Question 1

The power of radio as a medium of mass communication was demonstrated in 1938 when Orson Welles put on a dramatization of

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A)   War of the Worlds.
B)   Hamlet.
C)   Homer's Odyssey.
D)   the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt.
E)   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 2

Which Cold War program played an important role in advancing integrated circuit technology?

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A)   B-52 bomber
B)   Hydrogen bomb
C)   Mark 37 torpedo
D)   Minuteman II ballistic missile
E)   NORAD radar networkF) B) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 3

The two principal catalysts for the Information Age have been

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A)   books and pamphlets.
B)   computers and communication networks.
C)   radio and television.
D)   newspapers and magazines.
E)   telephones and television networks.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 4

A typewriter that prints a message transmitted over a telegraph line is called a

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A)   computer.
B)   monitor.
C)   teletype.
D)   terminal.
E)   transponder.F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 5

Storing data remotely on servers accessed through the Internet is often called

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A)   cloud storage.
B)   distributed hard drive.
C)   random access memory.
D)   solid state memory.
E)   virtual memory.F) B) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

A program that accepts a list of keywords and returns documents most closely matching them is called an)

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A)   folder.
B)   object-oriented database.
C)   relational database.
D)   search engine.
E)   Web browser.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 7

Which of the following was not a result of the adoption of mechanical calculators?

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A)   Less demand for "superstars" who could rapidly compute sums by hand
B)   Higher productivity of bookkeepers
C)   Higher salaries of bookkeepers
D)   Proliferation of companies making calculators
E)   Feminization of bookkeepingF) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 8

Who wrote "An Open Letter to Hobbyists," complaining about software theft?

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A)   Stewart Brand
B)   Bob Frankston
C)   Bill Gates
D)   Steve Jobs
E)   Steve WozniakF) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 9

Most early telephones were installed in businesses, because

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A)   people were afraid that telephones were dangerous.
B)   people thought that the government was using telephones as eavesdropping devices.
C)   only men were allowed to use a telephone.
D)   most homes did not have electricity.
E)   leasing a telephone was expensive.F) B) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 10

Guglielmo Marconi originally conceived of the radio as a way to

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A)   transmit telegraph messages without wires.
B)   transmit electricity without wires.
C)   transmit votes in national elections.
D)   transmit light without wires.
E)   All of the aboveF) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 11

Which statement best supports the conclusion that society can control whether to adopt a new technology?

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A)   No new nuclear power plants were built in the United States for 25 years after the accident at Three Mile Island.
B)   About half of all email messages are spam.
C)   Despite decades of research, fusion power is an elusive goal.
D)   People do not have to listen to Rush Limbaugh if they do not want to.
E)   Some new technologies are simply too expensive to even consider adopting.F) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 12

A semiconductor device containing transistors, capacitors, and resistors is called

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A)   a difference engine.
B)   a diode.
C)   an integrated circuit.
D)   a radio.
E)   a transformer.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 13

The first commercial electronic digital computers were produced just after

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A)   the Spanish-American War.
B)   World War I.
C)   World War II.
D)   the Korean War.
E)   the Vietnam War.F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 14

Which company produced the System/360, a family of 19 compatible mainframe computers?

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A)   Fujitsu
B)   Hewlett-Packard
C)   IBM
D)   Intel
E)   Texas InstrumentsF) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 15

The mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because

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A)   they were too expensive.
B)   there were unreliable.
C)   they were too difficult to program.
D)   they could not handle fractions.
E)   bookkeepers successfully lobbied the King, and he made the machines illegal.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 16

The World Wide Web is the creation of

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A)   Tim Berners-Lee.
B)   Vannevar Bush.
C)   Douglas Engelbart.
D)   Alan Kay.
E)   Ted Nelson.F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 17

The first alphabet to represent vowels as well as consonants was developed by the

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A)   Babylonians.
B)   Egyptians.
C)   Greeks.
D)   Romans.
E)   Syrians.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 18

Enabling a single physical computer to emulate many virtual computing devices is called

Accepted Answer

A)   emulation.
B)   extension processing.
C)   parallel processing.
D)   virtualization.
E)   the World Wide Web.F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 19

Which of the following phrases does not describe the Gilded Age in America?

Accepted Answer

A)   rapid industrialization
B)   economic expansion
C)   widespread electrification
D)   concentration of corporate power
E)   corporate mergersF) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 20

The company that invented the microprocessor is

Accepted Answer

A)   Fujitsu
B)   Hewlett-Packard
C)   IBM
D)   Intel
E)   Texas InstrumentsF) C) and E)
G) None of the above

Exam 1: Catalysts for Change

Storing data remotely on servers accessed through the Internet is often called

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The first commercial electronic digital computers were produced just after

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The two principal catalysts for the Information Age have been

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Which company produced the System/360, a family of 19 compatible mainframe computers?

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Which of the following phrases does not describe the Gilded Age in America?

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A program that accepts a list of keywords and returns documents most closely matching them is called an)

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The first alphabet to represent vowels as well as consonants was developed by the

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A semiconductor device containing transistors, capacitors, and resistors is called

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Which of the following was not a result of the adoption of mechanical calculators?

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Which statement best supports the conclusion that society can control whether to adopt a new technology?

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The power of radio as a medium of mass communication was demonstrated in 1938 when Orson Welles put on a dramatization of

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Guglielmo Marconi originally conceived of the radio as a way to

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Which Cold War program played an important role in advancing integrated circuit technology?

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Who wrote "An Open Letter to Hobbyists," complaining about software theft?

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