Deck 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages

Question 1

The ____ is the brain of the computer and the single most expensive piece of hardware in your personal computer.

A) MM
B) ROM
C) RAM
D) CPU

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The devices that feed data and programs into computers are called ____ devices.

A) entry
B) input
C) output
D) secondary

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Main memory is called ____.

A) read only memory
B) random access memory
C) read and write memory
D) random read only memory

Answer 3

B

Question 4

To develop a program to solve a problem, you start by analyzing the problem.

Question 5

The device that stores information permanently (unless the device becomes unusable or you change the information by rewriting it) is called primary storage.

Question 6

The devices that feed data and programs into computers are called output devices.

Question 7

When the computer is turned off, everything in secondary memory is lost.

Question 8

Information stored in main memory must be transferred to some other device for permanent storage.

Question 9

The ____ monitors the overall activity of the computer and provides services.

A) central processing unit
B) operating system
C) arithmetic logic unit
D) control unit

Question 10

C++ programs have always been portable from one compiler to another.

Question 11

The devices that the computer uses to display results are called ____ devices.

A) exit
B) entry
C) output
D) input

Question 12

____ programs perform a specific task.

A) Application
B) System
C) Operating
D) Service

Question 13

The command that does the linking on Visual C++ 2010 Express and Visual Studio 2010 is Make or Remake.

Question 14

When the power is switched off, everything in ____ is lost.

A) main memory
B) secondary storage
C) hard disks
D) floppy disks

Question 15

Main memory is directly connected to the CPU.

Question 16

The basic commands that a computer performs are input (get data), output (display result), storage, and performance of arithmetic and logical operations.

Question 17

The basic commands that a computer performs are ____, and performance of arithmetic and logical operations.

A) input, file, list
B) output, folder, storage
C) input, output, storage
D) storage, directory, log

Question 18

When you compile your program, the compiler identifies the logic errors and suggests how to correct them.

Question 19

Several categories of computers exist, such as ____.

A) microframe, midframe, and miniframe
B) midsize, microframe, and mainframe
C) mainsize, midsize, and microsize
D) mainframe, midsize, and micro

Question 20

Main memory is an ordered sequence of items, called ____.

A) pixels
B) registers
C) memory cells
D) addresses

Question 21

Word processors, spreadsheets, and games are examples of ____________________.

Question 22

A sequence of 0s and 1s is sometimes referred to as ____________________ code.

Question 23

A sequence of eight bits is called a ____.

A) binary digit
B) byte
C) character
D) double

Question 24

A program called a(n) ____ translates instructions written in high-level languages into machine code.

A) assembler
B) decoder
C) compiler
D) linker

Question 25

A step-by-step problem-solving process in which a solution is arrived at in a finite amount of time is called a(n) ____.

A) algorithm
B) linker
C) analysis
D) design

Question 26

____________________ signals represent information with a sequence of 0s and 1s.

Question 27

A program called a(n) ____ combines the object program with the programs from libraries.

A) assembler
B) decoder
C) linker
D) compiler

Question 28

The term GB refers to ____.

A) giant byte
B) gigabyte
C) group byte
D) great byte

Question 29

The programming language C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Laboratories in the early ____.

A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s

Question 30

The ASCII data set consists of ____________________ characters.

Question 31

The ____________________ monitors the overall activity of the computer and provides services such as memory management, input/output activities, and storage management.

Question 32

The programming language C++ evolved from ____.

A) BASIC
B) assembly
C) C
D) C+

Question 33

To develop a program to solve a problem, you start by ____.

A) analyzing the problem
B) implementing the solution in C++
C) designing the algorithm
D) entering the solution into a computer system

Question 34

The digit 0 or 1 is called a binary digit, or ____.

A) bit
B) bytecode
C) Unicode
D) hexcode

Question 35

Dividing a problem into smaller subproblems is called ____ design.

A) OOD
B) top-down refinement
C) structured
D) analog

Question 36

A program that loads an executable program into main memory is called a(n) ____.

A) compiler
B) loader
C) linker
D) assembler

Question 37

A(n) ____ consists of data and the operations on those data.

A) disk
B) compiler
C) interpreter
D) object

Question 38

Consider the following C++ program. #include
Using namespace std;
Int main()
{
Cout << "Hello World "
Return 0;
}
In the cout statement, the missing semicolon in the code above will be caught by the ____.

A) compiler
B) editor
C) assembler
D) control unit

Question 39

____ represent information with a sequence of 0s and 1s.

A) Analog signals
B) Application programs
C) Digital signals
D) System programs

Question 40

____ consists of 65,536 characters.

A) ASCII-8
B) ASCII
C) Unicode
D) EBCDIC

Question 41

____________________ languages include FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, C, C++, and Java.

Question 42

The structured design approach is also known as ____________________.

Question 43

Assembly language uses easy-to-remember instructions called ____________________.

Question 44

In object-oriented design, the first step in the problem-solving process is to identify the components called ____________________, which form the basis of the solution, and to determine how they interact with one another.

Question 45

The machine language version of the high-level language program is called a(n) ____________________.

Question 46

In C++, the mechanism that allows you to combine data and operations on the data into a single unit is called a(n) ____________________.

Question 47

A program called a(n) ____________________ translates the assembly language instructions into machine language.

Question 48

The term ____________________ is used to describe a program that has been written in a high-level language.

Question 49

In a C++ program, statements that begin with the symbol # are called ____________________ directives.

Question 50

In ____________________ design, the final program is a collection of interacting objects.