Question 1 10 out of 10 points When data can be transmitted in both directions on a telecommunications line, but not simultaneously, the

transmission type is referred to as __________ __________. Answer Selected Answer: Half duplex Question 2 0 out of 10 points Which of the following OSI model layers receives a pac et of data from t he transport layer and adds header data to it to identify the route the pac et i s to ta e to its destination? Answer Selected Answer: data lin Correct answer for 2 is networ layer. Question 3 10 out of 10 points Which statement about active RFID tags is not true? Answer Selected Answer: They are much more commonly used today than passive tags. Question 4 10 out of 10 points A broadband service offered by telephone companies that uses copper wire s already installed in homes and offices to connect to the Internet is referred to as: Answer Selected Answer: DSL. Question 5 0 out of 10 points Which of the following is not a primary function performed by a telecomm unications networ ? Answer Selected Answer: trac ing of out-of-service devices Correct answer archiving data.. Question 6 10 out of 10 points y? Answer Selected Answer: costly for small and medium-sized networ s

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a star networ

topolog

 Question 7 10 out of 10 points By 2004, the number of cell phones in use in the United States was great er than the number of wired phones in homes. Answer Selected Answer: True Question 8 10 out of 10 points Which transmission medium requires an unobstructed straight line between the transmitter and the receiver? Answer Selected Answer: microwave Question 9 10 out of 10 points The term Ethernet is often used as a synonym with which of the following types of local area networ s: Answer Selected Answer: contention bus networ . Question 10 10 out of 10 points Which of the following is not an advantage of a wireless LAN versus a wi red LAN? Answer Selected Answer: faster transmission speed and more secure Question 11 10 out of 10 points Which of the following networ protocols is used on the Internet and has become the de facto standard protocol for networ ing around the world? Answer Selected Answer: TCP/IP Question 12 10 out of 10 points Which of the following is not a characteristic of fiber-optic transmissi on? Answer Selected Answer: requires more space than coaxial cable because it has more insulation Question 13 10 out of 10 points When considering networ protocols, why is the multilayer OSI model stil l important? Answer

 Question 14 10 out of 10 points Which type of technology relies on line-of-sight transmission? Answer Selected Answer: satellite Question 15 10 out of 10 points Which of the following most accurately describes the routing function of telecommunications? Answer Selected Answer: choosing the most efficient path for a message to be sent over the Internet Question 16 10 out of 10 points A private, pac et-switched networ using the public Internet is referred to as a(n): Answer Selected Answer: VPN networ . Question 17 10 out of 10 points A Universal Resource Locator (URL) is used to locate pac ets in a networ . Answer Question 18 10 out of 10 points Which of the following statements about networ topologies is not true? Answer Selected Answer: A star topology is li e a ring, except the hub is bigger. Question 19 10 out of 10 points Which statement about Wi-Fi is not true? Answer Selected Answer: Wi-Fi networ s are replacing WiMAX networ s due to their greater speed and geogr aphic coverage. Question 20 10 out of 10 points Which of the following is a (are) primary reason(s) for networ ing an or ganization's computers together? Selected Answer: False

Selected Answer: It provides a conceptual framewor .

for how communication ta es place in networ s

Answer Selected Answer: all of the above Question 21 0 out of 10 points Which statement describes a major difference between a LAN and a WAN? Answer Selected Answer: geographic distance between devices being networ ed Correct answer: all of the above. Question 22 10 out of 10 points The CSMA/CD and CSMA/CA protocols are designed to manage which of the fo llowing: Answer Selected Answer: message collisions. Question 23 10 out of 10 points Which of the following most accurately describes the conversion function of telecommunications? Answer Selected Answer: changing coding system or speed when moving data between devices on the networ Question 24 10 out of 10 points Using an Infrastructure as a Service provider can enable an organization to avoid major capital investments for networ equipment as well as computer se rvers and storage. Answer Selected Answer: True Question 25 10 out of 10 points Which statement about Bluetooth is not true? Answer Selected Answer: It is named after a Vi ing queen. Sunday, June 24, 2012 4:18:03 PM PDT OK

