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​The U.S. Department of Homeland Security identifies six national security functions supplied by the ICT sector. Which one of the following is not one of them?

A) ​Provide identity management and trust support services
B) ​Provide disruptive technologies
C) ​Provide incident management capabilities
D) ​Provide Internet routing, access, and communications services

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​_______-generation computers became possible by the development of integrated circuits.

A) ​First
B) ​Second
C) ​Third
D) ​Fourth

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​Telephone networks are based on a hierarchy of interconnected stars. At the center of the star is a telephone ___________ that manages connections between callers.

​Guglielmo Marconi is credited as the person who invented the ___________, a device that sends and receives sound as electromagnetic waves.

​A(n) ________ administrator analyzes a company's data to determine the most effective way to collect and store it.

The first telephones were connected by point-to-point networks, similar to those used by the telegraph system.​

​Moore's law accurately described the rate of chip innovation for the last 50 years.

​The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act is meant to offer protection to whistleblowers.

The information industry has three major facets: _________, computers, and telecommunications.​

​ICT use in emerging nations lags behind its use in developed nations.

​The ____________ was designed to tabulate the 1890 census and used cards with designated areas representing data fields.

The growth of the ICT industry has a generally upward trend.​

​A(n) _________ is a set of guidelines designed to help professionals thread their way through a sometimes tangled web of ethical on-the-job decisions.

​A Web site developer manages an organization's online reputation by establishing and maintaining social media sites and evaluating analytics to support its mission.

​The term product life cycle is frequently used to describe patterns in the way consumers adopt technology products.

​Companies such as IBM and Sperry Rand launched the computer industry when they brought the first mainframes to market in the ________.

​Thomas de Colmar's _________ became the first mass-produced mechanical calculator.

The Apple II computer included color graphics.​

​___________ states that every two years the number of transistors in an integrated circuit will double without raising its cost.

​Transistors performed functions similar to vacuum tubes, but they were larger and more power hungry.