Exam 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages

The ____________________ monitors the overall activity of the computer and provides services such as memory management, input/output activities, and storage management.

The term GB refers to ____.

The device that stores information permanently (unless the device becomes unusable or you change the information by rewriting it) is called primary storage.

Main memory is an ordered sequence of items, called ____.

A sequence of eight bits is called a ____.

A program called a(n) ____________________ translates the assembly language instructions into machine language.

The machine language version of the high-level language program is called a(n) ____________________.

Dividing a problem into smaller subproblems is called ____ design.

The ASCII data set consists of ____________________ characters.

The digit 0 or 1 is called a binary digit, or ____.

In ____________________ design, the final program is a collection of interacting objects.

A sequence of 0s and 1s is sometimes referred to as ____________________ code.

The basic commands that a computer performs are input (get data), output (display result), storage, and performance of arithmetic and logical operations.

____ consists of 65,536 characters.

In C++, the mechanism that allows you to combine data and operations on the data into a single unit is called a(n) ____________________.

____________________ languages include FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, C, C++, and Java.

____________________ signals represent information with a sequence of 0s and 1s.

In a C++ program, statements that begin with the symbol # are called ____________________ directives.

____ represent information with a sequence of 0s and 1s.

Information stored in main memory must be transferred to some other device for permanent storage.