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Problem Solving And Program Design
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it-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Computers and printers and scanners and storage devices connected by cables for intercommunication
Preprocessor directives
Design the algorithm to solve the problem
Local area network (LAN)
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
2. computers used by a single person at a time
Personal computers
Operating system
Secondary storage
TB (Terabyte)
3. Binary number codes understood by a specific CPU
GB (Gigabyte)
Machine language
Hardware
Contents of a memory cell
4. A binary digit; a 0 or a 1 (deriving from the words binary digit)
Linker
Flash drive
bit
Register
5. Device that plugs into USB port and stores data bits as trapped electrons
Flash drive
Data type double
Mainframes
KB (Kilobyte)
6. Binary number codes understood by a specific CPU
Contents of a memory cell
Specify the problem requirements
Machine language
TB (Terabyte)
7. Software that combines object files and resolves cross references to create an executable machine language program
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
Linker
Data type char
Stepwise refinement
8. A software package combining a word processor and compiler and linker and loader and tools for finding errors
B (Byte)
Address of a memory cell
Integrated development environment (IDE)
bit
9. Setting the individual bits of a memory cell to 0 or 1 and destroying its previous contents
Data type double
Local area network (LAN)
File server
Data storage
10. A silicon chip containing the circuitry for a computer processor
Optical drive
File server
Supercomputers
Computer chip
11. 8 bits
Secondary storage
B (Byte)
Linker
Abstraction
12. Systems programming language (predecessor language was named B)
Local area network (LAN)
C Language
Top-down design
Machine language
13. Step #4 in the software development method
Implement the algorithm
TB (Terabyte)
Linker
File server
14. The file containing a program written in a high-level language; the input for a compiler
Source file
File
Supercomputers
Algorithm
15. An electronic component containing the entire circuitry of a computer processor
High-level language
TB (Terabyte)
Microprocessor chip
Memory cell
16. 1024 bytes (2^10)
Main memory
KB (Kilobyte)
Mainframes
Hardware
17. The set of programs associated with a computer
Secondary storage
KB (Kilobyte)
Software
Main memory
18. Named collection of data stored on a disk
File
Flash drive
Random Acces Memory (RAM)
Contents of a memory cell
19. Stores programs and data and results. Two types.
Machine language
B (Byte)
Binary numbers
Main memory
20. A part of the Internet whose graphical user interfaces make associated network resources easily navigable
Data storage
World wide web (WWW)
Stored program concept
Computers
21. sequences of 0s and 1s
Binary numbers
Address of a memory cell
Maintain and update the program
Top-down design
22. Device that plugs into USB port and stores data bits as trapped electrons
Optical drive
Stepwise refinement
Flash drive
Linker
23. Named collection of data stored on a disk
Reserved word
File
Hardware
Computer chip
24. 1073741824 (2^30) bytes
GB (Gigabyte)
Machine language
Desk checking
Test and verify the completed program
25. Coordinates all computer operations and performs arithmetic and logical operations on data
File server
Central processing unit
Supercomputers
Top-down design
26. Represents an individual character value- a letter or a digit or a special symbol
Random Acces Memory (RAM)
Stored program concept
Executable statements
Data type char
27. Coordinates all computer operations and performs arithmetic and logical operations on data
Optical drive
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
Executable statements
Central processing unit
28. Very powerful and reliable computers (used by large real-time transaction processing systems such as ATMs and other banking networks
High-level language
Linker
Random Acces Memory (RAM)
Mainframes
29. The file containing a program written in a high-level language; the input for a compiler
MG (Megabyte)
Source file
Wide area network (WAN)
Object file
30. Software that controls interaction of user and computer hardware and that manages allocation of computer resources
Operating system
Standard identifiers
Analyze the problem
World wide web (WWW)
31. The computer in a network that controls access to a secondary storage device such as a hard disk
Source file
Stored program concept
Personal computers
File server
32. The process of modeling a problem by extracting the essential variables and their relationships
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
Abstraction
Preprocessor directives
Main memory
33. 1073741824 (2^30) bytes
GB (Gigabyte)
KB (Kilobyte)
Data retrieval
Main memory
34. The computer in a network that controls access to a secondary storage device such as a hard disk
Data type int
File server
Machine language
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
35. A silicon chip containing the circuitry for a computer processor
Computer chip
Mainframes
Abstraction
Optical drive
36. Setting the individual bits of a memory cell to 0 or 1 and destroying its previous contents
Data storage
Preprocessor
Maintain and update the program
Top-down design
37. sequences of 0s and 1s
Data storage
Stepwise refinement
Binary numbers
Secondary storage
38. An instruction that stores a value or a computational result in a variable
KB (Kilobyte)
Hardware
Abstraction
Assignment statement
39. Also called divide and conquer - break down a problem into its major subproblems and then solve the sub problems
Top-down design
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
Secondary storage
Stepwise refinement
40. Systems programming language (predecessor language was named B)
Computer chip
Optical drive
C Language
Maintain and update the program
41. An electronic component containing the entire circuitry of a computer processor
Central processing unit
Algorithm
Microprocessor chip
Object file
42. An individual storage location in memory
File
World wide web (WWW)
Algorithm
Memory cell
43. The process of modeling a problem by extracting the essential variables and their relationships
bit
Contents of a memory cell
Local area network (LAN)
Abstraction
44. The software that translates a high-level language program into machine language
File
Compiler
Graphical user interface
Operating system
45. Pictures and menus displayed to allow user to select commands and data
Graphical user interface
Machine language
Personal computers
Preprocessor directives
46. Offers temporary storage of programs and data
Random Acces Memory (RAM)
Register
Local area network (LAN)
Binary numbers
47. Named collection of data stored on a disk
Data type double
Memory cell
Computers
File
48. The set of programs associated with a computer
Implement the algorithm
Data retrieval
High-level language
Software
49. The information stored in a memory cell which is either a program instruction or data
High-level language
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
Contents of a memory cell
Binary numbers
50. Universal Serial Bus
USB
Mainframes
Personal computers
Test and verify the completed program