Monday, January 7, 2002		Compuquiz

Compuquiz — 65

1.Name the ANSI telecommunications standard powerful enough to carry audio, data and video at 300 times the speed of analogue modems using existing telephone lines.

2.Name the mathematical function often used in the process of encrypting and decrypting information.

3.Name the physical representation of data, such as a copy of the continuous audio wave embedded in gramophone records to reproduce the recorded sound that is now being replaced by digital technology.

4.What do we call a small, self-contained application written in the Java that can be distributed over networks to run on individual computers?

5.The function or useful purpose of any IT system is called what?

6.What value is assigned to each character in American Standard Code for Information Interchange?

7.Name the process which uses a pair of mathematically related "keys" (consisting of a string of characters) to encrypt (or scramble) information.

8.Name the high bandwidth telecommunications protocol that enables the transfer of integrated voice, data and video most commonly between different buildings.

9.What do we call a data file which is sent as an accompaniment to an email?

10. What term do we use to express the volume of data a network can carry and the speed at which it is transmitted?

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1.Paramjit Kaur, Rayya, Amritsar

2.Karan Tandon, Ludhiana

3.Bhupinder Singh, Hoshiarpur

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