International Business

Chapter 16: Technology and the Future Global Economy

Practice Tests

1.
What does IT stand for?
A)information and type
B)information technology
C)interest and trust
D)none of the above
2.
What is IT?
A)the hardware and software used in creating, processing, storing, and communicating information
B)a computer program that operates a game
C)a new brand of computer
D)none of the above
3.
When were computers first developed?
A)in the 1920s
B)in 1999
C)in the 1940s and 1950s
D)in the 1980s
4.
What is not a computer storage device?
A)graphics
B)external hard drive
C)CD ROM
D)flash drive
5.
What is a type of software?
A)graphics
B)word processing
C)Web-page design
D)all of the above
6.
A gigabyte is the equivalent of
A)one thousand bytes.
B)one million bytes.
C)one billion bytes.
D)one trillion bytes.
7.
Losing important messages due to being overwhelmed by the volume of messages received from various communication devices is
A)saturation.
B)overload.
C)inundation.
D)prioritizing.
8.
What is a computer network that allows two or more separate companies to access and share the same information?
A)a symposium
B)sharenet
C)intranet
D)extranet
9.
A company that does business on the Internet as well as from a store at the mall is called a
A)click-and-mortar operation.
B)brick-and-mortar operation.
C)door-and-keyboard operation.
D)none of the above.
10.
Computer software that stores and uses in-depth knowledge of a specialized area is labeled
A)an encyclopedic system.
B)an expert system.
C)a humanoid system.
D)a complex system.
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