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McKinley feared that if the United States did not take over __________ it might be acquired by Japan or Germany. A) the Philippines B) Hawaii C) Guam D) Cuba The Farmer’s Alliance originated in __________. A) Kansas B) Oklahoma C) […]

Which of the following agencies was most popular with the public? A) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation B) the Reconstruction Finance Corporation C) the Civilian Conservation Corps D) the Farm Credit Administration Immigration and migration patterns from 1880″1910 resulted in […]

In 1921, a Methodist minister and Klan member murdered a __________ on his own doorstep. A) Catholic priest B) Chinese laundry worker C) African American sharecropper D) Socialist union leader The Wade-Davis Bill was rendered ineffective when __________. A) abolitionist […]

In general, attempts to eliminate government use of the Confederate battle flag in the South __________. A) have garnered little attention from the media B) have met with little success C) showed that most white Southerners have little interest in […]

During the depression, Hispanic Americans __________. A) were able to move up to middle-class status B) experienced little discrimination in finding work C) lost many jobs due to prejudice against them D) largely returned to Mexico Despite holding a lead […]

Andrew Carnegie stated a differing view of the Gospel of Wealth by expressing that __________. A) socialists and capitalists should cooperate in labor negotiations B) settlement houses were ineffective at addressing the needs of the poor C) the affluent class […]

President Kennedy’s main strategy in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis was __________. A) sending more troops to face Communist forces on the 17th parallel B) imposing a naval blockade around Cuba until the crisis was resolved C) ordering the […]

The term __________ refers to a situation in which a few large corporations control an industry. A) monopoly B) free market C) monopsony D) oligopoly Important emerging industries in the New South included __________. A) cattle ranching B) processed chemicals […]

Which of the following was an act that white southerners interpreted as northern interference? A) gun laws B) education for poor children of all races C) economic reforms D) assistance to southern blacks Which of the following contributed to the […]

The textile industry coped with a drop in economic prosperity by __________. A) encouraging collective bargaining B) lobbying Congress for heavy federal subsidies C) cutting back work hours D) shifting operations to the cheap-labor South Changes in the domestic economy […]

Bobby Seale and Huey Newton began the Black Panthers in their home area of __________. A) Oakland, CA B) Mobile, AL C) Chicago D) Washington, D.C. The beginning of a stronger, more assertive presidency began with __________. A) Grover Cleveland […]

The right to “maverick” cattle meant __________. A) allowing cattle to freely graze on private land B) killing your neighbor’s cattle in a dispute C) putting your own brand on unmarked animals D) selling cattle only to white men President […]

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was dubbed the __________. A) Eighth Wonder of the World B) White City C) City on a Hill D) Windy City In 1923, __________ banned textbooks based on Darwinian theory. A) Ohio B) […]

How was the emptiness of McCarthy’s charges revealed? A) It was discovered that Julius Rosenberg was an anti-Communist. B) President Eisenhower condemned him in a nationally televised speech. C) He admitted that he had lied throughout the committee hearings. D) […]

In Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, __________. A) Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” B) Rosa Parks refused to follow the rules of segregated public transportation C) the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was created D) […]

Which of the following accurately describes advances in racial equality during FDR’s presidency? A) FDR fully integrated the U.S. military at the start of World War II. B) FDR prohibited racial discrimination in the Works Progress Administration. C) FDR appointed […]

How did Theodore Roosevelt establish a regulatory role for government? A) by appointing pro-regulation justices to the Supreme Court B) by bringing multiple anti-trust suits against business combinations C) by pressuring Congress to pass laws authorizing the president to regulate […]

Which area of the country had the highest rate of increase in immigration in the 1990s? A) the North B) the South C) the NorthEast D) the Far West The impact of the Tet Offensive was magnified by which of […]

__________ refers to those attributes of a system visible to a programmer. For set-associative mapping the cache control logic interprets a memory address as three fields: Set, Word, and __________. Answer: Tag __________ heads are used in sealed drive assemblies […]

The disadvantage of the software poll is that it is time consuming. A __________ is a circular platter constructed of nonmagnetic material, called the substrate, coated with a magnetizable material. Answer: disk A key characteristic of a bus is that […]

_______ law assumes a program in which a fraction (1- f )of the execution time involves code that is inherently serial and a fraction f that involves code that is infinitely parallelizable with no scheduling overhead. The two distinctive types […]

A _________ RAM is made with cells that store data as charge on capacitors. The operation to be performed is specified by a binary code known as the operation code. Answer: T The four deployment models defined by NIST are: […]

The term _________ parallelism refers to the degree to which, on average, the instructions of a program can be executed in parallel. The U.S. national version of the International Reference Alphabet is referred to as __________. Answer: ASCII The traditional […]

In any number, the leftmost digit is referred to as the __________ digit because it carries the highest value. Binary 0001 0000 0000 represents ________ in hexadecimal. Answer: 100 A __________ RAM is a digital device that uses the same […]

