• CSE 3 UCSD
• Midterm February 6, 2003 CLOSED BOOK
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• Multiple Choice

Circle the correct answer. Graded as follows: Correct 3 points; no answer, incorrect answer (or more than one answer) 0 point. No negative points. Answer with the ONE BEST answer. Do not mark more than one answer for a question.

1. A digital computer

a. typically stores data as zeros and one.

b. typically runs on electricity.

c. seldom is colored magenta.

d. all of the above.

e. none of the above.

1. You can think of an old fashioned wooden ruler (for measuring lengths) as a computer. If you do so,

a. it is a digital computer

b it is an analog computer

c. it is a digital computer only if it uses the metric system

d. all of the above.

e. none of the above.

1. A nanosecond is

a. one billionth of a second.

b one billion seconds

c. is not a unit of time.

d. all of the above.

e. none of the above.

1. Which of the following is the color system used by computer monitors.

a. jpeg/giff/tiff

b. red/green/blue

c. cyan/magenta/yellow/black

d. none of the above.

1. In HTML the commands <H2> and <h2>

a. always mean the same thing

b. never mean the same thing

c. may or may not mean the same thing depending on what browser is used.t

d. none of the above

1. Which of the following is an HTML command to insert a horizontal line in an HTML document?

a. <HR>

b.<HL>

c. <LINE> </LINE>

d. none of the above

1. An IP address is

a. the address of a site on the Internet.

b. numbers separated by dots (periods).

c. serves as a name for your computer when e-mail is sent to your computer.

d. all of the above.

e. none of the above.

1. A file with HTML code for a web page

a. is a text file.

b. should end in .html (or .htm).

c. can be changed using a text editor.

d. all of the above.

e. none of the above.

1. A high bandwidth connection

a. can transmit more data per second than a low bandwidth connection.

b. can transmit less data per second than a low bandwidth connection.

c. is a connection that goes through a satellite link.

d. is a connection that uses a telephone line.

e. none of the above

1. In an internet community, an avatar is //This question is not relevant to this year’s class

a. an operating system.

b. a kind of monitor.

c. an animated character that represents some person.

d. is a carton to keep you amused while your computer searches for data.

e. none of the above

1. A word processor

a. is the same thing as a text processor.

b. typically stores fonts and other stuff as well as text.

c. is a piece of hardware.

d. all of the above,.

e. none of the above

1. A file

a. has a name.

b. stores data.

c. has a size measured in bytes.

d. all of the above,.

e. none of the above

1. An email message sent over the Internet

a. might be shipped as lot of small pieces of data.

b. can potentially take different routes from its source to its destination.

c. almost always gets to its destination faster than a regular post office type of letter.

d. all of the above,.

e. none of the above

1. Most Internet search engines (such as Google or Yahoo)

a. accept advertising.

b. base their searches on keywords.

c. have two main components called a crawler and a query processor .

d. all of the above,.

e. none of the above

1. Roger is a utility here at UCSD. It is

a. a mascot for sports games.

b. a meta search engine that is used to search the Internet.

c. an electronic library catalog.

d. all of the above,.

e. none of the above