Question: 

The sampling rate, (how many samples per second are stored) for a CD is...?

1) 48.4 kHz 
2) 22,050 Hz 
3) 44.1 kHz 
4) 48 kHz

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Question: Compact discs, (according to the original CD specifications) hold how many minutes of music?

1) 74 mins 
2) 56 mins 
3) 60 mins 
4) 90 mins

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Question: The base 10 (or decimal - our normal way of counting) number 65535 is represented in hexadecimal as...?

1) 0xFFFFF 
2) 0xFFFF 
3) 0xFFF 
4) 0xFFFFFF

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Question: Where is the headquarters of Microsoft located?

1) Santa Clara, California 

2) Tucson, Arizona 
3) Richmond, Virginia 
4) Redmond, Washington

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Question: In what year was the "@" chosen for its use in e-mail addresses?

1) 1976 
2) 1972 
3) 1980 
4) 1984

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Question: What was the first ARPANET message?

1) "lo" 
2) "hello world" 
3) "mary had a little lamb" 
4) "cyberspace, the final frontier"

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Question: Where is the headquarters of Intel located?

1) Redmond, Washington 
2) Tucson, Arizona 
3) Santa Clara, California 
4) Richmond, Virginia

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Question: In which year was MIDI introduced?

1) 1987 
2) 1983 
3) 1973 
4) 1977

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Question: '.BAK' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Backup file 
2) Audio file 
3) Animation/movie file 
4) MS Encarta document

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Question: '.MPG' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) WordPerfect Document file 

2) MS Office document 
3) Animation/movie file 
4) Image file

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Question: '.INI' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Image file 
2) System file 
3) Hypertext related file 
4) Image Color Matching Profile file

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Question: '.BAT' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Compressed Archive file 

2) System file 
3) Audio file 
4) Backup file

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Question: '.JPG' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) System file 
2) Animation/movie file 
3) MS Encarta document 
4) Image file

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Question: '.MOV' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Image file 
2) Animation/movie file 
3) Audio file 
4) MS Office document

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Question: '.TXT' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Text File 
2) Image file 
3) Audio file 
4) Adobe Acrobat file

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Question: '.TMP' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

1) Compressed Archive file 

2) Image file 
3) Temporary file 
4) Audio file

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Question: Who created Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)?

1) Paul Zimmerman 
2) Tim Berners-Lee 
3) Marc Andreessen 
4) Ken Thompson

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Question: Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?

1) Shawn Fanning 
2) Ada Byron Lovelace 
3) Sabeer Bhatia 
4) Ray Tomlinson

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Question: Who co-created the UNIX operating system in 1969 with Dennis Ritchie?

1) Bjarne Stroustrup 
2) Steve Wozniak 
3) Ken Thompson 
4) Niklaus Wirth

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Question: Who is largely responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes, created a test that provided a
foundation for artificial intelligence?

1) Alan Turing 
2) Jeff Bezos 
3) George Boole 
4) Charles Babbage

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Question: Who built the world's first binary digit computer: Z1...? Advertisement

1) Konrad Zuse 
2) Ken Thompson 
3) Alan Turing 
4) George Boole

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Question: Who developed Yahoo?

1) Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson 

2) David Filo & Jerry Yang 
3) Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn 
4) Steve Case & Jeff Bezos
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Question: 'DB' computer abbreviation usually means ?

1) Database 
2) Double Byte 
3) Data Block 
4) Driver Boot

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Question: 'OS' computer abbreviation usually means ?

1) Order of Significance 
2) Open Software 
3) Operating System 
4) Optical Sensor

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Question: 'DTP' computer abbreviation usually means ?

1) Digital Transmission Protocol 

2) DeskTop Publishing 
3) Data Type Programming 
4) Document Type Processing

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Question: 'CD' computer abbreviation usually means ?

1) Command Description 
2) Change Data 
3) Copy Density 
4) Compact Disc

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Question: What is the term to ask the computer to put information in order

numerically or alphabetically?

1) Crop 
2) Report 
3) Record 
4) Sort

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Question: What do we call a network whose elements may be separated by
some distance? It usually involves two or more small networks and dedicated
high-speed telephone lines.

1) URL (Universal Resource Locator) 

2) LAN (Local Area Network) 
3) WAN (Wide Area Network) 
4) World Wide Web

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Question: What do we call a collection of two or more computers that are located

within a limited distance of each other and that are connected to each other
directly or indirectly?

1) Inernet 
2) Interanet 
3) Local Area Network 
4) Wide Area Network

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Question: What is part of a database that holds only one type of information?

1) Report 
2) Field 
3) Record 
4) File

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Question: The window which shows icons for things like the mouse, sound, and
display is...?

1) My Computer 
2) Explorer 
3) Control Panel 
4) Taskbar

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Question: On the Task bar the time is shown in the...?

1) Start menu 
2) Scrollbar 
3) Desktop 
4) Notification area or Tray

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Question: Experts say the healthiest way to view a computer monitor is by...

1) Placing it 18 to 30 inches away from your eyes 

2) Viewing from a darkened room 
3) Adjusting the screen for maximum contrast 
4) Using special glasses that filter out UV rays

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Question: A dual-layer DVD is valued because it:

1) Can hold more data 

2) Contains a backup of the data stored 
3) Uses a second layer to offer a speed increase 
4) Creates alternative sound tracks

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Question: A JPG is...

1) A Jumper Programmed Graphic 

2) A format for an image file 
3) A type of hard disk 
4) A unit of measure for memory

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Question: Windows Vista, the eventual replacement for Windows XP, will

demand more from a computer. Which of the following statements is correct?

1) You'll need at least 512 megabytes of RAM 

2) A separate graphics card, rather than onboard graphics, will be required 
3) A DVD drive is needed 
4) All the above

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Question: Your computer has gradually slowed down. What's the most likely
cause?

1) Overheating 
2) Your processor chip is just getting old 
3) Adware/spyware is infecting your PC 
4) You dropped a sandwich in your computer

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 Question: The letters, "DOS" stand for...

1) Data Out System 

2) Disk Out System 
3) Disk Operating System 
4) Data Operating System

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Question: Changing computer language of 1's and 0's to characters that a

person can understand is...

1) Highlight 
2) Clip art 
3) Decode 
4) Execute

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Question: Hardware devices that are not part of the main computer system and
are often added later to the system.

1) Peripheral 
2) Clip art 
3) Highlight 
4) Execute

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