Exam 2: Computer Terminology and History

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Which Windows operating system paved the way for the development of peer-to-peer networks?

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Which of the following refers to the keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot or jump to ROM monitor?

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Sony Ericsson introduced the first commercially available smart phone using the Symbian OS.

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The first modern digital computer was built at Iowa State University.

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________ are central switching devices for communications lines in a star topology.

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What is the term used to describe the final destination of discarded, lost, or destroyed data?

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Which of the following is a self-contained program that may spread functional copies of itself to other computer systems?

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What is the term used to refer to the method of cracking passwords by manually entering all possible key combinations?

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Which of the following is structured to allow users to participate in real-time conversations?

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The Internet accompanied the introduction of the first computers.

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Online predators often use chat rooms to lure their victims.

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Unlike Microsoft, Macintosh introduced software advancement at a snail's pace.

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How are websites identified?

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Explain why UNIX is considered the backbone of the Internet.

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Which of the following is NOT a reason for the popularity of bulletin boards among subversive organizations?

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One of the earliest computers developed by Charles Babbage was created to tabulate the 1880 U.S.census.

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________ is a system in which a set of services, technologies, and often virtualized resources enable the delivery of computing as a service as opposed to a product.

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Who was the first person to successfully introduce a device exclusively designed for data processing?

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Prior to the introduction of domain names, computers were accessed by their ________.

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The grouping of data that consists of eight bits is a ________.

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