 Question 1 10 out of 10 points Assembly language programs are converted to machine language using an as sembler. The resulting machine language program is called a(n) ________ program. Answer Selected Answer: object Question 2 10 out of 10 points Which of the following is not a benefit associated with the procedural l anguage COBOL? Answer Selected Answer: COBOL programs are shorter than those written in other languages. Question 3 10 out of 10 points The stored-program concept allows users to specify a list of operations that can be carried out at electronic speeds, rather than waiting for the user t o specify each operation separately. Answer Selected Answer: True Question 4 10 out of 10 points Each response below lists two operating systems in common use today. In which response are both of the operating systems listed open systems? Answer Selected Answer: Linux and UNIX Question 5 10 out of 10 points DASD refers to: Answer Selected Answer: direct access storage device. Question 6 10 out of 10 points Which of the following is an example of communications interface softwar e that is used to transfer files from one computer system to another? Answer Selected Answer: FTP Question 7 10 out of 10 points Encapsulation is one of the important features of objects (in object-ori ented programming) in which a subclass inherits the properties, methods, and eve

nts of the class to which it belongs. Answer Selected Answer: False Question 8 10 out of 10 points The CPU is made up of two components, the control unit and memory. Answer Selected Answer: Question 9 10 out of 10 points False

Question 10 10 out of 10 points What are the two major categories of computer software? Answer Selected Answer: applications software and support software Question 11 10 out of 10 points The collection of applications programs commonly used by office wor ers including word processing, spreadsheets, electronic mail, presentation graphics, and so on are referred to as ________ software. Answer Selected Answer: personal productivity Question 12 10 out of 10 points Which of the following is not an advantage of secondary storage devices compared to main memory? Answer Selected Answer: fast speed Question 13 10 out of 10 points The language translator program which translates an entire 3GL or 4GL pr ogram into machine language before any of the program is executed is called a(an ): Answer Selected Answer: compiler. Question 14 10 out of 10 points

Evaluating how well various computers will handle an organization's wor load by running a representative set of real jobs on the different machines is c alled: Answer Selected Answer: benchmar ing.

Which of the following is not an example of applications software? Answer Selected Answer: operating systems software Question 15 10 out of 10 points In the 2000s, a new way of handling multiple servers in a computing cent er became popular, in which multiple server modules are housed in a single chass is, saving space in the computing center, reducing the required cabling, and imp roving system management. What are these servers called? Answer Selected Answer: blade servers Question 16 10 out of 10 points On large computers, the operating system switches bac and forth among m ultiple programs stored in memory in order to overlap input and output operation s with processing time; the purpose of this switching is to maximize the wor do ne by the CPU. What is this concept of switching among multiple programs in memo ry called? Answer Selected Answer: multiprogramming Question 17 10 out of 10 points Which of the following is not an example of a computer output device? Answer Selected Answer: MICR reader Question 18 10 out of 10 points Which method of input can recognize characters from typed, printed, or h andwritten material? Answer Selected Answer: OCR Question 19 10 out of 10 points Which of the following computer storage devices is not an example of a d irect access storage device? Answer Selected Answer: magnetic tape drive Question 20 10 out of 10 points Which type of computer serves as the heart of the computing systems for many, perhaps most, major corporations and government agencies? This type of com

puter system also can act as a large Web server, as a server in a client/server application, and has the widest range of available applications. Answer Selected Answer: mainframes Question 21 10 out of 10 points Machine language is the form of a computer program that the control unit of the computer has been built to understand. In general, a machine language in struction consists of two parts, which are: Answer Selected Answer: operation code and address(es). Question 22 10 out of 10 points A 4 GL, nonprocedural language often provided with the database manageme nt system which is used to retrieve data from a database is called a ________ la nguage. Answer Selected Answer: query Question 23 10 out of 10 points HTML uses ________ placed within a document to tell the Web browser how to display various elements on a Web page. Answer Selected Answer: tags Question 24 10 out of 10 points Which type of computer is often used for numerically intensive scientifi c calculations or to act as an extremely large Web server? Answer Selected Answer: supercomputers Question 25 10 out of 10 points All computers, including des top and noteboo microcomputers, midrange s ystems, mainframes, and supercomputers, are made up of the same six basic compon ents. Which of the following lists is entirely made up of some of these basic co mponents? Answer Selected Answer: control unit, memory, and output