Exam 1: Computers and Digital Basics

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____ software refers to any software that is installed on a computer's hard disk.

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As the third phase of the digital revolution unfolded,____________________ technology became consumer-friendly,allowing homeowners to connect multiple computers,exchange files,and,most importantly,share an Internet connection.

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The ownership of certain types of information,ideas,or representations is intellectual ____________________.

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A set of machine language instructions for a program is called source code._________________________

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MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Part of the microprocessor that performs arithmetic operations

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When restrictions on commercial use of the ____ were lifted in 1995,companies such as AOL and CompuServe became popular services.

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  -A compiler like the one shown in the accompanying figure converts all statements in a program to machine language in a single batch. -A compiler like the one shown in the accompanying figure converts all statements in a program to machine language in a single batch.

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MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -An area of the computer that temporarily holds data waiting to be processed,stored,or output

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Privacy advocates fear that digital technologies are fundamentally changing our expectation of what is private and what is not.

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C,BASIC,COBOL,and Java are examples of ____ programming languages.

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MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Differentiates between uppercase and lowercase words

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The master controller for all activities that take place within a computer is ____.

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MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Provides codes for 65,000 characters

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  -The type of data that is represented using an infinite scale of values as represented in the accompanying figure is ____. -The type of data that is represented using an infinite scale of values as represented in the accompanying figure is ____.

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  -As shown in the accompanying figure,the ____ fetches each instruction. -As shown in the accompanying figure,the ____ fetches each instruction.

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A(n)microcomputer specializes in compute-intensive problems._________________________

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What role does digital technology play in freedom of speech and democracy?

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If you use a simple-to-remember password,hackers may guess it by stepping through a password dictionary,a process called a dictionary ____________________.

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A ____ is a series of characters that becomes a person's unique identifier.

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A compute-intensive problem runs on a ____.

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