Nt1310 Unit 8 Study Guide
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1. The two major components of any computer system are its _____.
a. input and output
b. data and programs
c. hardware and software
d. memory and disk drives
2. The major computer operations include _____.
a. hardware and software
b. input, processing, output, and storage
c. sequence and looping
d. spreadsheets, word processing, and data communications
3. Another term meaning “computer instructions” is _____.
a.hardware
b. software
c. queries
d. data …show more content…
flowcharts and algorithms
b. ASCII and EBCDIC
c. Java and Visual Basic
d. word processors and spreadsheets
12. The most important task a programmer must do before planning the logic to a program is _____.
a. decide which programming language to use
b. code the problem
c. train the users of the program
d. understand the problem
13. Writing a program in a language such as C++ or Java is known as _____ the program.
a. translating
b. coding
c. interpreting
d. compiling
14. A compiler would find all of the following programming errors except _____.
a. the misspelled word “prrint” in a language that includes the word “print”
b. the use of an “X” for multiplication in a language that requires an asterisk
c. newBalanceDue calculated by adding customerPayment to oldBalanceDue instead of subtracting it
d. an arithmetic statement written as regularSales + discountedSales = totalSales
15. The parallelogram is the flowchart symbol representing _____.
a. input
b. output
c. both a and b
d. none of the above
16-20. Create a flowchart using MS Word from the algorithm below:
Read Temp If Temp < 0 Then Print Temp, “Below Freezing” Else If Temp > 0 Then Print Temp, “Above Freezing” Else Print Temp, “Freezing” End If End If
Submit you answers in MS Word format to the D2L dropbox
1. The two major components of any computer system are its _____.
a. input and output
b. data and programs
c. hardware and software
d. memory and disk drives
2. The major computer operations include _____.
a. hardware and software
b. input, processing, output, and storage
c. sequence and looping
d. spreadsheets, word processing, and data communications
3. Another term meaning “computer instructions” is _____.
a.hardware
b. software
c. queries
d. data …show more content…
flowcharts and algorithms
b. ASCII and EBCDIC
c. Java and Visual Basic
d. word processors and spreadsheets
12. The most important task a programmer must do before planning the logic to a program is _____.
a. decide which programming language to use
b. code the problem
c. train the users of the program
d. understand the problem
13. Writing a program in a language such as C++ or Java is known as _____ the program.
a. translating
b. coding
c. interpreting
d. compiling
14. A compiler would find all of the following programming errors except _____.
a. the misspelled word “prrint” in a language that includes the word “print”
b. the use of an “X” for multiplication in a language that requires an asterisk
c. newBalanceDue calculated by adding customerPayment to oldBalanceDue instead of subtracting it
d. an arithmetic statement written as regularSales + discountedSales = totalSales
15. The parallelogram is the flowchart symbol representing _____.
a. input
b. output
c. both a and b
d. none of the above
16-20. Create a flowchart using MS Word from the algorithm below:
Read Temp If Temp < 0 Then Print Temp, “Below Freezing” Else If Temp > 0 Then Print Temp, “Above Freezing” Else Print Temp, “Freezing” End If End If