Exam 1: Introduction to Computers and Programming

_______________ are small central processing unit chips.

Which of the following is not a microprocessor manufacturing company?

A disk drive stores data by _______________ encoding it onto a circular disk.

The CPU is able to quickly access data stored at any random location in ROM.

A computer is a single device that performs different types of tasks for its users.

A _____ has no moving parts, and operates faster than a traditional disk drive.

Where does a computer store a program and the data that the program is working with while the program is running?

All programs are normally stored in ROM and loaded into RAM as needed for processing.

Programs are commonly referred to as _____.

Which language from the following list is referred to as a low-level language?

The Python language uses a compiler, which is a program that both translates and executes the instructions in a high level language.

A software developer is the person with the training to design, create, and test computer programs.

The Python _______________ is a program that can read Python programming statements and execute them.

The _____ coding scheme contains a set of 128 numeric codes that are used to represent characters in the computer memory.

Main memory is commonly known as _______________.

_______________ is a type of memory that can hold data for long periods of time, even when there is no power to the computer.