CSIT exam 2 | 149 questions and answers all updated 2023/24

CSIT exam 2 | 149 questions and answers all updated 2023/24 1. An integrated circuit embodies what is called ________ technology. A. Internet B. network C. solid state D. wireless - Solid State 2. How many calculations could ENIAC perform per second? A. 5,000 B. 6,000 C. 7,000 D. 8,000 - 5,000 3. Which company developed the first transistor in 1947? A. Intel B. Bell Labs C. Hewlett Packard D. Dell - Bell Labs 4. The tiny piece of silicon that houses millions of microminiature electronic circuits is called a __________. A. conductor B. chip C. bay D. bus - Chip 5. The two digits used in the binary system are __________. A. 0 and -1 B. 0 and 1 C. 1 and 2 D. -1 and 1 - 0 and 1 6. A byte represents ________. A. one character B. eight characters C. a string D. binary large object - One character 7. A byte is made up of ________ bits. A. two B. four C. six D. eight - Eight 8. How many bytes make up a kilobyte? A. 8 B. 256 C. 1,024 D. 2,048 - 1,024 9. One ________ equals about 500 pages of text. A. byte B. kilobyte C. megabyte D. gigabyte - Megabyte 10. 1 billion bytes is a __________. A. kilobyte B. gigabyte C. terabyte D. petabyte - Gigabyte 11. For now, the largest measure of byte capacity is the __________. A. petabyte B. exabyte C. megabyte D. terabyte - Exabyte 12. Every brand of computer has its own binary language, called __________. A. ASCII B. EBCDIC C. machine language D. Unicode - Machine language 13. A shelf or opening in a computer used for the installation of electronic equipment is called a __________. A. bay B. drive C. port D. socket - Bay 14. The device that converts AC to DC to run the computer is called __________. A. surge protector B. power supply C. uninterrupted power supply D. voltage regulator - Power supply 15. Power supply units are rated in __________. A. kilobytes B. megabytes C. joules D. ohms - Joules 16. Which of these is/are processors commonly used in personal computers? A. Intel B. Motorola C. AMD D. all of these - All of these 17. Which type of processor is designed to let the operating system divide the work over more than one processor? A. multithreaded B. air-cooled C. multicore D. All of these answers are correct - multicore 18. One million cycles (ticks) of the system clock per second equal 1 __________. A. megahertz B. gigahertz C. kilohertz D. hertz - Megahertz 19. One billion cycles (ticks) of the system clock per second equal 1 __________. A. megahertz B. gigahertz C. kilohertz D. hertz - Megahertz 20. Which of the following is NOT an expression of floating point, or flop, operations? A. megaflops B. teraflops C. microflops D. gigaflops - Microflops 21. A ________ is one-trillionth of a second. A. millisecond B. microsecond C.