Midterm Exam in IT 111

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Section:

Test I. Fill in the blanks:

___________1. Is an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the

concept of a programmable computer. Considered the father of the computer.

__________2. Is an electronic device, operating under the control of instructions

stored in its own memory that can accept data (input), process the data
according to specified rules, produce information (output), and store the
information for future use.

_3. The ____________used vacuum tubes as the basic components for memory and
circuitry for CPU (Central Processing Unit).

4. The ____________used Integrated Circuits (ICs) in place of transistors. A single IC

has many transistors, resistors, and capacitors along with the associated circuitry.

__________5. Is the core function of a computer.

__________6. Is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum

tubes.

__________7. A computer is reliable and accurate. Which means you can

depend on it to produce what it is instructed to produce. A computer never
makes mistakes by itself.

__________8. The computer allows you to perform task very fast. It can process
a large amount of data very quickly.

__________9. The computer enables us to create high-quality documents and

drawings. Document can meet required standard.

_________10. A computer can store an enormous amount of data and make this
data available for processing at any point in time when it is needed.
Test II. Common File Types and Extensions

Choices:

.jpg/.jpeg .mp3 .zip .7zip/.7z

.m4a .png .iso .tar

.txt .app .ppt/ .pptx .doc/ .docx

.pdf .scexe .dmg .wmv

.bmp .tif/.tiff .gzip/.gz .com

___________11. The Apple Lossless Audio Codec file format used for digital
music files.

___________12. Is a file format that is commonly used in photographs.

___________13. Is a file format can be read by any computer with a free reader
application, such as Adobe Reader.

___________14. The Moving Pictures Experts Group Layer 3 format used to

store and play audio files in digital audio players.

___________15. The Portable Network Graphic image file format.

___________16. A plain text file that contains no formatting other than spaces
and line breaks.

___________17. A Linux self-extracting executable file.

___________18. The Tagged Image file format.

___________19. The application program executable file format used by Apple.

___________20. The Microsoft Windows bitmap image file format.

___________21. A file compression format that has built-in support in most

Operating System.

___________22. An optical disc image of a file system that is commonly used for
archiving.
___________23. Data files created in Microsoft PowerPoint files created in office
2007, 2010, and 2013.

___________24. A password-protected, compressed Apple Disk Image file format

used by Mac OS X.

___________25. The free file compression file format developed for the GNU
Project.

___________26. The open archive file format that uses compression.

___________27. A compressed file created with the XZ compression format.

___________28. A data file created in a word processing program, such as

Microsoft Word or WordPad. You might also see.

___________29. The Microsoft Windows Media video file format.

___________30. A command file or compiled application file.

Test III (5 points each)

1. What is Input Device?

2. What is Output Device?