IT105 Midterm Exam Study Guide

The midterm exam will have up to 50 questions: multiple choice and T/F.
The exam is closed book. You cannot bring calculator to the exam.
The exam covers lectures, book chapters and other posted reading material, and hw-
assignments for week 1~6 (i.e., module 1, 2-part_I , 2-part_II, 3, 4, 5).

1. Using the opcode table below, What is the binary machine language instruction for
Multiply?

a. 1111 0100
b. 0110 0011
c. 1111 0110
d. 0010 1100

2. When the processor has completed the instruction in M4, where is 9?

a. In M2 and the Register 2

b. In M1 and the Instruction Pointer
c. In M3 and the Accumulator
d. In M5 and the accumulator
3. Calculate the file size of an image in that comprises of 512x512 pixels with 6 bits
assigned per pixel in terms of MB.
a. 32 MB
b. 0.1875 MB
c. 54 MB
d.. 0.54 MB
e. 100 MB

4. Calculate the size of a video file in terms of GB if each frame comprises of 512x512
pixels with 6 bits assigned per pixel with a frame rate of 24 fps and lasts for 30 minutes.
a.. 32 G
b. 0.1875 MB
c. 7.91 GB
d.. 700 GB
e. None of the above

5. Which of the following is measured in terms of GHz?

a. Number of CPUs
b. Data rate
c. Processor speed
d. All of the above

6. Which of the following is classified as volatile memory?

a. RAM
b. ROM
c. All of the above
d. l
7. Which component of the CPU is responsible for arithmetic and logical operations?
a. Control unit
b. ALU
c. Cache memory
d. Both a and b
e. All of the above
8. Which component of the CPU is used to store frequently used instructions and data?
a. Control unit
b. ALU
c. Cache memory
d. Both and b
e. All of the above
9. What is the minimum standard sampling frequency that is used to digitize audio signals for CD-
quality music?
a. 2,000 Hz
b. 4,000 Hz
c. 8,000 Hz
d. 16,000 Hz
e. 44,100 Hz

10. One example of a low-level programming language is which of the following?1`

a. Assembly language
b. Java
c. COBOL
d. C++
e. HTML
11. When a user launches a piece of software, such as from the hard disk, the instructions and data
that correspond to the software and reside in RAM are in the form of:
a. Machine language
b. Assembly language
c. High-level language
d. 5GL
e. BIOS
12. The length of the binary code that the camera generates for each pixel is called the:
a. Bit depth
b. Number of Pixels
c. RAM
d. Filter
e. Memory

13. Calculate how many bits there are in a 4 KB digital audio file.
a. 4,000 bits
b. 32,000 bits
c. 32,768 bits
d. 4,096 bits
e. None of the above

14. How many “adds” does it take the ALU to process a 64 bit number if the word length is 16?
a. 3
b. 4
c .1
d. 2

15. In the Von Neumann Model, communication between the memory and processing unit consists of the
Memory Address Register (MAR) and the Memory Data Register (MDR).

a. True
b. False
 16. What are CPU cycles during instruction processing? List in the correct order.
a. Fetch, decode, execute, write-back
b. Decode, fetch, write-back, execute
c. Execute, fetch, decode, write-back
d. Wrote-back, fetch, execute, decode

17. An accumulator is a register in a computer processor that:

a. Contains the address of the instruction being executed at the current time.
b. Is a temporary memory to hold the result of arithmetic operations
c. Contains an instruction loaded from RAM
d. None of the above

18. A program counter is a register in a computer processor that:

a. Contains the address of the instruction being executed at the current time.
b. Is a temporary memory to hold the result of arithmetic operations
c. Contains an instruction loaded from RAM
d. None of the above

19. Which of the following is a memory element that temporary holds a single unit or word of data?
a. Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
b. Control Unit
c. Registers
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

20. Which of the following indicates the amount of time between two pulses of an oscillator (1 and 0) and
measures the speed of the processor?
a. Control Unit
b. Clock cycle
c. Cache
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

19. Which of the following translates assembly language code to machine code?
a. Assembler
b. compiler
c. Cache
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

20. Which of the following transforms high-level source code in a high-level programming language into a low
level object code (binary code)?
a. Assembler
b. Compiler
c. Cache
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

21. When the control unit swings into action, which step comes first?
a. Perform arithmetic operations.
b. Load data into the ALU.
c. Fetch an instruction.
 d. Execute the instruction.

