CS 110 Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following is an example of an output device?

Mouse

Touchscreen

Keyboard

Printer

2. What input device is commonly used in banking to read checks?

RFID scanner

Barcode scanner

Stylus

MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) reader

3. What is an advantage of an SSD over an HDD?

SSDs are slower but more reliable

SSDs are faster and have no moving parts

SSDs are cheaper than HDDs

SSDs have moving parts

4. What is an example of a cloud storage provider?

Microsoft Word

Google Drive

Hard disk drive

HDMI cable

5. What is the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal number 1F?

6. What is the decimal equivalent of the octal number 77?

7. What is the binary equivalent of the hexadecimal number B?

1110

1001

1100

1011

8. What type of register holds the memory address of the instruction being executed?

Instruction Register (IR)

Program Counter (PC)

General-purpose Register

Memory Address Register (MAR)

9. The width of the address bus determines:

The number of bits that can be processed per cycle

The maximum addressable memory

The amount of data that can be transferred at once

The speed of the CPU

10. Which of the following protocols is used for secure web communication?

POP3

FTP

HTTPS

HTTP

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