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Computer Programming Review 1.01 The Evolution of Computers. Questions. 1. Which would be classified as a mobile computing device? Mainframe Minicomputer Tablet PC Desktop Computer 2. Which is not an input device? Scanner Digital Camera Microphone Printer. Questions.
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Questions 1. Which would be classified as a mobile computing device? Mainframe Minicomputer Tablet PC Desktop Computer 2. Which is not an input device? Scanner Digital Camera Microphone Printer
Questions 3. Which is the physical aspect of the computer? Hardware Software Operating System Applications Software 4. Which processes data and controls the flow of data between the computer’s other units? CPU USB ROM SRAM
Questions 5. SRAM (Static RAM) is also referred to as ROM Integrated Circuits Cache Clock Rate 6. The number system used in computers is called Decimal Hexadecimal Binary Base
Questions 7. How many states do the electrical circuits on an IC (integrated circuit) have? One: on Two: on, off Four: +-*/ Three: on, off, wait 8. A bit is A single 0 or 1 in the binary code Eight 0s or 1s A Person’s name stored in memory Equal to 64K of RAM
Questions 9. 00000000 01001101 represents the letter M in Decimal Hexadecimal Kilobytes Binary 10. Computer memory capacity and file size are measured in Bytes Inches Nanoseconds Codes
Questions 11. The __________ is high speed memory that stores frequently accessed instructions. Cache Processing Unit Memory Controller Random Access Memory 12. _________ holds data for all applications that are currently running on your computer, but only while the power is on. RAM ROM CACHE MEMORY PROCESSOR
Questions 13. Speeds are measured in _______ or throughput rate. MHz GHz THz KHz 14. How many KB in 1 MB? 1024KB 924KB 1000KB 1KB
Questions 15. What type of memory does a flash drive use? Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory Electrically Programmable Read-Only Memory Electrically Erasable Programmable Random Access Memory Cache
16. Which of the first generation computers was a secret Military project during WWII used to calculate trajectory of artillery shells? ENIAC Atanasoff-Berry Computer Mark I The Analytical Machine
Questions 17. Who is called the first programmer due to writing a program based on the design of the Analytical Machine? Ada Byron Charles Babbage Herman Hollerith Alan Turing 18. What computer was sold to US Census Bureau in 1951? UNIVAC ENIAC Mark 1 EDVAC
Questions 19.What sparked the second generation computers? The invention of the transistor The invention of the Integrated Circuit The invention of machine language The invention of the first computer language 20. What sparked the beginning of third generation computers? The invention of the Integrated Circuit The invention of the transistor The invention of the first programming language The invention of stored memory
Questions 21. What made it possible to build the microcomputer (PC)? The Microprocessor The Integrated Circuit The transistor The Development of stored memory 22. What is the purpose of the ALU? It performs logic and arithmetic operations and makes comparisons. It process data and controls the flow of data It determines the speed at which a CPU can execute instructions It is used to store data for quick retrieval
Questions 23. All of the following are second generation programming languages except: C++ COBOL Fortran Basic 24. What type of code is directly understood by the CPU Machine Code Abstract Code Assembly Language C
25. The following is an example of what? 8B542408 83FA0077 06B80000 MachineCode Assembly Language Binary Code Compiler Code
Questions 26. What is the most closely related language to the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) the backbone of the .NET Framework, and the first one developed specifically for it? C# C++ Visual Basic C
Questions 27. All of the following are high-level programming languages Basic C# Visual Basic Java 28. All of the following were developed in the 1990’s except C Python Java PHP
Questions 29. Which category of programming languages has the most abstraction from the hardware? High Level Low Level Machine Language Assembly Language 30. Who wrote the first computer program? Ada Byron Charles Babbage Herman Hollerith Stephen Jobs