PCEP - Set 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
language - CORRECT ANSWER is a means (and a tool) for expressing and recording
thoughts
machine language - CORRECT ANSWER rudimentary language of computers
instruction list - CORRECT ANSWER complete set of known commands (IL)
alphabet - CORRECT ANSWER a set of symbols used to build words of a certain
language (e.g., the Latin alphabet for English, the Cyrillic alphabet for Russian, Kanji for
Japanese, and so on)
a lexus - CORRECT ANSWER (aka a dictionary) a set of words the language offers its
users (e.g., the word "computer" comes from the English language dictionary, while "cmoptrue"
doesn't; the word "chat" is present both in English and French dictionaries, but their meanings
are different)
syntax - CORRECT ANSWER a set of rules (formal or informal, written or felt
intuitively) used to determine if a certain string of words forms a valid sentence (e.g., "I am a
python" is a syntactically correct phrase, while "I a python am" isn't)
semantics - CORRECT ANSWER a set of rules determining if a certain phrase makes
sense (e.g., "I ate a doughnut" makes sense, but "A doughnut ate me" doesn't)
source file - CORRECT ANSWER file containing the source code
source code - CORRECT ANSWER contains instructions written by a programmer
specifying the actions to be performed by computer software written at a high level language
Questions and CORRECT Answers
language - CORRECT ANSWER is a means (and a tool) for expressing and recording
thoughts
machine language - CORRECT ANSWER rudimentary language of computers
instruction list - CORRECT ANSWER complete set of known commands (IL)
alphabet - CORRECT ANSWER a set of symbols used to build words of a certain
language (e.g., the Latin alphabet for English, the Cyrillic alphabet for Russian, Kanji for
Japanese, and so on)
a lexus - CORRECT ANSWER (aka a dictionary) a set of words the language offers its
users (e.g., the word "computer" comes from the English language dictionary, while "cmoptrue"
doesn't; the word "chat" is present both in English and French dictionaries, but their meanings
are different)
syntax - CORRECT ANSWER a set of rules (formal or informal, written or felt
intuitively) used to determine if a certain string of words forms a valid sentence (e.g., "I am a
python" is a syntactically correct phrase, while "I a python am" isn't)
semantics - CORRECT ANSWER a set of rules determining if a certain phrase makes
sense (e.g., "I ate a doughnut" makes sense, but "A doughnut ate me" doesn't)
source file - CORRECT ANSWER file containing the source code
source code - CORRECT ANSWER contains instructions written by a programmer
specifying the actions to be performed by computer software written at a high level language
