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Multiple Choice

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

____        1.             Which of the following refer to functions or programming features in an operating system that programmers can use for network links?

____        2.             Which of the following refers to a word processor, spreadsheet, database, or computer game?

____        3.             Which of the following is a computing style frequently employed by large systems?

____        4.             Which of the following is an English-like computer programming language originally designed as a teaching tool, but which evolved into a useful and relatively powerful development language?

____        5.             Which of the following refers to a low-level computer programming code that conducts basic hardware and software communications inside the computer?

__C_        6.             Which of the following is a hardware device used to play and in some cases record computer data?

____        7.             Which of the following refers to a computer hardware and software design in which different portions of an application execute on different computers?

____        8.             ____ are instructions written in computer programming language.

____        9.             Which of the following refers to a computer hardware and software design in which the operating system temporarily hands-off control to an application and waits for the application to return control to the operating system?

____      10.             Which of the following refers to a single chip that supports devices that conduct the majority of the computer's calculations?

____      11.             Which of the following is a computer operating system that is typically installed on a PC type of computer used by one person at a time?

____      12.             Which of the following is computer software designed to provide the operating system and application software access to specific computer hardware?

____      13.             Which of the following refers to the generic computer code used to control many low-level computer hardware and software functions?

__C_      14.             Which of the following is an interface between the user and an operating system, which presents information in an intuitive graphical format that employs multiple colors, figures, and icons?

____      15.             Which of the following refers to the physical devices in a computer that you can touch, such as the CPU, disk drive, etc?

____      16.             ____ is the information taken in by a computer device to handle or process, such as characters typed on a keyboard.

____      17.             Which of the following refers to an essential set of programs and computer code built into a computer operating system to control processor, disk, memory and other functions central to the basic operation of the computer?

____      18.             Which of the following is an electronic device frequently used to display information in electric devices, such as watches, clocks, and stereos?

____      19.             Which of the following refers to a solid-state electronic device that controls the major computer functions and operations?

____      20.             Which of the following refers to a technique that allows a computer to run two or more programs at the same time?

____      21.             Which of the following is a computer hardware and software system designed to service multiple users who access the computer hardware and software applications simultaneously?

____      22.             Which of the following refers to an environment that supports multi-user access to a computer's hardware and software facilities?

____      23.             Which of the following refers to computer software code that interfaces with user application software and the computer's BIOS to allow the applications to interact with the computer hardware?

____      24.             Which of the following is a small hand-held computer used as a personal organizer?

____      25.             Which of the following is a computer hardware and software design for multitasking applications in which the operating system retains control of the computer at all times?

____      26.             Which of the following refers to an operating system that interacts directly with the user and responds in current time with required information?

____      27.             Which of the following is special memory that contains information that is NOT erased when the power is removed from the memory hardware?

____      28.             Which of the following refer to programs that manage computer memory and CPU use?

____      29.             Which of the following is a computer processing cycle in which each operation is submitted, acted upon, and the results displayed before the next process is started?

____      30.             Which of the following is a computer operating system usually found on more powerful PC-based computers than those used for desktop operating systems?

____      31.             Which of the following is a computer hardware and software design that can manage ONLY one task at a time?

____      32.             Which of the following refers to a hardware and software system that enables ONLY one user to access its resources at a particular time?

____      33.             Which of the following is a single tasking computer hardware and software design that permits the user or application software to switch among multiple single-tasking operations?

____      34.             Which of the following refers to a central computing system, such as a mainframe, that is used by multiple users and applications simultaneously?

____      35.             ____ is information sent out by a computer device after that information is handled or processed.