IT Computer quiz (10 questions)

Q1: List five specific skills or abilities required of an information technology (IT) systems architect or system analyst?

Q2: What are the benefits of the top-down approach to system architecture?

Q3: Read "Google: A System Architecture Example" from the attached text here, starting page 58. What are Google’s three specific processing tasks that the system must fulfill?

Q4: Perform the conversions of the following:

1. Convert this binary number 1010110102 to Decimal.

1. Convert this binary number 1010110102 to Hexadecimal

1. Show the decimal number 147 in Binary

1. Show the decimal number 147 in Hexadecimal

1. Convert this hexadecimal number 5D316 to Binary

1. Convert this hexadecimal number 5D316 to Decimal

1. Show the decimal number 5.25 in Binary

1. Convert the binary number 1.1012 to decimal

1. Find the 2’s complementary representation in 8-bits of the number 51

1. What is the decimal sign-and-magnitude value of the 8-bit number represented in 2's complement by 11010011?

Q5: What shortcomings of ASCII led to the development of Unicode?

Q6: Describe the trade-offs between audio quality versus transmission rate or file size for MP3 digital audio data format.

Q7: Describe how the LMC is von Neumann architecture

Q8: How are the registers in the CPU different from main memory?

Q9: What is the benefit of having fixed-length instructions over variable-length instructions?

Q10: Explain the basic differences between grid computing and cluster computing