OBA 340 Midterm Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions
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OBA 340
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OBA 340
OBA 340 Midterm Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions
What are the five components of an information system? ANS 1.) Hardware
2.) Software
3.) Data
4.) Procedure
5.) People
Which of the following is an example of an information system?
A.) Duckweb
B.) XBOX game console
C.) Mic...
OBA 340 Midterm Questions And Answers With
Verified Solutions
What are the five components of an information system? ANS 1.) Hardware
2.) Software
3.) Data
4.) Procedure
5.) People
Which of the following is an example of an information system?
A.) Duckweb
B.) XBOX game console
C.) Microsoft Office
D.) Past 10 years' enrollment of University of Oregon ANS A.) Duckweb
What is Moore's Law? ANS States that chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months
What is a microprocessor? ANS The part of a computer that executes the instructions of a computer program
What is RAM? ANS Random Access Memory: fast, chip-based volatile storage in a computing device
What is volatile memory? ANS Storage that is wiped clean when power is cut off from a device
What is nonvolatile memory? ANS Storage that retains data even when powered down
What is flash memory? ANS Nonvolatile, chip-based storage
What are solid state electronics? ANS Semiconductor-based devices (no moving part)
,What are semiconductors? ANS Substances such as silicon dioxide used inside most computer chips that is
capable of enabling and inhibiting the flow of electricity
What's an optical fiber line? ANS High-speed glass or plastic-lined networking cable used in
telecommunications
Moore's Law originally stated that chip performance per dollar doubles every twelve months.
A.) True
B.) False ANS B.) False
Which of the following is an example of volatile memory?
A.) Random-access memory
B.) Flash memory
C.) Optical disk drive
D.) Nanodrive
E.) Read-only memory ANS A.) Random-access memory
Solid state components are less likely to fail because they:
A.) are driven by precise sets of software instructions.
B.) have the capability to both enable and inhibit the flow of electricity.
C.) have no moving parts.
D.) are composed of germanium instead of silicon.
E.) contain storage that retains data even when powered down. ANS C.) have no moving parts.
Which of the following is solid state?
A.) an iPod shuffle
B.) a TiVo DVR
, C.) a typical laptop PC's hard drive
D.) All of them
E.) None of them ANS A.) an iPod shuffle
What makes a computer run fast?
A.) Fast CPU
B.) Lots of RAM
C.) Big hard drive
D.) Both A and B
E.) All A, B, and C ANS D.) Both A and B
One byte = ______ bits ANS 8
1 _____ = 1 billion bytes
A.) terabyte
B.) gigabyte
C.) megabyte
D.) petabyte
E.) zettabyte ANS B.) gigabyte
A good quality 12M-pixel digital photo's size can be best
measured in ___ while a typical mp3 song's size in ___.
A.) MB; KB
B.) MB; GB
C.) KB; GB
D.) KB; MB
E.) MB; MB ANS E.) MB; MB
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