Deck 9: The Tower of Babel

Question 1

In C#, the programmer is responsible for releasing memory when the program no longer needs it.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

FORTRAN and COBOL were the dominant high-level languages of the 1960s.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Neural networks are a form of parallelism.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Java programs come in two flavors: applications and applets.

Question 5

ADA is strictly used for systems that do not require tremendous amounts of reliability.

Question 6

Today, COBOL is an outdated language that is rarely used.

Question 7

Ada, like C++, is a large language.

Question 8

COBOL programs are highly portable across many different COBOL compilers.

Question 9

A program written in a procedural language consists of sequences of statements that manipulate data items.

Question 10

The inability to have all computer programs written in the same programming language is mostly because no single programming language is capable of doing every task.

Question 11

A side effect occurs when a function, in the course of acting on its argument values to produce a result value, also changes other values that it should not alter.

Question 12

FORTRAN is the best-known logic programming language.

Question 13

In a functional programming language, the only functions that the programmer can use are the ones defined as part of the language.

Question 14

The Y2K problem dealt with old but still-running programs known as legacy code.

Question 15

When a function is implemented in a procedural language, there is no possibility of side effects.

Question 16

C++ omits the memory manipulation features of its predecessor, C.

Question 17

COBOL is far more adept at handling keyboard input than file input.

Question 18

In the SIMD architecture, numerous interconnected processors execute their own programs on their own data, communicating results as necessary.

Question 19

FORTRAN is affiliated with engineering applications.

Question 20

A FORTRAN program filled with "GO TO" statements that send the flow of control to multiple places is considered elegant code.

Question 21

____ was designed to serve business needs such as managing inventories and payrolls.

A) COBOL
B) FORTRAN
C) JavaScript
D) Prolog

Question 22

In the ____ language, a user does not interact directly with the program.

A) FORTRAN
B) C
C) COBOL
D) LISP

Question 23

Which of the following is a special-purpose language?

A) JavaScript
B) Ada
C) COBOL
D) C

Question 24

Graphical Web editor software has gradually replaced HTML for Web editing.

Question 25

In ____ programming, a program's actions are viewed as a series of logical deductions from known facts.

A) procedural
B) functional
C) logic
D) applicative

Question 26

In an expert system about a particular domain, a human with knowledge in that domain contributes facts based on his or her knowledge and experience.

Question 27

____ was designed to support numerical computations.

A) HTML
B) COBOL
C) SQL
D) FORTRAN

Question 28

Which of the following languages is used to create Web pages?

A) HTML
B) SQL
C) C++
D) COBOL

Question 29

When using the "just in time" compiler on Microsoft intermediate language code, the executable file remains even after program execution.

Question 30

Because it makes use of low-level information, ____ is closer to assembly language than other high-level languages.

A) C
B) Java
C) C#
D) HTML

Question 31

____ is the language used to frame database queries.

A) COBOL
B) SQL
C) C#
D) HTML

Question 32

The LISP programming language was derived from Scheme, another functional programming language.

Question 33

A(n) ____ language is also called a procedural language.

A) imperative
B) logical
C) functional
D) structural

Question 34

FORTRAN allows ____ of well-written, efficient, and thoroughly tested code modules that are separately compiled and then drawn on by any program that wishes to use their capabilities.

A) software packages
B) external libraries
C) primitives
D) expert systems

Question 35

Which of the following is a functional programming language?

A) SQL
B) Prolog
C) Ada
D) LISP

Question 36

____ programs consist of facts and rules.

A) Ada
B) C++
C) Prolog
D) Scheme

Question 37

In a functional programming language, functions that are defined as part of the language are called ____ functions.

A) primitive
B) basic
C) regular
D) internal

Question 38

____ is the most widely used language for writing system software.

A) Java
B) C
C) Prolog
D) C#

Question 39

LISP and Prolog are often used in artificial intelligence work.

Question 40

In ____ programming, multiple copies of the same subtask or multiple subtasks of the same problem are performed simultaneously by different processors.

