UTA INSY 3304 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE (ALREADY GRADED A+)
Antivirus (Ch7)
designed to detect and destroy computer viruses by finding the virus signature
ASCII (Ch1)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Authentication (Ch7, lecture)
Authenticates
-who you are; Fingerprint, Retina, etc.
-What you know; Password, pin, user ID
Bitmap formats (Ch1)
Formats of pixels for graphics
-GIF
-PNG
-RAW
-TIFF
-JPEG
Blogosphere (Ch5)
All blogs/microblogs and their connections
Boolean Operators (Ch10)
AND, OR, and NOT operators used in a query.
Code (Ch11)
instructions to a computer
Common Carrier (Ch8)
Company that transports good or services over regular routes at set rates
Compiler (Ch11)
A program that translates code in a high-level language (such as Java) to machine instructions (such as
bytecode for the Java virtual machine).
Interframe Compression (Ch1)
, involves the analysis of the changes in the movie from frame to frame and makes note of only the parts
of the image that have changed
Cookie (Ch4)
Small text file on your computer from the browser. Every website you visit adds 1-5 cookies to your
computer.
Databases (Ch10)
A collection of information stored in files
Data Warehouse (Ch10)
A logical collection of information - gathered from many different operational databases - that supports
business analysis activities and decision-making tasks
Decision Table
A matrix representation of the logic of a decision, which specifies the possible conditions for the
decision and the resulting actions.
Declarative Paradigm (Ch11)
describes aspects of a problem that lead to a solution
Disaster Recovery Plan (Ch9)
A detailed process for recovering information or an IT system in the event of a catastrophic disaster such
as a fire or flood
Disk Partition (Ch6)
a section of a hard disk drive that is treated as a separate storage unit
Domain (Ch3)
A web domain is an actual presence on the Internet, such as a web page. A web domain name is a
substitute that replaces the Internet Protocol (IP) address
Email protocols (Ch5)
POP3, IMAP, SMTP
Encapsulation (Ch11)
Keeping details (like data and procedures) together in one part of a program so that programmers
working on other parts of the program don't need to know about them.
File naming conventions (Ch6)
A set of rules, established by the operating system, that must be followed to create a valid file name.
Cannot use *, /, \, ?, periods, > <
Firewall (Ch7)
LATEST UPDATE (ALREADY GRADED A+)
Antivirus (Ch7)
designed to detect and destroy computer viruses by finding the virus signature
ASCII (Ch1)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Authentication (Ch7, lecture)
Authenticates
-who you are; Fingerprint, Retina, etc.
-What you know; Password, pin, user ID
Bitmap formats (Ch1)
Formats of pixels for graphics
-GIF
-PNG
-RAW
-TIFF
-JPEG
Blogosphere (Ch5)
All blogs/microblogs and their connections
Boolean Operators (Ch10)
AND, OR, and NOT operators used in a query.
Code (Ch11)
instructions to a computer
Common Carrier (Ch8)
Company that transports good or services over regular routes at set rates
Compiler (Ch11)
A program that translates code in a high-level language (such as Java) to machine instructions (such as
bytecode for the Java virtual machine).
Interframe Compression (Ch1)
, involves the analysis of the changes in the movie from frame to frame and makes note of only the parts
of the image that have changed
Cookie (Ch4)
Small text file on your computer from the browser. Every website you visit adds 1-5 cookies to your
computer.
Databases (Ch10)
A collection of information stored in files
Data Warehouse (Ch10)
A logical collection of information - gathered from many different operational databases - that supports
business analysis activities and decision-making tasks
Decision Table
A matrix representation of the logic of a decision, which specifies the possible conditions for the
decision and the resulting actions.
Declarative Paradigm (Ch11)
describes aspects of a problem that lead to a solution
Disaster Recovery Plan (Ch9)
A detailed process for recovering information or an IT system in the event of a catastrophic disaster such
as a fire or flood
Disk Partition (Ch6)
a section of a hard disk drive that is treated as a separate storage unit
Domain (Ch3)
A web domain is an actual presence on the Internet, such as a web page. A web domain name is a
substitute that replaces the Internet Protocol (IP) address
Email protocols (Ch5)
POP3, IMAP, SMTP
Encapsulation (Ch11)
Keeping details (like data and procedures) together in one part of a program so that programmers
working on other parts of the program don't need to know about them.
File naming conventions (Ch6)
A set of rules, established by the operating system, that must be followed to create a valid file name.
Cannot use *, /, \, ?, periods, > <
Firewall (Ch7)
