Final Practice Exam

Final Practice Exam

Multiple Choice

Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____1.For users that have limited desk space, the trackball is a good alternative to a mouse because the device _____.

a. / does not pick up oils from fingers
b. / is stationary
c. / does not pick up dust from the environment
d. / all of the above

____2.A _____ is the smallest element in an electronic image.

a. / byte / c. / character
b. / pixel / d. / point

____3.External fingerprint scanners usually plug into a _____ port.

a. / serial or SCSI / c. / serial or MIDI
b. / parallel or IrDA / d. / parallel or USB

____4._____ is a category of output that includes memorandum, letters, announcements, press releases, and reports.

a. / Text / c. / Audio
b. / Graphics / d. / Video

____5.Two types of display devices are _____ displays.

a. / ink-jet and laser / c. / impact and nonimpact
b. / flat-panel and CRT / d. / label and postage

____6.LCD monitors have a much smaller _____ than do CRT monitors; that is, they take up less desk space.

a. / fingerprint / c. / footprint
b. / handprint / d. / microprint

____7.Setting a monitor to display a higher resolution uses a _____.

a. / smaller number of pixels and thus provides a smoother image
b. / smaller number of pixels and thus provides a rougher image
c. / greater number of pixels and thus provides a smoother image
d. / greater number of pixels and thus provides a rougher image

____8.To display the highest quality images, an LCD monitor should plug in a(n) _____ port, which enables digital signals to transmit directly to the LCD monitor.

a. / CRT / c. / DVI
b. / LCD / d. / MPR

____9.A reasonable quality ink-jet printer costs approximately _____.

a. / less than $100 / c. / $200 to $250
b. / $150 to $200 / d. / over $250

____10.The speed of an ink-jet printer is measured by the number of _____ it can print.

a. / characters per second (cps) / c. / pages per second (pps)
b. / characters per minute (cpm) / d. / pages per minute (ppm)

____11.Many inexpensive photo printers use _____ technology.

a. / ink-jet / c. / dot-matrix
b. / laser / d. / thermal

____12.Dye-sublimation printers for the home or small business user typically print images in _____ than their professional counterparts.

a. / a wide range of sizes and are much faster
b. / a wide range of sizes but are much slower
c. / only one or two sizes but are much faster
d. / only one or two sizes and are much slower

____13.DVD+RW drives can write on all of the following media except _____.

a. / CD-R / c. / CD-RW
b. / DVD+RAM / d. / DVD+RW

____14.A _____ provides lists of options as a means of entering commands.

a. / command-line interface / c. / performance-monitor interface
b. / menu-driven interface / d. / graphical user interface (GUI)

____15.Networks, midrange servers, mainframes, and supercomputers allow hundreds to thousands of users to connect at the same time, and thus are _____.

a. / single user / c. / multiuser
b. / single processing / d. / multiprocessing

____16.In Windows XP, the uninstaller is available through the _____ command in the Control Panel.

a. / Add New Hardware / c. / Add/Remove Programs
b. / Accessibility Options / d. / Power Management

____17._____ is designed for workstations that use an Itanium 2 processor.

a. / Windows XP Home Edition / c. / Windows XP Professional
b. / Windows XP Tablet PC Edition / d. / Windows XP 64-Bit Edition

____18.The two most popular GUIs available for _____ are GNOME and KDE.

a. / DOS / c. / Mac OS X
b. / Windows XP / d. / Linux

True/False

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.

____19.Instructions are collections of unprocessed text, numbers, audio, and video.

____20.Few keyboards have toggle keys.

____21.Some PDAs have a built-in mini keyboard.

____22.A typical hard disk has multiple platters stacked on top of one another.

____23.Some optical discs are double-sided.

____24.A 48X CD-ROM drive has a data transfer rate of 7,200 (48 x 150) KBps, or 7.2 MBps.

____25.Current CD-RW drives have write speeds of 52X or more.

____26.Few floppy and hard disk manufacturers preformat their disks.

____27.Microsoft has continually updated its Windows operating system, incorporating new features and functions with each subsequent version.

____28.Power users seldom work with UNIX because of its rigidity and vulnerability.