Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

Read the text below in order to answer questions 16 to 18:

A new budget system

In 1989, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre came up with a radical solution to its major problems of unaccountability and extreme poverty: a participative budget. For the last decade, the people of the city have been deciding how the budget for public works should be allocated. Neighbourhood groups propose projects, and people from community groups and non-profit organisations who have been elected by their neighbours, decide which projects will go ahead. In some cases, the community delegates also oversee implementation of the final projects. This has had the triple result of avoiding corruption and mishandling funds, improving concrete matters on the ground, and increasing democratic participation in the process by a huge amount.

The participative budget

• A. concerns the allocation of funds.
• B. prevents democratic participation
• C. tends to increase levels of taxation
• D. reflects governmental decisions
• E. has increased corruption levels

A DBRM is nothing more than a module containing SQL statements extracted from a source program by the DB2 precompiler. It is stored as a member of a partitioned dataset. According to the text, what is the correct definition of a DBRM?

• A.

  A DBRM is not a module containing SQL statements extracted from a source program by the DB2 precompiler.

• B.

  A DBRM is nothing more than a module containing SQL statements extracted from a source program by the DB2 precompiler.

• C.

  A DBRM is a module containing SQL statements extracted from a source program by the DB2 precompiler

• D.

  A DBRM is more than a module containing SQL statements extracted from a source program by the DB2 precompiler.

The places you can hide from Microsoft are scarce because

• A.

  they sell their products everywhere in the world

• B.

  their products have become part of your daily life

• C.

  their products can be used anywhere in the house

• D.

  they announce their products in your cell phone

Read the text below in order to answer questions

19 to 20:

The politics of administrative reform

Most countries of Latin America stabilized and opened their economies in the first generation of market oriented reforms in the 1980s and early 1990s. Now they face a much more costly and protracted task of rebuilding state capacity to deliver social services, regulate the economy, avoid recurrent fiscal crises, and improve the overall functioning of government. Why have some countries progressed further on administrative reform than other countries? Administrative reform usually starts with small groups of reformers within the executive branch. Among factors that facilitate reform are: balance of payments and fiscal crises, middle class and rural support, and the effective packaging of reform initiatives. Contrary to much of the literature, the nature of the party system (cohesion, discipline and parity) does not explain much of the variation in reform experiences.

The author states that

• A.

  South American countries have restructured their economies.

• B.

  North American countries were poised to perform administrative changes

• C.

  South American countries have been able to stabilize their economies.

• D.

  not all the South American economies have become stable

• E.

  Latin American economies have surpassed market leaders

A plan is an executable module containing the access path logic produced by the DB2 optimizer. It can be composed of one or more DBRM and Packages. According to the text, which statement best defines a Plan?

• A.

  A Plan can be composed of one DBRM.

• B.

  A Plan is an executable module that contains the access path logic.

• C.

  A Plan does not contain access path logic.

• D.

  A Plan can be composed of one or more DBRM.

Consider the figure below showing a hypothetical situation. A criminal holds an hostage and against that, a cop (policeman) also holds an hostage who is a friend of the criminal. In this case, criminal is not going to let the hostage go if cop won't let his friend to let go. Also the cop is not going to let the friend of criminal let go, unless the criminal releases the hostage.

Analysing the situation from an Operational System´s point of view, a correct conclusion is

• A. a starvation occurs when multiple processes try to access the same resource at the same time.
• B. when two threads need two different resources and each of them has the lock of the resource that the other need, it is a deadlock.
• C. a lock occurs when one thread is still holding on to another resource that the second thread wants after it finishes.
• D. a starvation occurs when the waiting process is no more still holding on to another resource that the first needs before it can finish.
• E. deadlocks will only occur when two or more threads can be acquired in different times and they are grabbing no resources.

Read the text below in order to answer questions 17 to 20.

Software

A substantial proportion of information can be digitized. It seems likely that soon, for example, any type of information that can be perceived, i.e. seen, heard, felt, smelt or tasted, will be reducible to a collection of bits. Once in digital form, the information in question can be stored, processed and displayed by a computer. Furthermore, it can readily and rapidly be transmitted from one computer to any other computer regardless of distance, political frontiers, and physical obstacles. From a digital point of view, there is absolutely no distinction between text, sounds, graphics, photographs, music, animations, videos and…software. To include software in our list, however, may seem rather odd. Why this is so? Computer programs are, after all, only digitized information like the other examples. However, there is one vital difference between software and the rest. While text, sounds, graphics, as well as the other examples given above, are generally passive in nature, software, by contrast, is essentially active. It is information with attitude! As Hart reminds us, "Computer programs are not only texts: they also behave". Software is both form and substance, both symbolic and functional, it both "is" and "does". For this reason, software is conceptually very challenging.

According to the text, information

• A. must not be digitized in order to be stored.
• B. has to be digitized so as to be perceived.
• C. would have to be legalised to be digitized.
• D. has to be turned into graphics to be read.
• E. requires a high platform to be comprehensive.

The words " it's a smart move" (line13) refer to the fact that Microsoft and Intel will

• A.

  license their blueprint of the innards of a cell phone to manufacturers

• B.

  turn a cell phone from a simple communication device into a mini-PC

• C.

  decide the handset of a cell phone and the software it will contain

• D.

  increase the versatility of a cell phone and standardize the insides

Read the text below in order to answer questions

19 to 20:

The politics of administrative reform

Most countries of Latin America stabilized and opened their economies in the first generation of market oriented reforms in the 1980s and early 1990s. Now they face a much more costly and protracted task of rebuilding state capacity to deliver social services, regulate the economy, avoid recurrent fiscal crises, and improve the overall functioning of government. Why have some countries progressed further on administrative reform than other countries? Administrative reform usually starts with small groups of reformers within the executive branch. Among factors that facilitate reform are: balance of payments and fiscal crises, middle class and rural support, and the effective packaging of reform initiatives. Contrary to much of the literature, the nature of the party system (cohesion, discipline and parity) does not explain much of the variation in reform experiences.

According to the text, reform experiences consist of

• A. predictable standards
• B. known trends.
• C.

  technological trends.

• D.

  unsurmountable obstacles.

• E.

  different qualities.

Japan and Europe are ahead of the US in what concerns

• A.

  popularizing mobile music

• B.

  sending instant text messages

• C.

  increasing screens and memory sizes

• D.

  offering better video services