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Chapter 1: Data: The New Corporate Resource

Multiple Choice

• All of the following were early forms of record keeping associated with the rise of

cities, except _____.

• marriage records
• family trees
• annual reports
• calendars
• church contribution records

Ans: c

Response: See page 5

• The Crusades eventually led to an increased interest in record keeping because _____.
• they introduced Europeans to the possibilities of expanded trade
• data was required for military activities
• they involved the use of clay tokens sealed in hollow clay vessels
• they required annual reports
• none of the above

Ans: a

Response: See page 6

• Double-entry bookkeeping _____.
• was an outgrowth of the practice of sealing marked clay tokens in clay vessels
• was an outgrowth of trading partnerships
• became the “Code of Commerce” in France
• was developed in England
• was an early way of storing census data

Ans: b

Response: See page 6

• The forerunner of the annual report was the Code of Commerce, which was instituted

in 1673 in _____.

• France
• England

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• Greece
• Turkey
• Italy

Ans: a

Response: See page 6

• In 1805, Jacquard invented _____ as a data storage medium for storing patterns to be

woven into cloth.

• magnetic tape
• punched cards
• floppy disks
• double-entry bookkeeping
• notches in wooden sticks

Ans: b

Response: See page 7

• The data processing equipment that Herman Hollerith developed for the 1890 U.S.

census is classified as electro- _____ equipment.

• optical
• physical
• rotational
• mechanical
• chemical

Ans: d

Response: See page 8

• The data processing equipment that Herman Hollerith developed for the 1890 U.S.

census used _____ as a data storage medium.

• magnetic tape
• punched cards
• floppy disks
• double-entry bookkeeping
• notches in wooden sticks

Ans: b

Response: See page 8

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• All of the following were types of electro-mechanical, punched card based devices,

except _____.

• calculators
• collators
• punches
• sorters
• disk drives

Ans: e

Response: See page 8

• The earliest (1870s) form of modern data storage was _____.
• magnetic tape
• magnetic disk
• punched paper tape
• optical disk
• magnetic drum

Ans: c

Response: See page 9

• Which of the following is the correct order in which these magnetic storage

technologies were introduced?

• tape, drum, disk
• disk, tape, drum
• tape, disk, drum
• drum, disk, tape
• drum, tape, disk

Ans: a

Response: See page 11

• All of the following are terms associated with magnetic disk technology, except

_____.

• fixed
• removable
• non-removable
• punched
• multi-platter

Ans: d

Response: See page 11

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• Optical disk technology is based on _____.
• radar
• lasers
• fusion
• sonar
• phasers

Ans: b

Response: See page 11

• All of the following are kinds of corporate resources, except _____.
• data
• capital
• inventory
• plant and equipment
• competitors

Ans: e

Response: See page 12

• All of the following are challenges to the efficient storage and access of data, except

_____.

• the data type
• the data volume
• the number of people who want access to the data
• data security
• data privacy

Ans: a

Response: See page 13

• The software that was developed to handle the increasing volumes of data and treat it

as a corporate resource is called a(n) _____.

• disk management system
• file management system
• optical management system
• database management system
• security management system

Ans: d

Response: See page 15

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