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Problem Solving And Program Design
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1. Named collection of data stored on a disk
Wide area network (WAN)
File
Data storage
Declarations
2. A silicon chip containing the circuitry for a computer processor
Computer chip
Graphical user interface
Preprocessor
Object file
3. An electronic component containing the entire circuitry of a computer processor
Microprocessor chip
Top-down design
USB
Computer chip
4. The file of machine language instructions that is the output of a compiler
Random Acces Memory (RAM)
Preprocessor
Linker
Object file
5. The amount of storage required to store a single character
C Language
byte
Secondary storage
B (Byte)
6. The actual computer equipment (CPU/monitor/keyboard/mouse/printer/speakers)
Object file
Hardware
Binary numbers
Microprocessor chip
7. A system program that modifies a C program prior to its compilation
Personal computers
byte
Address of a memory cell
Preprocessor
8. A silicon chip containing the circuitry for a computer processor
Main memory
Central processing unit
Machine language
Computer chip
9. 1099511627776 (2^40) bytes
Top-down design
Stepwise refinement
TB (Terabyte)
Data retrieval
10. The amount of storage required to store a single character
Binary numbers
Wide area network (WAN)
Desk checking
byte
11. The information stored in a memory cell which is either a program instruction or data
GB (Gigabyte)
Local area network (LAN)
Integrated development environment (IDE)
Contents of a memory cell
12. Software that controls interaction of user and computer hardware and that manages allocation of computer resources
Operating system
World wide web (WWW)
Reserved word
KB (Kilobyte)
13. Stores programs or data permanently
byte
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
Central processing unit
Flash drive
14. 1073741824 (2^30) bytes
Software
Implement the algorithm
Algorithm
GB (Gigabyte)
15. Step #5 in the software development method
bit
Optical drive
Test and verify the completed program
Abstraction
16. The process of modeling a problem by extracting the essential variables and their relationships
Operating system
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
Abstraction
Data type int
17. Systems programming language (predecessor language was named B)
C Language
Mainframes
KB (Kilobyte)
Computer chip
18. 1099511627776 (2^40) bytes
Algorithm
Abstraction
Graphical user interface
TB (Terabyte)
19. Units such as disks or flash drives that retain data even when the power to the drive is off
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
Data type double
Secondary storage
Graphical user interface
20. Computers and printers and scanners and storage devices connected by cables for intercommunication
bit
File
File server
Local area network (LAN)
21. Step #2 in the software development method
Analyze the problem
Contents of a memory cell
Operating system
MG (Megabyte)
22. sequences of 0s and 1s
Secondary storage
Abstraction
USB
Binary numbers
23. An individual storage location in memory
Memory cell
Implement the algorithm
Random Acces Memory (RAM)
Compiler
24. A machine that can receive and store and transform and output data of all kinds
Declarations
Computers
Optical drive
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
25. 1099511627776 (2^40) bytes
Memory cell
Optical drive
Stepwise refinement
TB (Terabyte)
26. The amount of storage required to store a single character
byte
Computer chip
Preprocessor directives
Algorithm
27. 1048576 (2^20) bytes
MG (Megabyte)
KB (Kilobyte)
Main memory
Design the algorithm to solve the problem
28. A name that is replaced by a particular constant value before the program is sent to the compiler
Flash drive
File
constant macro
Machine language
29. Software that combines object files and resolves cross references to create an executable machine language program
TB (Terabyte)
Desk checking
Linker
Machine language
30. The largest capacity and fastest computers used by research laboratories and in computationally intensive applications such as weather forecasting
Wide area network (WAN)
Software
GB (Gigabyte)
Supercomputers
31. Copying the contents of a particular memory cell to another storage area
Data retrieval
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
Software
Object file
32. Very powerful and reliable computers (used by large real-time transaction processing systems such as ATMs and other banking networks
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
Mainframes
Assembly language
File server
33. Coordinates all computer operations and performs arithmetic and logical operations on data
Central processing unit
byte
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
Local area network (LAN)
34. The step-by-step simulation of the computer execution of an algorithm
Linker
Desk checking
Data storage
File
35. Setting the individual bits of a memory cell to 0 or 1 and destroying its previous contents
Declarations
Wide area network (WAN)
Data storage
Operating system
36. computers used by a single person at a time
Address of a memory cell
Personal computers
Optical drive
Test and verify the completed program
37. The relative position of a memory cell in the computer's main memory
Computers
File
Maintain and update the program
Address of a memory cell
38. Program lines that are converted to machine language instructions and executed by the computer
Linker
Executable statements
Hardware
MG (Megabyte)
39. The step-by-step simulation of the computer execution of an algorithm
Maintain and update the program
Mainframes
Desk checking
bit
40. Software that controls interaction of user and computer hardware and that manages allocation of computer resources
Wide area network (WAN)
byte
Operating system
Software
41. A list of steps for solving a problem
Binary numbers
Top-down design
Algorithm
Data storage
42. Development of a detailed list of steps to solve a particular step in the original algorithm
Stepwise refinement
High-level language
Reserved word
File server
43. A part of the Internet whose graphical user interfaces make associated network resources easily navigable
Abstraction
Supercomputers
World wide web (WWW)
Analyze the problem
44. Development of a detailed list of steps to solve a particular step in the original algorithm
Optical drive
Abstraction
Stepwise refinement
Source file
45. computers used by a single person at a time
Personal computers
USB
Address of a memory cell
Memory cell
46. Represents an individual character value- a letter or a digit or a special symbol
Wide area network (WAN)
Data type char
Personal computers
Machine language
47. Device that plugs into USB port and stores data bits as trapped electrons
Algorithm
Address of a memory cell
Computers
Flash drive
48. Units such as disks or flash drives that retain data even when the power to the drive is off
File
Machine language
Assignment statement
Secondary storage
49. The relative position of a memory cell in the computer's main memory
Address of a memory cell
Flash drive
Register
Algorithm
50. Mnemonic codes that correspond to machine language instructions
Design the algorithm to solve the problem
Specify the problem requirements
Assembly language
Flash drive
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