Which program acts as an intermediary between a computer user and the computer hardware?
Correct answer D. Operating System
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What is QuickTime?
Correct answer D. Media Player
Which of the following is not a layer of an operating system?
Correct answer A. Critical Section
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What type of software manages your application programs and controls how your hardware devices work together?
Correct answer A. Operating System
When a picture is resized by a percentage, what is it said to be?
Correct answer B. Scaled
Which operating system was originally designed by scientists and engineers for use by scientists and engineers?
Correct answer B. UNIX
What is the core of an operating system called?
Correct answer D. Kernel
A compiler is also a what?
Correct answer B. Program
With which type of interface do users issue commands by working with menus and visual images such as icons and buttons?
Correct answer B. Graphical User Interface
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Who founded the audio and video conferencing tool Zoom?
Correct answer D. Eric Yuan
What is Mac?
Correct answer A. Operating system
What is the Windows Registry?
Correct answer A. A hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the OS
Which of these formats is widely used for video data on the Internet?
Correct answer A. AVI
Files with the extension .mpg are which type of file?
Correct answer D. Video
In Microsoft Windows 7, which feature can show you weather information?
Correct answer B. Gadgets
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Linus Torvalds developed which of the following?
Correct answer A. Linux
In video editing, what is meant by rendering?
Correct answer D. Final step of video production
Digital photos and scanned images are usually stored in which type of graphics, with extensions such as .bmp, .png, .jpg, .tif or .gif?
Correct answer A. Both Bitmap and Pixels
Microsoft Office is an example of which category of software?
Correct answer C. Horizontal market software
Which tool is used to create a chart?
Correct answer C. Chart wizard