Which of the following statements about big data is false?

a. For computer scientists and data scientists, data is now as important as writ-ing programs.
b. One megabyte is exactly one million (1,000,000) bytes.
c. According to a March 2016 AnalyticsWeek article, within five years there will be over 50 billion devices connected to the Internet (most of them through the Internet of Things, ) and by 2020 we’ll be producing 1.7 megabytes of new data every second for every person on the planet.
d. The speed at which quantum computers now under development could operate at is so extraordinary that in one second, a quantum computer theoretically could do staggeringly more calculations than the total that have been done by all computers since the world’s first computer appeared.


b. One megabyte is exactly one million (1,000,000) bytes.

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A. Implement a firewall. B. Implement an IPS. C. Implement a UTM appliance. D. Implement identity-based ACLs. E. Implement an IDS.

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Which of the following is NOT something users do on social networking sites?

A) Social networks are all about hanging out virtually. B) Users spend time posting their own thoughts and activities to their friends and followers. C) Users separate short text messages or status updates into a separate feed. D) Typical users spend much of their time online cruising through the news feeds and profiles, finding out what people they know are doing.

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Nested selections, when written formally, require indentations for each new Else statement.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Each device attached to your computer has a special program called a(n) ________ that enables the device and operating system to communicate with each other.

A. device driver B. translator C. interpreter D. device configurator

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