Sample Final Exam questions, CPSC 203

Winter 2002 (L09)

Multiple-choice questions: for each question, select the option that provides the BEST answer. Note: no calculators or other automatic computing devices will be allowed in the Final Exam.

1. Which of the following network connections transmit network information via copper wires?

a. Twisted pair

b. Coaxial cables

c. Bluetooth

d. (a) & (b)

e. All of the above use copper wire as the transmission medium.

d

2. Which of the following is not a standard method of connecting to the Internet?

a. Modem Dialup

b. ISDN

c. DSL

d. Coaxial cable

e. Telnet

e

3. What are some of the preventative measures that I could take if I were sending private information in my emails.

a. Add a firewall to my network

b. Encrypt my mail messages.

c. Add a RAID system to my network

d. Perform regular system backs

e. All of the above would be effective ways of securing my email

b

4. Which search engine would you employ if you did not trust the ones created by spiders and wanted to browse only through a human created database?

a. AltaVista

b. Google

c. HotBot

d. Northern Light

e. Yahoo

e

5. How are State Space Graphs used in the area of Artificial Intelligence?

a. In planning to show all the possible set of states of a simple system.

b. In the top-down approach to Artificial Intelligence

c. In the bottom-up approach to Artificial Intelligence

d. They are used exclusively in the development of Neural Networks to determine the different states of the organic brain.

e. None of the above

a

6. The Visual Variable “Value” is not __________________.

a. Selective

b. Associative

c. Quantitative

d. Ordered

e. None of the above. Value can be used in all of these Visual Interpretation Tasks.

c

7. You need to represent information about the results of the Boston Marathon. Specifically you want to show the top ten competitors. While you will be listing all of their names (i.e., using a text representation) you also want to employ a Visual Variable to reinforce the written representation. Which of the following Visual Variables could you employ?

a. Position

b. Size

c. Orientation

d. (a) & (b)

e. All of the above

d

8. In class I critiqued the design of the stove shown in the picture below. What was the main problem that I pointed out with this design?

a. It provided no Visual Affordances

b. It provided no Visual Constraints

c. There was a Mapping problem

d. It did not Boadiceaise the design

e. None of the above

c

9. Which of the following is not one of the graphical design principles covered in the “Introduction to Computer Science” section of the course: HCI Part Two, Graphical Screen Design

a. Contrast

b. Repetition

c. Alignment

d. Proximity

e. Value

e

10. One of the requirements from A5, the Internet Assignment, was that you placed navigational controls in the same place on each page and made them look the same for each page. This would let you reach the different parts of your page with a single click regardless of where you were on the site. What Usability Heuristic did this requirement exemplify?

a. Speak the User’s Language

b. Provide Help

c. Be Consistent

d. Provide Feedback

e. Dealing with Errors

c

11. Which type of simulation would you classify a crash test, in which the simulation acted like the thing being simulated?

a. Iconic

b. Analog

c. Verbal

d. Mathematical

e. None of the above

b