Deck 2: Exploring the Human-Computer Interface

Question 1

Feedback is an indication that either the computer is still working fine or has completed a request .

Answer 1

True

Question 2

When a computer operation can predict approximately how much time it will need to complete that operation, applications typically show an hourglass icon .

Answer 2

False

Question 3

One way product developers minimize learning time for users is to create controls that match the user's expectations, such as using sliders and dials .

Answer 3

True

Question 4

When an operation is processing a series of inputs, the completion count gives the tally of the completed instances or, equivalently, the number of instances remaining .

Question 5

Applications, especially those from the same vendor such as Microsoft, Google, or Apple, are normally consistent .

Question 6

The primary reason for consistency across computer applications is that certain operations are fundamental to processing information, regardless of the specific application .

Question 7

All digital information is grouped into types based on the number of binary digits needed to represent the information .

Question 8

Finding errors in software is much easier than diagnosing the cause of those errors .

Question 9

When you install a new app, you should immediate and intuitively perform two activities which are clicking around and blazing away .

Question 10

Relying on 0s and 1s in representing digital information results in a great disadvantage in creating reproductions .

Question 11

Perfect reproduction is a property of analog information .

Question 12

The placeholder technique is used to protect part of the text that you don't want to tamper with when using Find/ReplaceAll (F/RA) .

Question 13

Many desktop applications, regardless of vendor, share some basic features, such as a File menu and an Edit menu, and the items within these menus normally include the same operations .

Question 14

The Alto personal computer, created by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was the first computer with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) .

Question 15

Because Xerox's Alto was targeted for office workers, the metaphor that PARC researchers chose for the GUI was a desktop .

Question 16

Following the introduction of the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, the desktop metaphor became the universal way most people thought of using a computer .

Question 17

Apple invented the mouse and the Macintosh first introduced mouse technology to the public .

Question 18

The placeholder technique is a two-step process: hide and restore .

Question 19

Metaphors are essential to computer usage because they guide us as we learn and use software .

Question 20

Mobile devices have abandoned the desktop metaphor in favor of the contact metaphor .

Question 21

Using only 1s and 0s means the information can be perfectly

A) converted to a placeholder
B) converted to any home appliance
C) consistent
D) reproduced

Question 22

Exiting and relaunching an application after making a mistake is called

A) a system interrupt
B) a fatal abort
C) getting out and getting back in
D) a shutdown

Question 23

Perfect reproduction is a property of

A) source information
B) analog information
C) digital information
D) target information

Question 24

Placeholders can be inserted throughout your work for long, commonly occurring phrases, and the placeholders can later be changed easily by using

A) Copy/Paste (C/P)
B) metaphors
C) Copy/Paste/Edit (C/P/E)
D) Find/ReplaceAll (F/RA)

Question 25

A structure without any properties or content is

A) a shortcut
B) a record
C) an instance
D) information

Question 26

Which of the following GUI metaphors features file cabinets and wastebaskets as typical components?

A) the office metaphor
B) the desktop metaphor
C) the Windows metaphor
D) the touch metaphor

Question 27

The mouse was invented by

A) Bill Gates at Microsoft
B) Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma
C) Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at Apple
D) Douglas Engelbart and others at the Stanford Research Institute

Question 28

A familiar example of the touch metaphor is

A) a mouse click selection
B) a standard keyboard entry
C) the Cover Flow mechanism
D) All of these

Question 29

The gesture described as a quick sweep with the finger leaving the surface is known as a

A) flick
B) sweep or swipe
C) tab
D) drag

Question 30

The gesture that is typically used to launch an application is a

A) drag
B) flick
C) double tap
D) two-finger sweep

Question 31

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using Copy/Paste/Edit?

A) It allows the user to recreate the formatting from scratch .
B) It works well if the copied content is mostly similar to the desired final content .
C) It is more accurate .
D) It is fast .

Question 32

In relation to Copy/Paste/Edit, which of the following terms refers to information before it is transformed or edited?

A) final value
B) target value
C) source value
D) original value

Question 33

In relation to Copy/Paste/Edit, which of the following terms refers to the intended result of transforming or editing information?

A) final value
B) source value
C) original value
D) target value

Question 34

The New and Open commands are normally located on the

A) File menu
B) Main menu
C) Edit menu
D) Shortcut menu

Question 35

When editing, which method allows the user to reproduce content from another location?

A) Copy/Paste (C/P)
B) Find/ReplaceAll (F/RA)
C) Go To
D) typing or drawing the content

Question 36

The first successful personal computer with a GUI was the

A) Apple iPhone
B) Xerox PARC
C) PC running Microsoft Windows
D) Apple Macintosh

Question 37

Which of the following can accurately complete the sentence shown below?The touch metaphor is truly a new metaphor because it

A) represents the screen differently with content moved around
B) means different things to different people
C) enables simple navigation techniques
D) replaces the mouse with a touch-sensitive screen

Question 38

Select all that apply . Which of the following is(are) TRUE about applying the placeholder technique?

A) You replace the placeholder with the original text .
B) You use F/RA to make corrections .
C) You must use the hashtag symbol () to mark all text that you want to correct .
D) You replace all correct text sequences with a placeholder .

Question 39

Select all that apply . Which of the following is an example of the computer providing feedback to the user?

A) The user uses a keyboard shortcut like CTRL-S .
B) Editing changes become visible on the screen .
C) A progress bar shows how much of the work is done .
D) The cursor changes to indicate an operation is in progress .

Question 40

Select all that apply . Which of the following can accurately complete the sentence shown below?The placeholder technique

A) requires the use of the hashtag ()
B) uses a unique token as the placeholder
C) begins by identifying all uppercase letters in a document
D) involves a triple substitution using Find/Replace

Question 41

Select all that apply . Which of the following can accurately complete the sentence shown below?Various programs running on the same computer have consistent commands and interface behaviors

A) because of the limited functions a PC can perform
B) because PCs are limited by the number of commands that can be used in a program
C) because software companies tend to reuse the code
D) so what you learn about one application can be reused in another

Question 42

________ is information encoded as a sequence of the binary digits, 0 and 1 .

Question 43

________ information comes from or is stored on a continuously variable medium .

Question 44

________ refers to exploring the user interface in order to learn more about it .

Question 45

Trying out new or unfamiliar features without a clear idea of what they will do is called ________ .

Question 46

Digital recordings can be reproduced completely without ________ .

Question 47

Any piece of information of a particular type is called a(n) ________ of that type .

Question 48

With ________ information, encoding required that all original work had to be kept as a master from which copies were made for the public .

Question 49

The ________ is a searching algorithm in which blocks of text are temporarily replaced with a special character or characters to protect them from change by other substitution commands .

Question 50

When using Windows applications, Ctrl+C (^C) is the shortcut for the ________ command .

Question 51

A(n) ________ is an icon, image, or concept used to represent or symbolize a computation .

Question 52

The ________ metaphor imagines moving information by pushing it with a finger .

Question 53

The ________ command will create a blank instance .