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In emails, BCC stands for?
Blind Carbon Copy
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Which of the following is not true about RAM?
RAM is the same as hard disk storage
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Bluetooth is a type of radio wave information transmission system that is good for about
30 feet
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Keys labeled from F1 to F12 are
Function Keys
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Software that starts working as soon as we switch on a computer is
Operating System
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Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social media application that was launched in 2010 by
Kevin Systrom
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One terabyte is equal to how many megabytes
1,000,000
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When a password is limited strictly to numeric characters, the secret is often referred to as a PIN. What does that acronym stand for?
Personal Identification Number
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Ram is considered what type of memory?
Primary
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The first key on the computer keyboard is
Esc
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What “M” computer security company, founded by namesake John in 1987 before being acquired by Intel in 2011, is well known for its anti-virus software that is available to
individual consumers?
McAfee
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What Google software, debuting in 2016, offers vocal help to Google mobile and smart home device owners? This virtual helper’s name implies that its job is to help you reach your goals.
Google Assistant
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Typically considered the successor to dial-up internet access in many American homes, what was the "B" term for wide bandwidth data transmission which was able to transport multiple signals and traffic types? This replacement technology allowed for always-on and faster internet.
Broadband
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A computer network that is used within a building is called a
LAN
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The control unit sends data from the memory to the ALU for processing. True or False?
True
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The main component that formed the basis for second-generation computers was:
transistors
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Which of the following is a type of malware intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met?
Logic bomb
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In what year was the communication satellite introduced?
1963
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A network that involves a computer, smartphone, printer, and/or some other personal device such as a tablet set up for personal use is known as a:
Personal Area Network
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What are the two major branches of software?
System Software and Application Software
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Which storage device cannot be erased?
CD-ROM
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Which state is the headquarters of Microsoft Corporation located?
Washington or Washington, D.C.
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directs and coordinates all the activities within the CPU.
Control unit
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The speed at which a CPU processes data to convert it, is measured in:
gigahertz
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The main memory of a computer is also referred to as:
immediate access store
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ENIAC is the first electronic computer. It stands for?
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
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Applications of computers in banking include all of the following except:
CAI
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It is a type of disk drive that uses laser beam technology to read and write data.
Optical
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Microsoft Publisher organizes information in:
frames
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Frequently involving a mobile device or email correspondence, what does the security term MFA refer to when dealing with computer-granted access?
Multi-factor authentication
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Founded by Russian brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov, this social media app has become central to the Ukrainian war effort, helping information to circulate despite Russia's
crackdown on other platforms?
Telegram
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First computer virus is known as?
Creeper virus
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It is an informal way of programming description that does not require any strict programming language syntax or underlying technology considerations.
Pseudocode
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The main storage medium within the system unit of the computer is the
HDD
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Programs that perform specific tasks for users are referred to as
Application software
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According to Fast Metrics, the country with the fastest internet in the world in 2020 is
Liechtenstein
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Zoox, Pony.ai, and Aurora are all technology startups that have collectively raised billions of venture capital dollars working in what specific field of software?
Autonomous, Driverless, or Self-driving cars
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As of January 2019, what company is the source of the largest data breach in known history? This former tech favorite admitted that up to three billion accounts had secure information compromised in 2013 by a suspected state actor.
Yahoo
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According to Gartner, the top one vendor in the worldwide PC market in the first quarter of 2023 with 23.3 share is
Lenovo
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What technology company found a surprise hit on its hands in early 2018 with a viral app comparing selfies to famous pieces of art?
Google
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Often considered the father of modern computer science, he was famous for his work developing the first modern computers, decoding the encryption of German Enigma machines during the second world war, and detailing a procedure that formed the basis for artificial intelligence.
Alan Turing
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SRI International initially maintained the text file named HOSTS.TXT that mapped host names to the numerical addresses of computers on the ARPANET. Which university established this organization?
Stanford University
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Google Buzz, Google Friend Connect, and Orkut were all Google products that were retired attempts at a social media platform. The fourth attempt was named what?
