MIS 3301 Exam 1

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MIS 3301 Exam 1 Quiz

Welcome to the MIS 3301 Exam 1 Quiz! Test your knowledge on essential topics related to Management Information Systems.

This quiz covers a variety of subjects, including:

Hardware Components
Software Types
Programming Basics
Data Structures

21 Questions5 MinutesCreated by CodingWizard452

Because ____ has moving parts, it _____

A hard drive; it tends to heat up

Cache; requires a periodic electric charge

A CPU; needs a power booster

RAM; it runs slower than a CPU

Which of the following contains the most frequently used instructions?

Cache

CPU

RAM

Hard Drive

Hyper-Threading occurs when_____.

Your computer crashes.

A CPU is running too slow which causes computer-wide performance issues.

A single CPU chip can process two instructions on one CPU core.

A CPU chip has 2 or more cores available for processing instructions.

When your computer is on and has been used for a while, what is in RAM?

Any opened applications

Your operating system

Any documents or files

All of these

When your computer is off, what is RAM?

Your most recently opened applications

Nothing

Your operating system

Any unsaved files

Characters from other languages such as the Hebrew character 'aleph' would be including in which of the following coding schemes?

Unicode

Extended ASCII

EBCDIC

ACII

Which of the following is false regarding software?

Windows is an example of System Software

Tools such as Excel and Outlook are known as application software.

IDE are tools to facilitate programming.

Tools such aa DEFRAG, and CHKDISK are known as application software.

When you type data on your keyboard, your keystrokes are first recorded in_____.

Cache

RAM

CPU

ROM

Which of the following terms represents a violation of the rules of a programming language?

Compiler error

Execution error

Logic error

Syntax error

What is the symbol to represent a process in a program flowchart?

Rectangle

Parallelogram

Cirlce

Diamond

The inputs to a function are known as_____.

Cardinalities

Return values

Constants

Arguments

Which of the following is an invalid statement?

Print('''It's all about programming!''')

Print("It's all about programming!")

Print('It's all about programming!')

Print("""It's all about programming!""")

Which of the following is an invalid variable name?

_product_name

Product_name

@productname

ProductName

The number 27 in the following statement is known as a ______. age = 27

Float

Variable

Data type

Numeric literal

What is the value of var3 after execution of this code? 1. var1 = 22. 2. var2 = 33. 3. var3 = var1. 4. var1 = 11

This code will not execute

Line 3 is an invalid statement

Assume a company pays their sales personnel a 6% commission rate. They set that rate 50 years ago when their company first stated and plan to never change it. This type of value is known as a ______ and the standard is to code it as _______.

Constant; commission = .06

Constant; COMMISSION = .06

Fixed variable; _commission = 6%

Fixed variable; COMMISSION = .06

In a program flowchart, which shape is used to model an if statement?

Rectangle

Triangle

Parrallelogram

Diamond

Assume that a school uses the following letter grades: A, B+, B, C+, C, D, F. Also assume that we want to code an if statement to represent these grades. Using the ELIF approach, how many of the following clauses should we have in our code? ___IF, ___ELIF, ___ELSE

1,5,1

1,2,4

1,0,6

1,6,0

Which of the following is a benefit of the if-elif-else structure?

Each line with a boolean expression is aligned to the left.

It requires less lines of code

All of the choices.

The code is easier to read

Instead of increasing the value of variable x by 3 as follows: x = x + 3. The preferred way is ____; this technique is known as ______.

X >> 3; the inverse operator

X << 3; the inverse operator

X =+ 3; an augmented assignment operator

X += 3; an augmented assignment operator

The values below are known as a(n):_______. ['Bob','Sue','John']

List

Range

Dictionary

Array

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