Not all machine languages include numeric data types. Because 16 symbols are used, the notation is called hexadecimal and the 16 symbols are the __________. Answer: hexadecimal digits In the absence of parentheses, the AND operation takes precedence over the […]

A number with both an integer and fractional part has digits raised to both positive and negative powers of 10. With a daisy chain the processor just picks the interrupt line with the highest priority. Answer: F The entire Gen8 […]

The six things needed to specify the function of a processor are: operations (opcodes), addressing modes, registers, I/O module interface, memory module interface, and ________. The _________ global scheduler unit on the GPU chip distributes the thread blocks to the […]

The MIPS R4000 processor chip is partitioned into two sections, one containing the CPU and the other containing a _________ for memory management. In a __________ number system, each number is represented by a string of digits in which each […]

Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) are one of the earliest, and still the most common, example of parallel organization. A(n) ________ interrupt is generated by an I/O controller to signal normal completion of an operation, request service from the processor, or to […]

The __________ architecture is the architecture of IBM’s mainframe product line. The value to be loaded into the program counter can come from a binary counter, the instruction register, or the output of the ALU. Answer: T _________ paging means […]

The Pentium 4 processor core consists of four major components: fetch/decode unit, out-of-order execution logic, memory subsystem, and __________. Opcodes are represented by abbreviations, called __________ that indicate the operation. Answer: mnemonics There are four types of I/O commands that […]

There are 50 tens in the number 509. The total number of threads defined is typically in the thousands to maximize the utilization of the GPU processor cores as well as maximize the available speedup. Answer: T From a user’s […]

A __________ contains a permanent pattern of data that cannot be changed, is nonvolatile, and cannot have new data written into it. A. RAM B. SRAM C. ROM D. flash memory _________ can be caused by power supply problems or […]

With _________ encoding one field is used to determine the interpretation of another field. A. resource B. indirect C. direct D. functional Which of the following is a hardware technique that can be used in a superscalar processor to enhance […]

The sum of the seek time and the rotational delay equals the _________, which is the time it takes to get into position to read or write. A. access time B. gap time C. transfer time D. constant angular velocity […]

Multiple parallel pipelines are used in __________ . A. speculative execution B. data flow analysis C. superscalar execution D. branch prediction The _________ contains a word of data to be written to memory or the word most recently read. A. […]

__________ are caused by limited SFUs, double-precision multiplication, and branching. A. Structural hazards B. RAW data hazards C. Vertical hazards D. Latency hazards _______ applications embrace threading in a fundamental way. A. Multi-instance B. Multi-process C. Java D. Threaded Answer: […]

The first commercial RISC product was _________. A. SPARC B. CISC C. VAX D. the Pyramid The _________ is that part of the computer that actually performs arithmetic and logical operations on data. Answer: Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) The […]

Swapping is an I/O operation. The sequence of instruction cycles are always the same as the written sequence of instructions that make up the program. Answer: F The value of the mode field determines which addressing mode is to be […]

It is not possible to connect I/O controllers directly onto the system bus. The execute cycle is simple and predictable. Answer: F The basic element of a semiconductor memory is the memory cell. Answer: T The cycle time of an […]

Timing refers to the way in which events are coordinated on the bus. A microcomputer architecture and organization relationship is not very close. Answer: F Machine parallelism exists when instructions in a sequence are independent and thus can be executed […]

The number of bits used to represent various data types is an example of an architectural attribute. GPUs can be found in almost all of today’s workstations, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Answer: T During a read or write operation, the […]

While the processor is in user mode the program being executed is unable to access protected system resources or to change mode, other than by causing an exception to occur. Program execution consists of repeating the process of instruction fetch […]

The nurse is instructing unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) on fall prevention for the clients. Which statement made by the UAP warrants further instruction? 1. “I will ensure that the call light is within reach of the client.” 2. “I will […]

The nurse notes that a client intervention has a deadline occurring in 3 days. What should this information indicate to the nurse? 1. The action should be observed every 3 days 2. The action should be completed every 3 days […]

The nurse caring for a client receiving parenteral nutrition via a central venous catheter determines that the client’s temperature is elevated, white blood cell count is elevated, and the client is lethargic. The nurse suspects the client is septic. Which […]

The nurse is teaching the client to use a metered-dose inhaler. Which information should the nurse provide to the client? 1. Take a deep breath, hold it, and then gently squeeze the inhaler to dispense the medication. 2. Take several […]

A client is demonstrating manifestations of increased intracranial pressure. Which finding supports that this increased pressure is being caused by an increase in brain tissue? 1. Oxygen saturation 86% 2. Mass in the parietal lobe 3. Subarachnoid hemorrhage 4. Fractured […]

The nurse learns that a client will be discharged in 2 days. On what should the nurse focus when planning for this client’s discharge? Select all that apply. 1. Needs 2. Goals of care 3. Measureable outcomes 4. Implementation strategies […]

The spouse of a recently deceased client is observed crying and expressing anger to anyone who asks if any help is needed. In which stage of grieving is this spouse? 1. Resolution 2. Restitution 3. Idealization 4. Developing awareness Answer: […]