BIT2163 Mid-Term Test S2/17

SECTION A (TOTAL: 20 MARKS)

Answer ALL questions. Please read each question carefully and fill in the blanks with the
correct answers.

biometrics uniform resource software magnetic-ink

locator (URL) character recognition
(MICR)
video card dumb terminal upload gigabits
download kilobits megabits hardware
random access hypertext markup post office protocol internet message
memory language (HTML) version 3 (pop3) access protocol (imap)
bandwidth bits baseband transmission motherboard

1. ________ consists of all the machinery and equipment in a computer system whereas _______
consists of all the electronic instructions that tell the computer how to perform a task.

2. __________chips, represent primary storage or temporary storage; they hold data before
processing and information after processing, before it is sent along to an output or storage device.

3. The _________is the main circuit board in the computer.

4. A _________converts the processor’s output information into a video signal that can be sent
through a cable to the monitor.

5. ___________ or channel capacity, is an expression of how much data – text, voice, video and
so on can be sent through a communications channel in a given amount of time.

6. The type of data transmission that allows only one signal at a time is called ___________.

7. Data transmission speeds can be measured in ______, ______, _______, ________ per second.

8. ________ is the transmission of data from a remote computer to a local computer, as from a
website to your own PC.

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9. ________is the transmission of data from a local computer to a remote computer, as from your
PC to a website you are constructing.

10. The _______________is a string of characters that point to a specific piece of information
anywhere on the web.

11. ________________is the set of special instructions (called “tags” or “markups”) that are
used to specify document structure, formatting, and links to other multimedia documents on the
web.

12. When you use your email software to retrieve your messages, the email is sent from the
server to your computer using ____________or _____________.

13. A ___________, also called a video display terminal (VDT), has a display screen and a
keyboard and can input and output but cannot process data.

14. ____________is a character-recognition system that uses magnetizable ink and special
characters.

15. ____________, the science of measuring individual body characteristics such as fingerprint,
hand, eye, facial characteristics.

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SECTION B (TOTAL: 22 MARKS)

Answer ALL questions. Please label the correct answers for the following diagrams.

user name top level domain domain name

domain (location) protocol country
file name and extension domain name directory name
ribbon cable video card moderm card
sound card motherboard power supply
extra case fan floppy drive hard drive
fan power cords CD/DVD drive
chip

A B C D

(4 marks)

E F

G H I

(5 marks)

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(13 marks)

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SECTION C (TOTAL: 58 MARKS)

Answer ALL questions. Please read and answer each question carefully.

1. Describe about the five basic operations of a computer as the following: Input operation,
processing operation, storage operation, output operation and communication operation.
(10 marks)
2. Describe the following phenomenon when computers and communications combine:
Convergence, portability, personalization, collaboration and cloud computing.
(10 marks)
3. Describe about the following intrusion methods over the Internet: snooping and spoofing.
(4 marks)
4. Describe about the three basic components of system software that you know: operating
systems, device drivers and utility programs.
(6 marks)
5. Name and describe the two basic features of a central processing unit (CPU). Describe
about the four basic operations performed at the CPU.
(12 marks)
6. Describe the ways to speed up data traveling between memory and CPU: interleaving,
bursting, pipelining, superscalar architecture and hyper-threading.
(10 marks)
7. Describe about the three types of terminals available in the market: dumb terminal,
intelligent terminals and internet terminal.
(6 marks)

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