CompSci Final Exam

Question 1

Machine language is a high-level programming language.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

One of the benefits of machine language is that it uses natural language and mathematical notations.
T/F

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Clients cannot perform local computations without access to the network.

Answer 3

Fasle

Question 4

Assemblers,____ and interpreters are all exampels of language services.

Answer 4

Compilers

Question 5

for a program to run on a naked machine, it must be represented in binary.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

A Von Neumann computer without any helpful user-oriented features is called a(n)._____ machine.

Answer 6

naked

Question 7

The_____ hides from the user the messy details of the underlying hardware.

Answer 7

Interface

Question 8

In__________, a single instruction provides multiple instructions in __________

Answer 8

high-level programming, machine language

Question 9

A(n)______ operation involves the comparison of values and the subsequent use of the outcome to decide what to do next.

Answer 9

conditional

Question 10

Which language does NOT require a semicolon to terminate an executable program statement

Answer 10

Python

Question 11

The software translator used to convert our high-level language instructions into machine language instructions is called a(n)________

Answer 11

Complier

Question 12

High-level programming languages were created to overcome the deficiencies of________ language.

Answer 12

assembly

Question 13

Assembly language programs are _____ Specific

Answer 13

Machine

Question 14

Newer languages such as Java and C# were developed specifically to run on a variety of hardware platforms without the ned for separate ________ for each type of machine.

Answer 14

Complier

Question 15

The __________ computer architecture is characterized by sequential fetch- decode-execute cycles.

Answer 15

Von Neumann

Question 16

Each language we learned about uses its own notation (-, l, or #) ot denote aprogram comment.

Answer 16

true

Question 17

A LAN connects devices that are not ni close proximity but rather are across town, across the country, or across the ocean.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

_________is a low-power wireless standard used to communicate between devices located quite close to each other.

Answer 18

Bluetooth

Question 19

A ________ makes internetwork connections and provides routing between different WANs.

Answer 19

Gateway

Question 20

is the term for the separation of a service from the entity (or entities) providing that service.

Answer 20

Virtualization

Question 21

The most common public-key encryption algorithm is ____

Answer 21

RSA

Question 22

A_______ cipher, also called a shift cipher, involves shifting each character in the message to another character some fixed distance farther along in the alphabet.

Answer 22

Caesar

Question 23

The ________ takes the password the user originally chooses, chops it up, and stirs it around according to a given formula.

Answer 23

hash function

Question 24

An asymmetric encryption algorithm requires the use of a secret key known to both the sender and receiver.
T/F

Answer 24

False

Question 25

The success of RSA encryption depends on the fact that ti is extremely difficult to find the prime factors for n if n is large number. T/F

Answer 25

True

Question 26

A block cipher encodes one character at a time.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

Computers are better than humans where there seems to be a high level of complexity, approximation, or ambiguity. T/F

Answer 27

False

Question 28

In some areas of the brain, an individual neuron may collect signals from as many as 100,000 other neurons and send s signals to equally large number of other neurons. T/F

Answer 28

True

Question 29

In a neural network, both the knowledge representation and also the "programming" are stored in the network itself as the weights of the connections and the thresholds of the neurons. T/F

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Building a machine that can beat a human at chess was viewed as the last of the "easy" hard problems. T/F

Answer 30

True

Question 31

To be considered a robot, a machine must be in some way humanoid in design. True/false

Answer 31

False

Question 32

The Turing test is used to determine if a machine exhibits behavior indistinguishable from________________

Answer 32

Human

Question 33

is the study of how we as humans think and learn.

Answer 33

Cognitive science

Question 34

_______ is the branch of computer science that explores techniques for incorporating aspects of intelligence into computer systems.

Answer 34

Artificial intelligence

Question 35

A _____ is presented with training data, for which the correct outputs are known.

Answer 35

neural network

Question 36

The ________ causes the network to settle into a stable state where it can correctly respond, to any desired degree of accuracy, to al inputs in the training set.

Answer 36

back propagation algorithm

Question 37

A(n) i s a form of software technology that is designed ot interact collaboratively with a user somewhat in the mode of a personal assistant.

Answer 37

intelligent agent

Question 38

A(n) ________ ,also called an expert system, attempts to mimic the human ability ot engage pertinent facts and string them together in a logical fashion to reach some conclusion.

Answer 38

rule-based system