Google+
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Mastercard's Pay Pass and Tap & Go technology allows smartphone users to tap their phone to use contactless-enabled payment methods for checkout. What three-letter communication protocol is typically used for this implementation?
NFC
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The first web browser is called WorldWideWeb and later renamed as
Nexus
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It is software that directly operates the computer hardware to provide basic functionality needed by users and other software and to provide a platform for running application software.
System Software
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It is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose
Open-source software (OSS)
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It is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software in a systematic method.
Software engineering
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Who first proposed the term “software”?
Alan Turing
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It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications
Microsoft Office Excel
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Which Microsoft product was first introduced in 1992, made by the Shapeware Corporation?
Microsoft Office Visio
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Word binary document introduced in Microsoft Office 2007.
.doch
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Is the most actively developed free and open-source office suite, a project of The Document Foundation. It is the default office suite of most popular Linux distributions.
LibreOffice
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YouTube.com is launched in what year?
2005
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It refers to the protocol that underlies all Internet communication.
Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP)
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are sites that offer Internet access over a wireless local area network (WLAN) by way of a router that then connects to an Internet service provider.
Hotspots
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uses existing 2-wire copper telephone line connected to one’s home so service is delivered at the same time as landline telephone service. Customers can still place calls while surfing the Internet.
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
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It refers to various websites and applications that are used for the main purpose of social networking
Social Media
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It is the service of allowing network traffic to cross or "transit" a computer network, usually used to connect a smaller Internet service provider (ISP) to the larger Internet.
Internet transit
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It is 7-bit code that gives 128 possible characters but can be extended up to 8-bit code giving 256 possible characters.
ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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It is a character set with around 120,000 different characters, in many different languages, current and historic.
Unicode
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It responsible for interpreting every code it receives from the other computer components and making it usable to your operating system.
Processor (CPU)
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It is the drive you use to burn CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs.
Optical Drive
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What is the official name of Twitter's bird?
Larry
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Who is regarded as Father of Wi-Fi?
Vic Hayes
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Pescadero, Oceano and Indio are codenames of earlier versions of which popular software?
Firefox browser
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What do you call the basic unit of programmable color on a computer display or in a computer image?
Pixel
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These are computer programs designed to assist users in the maintenance and care of their computers.
Utilities
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A small magnetically sensitive, flexible plastic wafer housed in a plastic case is called
Floppy disk
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It is a virtual location on the Internet that contains one or more web pages.
Website
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It is a global set of documents, images and other resources, logically interrelated by hyperlinks and referenced with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
Web
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It is a computer that is used to transfer data on the Internet.
Host
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It is a software used on a computer to perform word processing such as creating, storing and printing text.
Word Processor
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It is a business practice that involves managing and optimizing the purchase, deployment, maintenance, utilization, and disposal of software applications within an organization.
SAM or Software Asset Management
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When was the word “Internet” used for the first time?
1982
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What do you call the language of web pages? When a web page has this prefix, then your links, text, and pictures should work in your web browser.
Hypertext transfer protocol or http
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What are the 3 characters added in a Web address to denote which set of computer language rules affect the document being viewed?
://
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It is a piece of software that helps prevent a computer from being attacked by online viruses or hackers.
Firewall
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It can only be legally used on purchase of a license.
Commercial Software
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It is character encoding standard that represent characters in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices using combinations of binary digits
ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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What is the collective name for upper-case letters, lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols?
Text or Characters
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What colors are used in printers because of their subtractive mixing which start from white?
CMY
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It is an organization that provides services for accessing and using the Internet.
Internet service provider (ISP)
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It is the real-time delivery of digital media for the immediate consumption or enjoyment by end users.
Streaming media
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It is the location of a document or web page on the World Wide Web.
Uniform Resource Locator/ URL
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This format was introduced with Microsoft Office 2007 and became the default format of Microsoft Office ever since.
Office Open XML (OOXML)
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What is the latest software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems?
Adobe Creative Suite (CS)
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It is the part of a computer system that consists of encoded information or computer instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built.
Computer software or software
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These are essential collections of software that manage resources and provides common services for other software that runs "on top" of them.
