Exam 8: The ICT Industry

____________ was designed to tabulate the 1890 census and used cards with designated areas representing data fields.

_______________ are two of the world's largest exporters of ICT services.

Computer systems such as the Mark-8 and the MITS Altair are examples of early ______ computers.

A(n) _______________ uses available technology to work from home or an off-site location.

Between 2001 and 2016, significant gains were made in global ICT use, with the highest gains in desktop computer purchases.

Companies are classified into economic sectors according to the types of goods and services they provide.

Moore's law accurately described the rate of chip innovation for a 50-year period of ICT industry development.

Samuel Morse developed and patented a telegraph system.

It was not until the ______ generation of computers that portable operating systems, such as CP/M and UNIX, provided programmers with similar operating system commands across hardware platforms.

Which year did Apple release the first Apple Macintosh computer? ___________

Which one of the following options offers self-study training to career-minded individuals who might not have the time or means to complete a traditional degree program?

Which of the following job descriptions best matches that of a systems analyst?

Many employment contracts contain a ______________ designed to prevent employees from divulging proprietary information to competitors or opening competing businesses.

A _________ is a set of guidelines designed to help professionals thread their way through a sometimes tangled web of ethical on-the-job decisions.

Which of the following is not an example of an Information Technology Law?

Transistors performed functions similar to vacuum tubes, but they were larger and more power hungry.

ICT use in emerging nations lags behind its use in developed nations.

____________ reduces the cost of goods and services by using workers and manufacturing facilities in countries with inexpensive labor.

Whistleblowing is risky under any circumstances.

________ computers, such as UNIVAC, can be characterized by their use of vacuum tubes to store individual bits of data.