IT Computer quiz (10 questions)

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Q1: List five specific skills or abilities required of an information technology (IT) systems architect or system analyst?

Q2: What are the benefits of the top-down approach to system architecture?

Q3: Read "Google: A System Architecture Example" from the attached text here, starting page 58. What are Google’s three specific processing tasks that the system must fulfill?

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Q4: Perform the conversions of the following:

a) Convert this binary number 1010110102 to Decimal.

b) Convert this binary number 1010110102 to Hexadecimal

c) Show the decimal number 147 in Binary

d) Show the decimal number 147 in Hexadecimal

e) Convert this hexadecimal number 5D316 to Binary

f) Convert this hexadecimal number 5D316 to Decimal

g) Show the decimal number 5.25 in Binary

h) Convert the binary number 1.1012 to decimal

i) Find the 2’s complementary representation in 8-bits of the number 51

j) What is the decimal sign-and-magnitude value of the 8-bit number represented in 2's complement by 11010011?

Q5: What shortcomings of ASCII led to the development of Unicode?

Q6: Describe the trade-offs between audio quality versus transmission rate or file size for MP3 digital audio data format.

Q7: Describe how the LMC is von Neumann architecture

Q8: How are the registers in the CPU different from main memory?

Q9: What is the benefit of having fixed-length instructions over variable-length instructions?

Q10: Explain the basic differences between grid computing and cluster computing

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    

        

                

  

                   

 

    

            

   

         

    

                       

                      

    

                             

       

               

              

        

      

               

 

           

                 

      

            

             

         

           

  

                

    

         

               

      

      

                 

   

                        

                          

      

                    

             

             

                             

          

 

     



 

 

 

 

 

  

 

    

               

       

             

                               

             

            

                                 

        

                     

                      

    

                      

               

               

                     

          

                      

            

            

                        

            

                                 

             

       

                            

              

                           

     

                 

    

 

 

 

 

 



 

                          

                 

                   

               

     

                      

               

       

      

        

                 

                

    

  

                            

   

                         

                         

         

                 



              

                

        

                     

          

                     

             

          

                         

         

                    

                    

 

              

  

                       

                        



                          

              

    

            

                

   

       

  

            

              

                          

                         

             

    

   

  



  



 



   

 

 

 

  

  

              

  

 

 

         



       

              

 

                         

            

 

   

           

    

            

  

          

        

       

               

           

                 

             

                    

          

  

             

                    

                

                            

               

                          



 

      

            

           

                    

      

       

                 

                             

           



    

              

                      

     

              

                        

      

                       

         

           