Operating systems
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What do you call these terminals (formerly known as cash registers) often connected to complex inventory and sales computer systems?
Point-of-Sale (POS)
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Which network topology commonly uses a token to circulate around devices connected to a network?
Ring
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This measures the frequency of incoming data or analyzes streamed data speed to produce near or real-time results about how fast the data is coming in.
Velocity
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A type of information system that assists businesses and other organizations in planning and managing an organization's components to get insights and make a better conclusion.
Decision Support Systems
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This is the technique used to send more than one signal across the local area network. It may be utilized to combine analog signals in broadband or simultaneously send digital signals in a baseband cable.
Multiplexing
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A small electromagnet in the hard disk writes a binary digit (1 or 0) by magnetizing tiny spots on the spinning disk in different directions and reads digits by detecting the magnetization direction of the spots.
Magnetic Head (also Read/Write Head)
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It is a field of study concerned with the design and use of computer technology in which researchers observe the ways humans interact with computers and design technologies that allow humans to interact with computers in novel ways.
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
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First celebrated in 2009, the 13th day of October is dedicated to learning about women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This day is known as
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Garry Kimovich Kasparov was the youngest world chess champion and the first champion to be defeated by a supercomputer in a competitive match. What was the name of the chess-playing computer which defeated him?
Deep Blue
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The “Hello, World” is the iconic greeting and phrase commonly used by programmers as a test message. It was popularized by Brian Kernighan in his 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum. Brian Kernighan is a computer scientist who contributed to the development of what operating system?
Unix
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When the processor stores data in a main storage location, it destroys any information that was already there. This is called
Destructive read-in
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personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a handheld PC, is a mobile device that provides computing and information storage and retrieval capabilities for personal or business use. What company introduced the first PDA with analog cellular phone functionality?
IBM
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A* (B + C) is equal to (A * B) + (A * C) using the law of?
Distributivity
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It is a serverless messaging protocol developed by Apple, Inc., which enables the automatic discovery of devices and services on a local network using industry-standard IP protocols.
Bonjour
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Charles Babbage was considered by many as the “father of computers”. While he was credited with inventing the first mechanical computers, there was already an idea of calculating tables automatically by machine in 1784 but was not realized. Whose ideas is this?
Johann Helfrich von Muller
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CDC 6000 is the world's first supercomputer manufactured by Control Data Corporation in the 1960s. How many instructions per second does the CDC 6000 can perform/execute?
3 million
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Bitcoin magazine is one of the original news and print magazine publishers covering Bitcoin and digital currencies. One of the founders of this magazine is Vitalik Buterin, who is also the creator of what open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality?
Ethereum
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If we subtract one octal number from another, let us say we borrow 1 from the column to the left of the column where we need to perform the subtraction, what number we need to add to the number at the top of the column in which we are performing the subtraction?
8
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The BASIC programming language is one of the simplest high-level languages that was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz in the mid-1960s. However, there is a woman who also contributed to the implementation of this programming language. Who is this woman who is also one of the first to recognize and acknowledge the future extensive role computers would have in the world?
Mary Kenneth Keller
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"123456" is the most common password according to Nord Pass in its research on most breached passwords. According to How Secure is my Password, if your password is composed of 11 characters which consist of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, how long would it take for a computer to crack your password?
400 years
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This technology became part of Apache Hadoop and one of the key features of Hadoop 2.0 which is responsible for processing all activities, especially allocating resources and scheduling tasks on different clusters.
YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator)
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David needs to create different networks for his coffee shop. He has the network ID of 172.16.0.0 with the subnet mask 255.255.224.0. How many subnets and usable host IDs per subnet can David provide?
8 subnets, 8190 host IDs per subnet
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The ASCII is a table of 128 characters used as a character encoding standard for text files in computers and other devices. How many of these characters are printable?
95
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It is one of the core services of the Department of Information and Communications Technology which aims to encourage online transactions by providing added security in exchanging private data and sensitive documents over the Internet using digital certificates.
Philippine National Public Key Infrastructure (PNPKI)
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