COMP 110 Final Exam Question and answers rated A+ 2025
1. What layer of a computing system will the
User Space Processes
programs you write exist?
2. Which of the following is a "program in motion"? Process
3. What layer of a computing system's purpose Shell
is to make it easy for you as the user to
start, control, and stop the processes running
on a computing system?
4. Which of the following kinds of shells exist? -Graphical User Interface
-Textual (Com-
mand-line-
Interface)
5. What is the name of the program or VSCode pane that Terminal
you use to run a textual shell?
6. What are the primary purposes of the -To fairly share the re-
operating sys- tem kernel? sources of your
machine.
-Protects process
from each other.
7. What are the three primary components of
hardware we're concerned with in this -CPU
course? -Memory (Ephemeral,
Fast)
-Storage
(Persistent, Slow)
8. What part of the system is responsible for controlling OS Kernel
what resources are available to processes?
9. When your program is running as a process, the process
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keeps track of what step the instructions it is True
currently working on or needs to do next.
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10. When your program is running as a True
process, the process knows what memory it
has available to it.
11. A program is a sequence of steps. True
12. An algorithm is a set of instructions that is False
fixed in length and can only process a fixed
amount of data.
False
13. A low-level program is one whose format is
primarily intended for humans to read and
write. True
14. Programming languages are designed by and
for hu- mans.
15. What word describes the meaning implied by punctu- Semantics
ation, spacing, words, rules, and names in
your pro- gram.
16. The purpose of the interpreter is to read and
evaluate True the instructions we write in an
interpreted language, such as python, so that
our central processing unit can carry out our
instructions.
17. When do syntax errors occur? During the reading
step of the
interpreter.
18. If your program has correct syntax it will not have any False
bugs.
19. Which step is responsible for carrying out your in-
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structions? During the evaluation
step fo the interpreter.
20. Where are the names everything (identifiers,
func- tions, classes, and so on) defined in a Call Stack
process bound?
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1. What layer of a computing system will the
User Space Processes
programs you write exist?
2. Which of the following is a "program in motion"? Process
3. What layer of a computing system's purpose Shell
is to make it easy for you as the user to
start, control, and stop the processes running
on a computing system?
4. Which of the following kinds of shells exist? -Graphical User Interface
-Textual (Com-
mand-line-
Interface)
5. What is the name of the program or VSCode pane that Terminal
you use to run a textual shell?
6. What are the primary purposes of the -To fairly share the re-
operating sys- tem kernel? sources of your
machine.
-Protects process
from each other.
7. What are the three primary components of
hardware we're concerned with in this -CPU
course? -Memory (Ephemeral,
Fast)
-Storage
(Persistent, Slow)
8. What part of the system is responsible for controlling OS Kernel
what resources are available to processes?
9. When your program is running as a process, the process
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keeps track of what step the instructions it is True
currently working on or needs to do next.
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10. When your program is running as a True
process, the process knows what memory it
has available to it.
11. A program is a sequence of steps. True
12. An algorithm is a set of instructions that is False
fixed in length and can only process a fixed
amount of data.
False
13. A low-level program is one whose format is
primarily intended for humans to read and
write. True
14. Programming languages are designed by and
for hu- mans.
15. What word describes the meaning implied by punctu- Semantics
ation, spacing, words, rules, and names in
your pro- gram.
16. The purpose of the interpreter is to read and
evaluate True the instructions we write in an
interpreted language, such as python, so that
our central processing unit can carry out our
instructions.
17. When do syntax errors occur? During the reading
step of the
interpreter.
18. If your program has correct syntax it will not have any False
bugs.
19. Which step is responsible for carrying out your in-
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structions? During the evaluation
step fo the interpreter.
20. Where are the names everything (identifiers,
func- tions, classes, and so on) defined in a Call Stack
process bound?
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