ENGLISH for COMPUTING– GEISI – December 2020 KEY

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I. Multiple choice. Choose the correct answer. Only ONE answer is correct. Indicate your
choice (A, B, C or D) in the answer box below. (15 marks)

1. The IoT’s becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the workplace and
outside of it.
The ‘s in the context of this sentence means (of means possessive case):
A is B of C has D none

2. Broadband Internet’s become more widely available, the cost of connection’s decreasing, and
smart phone penetration’s sky-rocketing.
The ‘s in the context of this sentence mean (of means possessive case):
A has/is/of B has/is/is C is/is/is D of/of/of

3. By mimicking the bank procedures they have learned, hackers direct the banks’ computers to
steal money in ways such as, for example, transferring money into hackers’ fraudulent bank
accounts.
The ‘s in the context of this sentence mean (of means possessive case):
A is/has B of/is C is/is D of/of

4. NetOp’s a blended approach to network management that allows an enterprise to respond

quickly to new requests and events while minimizing manual intervention. (…) Historically, an
enterprise networking team’s provisioned, deployed and managed infrastructure manually. (...)
(NetOP: network operation)

The ‘s in the context of this sentence mean (of means possessive case)::
A is/has B of/is C is/is D of/of

5. The reduction of the relative clause in this sentence

“The firm that is based in Moscow says that, because of nondisclosure agreements with the
banks, it cannot name them.”
leads to the following:

A “The firm based in Moscow saying because of the nondisclosure agreements with the banks, it
cannot name them.”
B “ The firm is based in Moscow says because of nondisclosure agreements with the banks, it
cannot name them.”
C “The Moscow-based firm says that because of nondisclosure agreements with the banks, it
cannot name them.”
D No reduction is possible

6. The reduction of the relative clause in this sentence

“Midsize companies require flexibility and agility to respond to change, which is why cloud
computing is a perfect tool to assist them.”
leads to the following:
A “Midsize companies require flexibility and agility to respond to change, being why cloud
computing is a perfect tool to assist them.”
B Midsize companies require flexibility and agility to respond to change, that is why cloud
computing is a perfect tool to assist them.”
C Midsize companies require flexibility and agility to respond to change, why cloud computing
is a perfect tool to assist them.”
D No reduction is possible

“Madware is a type of aggressive advertising that affects smartphones and tablets. (…) Some
madware can function like spyware by monitoring end user behaviour and making undesirable
changes to the device such as flooding the device with text message ads, replacing the phone’s
dial tone with an audio and deliberately hiding the website that is displaying the advertisement.”

7. In the passage above the bold-typed participles are:

A noun/noun/noun B infinitive/gerund/gerund
C gerund/gerund/gerund D Shortening of Relative Clause/gerund/noun

“Madware is a type of aggressive advertising that affects smartphones and tablets. (…) Some
madware can function like spyware by monitoring end user behaviour and making undesirable
changes to the device such as flooding the device with text message ads, replacing the phone’s
dial tone with an audio and deliberately hiding the website that is displaying the advertisement.”

8. In the passage above the underlined italics participles are:

A adjective/noun/infinitive B infinitive/infinitive/infinitive
C noun/infinitive/noun D shortening of rel. clause/gerund/noun

9. The reduction of the relative clause in this sentence

“Fog computing is an infrastructure of computing that is distributed in which some
application services are handled at the network edge in a smart device and some application
services are handled in a remote data center –in the cloud.”

leads to the following:

A Fog computing is an infrastructure of computing distributed in which some application

services are handled at the network edge in a smart device and some application services are
handled in a remote data center –in the cloud.”
B Fog computing is an infrastructure of computing distributed in which some application
services handled at the network edge in a smart device and some application services are handled
in a remote data center –in the cloud
C Fog computing is a distributed computing infrastructure in which some application
services are handled at the network edge in a smart device and some application services are
handled in a remote data center –in the cloud.”
D No reduction is possible.

“Although latency may simply be annoying when the sensors are part of a gaming application,
delays in data transmission can be life-threatening if the sensors are part of a vehicle-to-vehicle
communication system.”

10. In the passage above, the bold-typed participle are:

A gerund/noun/gerund B infinitive/gerund/adjective
C adjective/noun/gerund D adjective/noun/adjective
“Major concerns surrounding the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) include the current lack of
interoperability between manufacturing systems and support for the robust infrastructure
requirements that are needed to support bid data and big data analytics.”

