Quiz 1

CSE100, Autumn 2000
This quiz is out of 20 points.

  1. Circle each item listed below that is a principal component of a computer's hardware, as defined by the text. (Don't circle other items.)
    1. arithmetic/logic unit
    2. memory
    3. equation solving unit
    4. control unit
    5. Visual Basic compiler
    1, 2, 4 should be circled.

  2. <h1> is an html tag indicating the beginning of a top-level heading. What is the matching closing tag?

    </h1>

  3. Suppose that you have a file named squid.html at the top level of your c: drive on a computer running Windows. Then c:\squid.html is the path to that file. Now suppose that you have a file named index.html inside a folder named webstuff. Suppose that webstuff is inside another folder called cse100. Finally, suppose that cse100 is at the top level of your c: drive. Give the path to the index.html file.

    c:\cse100\webstuff\index.html

  4. True or False?
    1. dante.u.washington.edu is a physical IP address. False

    2. Suppose that you have a file named index.html on my PC. If you use ftp to copy it to dante, thereafter the file on your PC and on dante are permanently linked, so that any edit to the file on your PC will be automatically made to the file on dante as well. False

    3. In the fetch/execute cycle, the processor first fetches the needed data, then decodes the instruction. False

    4. The computer's memory is used to store both program instructions and data. True

    5. A byte consists of 10 bits. False