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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. The process of modeling a problem by extracting the essential variables and their relationships
GB (Gigabyte)
Integrated development environment (IDE)
Abstraction
Register
2. Device that uses a laser to access or store data on a CD or DVD
Optical drive
B (Byte)
C Language
Central processing unit
3. Step #5 in the software development method
Flash drive
Test and verify the completed program
Computer chip
Personal computers
4. A binary digit; a 0 or a 1 (deriving from the words binary digit)
TB (Terabyte)
Integrated development environment (IDE)
Operating system
bit
5. Very powerful and reliable computers (used by large real-time transaction processing systems such as ATMs and other banking networks
Compiler
Mainframes
World wide web (WWW)
Linker
6. A silicon chip containing the circuitry for a computer processor
bit
Data type double
Binary numbers
Computer chip
7. A binary digit; a 0 or a 1 (deriving from the words binary digit)
Implement the algorithm
Data storage
bit
Contents of a memory cell
8. Development of a detailed list of steps to solve a particular step in the original algorithm
Wide area network (WAN)
Secondary storage
Stepwise refinement
Integrated development environment (IDE)
9. 1099511627776 (2^40) bytes
Specify the problem requirements
Data type int
TB (Terabyte)
Mainframes
10. 1048576 (2^20) bytes
KB (Kilobyte)
Declarations
File server
MG (Megabyte)
11. Universal Serial Bus
Data retrieval
Central processing unit
Operating system
USB
12. A device that converst binary data into audio signals that can be transmitted between computer over telephone lines
MG (Megabyte)
Operating system
Test and verify the completed program
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
13. A part of the Internet whose graphical user interfaces make associated network resources easily navigable
Top-down design
World wide web (WWW)
Optical drive
Linker
14. The set of programs associated with a computer
Mainframes
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
Software
File
15. Program lines that are converted to machine language instructions and executed by the computer
File
Executable statements
Source file
Specify the problem requirements
16. The computer in a network that controls access to a secondary storage device such as a hard disk
Flash drive
Wide area network (WAN)
File server
World wide web (WWW)
17. A software package combining a word processor and compiler and linker and loader and tools for finding errors
Integrated development environment (IDE)
Mainframes
Personal computers
KB (Kilobyte)
18. A part of the Internet whose graphical user interfaces make associated network resources easily navigable
Data retrieval
Analyze the problem
World wide web (WWW)
Main memory
19. The file containing a program written in a high-level language; the input for a compiler
Local area network (LAN)
Specify the problem requirements
Analyze the problem
Source file
20. Step #6 in the software development method
Assembly language
High-level language
Maintain and update the program
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
21. Step #4 in the software development method
Implement the algorithm
File server
Supercomputers
Top-down design
22. The amount of storage required to store a single character
World wide web (WWW)
Optical drive
byte
Personal computers
23. Mnemonic codes that correspond to machine language instructions
Assembly language
Computers
Stepwise refinement
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
24. Copying the contents of a particular memory cell to another storage area
Data retrieval
Contents of a memory cell
Contents of a memory cell
Hardware
25. An electronic component containing the entire circuitry of a computer processor
Linker
Microprocessor chip
GB (Gigabyte)
Main memory
26. A device that converst binary data into audio signals that can be transmitted between computer over telephone lines
Operating system
byte
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
byte
27. Represents an individual character value- a letter or a digit or a special symbol
byte
Microprocessor chip
Implement the algorithm
Data type char
28. The step-by-step simulation of the computer execution of an algorithm
Test and verify the completed program
File
KB (Kilobyte)
Desk checking
29. Computers and printers and scanners and storage devices connected by cables for intercommunication
Stepwise refinement
Top-down design
Mainframes
Local area network (LAN)
30. Universal Serial Bus
bit
Local area network (LAN)
Flash drive
USB
31. Machine-independent programming language that combines algebraic expressions and English symbols
C Language
High-level language
Secondary storage
Reserved word
32. 8 bits
TB (Terabyte)
B (Byte)
MG (Megabyte)
GB (Gigabyte)
33. An individual storage location in memory
Memory cell
USB
Top-down design
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
34. Step #5 in the software development method
Compiler
B (Byte)
Analyze the problem
Test and verify the completed program
35. The set of programs associated with a computer
Test and verify the completed program
Software
Data type char
Data retrieval
36. The file of machine language instructions that is the output of a compiler
USB
World wide web (WWW)
Optical drive
Object file
37. computers used by a single person at a time
File
Stepwise refinement
Main memory
Personal computers
38. Coordinates all computer operations and performs arithmetic and logical operations on data
Central processing unit
GB (Gigabyte)
Address of a memory cell
Microprocessor chip
39. Very powerful and reliable computers (used by large real-time transaction processing systems such as ATMs and other banking networks
Mainframes
Assembly language
Memory cell
Machine language
40. The information stored in a memory cell which is either a program instruction or data
Declarations
Contents of a memory cell
Register
Maintain and update the program
41. A system program that modifies a C program prior to its compilation
World wide web (WWW)
Preprocessor
Contents of a memory cell
Specify the problem requirements
42. A software package combining a word processor and compiler and linker and loader and tools for finding errors
Stepwise refinement
KB (Kilobyte)
Integrated development environment (IDE)
Contents of a memory cell
43. computers used by a single person at a time
Abstraction
Data type double
Wide area network (WAN)
Personal computers
44. The relative position of a memory cell in the computer's main memory
Software
Stepwise refinement
Stepwise refinement
Address of a memory cell
45. 1048576 (2^20) bytes
bit
MG (Megabyte)
Local area network (LAN)
Top-down design
46. Also called divide and conquer - break down a problem into its major subproblems and then solve the sub problems
Source file
byte
Top-down design
Secondary storage
47. The information stored in a memory cell which is either a program instruction or data
Data type char
Optical drive
Contents of a memory cell
Integrated development environment (IDE)
48. Binary number codes understood by a specific CPU
Machine language
Graphical user interface
B (Byte)
Object file
49. 1024 bytes (2^10)
KB (Kilobyte)
Address of a memory cell
Personal computers
bit
50. Step #4 in the software development method
Stepwise refinement
Secondary storage
Modem (modulator/demodulator)
Implement the algorithm