Mid-Term Assessment (PRACTICE) CST8118 Computer Essentials Version 2024 Fall

Student Name: __________________________________________

CST8118 – Computer Essentials Mid-Term Assessment
Test Duration: 60 Minutes
Section: 370
Professor: Mrs Taouch

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO

You must fill in the Mark Sense sheet with a HB Pencil only.

1) You are not allowed to use the following electronic equipment during the
assessment:
a. No Laptops/No computers/No cell phones.
b. No electronic translators,
c. No headphones/wireless headphones/ear buds/Apple iPods

2) A simple or scientific calculator is permitted for this test (not a cell phone)

3) This is a CLOSED BOOK assessment.

4) This assessment has XYZ multiple choice questions, and XYZ short answer
questions. Each multiple-choice question has only one correct answer. Choose the
BEST answer for a given multiple-choice question. Write your full name and student
number on the lined sheet of paper. Answer all short answer questions on the lined
sheet of paper. All questions are 1 point each, including each short answer question.

5) This mid-term assessment is worth 20% of your final grade.

6) Put your first and last name on the Scantron sheet!

I. Fill in the bubbles under your name.
II. Fill in your student ID number,
III. Fill in your professor’s name: Mrs. Taouch
IV. Fill in the test name: TEST A CST8118 (370) Midterm Fall 2024
V. DO NOT fill in the Sex, Age, MSS, MWS, or the Semester Bubble

7) You have ONE MarkSense sheet, one lined piece of paper, a Unicode reference
paper, and your assessment question paper. If you need a replacement Mark Sense
sheet or more lined paper, please ask.

8) Hand in all test papers at the end of the test before you leave the room.

9) The assessment pages are double-sided. There are XY pages in this assessment
including this one.

Quietly hand in all paper when done, please leave when you are finished… NO
TALKING during the test!

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Practice Test Note: This test has two sample multiple choice questions per week, with
three sample short answer questions. The actual midterm test would have approximately
30 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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Part 1. Multiple Choice/True False Questions: Answer the questions, shown below,
on your MarkSense sheet. Each question has only one correct answer. Choose the
BEST answer for a given question. Unless otherwise stated, each question is worth one
mark.

1. Which of the passwords below is an example of the 8 4 Rule?

a. aaaA42#a
b. 8rule4
c. aaaaaaaa
d. 8484848484

2. Which file extension in the list below is used for MS Excel documents?
a. docx
b. pptx
c. jpg
d. xlsx

3. To help keep your computer system secure, it is important to __________.

a. Update antivirus software regularly.
b. Install video games.
c. Install office productivity software.
d. Enable Wi-Fi.

4. What type of malware spreads to computers across networks automatically?

a. Virus
b. Trojan
c. Worm
d. Spyware

5. What unit of measure is used to express the speed of the CPU?

a. Hertz
b. Kilobyte
c. Flop
d. Nanosecond

6. Which one of the following devices (ports) is considered hot-plugged and can be
daisy-chained together?
a. HDMI
b. Firewire
c. VGA
d. USB

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7. When comes to maintenance of your laptop, which program is the best and safest
solution to delete the temporary file?
a. Delete temporary files program.
b. Disk Cleanup program
c. Remove temporary files program.
d. None of the above

8. You are a co-op student at the Speedy Squirrel Programming Company©. Your
immediate supervisor instructs you to set up 25 computers that have Microsoft
Windows 11 Professional© as the Operating system and Microsoft Office 365©
installed on all 25 computers. What type of backup would you perform so all 25
computers are set up the same way and the task is completed as quickly as
possible.
a. Differential Backup
b. Full Backup
c. Image Backup
d. Incremental Backup

9. IEEE-754 Single Precision stores the exponent portion with how many bits?
a. 1 bit
b. 8 bits
c. 15 bits
d. 32 bits

10. The first bit (left most side) of a binary number in IEEE-754 format is used to store
the _____.
a. Exponent of the number
b. Mantissa of the number
c. Precision of the number
d. Sign of the number (positive or negative)

11. What letter is encoded in Unicode using binary 0101 0100?

a. T
b. u
c. n
d. a

12. What is the binary string that represents the letter K based on Unicode encoding.
(Clarification, upper-case K).
a. 0100 1011
b. 0111 1111
c. 0001 0001
d. 0101 0101

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Part 2: Short Answer Question

Answer on the provided lined paper using brief, full sentences.
Any answers written on the question paper will not be marked.
Ensure that your name is written onto your lined answer sheet.
Each question is worth 1 mark for a total of 5 marks.

1. Compare and contrast incremental and differential backups with regards to

storage needed, relative speed of a daily backup, and relative speed of a data
recovery.

2. Convert the following number into IEEE-754 Single Precision showing both the
32-bit binary result, and the hexadecimal. The number to convert is: 8.75

3. Convert the following Unicode binary string into letters:

1010100 1110101 1101110 1100001

Reminder, answers written here in the test-paper, will not be marked.

Answer the questions on the lined sheet of paper provided.

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