22. Which Processor Instruction Execution method simultaneous use of more than one processor (multiple cores) to
execute a program?
a. Serial processing
b. Pipeline processing
c. Parallel Processing
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

23. Which Processor Instruction Execution method processes data one instruction at a time, completing one
instruction before beginning another?
a. Serial processing
b. Pipeline processing
c. Parallel Processing
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

24. Which Processor Instruction Execution method allows a processor to begin executing an instruction before
completing the previous instruction?
a. Serial processing
b. Pipeline processing
c. Parallel Processing
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

25. Which CPU cache allows a microprocessor to access data the fastest?
a. Level 1 cache (L1)
b. Level 2 cache (L2)
c. Level 3 cache (L3)
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

26.. x86 processors use ____________.

a. RISC technology
b. CISC technology
c. ARM technology
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

27. To represent the color gray in RGB system, the decimal value for green is 128. What are the equivalent
hexadecimal and binary values for green?
a. 80 and 10000000
b. 81 and 10100001
c. 82 and 10000010
d. 128 and 1000100

28. A characteristic of bitmap graphics is that they are resolution dependent, so that reducing the resolution
also reduces the image quality.
a. True
b. False

29. Vector graphics require more storage space than bitmaps, but vectors can be enlarged without becoming
pixelated.
a. True
b. False

30. What is the storage needed to store one video frame with 2080x1040 resolution in True-color format?
a. 415334400 bits
b. 2163200 bits
c. 6489600 bits
d. 51916800 bits

31. Based on the diagram below for Run Length Encoding (RLE), what is the repeat count for the Pixel value
of 22?

a. 9
b. 12
c. 30
d. 6
e. 8

32. Which step in the research process tells the reader what other researchers have discovered about the topic
of the paper, or tells the reader about other relevant research?

a. Formulating the hypothesis

b. Literature Review
c. Data Collection
d. Data Analysis
e. Results

33. Which step in the research process is a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or
empirical consequences to a scientific question?
a. Formulating the hypothesis
b. Literature Review
c. Data Collection
d. Data Analysis
e. Results
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IT 105 Midterm questions

Week 3

1. Convert the hexadecimal number F13C to decimal

A. 61677
B. 61568
C. 61756
D. 61765

2. Octal is know as base_______

A. 16
B. 10
C. 2
D. 8

3. Convert the octal number 250 to decimal

A. 168
B. 178
C. 167
D. 177

4. Gates are also know as:

A. RAM
B. Combinational logic elements
C. Semiconductors
D. All of the above

5. Which of the following represents an AND gate:

A. A+B
B. A*B
C. A/B
D. A-B

6. A NOT gate is also know as an (a):

A. Inverter
B. Complimenter
C. Neither A or B
D. Both A and B

7. A decoder is a piece of hardware that transforms ______________ into control signals

A. Operands
B. Opcodes
C. Digits
D. All of the above

8. A MUX is another ______________________ logic circuit.

A. Simple
B. Combinational
 C. Binary
D. Complex

9. The ________________is an example of a simple, functional digital circuit built from two logic gates.
A. Full Adder
B. Half adder
C. Two-bit adder
D. All of the above

10. ______________is common in programming languages

A. Octal
B. Hexadecimal
C. Python
D. All of the above

Week 4

11. _________________ refers to the number of times per second that a sound is measured during the
recording process.
A. Bit rate
B. Sampling rate
C. Frame rate
D. Bit rate

12. ______________________is the process by which machines produce sound that resembles spoken words
(Digital to Analog conversion).
A. Speech recognition
B. Speech synthesis
C. Speech sampling
D. All of the above

