Test Bank for Core Concepts of Accounting Information Systems 12th Edition Simkin, Norman

True-False Questions 1. Data transcription in AISs is labor intensive and is prone to introduce errors into accounting data. 2. A printer is an example of an input device. 3. A computer mouse is an example of an input device. 4. Equipment that surrounds a computer and assists it with input and output tasks is called “peripheral equipment.” 5. An example of a source document is an employee payroll check. 6. An example of a source document is an employee time card. 7. “Data transcription” is the same as “data communications.” 8. Plastic cards with magnetic strips are an example of bar code input. 9. PDA is an acronym for “personal digital access.” 10. Equipment that gathers accounting data at the point at which a sale is made are sometimes called POS devices. 11. The acronym OCR stands for “optical character recognition.” 12. A Blackberry device is an example of a PDA. 13. The processing power of a computer is often measured by the power of its CPU. 14. CPU is an acronym for “computerized peripheral unit.” 15. The processing power of the CPU in a mainframe computer is greater than in a minicomputer. 16. RAM is an acronym for “record access machine.” 17. RAM is an acronym that stands for “read and manipulate.” TB 2.1    Full file at https://testbankscafe.eu/ 18. RAM is usually measured in megahertz. 19. A gigabyte of computer storage is equal to one million bytes. 20. The two components of a microprocessor are the arithmetic-logic unit and the control unit. 21. Processor speeds are very important to AIS applications because faster processors automatically lead to greater throughput. 22. Laser printers and dot-matrix printers produce equal quality output. 23. In online, real-time systems, hard-copy output may be less desirable than soft-copy video screen display output. 24. For fast printing, most AIS systems use ink jet printers rather than laser printers. 25. The opposite of “primary storage” is “secondary storage.” 26. Magnetic disks and USB flash disks are examples of secondary storage media. 27. CD-ROM disks and hard disks have about the same capacities. 28. Accounting data are typically stored on hard disks in groupings called “computer records.” 29. Each computer record on a hard disk is composed of sub-elements called “data fields.” 30. The term “ROM” (as in CD-ROM) means “read-only memory.” 31. The acronym “worm” means that some types of CD-ROMs can be rewritten repeatedly. 32. A “DVD” disk is read magnetically. 33. A DVD typically has a greater storage capacity than a CD-ROM medium. 34. Blu-ray disks can store more than CD-ROM disks. 35. The term “data communications” primarily refers to the transfer of data from primary memory to hard disks. 36. The mechanism for transferring data between components of the CPU is called a TRAIN (Transfer Random Accessed Instructions Now). 37. The term DSL stands for “digital subscriber line.” 38. The term “enrollment” refers to the initial reading in a biometric authentication.