URL stand for? - answer✔✔Uniform Resource Locator
All information __________. - answer✔✔is data
The polynomial difference calculation used by Babbage in his Difference Engine -
answer✔✔solved polynomials using only addition and subtraction.
Who is considered to be the Father of Computing? - answer✔✔Charles Babbage
What important development did Grace Hopper make? - answer✔✔Created the first
programming language, COBOL.
Define the role of women and men in early computer development beginning in the time of
Charles Babbage? - answer✔✔Women enabled the computer to work and men designed the
computers.
Open Source relates to which of the following? - answer✔✔Software
What is the benefit of Open Access? - answer✔✔Open access eliminates the price barrier for
reliable, factual, and accurate resources
What is ethical change? - answer✔✔change that affect moral issues: right and wrong conduct.
The operating system is the master program that manages how _________ uses the __________
of a computer - answer✔✔software, hardware
Who created code breakers in WWII? - answer✔✔Alan Turning
What is a spreadsheet? - answer✔✔A program that allows the user to store data, do calculations
on the data, including creating charts and performing analysis on the data.
What did Ada Lovelace do? - answer✔✔Created the mathematical programming logic to run
Babbages computer designs.
Who is credited with creating Microsoft? - answer✔✔Bill Gates
If a work is in public domain, which of the following best describes whether a reference is
needed. - answer✔✔not A reference for the work is not needed as public means free for use
Who has been in the news recently concerning social media data concerns and is the creator of
Facebook. - answer✔✔Mark Zuckerberg
What is a publisher program used for? - answer✔✔A computer program that allows the user to
create a documents that includes writing, pictures, and various backgrounds or and arrange for
brochures and various publication needs.
When a reference is written from an online source that you have found information from, the
reference should include
I. a reference number
II. title of the work
III. date accessed
What does a Web Server do? - answer✔✔Locates the information on its hard drive requested in
the URL that it receives and packages the information to be returned to the appropriate IP
address computer through the Web Browser.
What is a server? - answer✔✔A computer connected directly to the internet.
What is the internet? - answer✔✔A world-wide system of computers linked together.
What takes the URL you type into your computer to request the information you would like to
see. - answer✔✔A Web Browser
Where are webpages located? - answer✔✔On the hard drive of a server
What is the traffic cop of the internet? - answer✔✔the router
What is net neutrality? - answer✔✔Treating all communication equally.
Jenn is heading home to her house after school in her car? The bridge over the road is blocked
due to heavy rain? Cars are turning around. So Jenn turns around and takes another route home.
What is this an example of in Computer Science? - answer✔✔a fault tolerant system
What is the world wide web? - answer✔✔A system of webpages throughout the world which
computers and other devices may access.
How is a computer located on the internet? - answer✔✔By the computer's IP Address.
A binary value consists of _____ bits. - answer✔✔8
What does FTP stand for? - answer✔✔file transfer protocol
What is a web homepage? - answer✔✔The beginning or starting point of a website that may lead
with links to other pages.
What is the web host ending for United States of America government sites only -
answer✔✔.gov
What is a private blog? - answer✔✔A webpage that is used for general comments about one or
more topics of interest and not shared without the creators permission.
An IP address consists of ______ numbers separated by periods. - answer✔✔4
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