Comp. Science Illuminated Ch 1-3

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Questão 1

Questão
A vacuum tube was a device used in the first generation of computers to link computers together into a network.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 2

Questão
The base of a number system determines the number of digit positions that can be used for any number in the system.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 3

Questão
What is the name of a solid piece of silicon that contains transistors, other components, and their connections?
Responda
  • integrated circuit
  • motherboard
  • workstation
  • magnetic disk
  • server

Questão 4

Questão
How many digits are there in the binary number system?
Responda
  • 7
  • 1
  • 9
  • 2
  • 8

Questão 5

Questão
True or False? A high-level language is more English-like than assembly language.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 6

Questão
True or False? Binary numbers can be converted to octal, but not to hexadecimal.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 7

Questão
Which language is built into the electrical circuitry of a computer?
Responda
  • compiled language
  • assembly language
  • interpreted language
  • machine language
  • high-level language

Questão 8

Questão
What is the decimal value of the largest digit in the hexadecimal number system?
Responda
  • 9
  • 0
  • 10
  • 15
  • 16

Questão 9

Questão
Two hexadecimal digits can be stored in one byte.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

Questão
A mercury thermometer is a digital device.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 11

Questão
In base 16, the digit D is used to represent the decimal value
Responda
  • 13
  • 15
  • 12
  • 10

Questão 12

Questão
How many things can be represented using three bits?
Responda
  • 3
  • 6
  • 8
  • 4
  • 12

Questão 13

Questão
Electronic signals are easier to manage if they transfer only binary data.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 14

Questão
In a signed-magnitude representation of numbers there are two representations of zero.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 15

Questão
In general, how many things can be represented by n bits?
Responda
  • n^2
  • 2n
  • 2n + 1
  • 2^n
  • n^4

Questão 16

Questão
Which technique for representing numeric data uses the mantissa to hold the significant digits of a value?
Responda
  • scientific notation
  • ten's complement
  • floating point
  • fixed-sized numbers
  • signed-magnitude

Questão 17

Questão
Audio data is often represented on a computer by sampling the continuous signal that represents a sound wave.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

Questão
Run-length encoding replaces common words with shorter symbols.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 19

Questão
Which of the following is true about representing color as an RGB value?
Responda
  • it is composed of four separate numbers
  • it cannot represent the color white
  • it cannot represent the color black
  • it mimics the way color is perceived by the human eye
  • it cannot represent transparency

Questão 20

Questão
Which text compression technique uses variable-length binary strings to represent characters, assigning frequently used characters short codes?
Responda
  • Huffman encoding
  • ASCII encoding
  • run-length encoding
  • keyword encoding
  • character set encoding

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