Can a High School Teacher Learn to talk totally techie?
Pick the best answer(s) for each question
- The following is an illustration of a:
- a. BNC connector
- b. RJ-45 connector
- c. Co-axial connector
- d. a big phone plug jobber-do
- e. a thumb
- A common communications system for a primary or secondary school local area network (LAN) would be:
- a. HiPPI net
- b. Internet
- c. Ethernet (10Base-t)
- d. Fishnet (10Bass-t)
- Of the following four, who would techies know is not a Harvard Alum?
- a. Bill Gates
- b. Soledad O'Brien
- c. Steve Ballmer
- d. Paul Allen
- e. None of them
- What else would Internet Nerds know that they otherwise have in common?
- a. work for Microsoft®
- b. make more money than Bill Clinton
- c. are Nerd icons
- d. have lots of fans and some detractors
- e. All of the above
- Which of the following careers would probably require (not want) the most powerful computer?
- a. motion picture restorer
- b. newsletter editor
- c. spread Sheet Programmer
- d. Webmeister
- e. the person with the palest tan
- What would a techie tell you that "Yahoo"® stands for?
- a. a seminal scene in "City Slickers"©
- b. Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
- c. the self described class into which the database authors fell
- d. all of the above
- e. None of the above
- What would you need if you asked for more RAM?
- a. Random Access Memory
- b. main memory
- c. "a" and "b"
- d. EWE MATE
- e. None of the above
- What would users most likely break?
- a. CPU
- b. floppy drive
- c. 32 MB SIMM
- d. their sleep habits
- Where would you most likely see Eudora®?
- a. in Snail Mail
- b. in Email
- c. in chain mail
- d. in a Welty novel
- Would a T-1 line be most appropriate to support a:
- a. school district
- b. high school
- c. class room
- d. individual
- e. None of the above
- Relying on Modems for a school's net access is risky because:
- a. the bandwidth is too low
- b. the bandwidth is too high
- c. the bandwidth is dependent on time of the year
- d. the band width is bigger than the bandstand
- If a techie were to learn machine language, would they
- a. be able to get faster performance on a specific machine
- b. develop a program that ran on all computers
- c. talk to a computer with a microphone
- d. be prepared to give a speech in that language
- If a techie used the words CISC and Cisco® would they be talking about
- a. a new type of disk and a drive controller for it
- b. Computationally Intensive Scientific Comparators and an O/S
- c. Complex Instruction Set Computing and a router company
- d. whud you ged on your tungg and Pancho's best friend
- Using JAVA® while working on a web page would
- a. produce more colorful graphics
- b. use object oriented programming
- c. be less advanced than HTML
- d. ruin the keyboard if spilled
- e. None of the above
- About how many work hours would it take to pull twisted pair cable in a 30 room elementary school, if you wanted a net connection in each room:
- a. 5
- b. 50
- c. 500
- d. you'd have to get the twists out first
- If offered an absolutely free main frame computer that was ten years old, the prudent user would
- a. install it in the their office
- b. use it for accounting
- c. gracefully decline the offer
- d. pretend the line just went dead and leave the phone off the hook
- In looking for a training person, you would want a person who said
- a. "Let me show you what I can do on my computer."
- b. "Let me show you what you could have done on your computer."
- c. "Let me help you do something new on your computer."
- d. "You're not really STILL using one of THOSE old computers?"
- What is a typical starting annual salary for an HTML "programmer" with a bachelor's degree, and a PhD level Computer Scientist?
- a. $20,000 and $30,000
- b. $40,000 and $60,000
- c. $80,000 and $140,000
- d. neither would find work (NOT!)
- The misuse of copyrighted material from the Web
- a. is a well settled area of law
- b. already is a major source of lawsuits
- c. will be amenable to the same disciplinary techniques used in controlling copy machines
- d. "Will never happen here."
- Undesirable material such as pornography
- a. can be restricted off of your nets or computers once the source is identified
- b. is about as prevalent as print magazines of the same topic
- c. will require the usual amount of diligence by parents
- d. "Will be of no interest to people here."
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