13. Graphics stored in True Color format require _____ bits for each pixel.
A. 36
B. 16
C. 24
D. 48

14. ___________________is a representation of a 3-D object using separate lines, which resemble wire, to
create a model.
A. Scale
B. Wireframe
C. Vector image
D. Bitmap image

15. The number of frames that are displayed per second is the ____________
A. Image rate
B. Bit rate
C. Frame rate
D. Pixel rate

16. An ______________________is a contrasting scanning technique that produces an image by drawing

every other line, then going back and filling in the in-between lines.
 A. Progressive scan
B. Interlaced scan
C. Resolutions scan
D. Bitmap scan

17. ________________provides a way to compress data and reconstitute it into its original state; uncompressed
data stays exactly the same as the original data. Reduces the file size, not the quality
A. File Zipping
B. Lossy compression
C. Lossless compression
D. Encryption

18. Audio compression is usually _____________.

A. Lossy
B. Lossless
C. Audio is not compressed
D. None of the above

19. _________________is a type of lossless compression that replaces a series of similarly colored pixels with
a binary code that indicates the number of pixels and their colors
A. Resolution-length encoding
B. Run-length encoding
C. Raster-length encoding
D. None of the above

20. ___________ stores only the pixels that change color from one frame to the next
A. Image compression
B. Interframe compression
C. Neither A or B
D. Both A and B

Midterm study material (Weeks 1 and 2)

1. Gigabyte is:

a. 210 bytes b. 220 bytes

c. 230 bytes d. 215 bytes

2. First task to digitize information is __________.

a. to reduce infinite number of measurements to a b. to round of the speed values to the closet speed
finite number value available
c. assign a binary code to the rounded off values d. all of the above

3. What is the binary representation 132?

a. 11110000 b. 10000100
c. 10010000 d. none of the above

4. What is decimal representation of 0110?

a. 1 b. 8
c. 7 d. 6
5. What is the result of adding binary numbers -15 and +5 ?
a. 0000 b. 10110
c. 0010 d. 00010

6. What is the binary representation of -8 in 8-bit 2’s complement form?

a. 11111000 b. 11111011
c. 11001111 d. 10111111

7. Which numbering system is related to the following series of numbers?

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 , 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30

a. binary b. octal
c. decimal d. hex

8. How many unique locations can be represented with 5 bits address?

a. 64 b. 5
c. 32 d. 10

9. Convert 1110101010110001(2) into hexadecimal shorthand:

a. FAC1(16)
b. EAC1(16)
c. FAB1(16)
d. EAB1(16)

10. Which type of signal varies smoothly and continuously over time?
a. Digital signal
b. Analog signal
c. All of the above
d. None of the above

11. ASCII stands for:

a. American Standard Computer Interface Information
b. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
c. American Standard Code for Internet Interchange
d. Aluminum Sulfate Complex with Iridium Iodine

12. A group of eight bits is called a _______.

a. byte
b. megabit
c. binary
d. numeric data
 13. The term 'stored program' means that a series of instructions for a computing task can
be loaded into a computer’s memory.
a. True
b. False
14. What is the decimal representation of hexadecimal FF(base 16)?

a. 128 b. 256
c. 64 d. 255

15. The overflow bit status if adding two negative

numbers yields to a positive number is:

a. 1 b. 0
c. both d. unknown

16. The carry bit status two`s complement arithmetic operation 7-5= +2 is:

a. 1 b. 0
c. both d. unknown

17. How many different values can 3 bits represent?

a. 1 b. 8
c. 16 d. 256

18. Which of the following statements defines a computer?

a) A programmable machine that inputs data and outputs processes
b) Any device capable of processing information to produce a desired result.
c) A programmable device capable of accepting input, processing input, and producing output
d) b and c

19. Which of the following functions is supported by a computer?

a) Accepting data and Processing data
b) Producing output
c) Storing results
d) All of the above

18. What is the decimal equivalent for binary sequence 10001001 ?

a. 194 b. 128
c. 137 d. 136