11. In the passage above, the translations of the bold-typed participles are:

A gerund: rodeando/infinitive: fabricar B infinitive: rodear/gerund: fabricando

C Rel. Clause: que rodean/noun: fabricación D adjective: rodeados/adjective: fabricante

12. Choose the most suitable translation of the following phrase:

“El Consorcio de Internet Industrial sin ánimo de lucro el cual ha sido fundado recientemente”

A The founded-recently non-profit Industrial Internet Consortium

B The recently-founded which has no profit Industrial Internet Consortium
C The recently-founded non-profit Industrial Internet Consortium
D The founded-recently Internet Industrial Consortium that has non-profit

13. “Systems of communications that are based on the line of power, which have no wires or
which have wires”, is the same as:

A wire-having, no-wire-having, or power-line-based communications systems

B wired, wireless or power-line-based communications systems
C wire, no-wire, or power-line system communications
D have-wire, have-no-wire, or power-line-based communications systems

14. “The nature that is competitive and of low cost of the market of network of
interconnection that is local” is the same as:
A The low-cost and competitive nature of the local-interconnection-network market
B The local-interconnection-network market’s the low-cost and competitive nature
C The local-interconnection-network-market low-cost and competitive nature
D The low-cost and competitive nature of the local-network-market interconnection

15. “People who design boards of PC use devices that transmit and receive and devices that micro
control which are separate ” is the same as:
A PC-board design people use transmit and receive devices and separate micro control
devices
B PC-board designers use transceivers and microcontrollers which are separate
C PC-board designers use separate transceivers and microcontrollers
D separate microncontrollers and transceivers using PC-board designing people

Vocabulary: sky-rocket: dispararse; mimick: imitar; blended: combinado; deploy: desplegar;

nondisclosure: confidencialidad; flood: inundar; hide: ocultar; latency: latencia, lapso de tiempo
Answer Box:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
A X X X X

B X X X

C X X X X X

D X X X

N/R

II. Explain the following noun compounds. (8 marks)

1. A large-scale distributed control system for rail travel

A system of control that is distributed and works/runs at large scale for travel by rail

2. Other Internet-capable devices and some readily-available software

Other devices that are capable (of working/connecting/operating) to Internet

3. Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) is a software application delivery platform

Infrastructure of/for mobile applications that is virtual is a platform for the delivery of
applications of software

4. A highly-effective communicating-actuating sensor network

A network of sensors that actuate and communicate which is highly effective

Vocabulary: readily: immediatamente; delivery: entrega, envio

III. Rewrite the following phrases using suitable noun compounds. (6 marks)

1. Infrastructure of network of devices that sense and that have no wires which is independent of
the platform and of large scale

Large-scale platform-independent wireless sensor network infrastructure

2. Devices that read the identification of frequency by radio and which are active

Active radio frequency identification (RFI) readers

3. Circuits that are integrated whose power is low and communications which need no wires,
whose power is low, of low cost, and which are efficient

Low-power integrated circuits and efficient, low-cost, low-power wireless

communications
IV. Translate the following into English using suitable noun compounds (6 marks)

1 Información precisa, fiable y en tiempo real sobre el estado de la red de transporte

Accurate, reliable, real-time informationon transport network State
Accurate, reliable, real-time transport network state information

2. Herramientas para el aprendizaje de máquinas y para minería de datos. Dichas herramientas

son herramientas de los expertos en inteligencia artificial.
Artificial intelligence experts’ data-mining machine learning tools

3. Algoritmos para la planificación de aplicaciones que tienen objetivos múltiples

Multiple-purpose application scheduling algorithms

V. Identify the full noun compounds in the following passage. Remember that a noun
compound begins with the pre-modifier, if any, and ends with the head noun. Then write
them down below. (5 marks). If a noun compound is repeated, just consider it ONCE only.

Specification by example (SBE) is a user-driven contextual approach to defining software

requirements.

SBE requires business stakeholders to provide realistic scenarios for how the software will be used
and those examples are used to determine the scope of the project. This approach has two major
benefits -- it encourages communication between the business owners of a project and the software
development team and it helps the developers align software specifications with user acceptance
testing (UAT). When done right, the specifications can be validated through automated software
tests that run frequently.

In order for SBE to succeed, it's important that the business owners provide the development team
with precise examples that illustrate how slices of the system should behave. It's equally important
for the development team to make sure each specification by example is testable. SBE may deliver
less than optimal outcomes if examples focus on how the software works rather than on the
business goals it seeks to achieve. This is where communication and collaboration become key.
For example, if the business stakeholders spend too much time describing how they would like an
online form to be formatted, it is up to the SBE project manager to bring the focus of the
conversation back to how the data that is entered in the form will be used to drive productivity,
profitability and business growth. When SBE is implemented appropriately, it can simplify design,
reduce unnecessary code in development and speed deployment by shortening or eliminating
feedback loops.

