Exam 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages

A source program is a program written in assembly language.

The computers that we know today use the design rules given by John von Neumann.

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

The bytecode for a Java program is saved in the file with the ____ extension.

The Java ____ translates each bytecode instruction into a particular type of CPU machine language and then executes the instruction.

The digit 0 or 1 is called a ____.

An interpreter translates each bytecode instruction into the machine language of your computer, and then executes it.

The term RAM refers to random alternate memory.

A word processor is an example of a system program.

A compiler translates the assembly language instructions into machine language.