ITC CHAPTER 4 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
The only language the computer understands is binary, consisting of 1s and 0s. - CORRECT
ANSWERS T
The result of a compiler is an executable file that needs an interpreter. - CORRECT
ANSWERS F
The first step in programming is to determine what language you want to use to communicate
with the computer. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
Computers speak two languages—binary and hexadecimal. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
Lady Ada Byron was a mathematician and is considered the first programmer. - CORRECT
ANSWERS T
C++ was written by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in 1983 and is an extension of C. - CORRECT
ANSWERS T
The lowest-level language is BASIC language, in which instructions are encoded as binary bit
patterns. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
High-level languages can be used on many different types of computers, making them more
platform independent. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
Many programmers code in machine language. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
, Assembly language consists of text instructions that are converted one by one into machine
(binary) instructions. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
An advantage of assembly language is that it can be easy to read and understand. - CORRECT
ANSWERS F
Assembly language takes a little bit of programming to accomplish a great deal. - CORRECT
ANSWERS F
The assembler for a particular CPU can be used only on that CPU, and assemblers for different
CPUs have very different syntax. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
Assembly statements are read from left to right. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
You can move a value from memory to a register, from a register to memory, or from register to
register. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
By the time you have completed the pseudocode, the program is basically written in a human-
understandable language. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
The base address is used to access the memory contents associated with a variable. - CORRECT
ANSWERS F
You cannot use more than one word for a variable's identifier. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
Precedence is the order in which something is executed. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
CORRECT ANSWERS
The only language the computer understands is binary, consisting of 1s and 0s. - CORRECT
ANSWERS T
The result of a compiler is an executable file that needs an interpreter. - CORRECT
ANSWERS F
The first step in programming is to determine what language you want to use to communicate
with the computer. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
Computers speak two languages—binary and hexadecimal. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
Lady Ada Byron was a mathematician and is considered the first programmer. - CORRECT
ANSWERS T
C++ was written by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in 1983 and is an extension of C. - CORRECT
ANSWERS T
The lowest-level language is BASIC language, in which instructions are encoded as binary bit
patterns. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
High-level languages can be used on many different types of computers, making them more
platform independent. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
Many programmers code in machine language. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
, Assembly language consists of text instructions that are converted one by one into machine
(binary) instructions. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
An advantage of assembly language is that it can be easy to read and understand. - CORRECT
ANSWERS F
Assembly language takes a little bit of programming to accomplish a great deal. - CORRECT
ANSWERS F
The assembler for a particular CPU can be used only on that CPU, and assemblers for different
CPUs have very different syntax. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
Assembly statements are read from left to right. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
You can move a value from memory to a register, from a register to memory, or from register to
register. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
By the time you have completed the pseudocode, the program is basically written in a human-
understandable language. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
The base address is used to access the memory contents associated with a variable. - CORRECT
ANSWERS F
You cannot use more than one word for a variable's identifier. - CORRECT ANSWERS F
Precedence is the order in which something is executed. - CORRECT ANSWERS T
