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Package Title: Homework Questions
Course Title: IS 5e
Chapter Number: Technology Guide 1
Question Type: True/False
1) Computer technologies become obsolete faster than other technologies in the organization.
2) Primary storage stores data and programs for future use.
3) Communication technologies provide for the flow of data from external computer networks to the
CPU and vice versa.
4) The decision to invest in the latest computer hardware is
a) Always a good idea.
b) The only way to stay competitive.
c) Largely dependent on the industry the company operates in.
d) All of these
5) Which of the following contribute(s) to the new challenges for organizations to manage how their
employees work?
a) Improvements in portable devices
b) Prevalent Internet connectivity
c) A mobile workforce
d) All of these
6) To model the weather or simulate nuclear weapons testing, you would most likely use a(n):
a) Mainframe computer.
b) Workstation.
c) Supercomputer.
d) Personal computer.
e) Active badge.
7) An example of a computer system designed to accommodate multiple users simultaneously is a
_____.
a) Microcomputer
b) Mainframe
c) Laptop
d) Palmtop
e) Wearable computer
8) Firms are recentralizing their applications to mainframes for all the following reasons except:
a) To support the large number of transactions caused by electronic commerce. To reduce the total cost
of ownership of distributed systems.
b) To more adequately support end-user computing.
c) To improve system performance.
d) None of these
9) Source-data automation uses various technologies to input data with minimal human intervention.
10) Multimedia technologies such as DVDs and gaming devices cannot be considered as input and
output devices.
11) Buses are the electrical pathways on which the data and instructions travel.
12) Microcontrollers are all of the following except:
a) Less powerful than regular computer chips.
b) Embedded in a variety of devices.
c) Smaller than microprocessors.
d) More expensive than microprocessors.
e) None of these
13) The _____ is measured in megahertz or gigahertz.
a) Clock speed
b) Word length
c) Bus width
d) Line width
e) Bandwidth
