1) Select 1 component of a CPU. a) ALU b) ROM c) Control Unit d) RAM e) SSD f) Registers 2) Select 1 input device. a) Monitor b) Mouse c) Printer d) Microphone e) Projector f) Keyboard 3) Select a secondary storage device. a) SSD b) RAM c) ROM d) CD ROM Drive e) USB Flash Memory Stick f) Registers 4) Which one of these was used for backing up a large commercial server? a) External hard drive b) Magnetic Tape c) USB Memory Stick (Flash Drive) d) Floppy Disk e) Jazz Drive f) CD ROM Drive 5) 5000,000,000 Clock cycles per second is ..... a) 5 MHz b) 5 GHz c) 5 Hz d) 5 THz e) 5 Mbps f) 5 Gbps 6) What type of chip contains the BIOS? a) RAM b) ROM c) Register d) ALU e) CPU f) SSD 7)  What is the physical infrastructure that allows a computer to connect and communicate with any other computer anywhere in the world via dedicated routers and servers? a) World Wide Web b) The Internet c) ARPANET d) FTP e) e-mail f) LAN 8) What is the system of interconnected web pages hosted on the Internet? a) Search Engine b) World Wide Web c) Modem d) Web Browser e) Router f) Broadband 9) What device is used to convert digital signals to analogue for transmission down a phone line? a) Media Converter b) Modem c) Router d) Switch e) Hub f) Ethernet 10) What can be plugged into your router to allow several devices to share the broadband connection? a) Modem b) Switch c) ISP d) ADSL e) Hub f) ISDN 11) If there are no Ethernet ports on your computer, what do you need? a) Switch b) Network Interface Card c) ISDN d) ISP e) Hub f) Broadband Router 12) In which decade was the Internet established? a) 1950s b) 1960s c) 1970s d) 1980s e) 1990s f) 1940s 13) When was the world wide web invented? a) 1985 b) 1969 c) 1971 d) 1999 e) 1989 f) 2001 14) What type of programming language has commands similar to natural languages like English or Welsh, with long and meaningful identifiers?  a) Data types b) Low Level Languages c) Binary d) Variables e) Machine Code f) High Level Languages 15) A storage location for data that can change in a computer program is known as a ... a) boolean b) variable c) decimal d) data type e) string f) constant 16) Name the character set that was developed in the late 1960s that uses 7 bits to encode up to 128 characters. a) FAT32 b) ASCII c) Binary d) ExFAT e) Extended ASCII f) Unicode 17) Name the character set that uses 8 bits to encode up to 256 characters. a) FAT32 b) ASCII c) Binary d) ExFAT e) Extended ASCII f) Unicode 18) Name the character set that uses 16 bits to encode up to 65536 characters or 32 bits to encode up to 4 billion characters. a) FAT32 b) ASCII c) Binary d) ExFAT e) Extended ASCII f) Unicode 19) What does HTML stand for? a) HyperLink Markup Language b) HyperText Markup Language c) Highlighted Text Markup Language d) High Transfer Markup Language e) HyperTransfer Markup Language f) HyperTorrent Markup Language 20) Which device allows computer systems to connect to the Internet using fibre optic cable? a) Modem b) Media Converter c) NIC d) ALU e) DAC f) PSU 21) Which of the following are facilities of a Software Development Environment (SDE) a) Editor b) Compiler c) Interpreter d) Linker e) Hardware f) Truth Table 22) Which CPU architecture are you likely to find in a mobile phone? a) BISC b) CISC c) WISC d) MISC e) RISC f) DISC 23) Which feature of an SDE allows a programmer to enter, edit and format source code? a) Compiler b) Editor c) Debugger d) Linker e) Loader f) Trace 24) Which feature of an SDE allows a programmer to convert source code into executable machine code? a) Linker b) Editor c) Debugger d) Compiler e) Interpreter f) Trace 25) Which feature of an SDE converts each line of source code into machine code at run time. a) Linker b) Debugger c) Interpreter d) Editor e) Trace f) Compiler 26) Which feature of an SDE allows pre-compiled code from libraries to be linked together? a) Debugger b) Linker c) Interpreter d) Editor e) Trace f) Compiler 27) Which feature of an SDE loads previously compiled code into memory? a) Loader b) Linker c) Interpreter d) Editor e) Trace f) Compiler 28) Which feature of an SDE helps locate, identify and rectify errors in a program? a) Loader b) Interpreter c) Debugger d) Trace e) Compiler f) Editor 29) Which feature of an SDE displays the order in which the lines of a program are executed at run time? a) Editor b) Trace c) Debugger d) Compiler e) Interpreter f) Loader 30) What is the term for a collection of commonly used private functions and subprograms. a) DHL b) Bibliography c) Style sheet d) Library e) CSS f) Inventory 31) What software is responsible for managing a computer's hardware resources? a) RAM b) GPU c) CPU d) Operating System e) ROM f) Application Software 32) Which of the following are examples of private functions / subprograms stored in a programming library? a) Input / output routines b) Word Processor c) Square root d) Calculator e) Random number generator f) Spreadsheet 33) Which of the following would be classed as utility software? a) Word Processor b) Disk Defragmenter c) Spreadsheet d) Firewall e) Presentation Software f) Database 34) What is responsible for print management, memory management and process management? a) ALU b) OS c) RPG d) MFI e) DFS f) RAM 35) What type of interface uses WIMP? a) GPU b) CLI c) TDI d) EFI e) GUI f) CPU 36) What utility is used on a computer system to check for and quarantine a form of malicious software?   a) Defragmentation b) Antivirus c) Disk Cleanup d) Compression e) Encryption f) Firewall

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