PYTHON COMPUTER SCIENCE EXAM WITH ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS.
1. *A ____ is a set of instructions that a computer follows to perform a task
- ANS Program
2. The physical devices that a computer is made of are referred to as ______
- ANS Hardware
3. *The part of a program that runs the programs is called the ____
- ANS CPU
4. Today, CPU's are small chips known as _______
- ANS Microprocessors
5. The computer stores a program while the program is running, as well as the data
that the program is working with, in ____
- ANS Main memory
6. *_____ is a volatile type of memory that is used only for temporary storage while
a program is running
- ANS RAM
7. A type of memory that can hold data for long periods of time, even when there is
no power to the computer is called _______
- ANS Secondary Storage
8. A component that collects data from people or other devices and sends it to the
computer is called ______
- ANS an input device
9. A video display is an _______ device
- ANS Output
10. A ____ is enough memory to store a letter of the alphabet or a small number
- ANS byte
11. *A byte is made up of 9 ____
- ANS bits
12. *Numeric values are written in a sequence of 1's and 0's in the ____ numbering
system
- ANS binary
13. *A bit that is turned off represents the value of ____
- ANS 0
, 14. *A set of 128 numeric codes that represent the English letters, various
punctuation marks, and other characters is _____
- ANS ASCII
15. *An extensive encoding system scheme that can represent characters for many
languages in the world is ___
- ANS Unicode
16. Negative numbers are encoded using the ______ technique
- ANS Two's Complement
17. Real numbers are encoded using the _____ technique
- ANS Floating Point
18. *The tiny dots of color that digital images are composed of are ________
- ANS Pixels
19. If you were to look at a machine language program, you would see __________
- ANS a stream of binary numbers
20. In the ______ part of the fetch decode-execute cycle, the CPU determines which
operation it should perform
- ANS Decode
21. Computers only execute programs that are written in _________
- ANS Machine language
22. *The ________ translates an assembly language program to a machine
language program
- ANS Assembler
23. *The words that make up a high-level programming language are called _______
- ANS Key Words
24. *The rules that must be followed when writing a program are called ______
- ANS Syntax
25. *A _______ program translates a high-level language program into a machine
language program
- ANS Compiler
26. *A ___ error does not prevent the program from running, but causes it to produce
incorrect results
- ANS Logic
SOLUTIONS.
1. *A ____ is a set of instructions that a computer follows to perform a task
- ANS Program
2. The physical devices that a computer is made of are referred to as ______
- ANS Hardware
3. *The part of a program that runs the programs is called the ____
- ANS CPU
4. Today, CPU's are small chips known as _______
- ANS Microprocessors
5. The computer stores a program while the program is running, as well as the data
that the program is working with, in ____
- ANS Main memory
6. *_____ is a volatile type of memory that is used only for temporary storage while
a program is running
- ANS RAM
7. A type of memory that can hold data for long periods of time, even when there is
no power to the computer is called _______
- ANS Secondary Storage
8. A component that collects data from people or other devices and sends it to the
computer is called ______
- ANS an input device
9. A video display is an _______ device
- ANS Output
10. A ____ is enough memory to store a letter of the alphabet or a small number
- ANS byte
11. *A byte is made up of 9 ____
- ANS bits
12. *Numeric values are written in a sequence of 1's and 0's in the ____ numbering
system
- ANS binary
13. *A bit that is turned off represents the value of ____
- ANS 0
, 14. *A set of 128 numeric codes that represent the English letters, various
punctuation marks, and other characters is _____
- ANS ASCII
15. *An extensive encoding system scheme that can represent characters for many
languages in the world is ___
- ANS Unicode
16. Negative numbers are encoded using the ______ technique
- ANS Two's Complement
17. Real numbers are encoded using the _____ technique
- ANS Floating Point
18. *The tiny dots of color that digital images are composed of are ________
- ANS Pixels
19. If you were to look at a machine language program, you would see __________
- ANS a stream of binary numbers
20. In the ______ part of the fetch decode-execute cycle, the CPU determines which
operation it should perform
- ANS Decode
21. Computers only execute programs that are written in _________
- ANS Machine language
22. *The ________ translates an assembly language program to a machine
language program
- ANS Assembler
23. *The words that make up a high-level programming language are called _______
- ANS Key Words
24. *The rules that must be followed when writing a program are called ______
- ANS Syntax
25. *A _______ program translates a high-level language program into a machine
language program
- ANS Compiler
26. *A ___ error does not prevent the program from running, but causes it to produce
incorrect results
- ANS Logic
