Computer Programming Mid-term – Flashcards
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Which would be classified as a mobile computing device?
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Tablet PC
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Which is not an input device?
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Printer
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Which is the physical aspect of the computer?
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Hardware
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Which processes data and controls the flow of data between the computer's other units?
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CPU
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SRAM (Static RAM) is also referred to as
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Cache
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The number system used in computers is called
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Binary
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How many states do the electrical circuits on an IC (integrated circuit) have?
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Two : on, off
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A single 0 or 1 in the binary code
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A Bit
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Computer memory capacity and file size are measured in
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Bytes
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The ________is high speed memory that stores frequently accessed instructions.
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ROM
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__________ holds data for all applications that are currently running on your computer, but only while the power is on.
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RAM
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Speeds are measured in MHz or _________ rate.
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GHz
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How many KB in 1 MB?
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1024KB
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What type of memory does a flash drive use?
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Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
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Which of the first generation computers was a secret military project during WWII used to calculate trajectory of artillery shells?
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ENIAC
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Who is called the first programmer due to writing a program based on the design of the Analytical Machine?
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Ada Byron
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What computer was sold to US Census Bureau in 1951?
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UNIVAC
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What sparked the second generation computers?
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Transistor
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What sparked the beginning of third generation computers?
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The invention of the Integrated Circuit
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What made it possible to build the microcomputer (PC)?
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The microprocessor
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What is the purpose of the ALU?
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It performs logic and arithmetic operations and makes comparisons
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What type of code is directly understood by the CPU?
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Machine Code
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All of the following were developed in the 1990's except:
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C
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Which category of programming languages has the most abstraction from the hardware?
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High Level
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Who wrote the first computer program?
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Ada Byron
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A set of gears similar to a clock that only performed addition
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Pascaline
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Cylindrical wheel with movable carriage that can add, subtract, multiply, divide, square roots
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Stepped Reckoner
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A machine that was never built that was to produce table of numbers used by ships' navigators.
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Difference Machine
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A machine that was to perform variety of calculations by following a set of instructions (or program) on punched cards. It was never built but was used as a model for modern computer.
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Analytical Machine
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Machine create for US Census that had holes representing information to be tabulated were punched in cards
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Hollerith's Tabulating Machine
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Mechanical telephone replay switches to store information and accepted data on punch cards.
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Mark I
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Establishes penalties for aggravated identity theft
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Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act of 2004
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Requires federal agencies to develop, document and implement an agency-wide program to provide information security.
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Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA)
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Addresses data collection by credit, insurance and employment agencies
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Consumer Credit Reporting Reform Act of 1996
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Restricts the way in which personal data can be used by federal agencies
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Privacy Act of 1974
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Requires government authorities have a subpoena, summons or search warrant to access an individual's financial records
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Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978
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Makes it a crime to access electronic data without authorization
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Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA)
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Requires federal government agencies to make certain agency information available for public inspection
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Electronic Freedom of Information Act of 1996
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Requires commercial websites that collect personal information from children under the age of 13 to obtain parental consent.
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Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (COPPA)
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Gives Americans the freedom to use any type of encryption to protect their confidential information.
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Safety and Freedom through Encryption Act of 1999 (SAFE)
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Gives law enforcement the ability to monitor individual's email and web activity
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Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001
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The science that studies safe work environments.
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Ergonomics
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Power & paper waste
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Environmental Concerns
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Issues with computers in the workplace
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Employee monitoring
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identity theft
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Invasion of privacy
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Protects against copyright infringement
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NET (No Electronic Theft) Act of 1997
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Illegal copies being distributed
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Piracy
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Program or series of instruction that can replicate without the user's knowledge
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Virus
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Program or series of instruction that appears as something else
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Trojan Horse
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Program that is able to reproduce itself over a network
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Worm
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Install on computers to detect and remove code before it can replicated or damage data
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Antivirus programs
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Illegal act to gain access to large computer systems to perform acts of vandalism.
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Hacker
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Act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be a legitimate business in an attempt to trick the user into revealing personal information that could be used for crimes like identity theft
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Phishing
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Do not access, upload, download, or distribute inappropriate materials, Use appropriate language, Do not access another's account, do not reveal personal information
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Which of the following would be part of an Acceptable Use Policy? There is more than one.
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English-language statements that describe the processing steps of a program in paragraph form
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Pseudocode
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What indicates the flow of logic in a flowchart?
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Direction of the arrow
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Check expected input, unexpected input, boundaries, null input.
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Which of the following should be reviewed when checking your code?
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A list of steps to solve a problem.
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Algorithm
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Identify the problem, design the solution, write the program, test the program, document and maintain the program.
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Steps of the programming process
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The type of error that occurs when the programmer does not follow the rules of the programming language.
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Syntax
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When running a program to average a list of numbers, the programmer notices that the average is not correct. This is an example of what type of error?
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Logic Error
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What is most frequently used design in the programming process?
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Top-Down Design
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Breaking down a problem into smaller sub-problems
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Modularization
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The parts of identifying the problem.
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Requirements and Specifications
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Terminator (Start/ Stop) flowchart shape
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Oval
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Process flowchart shape
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Rectangle
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Input/Output flowchart shape
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Parallelogram
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Decision flowchart shape
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Diamond
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Errors that occur while your program runs.
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Runtime Errors
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When you want a variable, like a counter, to hold its value, it should be declared as.
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Static
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Which type of variable that once declared cannot be changed by the program?
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Constant
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Another name of a syntax error.
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Compilation Error
