The document is a practice midterm exam for an IT 111 course that covers topics about computers. It contains three sections - the first asks students to fill in blanks with key terms, the second asks students to match common file types and extensions to their descriptions, and the third asks two short questions about input and output devices. Some of the terms covered include Charles Babbage, processor, vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, storage, and file types like .jpg, .mp3, .zip, .txt, and .pdf.
The document is a practice midterm exam for an IT 111 course that covers topics about computers. It contains three sections - the first asks students to fill in blanks with key terms, the second asks students to match common file types and extensions to their descriptions, and the third asks two short questions about input and output devices. Some of the terms covered include Charles Babbage, processor, vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, storage, and file types like .jpg, .mp3, .zip, .txt, and .pdf.
The document is a practice midterm exam for an IT 111 course that covers topics about computers. It contains three sections - the first asks students to fill in blanks with key terms, the second asks students to match common file types and extensions to their descriptions, and the third asks two short questions about input and output devices. Some of the terms covered include Charles Babbage, processor, vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, storage, and file types like .jpg, .mp3, .zip, .txt, and .pdf.
The document is a practice midterm exam for an IT 111 course that covers topics about computers. It contains three sections - the first asks students to fill in blanks with key terms, the second asks students to match common file types and extensions to their descriptions, and the third asks two short questions about input and output devices. Some of the terms covered include Charles Babbage, processor, vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, storage, and file types like .jpg, .mp3, .zip, .txt, and .pdf.
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Midterm Exam in IT 111
Name:
Section:
Test I. Fill in the blanks:
___________1. Is an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the
concept of a programmable computer. Considered the father of the computer.
__________2. Is an electronic device, operating under the control of instructions
stored in its own memory that can accept data (input), process the data according to specified rules, produce information (output), and store the information for future use.
_3. The ____________used vacuum tubes as the basic components for memory and circuitry for CPU (Central Processing Unit).
4. The ____________used Integrated Circuits (ICs) in place of transistors. A single IC
has many transistors, resistors, and capacitors along with the associated circuitry.
__________5. Is the core function of a computer.
__________6. Is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum
tubes.
__________7. A computer is reliable and accurate. Which means you can
depend on it to produce what it is instructed to produce. A computer never makes mistakes by itself.
__________8. The computer allows you to perform task very fast. It can process a large amount of data very quickly.
__________9. The computer enables us to create high-quality documents and
drawings. Document can meet required standard.
_________10. A computer can store an enormous amount of data and make this data available for processing at any point in time when it is needed. Test II. Common File Types and Extensions
Choices:
.jpg/.jpeg .mp3 .zip .7zip/.7z
.m4a .png .iso .tar
.txt .app .ppt/ .pptx .doc/ .docx
.pdf .scexe .dmg .wmv
.bmp .tif/.tiff .gzip/.gz .com
___________11. The Apple Lossless Audio Codec file format used for digital music files.
___________12. Is a file format that is commonly used in photographs.
___________13. Is a file format can be read by any computer with a free reader application, such as Adobe Reader.
___________14. The Moving Pictures Experts Group Layer 3 format used to
store and play audio files in digital audio players.
___________15. The Portable Network Graphic image file format.
___________16. A plain text file that contains no formatting other than spaces and line breaks.
___________17. A Linux self-extracting executable file.
___________18. The Tagged Image file format.
___________19. The application program executable file format used by Apple.
___________20. The Microsoft Windows bitmap image file format.
___________21. A file compression format that has built-in support in most
Operating System.
___________22. An optical disc image of a file system that is commonly used for archiving. ___________23. Data files created in Microsoft PowerPoint files created in office 2007, 2010, and 2013.
___________24. A password-protected, compressed Apple Disk Image file format
used by Mac OS X.
___________25. The free file compression file format developed for the GNU Project.
___________26. The open archive file format that uses compression.
___________27. A compressed file created with the XZ compression format.
___________28. A data file created in a word processing program, such as
Microsoft Word or WordPad. You might also see.
___________29. The Microsoft Windows Media video file format.
___________30. A command file or compiled application file.
