Assignment 1
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- Late or unsuccessful submission of the assignment is 0 credit on the assignment. This policy is strictly applied. Submit your assignment in PDF format on the specified due date in course schedule, and before the deadline that is 11:30 PM. This is an individual assignment. Sharing your solution, copying from others, or copy- pasting from lecture slides is considered plagiarism. The penalty in the course policy for such act is 0 for the assignment in the first time, and F in the course for the second time. Submit your answer t BB on or before the due date.
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- (4 pts) What is the digital revolution and how has it impacted your everyday activities?
- (2 pts) How is digital data represented?
- (4 pts) What are some advantages of digital data representation?
- (3 pts) What is data processing?
- (8 pts) List and elaborate on the phases of the digital revolution.
- (6 pts) What is convergence and what role does it play in cloud computing?
- (6 pts) How are centralized computing and cloud computing similar?
- (8 pts) Explain in your own words “Internet of Things” and list examples of
IoT devices you encounter during your daily activities.
Hardware basics
- (8 pts) What is the IPOS model? Describe each step in the process?
- (9 pts) List and describe three different types of software.
- (6 pts) What components comprise a simple circuit? Include a photo of each.
- (4 pts) What is an integrated circuit? What components comprise an integrated circuit?
- (6 pts) What are the features of a component system and a clamshell system?
- (10 pts) Why is it important to understand the history of computers? Provide examples of each of the following mechanical computers, electromechanical computers, and early electronic computers?
- (12 pts) Describe each of the following types of memory and how they have advanced modern computing.
- Capacitor Memory
- Cathode ray tube memory
- Ferrite core memory
- Semiconductor dynamic RAM
- (4 pts) What are multimedia computers, what are the advantages and disadvantages of these devices?