A) functional
B) applicative
C) procedural
D) parallel

Question 41

A ____ language is a lightweight language that is translated, then executed, statement by statement.

A) mid-level
B) scripting
C) system
D) sequential

Question 42

Neural networks are a form of parallelism.

Question 43

In C#, the programmer is responsible for releasing memory when the program no longer needs it.

Question 44

The ____ symbol is used to refer to the memory address where the value of a variable is stored in C.

A) &
B) *
C) %
D) #

Question 45

FORTRAN is a logic programming language.

Question 46

Ada is an object-oriented programming language.

Question 47

C++ is an object-oriented programming language.

Question 48

When a function is implemented in a procedural language, there is no possibility of side effects.

Question 49

A(n) ____ is a program used to interact with an I/O device.

A) I/O code
B) device driver
C) system software
D) operating system

Question 50

The functions "car" and "cdr" are known as ____ functions.

A) list-processing
B) public
C) arithmetic
D) geometric

Question 51

The Microsoft ____ Framework is a giant collection of tools for software development.

A) .NET
B) C#
C) Basic
D) Visual

Question 52

What language was the UNIX operating system developed in?

A) FORTRAN
B) COBOL
C) Java
D) C

Question 53

The invention of the ____ programming language was brought upon by the military.

A) Java
B) C
C) ADA
D) COBOL

Question 54

The specialized language, ____, utilizes tags enclosed in brackets.

A) JavaScript
B) SQL
C) HTML
D) JDBC

Question 55

A program written in a procedural language consists of sequences of statements that manipulate data items.

Question 56

A(n) ____ is a model or mental framework for representing or thinking about something.

A) algorithm
B) expert system
C) paradigm
D) query

Question 57

In the SIMD architecture, numerous interconnected processors execute their own programs on their own data, communicating results as necessary.

Question 58

____ programming consists of various transformations on items.

A) Object-Oriented
B) Iterative
C) Procedural
D) Functional

Question 59

COBOL programs are highly portable across many different COBOL compilers.

Question 60

COBOL is far more adept at handling keyboard input than file input.

Question 61

A FORTRAN program filled with "GO TO" statements that send the flow of control to multiple places is considered elegant code.

Question 62

A side effect occurs when a function, in the course of acting on its argument values to produce a result value, also changes other values that it should not alter.

Question 63

____ is the most widely used language for writing system software.

A) Java
B) C
C) Prolog
D) C#

Question 64

Because it makes use of low-level information, ____ is closer to assembly language than other high-level languages.

A) C
B) Java
C) C#
D) HTML

Question 65

FORTRAN is affiliated with engineering applications.

Question 66

LISP and Prolog are often used in artificial intelligence work.

Question 67

Graphical Web editor software has gradually replaced HTML for Web editing.

Question 68

____ was designed to support numerical computations.

A) HTML
B) COBOL
C) SQL
D) FORTRAN

Question 69

The inability to have all computer programs written in the same programming language is mostly because no single programming language is capable of doing every task.

Question 70

When using the "just in time" compiler on Microsoft intermediate language code, the executable file remains even after program execution.

Question 71

FORTRAN and COBOL were the dominant high-level languages of the 1960s.

Question 72

____ was designed to serve business needs such as managing inventories and payrolls.

A) COBOL
B) FORTRAN
C) JavaScript
D) Prolog

Question 73

In an expert system about a particular domain, a human with knowledge in that domain contributes facts based on his or her knowledge and experience.

Question 74

C++ omits the memory manipulation features of its predecessor, C.

Question 75

The Y2K problem dealt with old but still-running programs known as legacy code.

Question 76

Today, COBOL is an outdated language that is rarely used.

Question 77

The LISP programming language was derived from Scheme, another functional programming language.

Question 78

In a functional programming language, the only functions that the programmer can use are the ones defined as part of the language.

Question 79

ADA is strictly used for systems that do not require tremendous amounts of reliability.

Question 80

____ is the language used to frame database queries.

A) COBOL
B) SQL
C) C#
D) HTML