THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA

HIGHER INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE AND MANAGEMENT -HICM

ALL DEPARTMENTS LEVEL100

FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION 2014/ 2015

COURSE: CSC 111:FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE I

Duration : 2 Hours

Instructions: Answer ALL Questions You are advised to present your work in a neat orderly and

chronologically manner You should skip a line or two after each question and avoid any

cancellation.

more efficient and faster to execute (b) It is more difficult to identify errors in high level

language must be converted into machine language to execute (d) It is more easier to debug

in low level language program that in high level programs (e) All the above.

2. The main reason of using encryption on the internet is (a) To speed up the communication (b)

To prevent people other than the recipients from reading the message. (c) To guarantee that

the message reached its intended target(d)To prevent people other than the recipient to alter

the message (e) all the above

3. To prevent data loss.. (a) Save every five minutes (b) make a backup of program and save

them in a safe location (c) use anti virus program and keep it updated (d) All the above (e)

non of the above

7. Which of the following printers use conjunction with computer use dry ink powder? (a) Inkjet

printers (b) Laser printer (c) line printer (d) Thermal printers (e) deskjet

8. Memory is made up of (a) Set of wire (b) set of circuits (c) large number of cells (d)

Transistors (e) All of these

9. The secondary stage devices can only store data but they cannot perform: (a) arithmetic

operation (b) Logic operation (c) fetch operations (d) Either of the above (e) None of the

above

10. Primary memory stores (a) Data only (b) Program alone (c) all of these (d) None of these

11. Which of the following is not a valid statement? (a) hard is referred to something strong (b)

Hard is referred to something permanent (c) Soft isused to mean something tangible (d) All

13. Internet Explorer comes along with ------------ (a) Linux (b ) Windows (c) Mozilla Firefox

(d)Android (e) Microsoft office

14. Primary storage is ----------------- as compared storage (a) Allow and inexpensive (b) Fast

and inexpensive (c) Fast but expensive (d) Slow and expensive (e) All of the above

15. Which of the following is not just an output device? (a)Plotter (b) Printer (c) Flat Screen (d)

Touch screen.

16. ------------ Give a computer is unique address across the network.(a) Uniform Resource

locator (b) TCP/IP (c) Process ID (d) IP Address (e) System Address

17. Which of the following units is not used to measure the speed of a printer? (a) Character per

(c) ROM (d) Cache

21. Which device can understand the difference between data and instructions? (a) Floppy Disk

(b) Hard Disk (c) Compact Disk (d) DVD (e) Blue-Ray disc

22. Which device can understand the difference between data and instructions? (a) input device

(b) Output device (c) Memory (d) Microprocessor (e)Storage device

23. The basic operation performed by a computer are (a) Arithmetic operation (b) Logical

operation (c) Input and output (d) All the above (e) None of the above

24. Information retrieval is fast from (a) Floppy disk (b) Magnetic tape (c) Hard disk (d) None of

above

25. Secondary storage is also known as ------------------- (a) Primary memory (b) Magnetic tape

28. Display the information about the active documents such as page number, section

number, number of pages, insertion point, position, etc (a) view bar (b) menu bar (c) status

bar (d) ruler line (e) taskbar

29. Which of the following is not a specification of a CPU (a)2.8GHz clock speed (b)2MB cache

memory (c) 4.2ms Rotation latency (d) 32-bit word size

30. The specification of a CPU, 3.0GHz,indicates ------------computational power (b)the data

transfer rate (c) the storage capacity (d) the maximum I/O speed

SECTION B: Write ONLY the correct answer to the following questions in your booklet (40

marks)

computers on the internet.

33. Which two components are wires and circuit through which information moves into and out

of a computer?

34. Normally contains instructions that tell the computer to check what component

have been installed and then to see if they are working correctly.

35. A Lets you retrieve certain information based on your criteria such as only

retrieving names and addresses of people who earn more than $50,000 a year and have

children.

36. Is the process by which human-readable data is converted into a machine-

readable form.

types include: a bus, star, and ring.

41. A is a meeting between two or more geographically separate people

42. Is a device that reads and writes data, instructions, and information stored on

flash memory cards.

43. Is a technology used by some RAM chips, flash memory chips, and other types of

memory chips that provides high speeds and consumes little power by using battery power to

retain information even when the power to a computer is off

44. Is a temporary storage location for document content that is used in cutting and

pasting or copying and pasting operations.

45. The act of moving the mouse pointer to a button and then pressing and releasing a button on

requests a response.

49. What is the process of a computer receiving information, such as web page, from a server on

the internet?

50. What is the computing phrase that points out that the accuracy of computer’s output depends

on the accuracy of the input.

51. How do we call the built-in connection to another related web page on the internet?

52. Which is the special formatting language that programmers used to format documents for

display on the web?

53. What is the process of setting up software to work with the computer, printer and other

hardware components?

56. What do you use in repositioning the cursor

57. Format reduces an audio file to about one –tenth of the original size, while

preserving much of the original quality of the sound

58. What is name of the communication device that enables a computer or device that does not

have built-in networking capability to access a network?

59. What is the point at which a peripheral attaches to or communicates with the system unit so it

can send data or receive information from the computer.

60. It’s a service that allows users to send and receive short text messages on a mobile

phone or any other mobile device or computer

64. Windows program allows users to listen to internet radio, play MP3 and other

music formats, copy music and data to CDs, and watch movies.

65. Write out the following acroynmss in full (consider your spelling ) (½ mark each)

a) KBps

b) WiFi

c) PCL

d) COBOL

e) RTOS

f) PS/2

g) DOS