COMPUTER SCIENCE AN OVERVIEW
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● analysis
Answer: process of automatically analyzing the behavior of computer
programs for things like correctness, robustness, or safety
●● bandwidth
Answer: a data transmission rate
●● BIOS
Answer: Basic Input Output System - special firmware stored in a chip
on your computer's motherboard. First program that runs every time you
turn on computer.
●● bitmap
Answer: image represented as two-dimensional array of brightness
values for pixels
●● Boolean
, Answer: of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George
Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and
OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT
●● cloaking
Answer: a technique to deliver content on a Web page to a search engine
in such a way that different content than what is delivered to a regular
human user appears on the search engine. Goal is to boost a website's
search engine rank on certain keywords
●● CMOS
Answer: short for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor; an on-
board, battery powered semiconductor chip inside computers that stores
information. When you make changes to your BIOS configuration, the
settings are not stored on the BIOS chip itself. Instead, they are stored on
a CMOS.
●● coding
Answer: creating commands or algorithms designed to be carried out by
a computer
●● computational artifact
Answer: anything created by a human using a computer - e.g. program,
image, audio, video, presentation, or web page file
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● analysis
Answer: process of automatically analyzing the behavior of computer
programs for things like correctness, robustness, or safety
●● bandwidth
Answer: a data transmission rate
●● BIOS
Answer: Basic Input Output System - special firmware stored in a chip
on your computer's motherboard. First program that runs every time you
turn on computer.
●● bitmap
Answer: image represented as two-dimensional array of brightness
values for pixels
●● Boolean
, Answer: of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George
Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and
OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT
●● cloaking
Answer: a technique to deliver content on a Web page to a search engine
in such a way that different content than what is delivered to a regular
human user appears on the search engine. Goal is to boost a website's
search engine rank on certain keywords
●● CMOS
Answer: short for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor; an on-
board, battery powered semiconductor chip inside computers that stores
information. When you make changes to your BIOS configuration, the
settings are not stored on the BIOS chip itself. Instead, they are stored on
a CMOS.
●● coding
Answer: creating commands or algorithms designed to be carried out by
a computer
●● computational artifact
Answer: anything created by a human using a computer - e.g. program,
image, audio, video, presentation, or web page file