1 a user-driven contextual approach

2 software requirements
3 business stakeholders
4 the business owners
5 the software development team
6 software specifications
7 user acceptance testing (UAT)
8 automated software tests
9 the development team
10 the business goals
11 online form
12 the SBE project manager
13 business growth
14 speed deployment
15 feedback loops

VI. Turn the following sentences into Technical Style (10 marks):

1. A lead that is qualified to marketing is a person who visits the website and whose levels of
engagement indicate that s/he is likely to become a customer of a business. An MQL can be
contrasted with a lead that is qualified for sales, who often indicates interest that is immediate in
the product of services of a company.
A marketing-qualified lead is a website visitor whose engagement levels indicate that
s/he is likely to become a business customer. An MQL can be contrasted with a sales-
qualified lead, who often indicates immediate interest in a company’s service
product.

2. Storage that is hyper-converged is an approach that is defined by software to management of

storage that combines storage, compute, technologies of networking and visualisation in one unit
that is physical which is managed as a system that is single. They appeal to people who manage
storage because it gives them control that is greater over provisioning of storage in an environment
of server that is virtual.
Hyper-converged storage is a software-defined approach to storage management
that combines (combining) storage, compute, networking and visualisation
technologies in one physical unit that is managed (managed) as a single system. They
appeal to storage managers because it gives them greater control over storage
provisioning in a virtual server environment.
Read carefully the following passage from Word of the day (WhatIs.com)

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS) is a telecom carrier-provided service that makes it possible
for customers to create a logical local area network (LAN) structure between geographically
separate sites. All services in a VPLS appear to be on the same local area network, regardless of
location.

Unlike traditional wide-area network (WAN) connectivity or IP-based virtual private networks, a
VPLS can be used to transport non-IP traffic without any need for conversion or encapsulation. A
VPLS has a mesh network topology, which means it can provide point-to-point, multipoint
services and any-to-any capabilities. In effect, VPLS creates a virtualized Ethernet switch at the
service provider's edge, linking multiple remote sites as if they were on the same physical switch.

A VPLS uses multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) to create the appearance of a virtual private
network (VPN) at each subscriber location. Ethernet packets are tunnelled by pseudo-wire through
the provider network, independent of traffic from other Internet users. Frames are forwarded
according to layer 2 switching standards and fault-tolerance ensures that each packet arrives intact
at its intended destination. Configuration and management of the VPLS can fall either to the
service provider or to the in-house networking team, based on the needs of the individual customer.

VII. Translate the first two paragraphs into Catalan or Spanish ( 12 marks):

El servicio de LAN privada virtual (VPLS en Inglés) es un servicio ofrecido por el

proveedor de telecomunicaciones que permite a los clientes crear una estructura
lógica de red de área local (LAN en Inglés) entre sitios separados geográficamente.
Todos los servicios en un VPLS parecen estar en la misma red de área local,
independientemente de su localización.
A diferencia de la conectividad tradicional de las redes de área extendida (WAN en
Inglés) o de las redes privadas virtuales basadas en IP, un VPLS se puede usar para
transportar el tráfico no IP sin necesidad de conversión o encapsulamiento. Un VPLS
tiene una topología de red mallada, lo cual significa que puede ofrecer servicios punto
a punto, o multipunto, o capacidades (de conexión) de cualquier tipo. De hecho,
VPLS crea un conmutador Ethernet virtualizado en la extremo del proveedor de
servicios, conectando múltiples sitios remotos como si estuvieran en el mismo
conmutador físico.
 VIII. Reading Comprehension: answer the following questions about the passage
above (8 marks):

1. What does “it” on line 1 refer to? It refers to “to create a LAN structure between
geographically separate sites

2. “WAN connectivity needs conversion or encapsulation”. Is it true or false? TRUE

3. What does “it” on line 7 refer to? It refers to “a VPLS”.

4. What does “they” on line 9 refer to? It refers to “multiple remote sites”

5. “its” on line 14 refers to “each packet”.

6. How are Ethernet packets forwarded?

They are forwarded by pseudo-wire through the provider network, independent of
traffic from other Internet users.

7. “traffic of data prevents packets from reaching their intended destination”. Is it true or
false? FALSE

8. Who monitors the VPLS configuration and management? The service provider or the
in-house networking team.

Vocabulary: lead: líder; engagement: compromiso; appeal: atraer; pool: grupo, equipo; mesh:
malla; switch: commutación; edge: lado, parte, extremo; tunnel: conducir, transportar