Deck 1: Introduction to Computers and Java

Question 1

Java was originally developed for:

A)Operating systems development.
B)Intelligent consumer devices.
C)Personal computers.
D)Distributed computing.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is most closely associated with Moore's Law?

A)Every year or two,the price of computers has approximately doubled.
B)Object-oriented programming uses less memory than previous software-development methodologies.
C)Demand for communications bandwidth is decreasing dramatically each year.
D)Every year or two,the capacities of computers have approximately doubled without any increase in price.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following statements is false?

A)The concepts of icons,menus and windows were originally developed by Xerox PARC.
B)Windows is an open source operating system.
C)The software that contains the core components of the operating system is called the kernel.
D)Linux source code is available to the public for examination and modification.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which language was developed by Microsoft in the early 1990s to simplify the development of Windows applications?

A)Visual C#.
B)Python.
C)Objective-C.
D)Visual Basic.

Question 5

Which of the following languages is used primarily for scientific and engineering applications?

A)Fortran.
B)COBOL.
C)Pascal.
D)Basic.

Question 6

Which of the following data items are arranged from the smallest to the largest in the data hierarchy.

A)records,characters,fields,bits,files.
B)bits,files,fields,records,characters.
C)fields,characters,bits,files,records.
D)bits,characters,fields,records,files.

Question 7

Which of the following statements is true?

A)Interpreted programs run faster than compiled programs.
B)Compilers translate high-level language programs into machine language programs.
C)Interpreter programs typically use machine language as input.
D)None of the above.

Question 8

Today,virtually all new major operating systems are written in:

A)Objective-C.
B)C or C++.
C)Visual C#.
D)Ada.

Question 9

Which of the following is not one of the six logical units of a computer?

A)Input unit.
B)Output unit.
C)Central processing unit.
D)Printer.

Question 10

Which of the following statements is false?

A)Speaking to your computer is a form of input.
B)Playing a video is an example of output.
C)A multi-core processor implements several processors on a single integrated-circuit chip.
D)Information in the memory unit is persistent-it is retained when the computer's power is turned off.

Question 11

Which of the following statements is false?

A)The impressive functions performed by computers involve only the simplest manipulations of 1s and 2s .
B)ASCII is a popular subset of Unicode.
C)Fields are composed of characters or bytes.
D)On some operating systems,a file is viewed simply as a sequence of bytes.

Question 12

Which of the following is not one of the three general types of computer languages?

A)Machine languages.
B)Assembly languages.
C)High-Level languages.
D)Spoken languages.

Question 13

Which of the following is not a key organization in the open-source community?

A)Apache.
B)SourceForge.
C)Firefox.
D)Eclipse.

Question 14

The command ________ executes a Java application.

A)run
B)javac
C)java
D)None of the above

Question 15

Which statement is false?

A)Classes are reusable software components.
B)A class is to an object as a blueprint is to a house.
C)Performing a task in a program requires a method.
D)A class is an instance of its object.

Question 16

Which of the following statements about Java Class Libraries is false:

A)Java class libraries consist of classes that consist of methods that perform tasks.
B)Java class libraries are also known as Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).
C)An advantage of using Java class libraries is saving the effort of designing,developing and testing new classes.
D)Java class libraries are not portable

Question 17

Which of the following statements is false?

A)A quadrillion-instruction-per-section computer can perform in one second more than 100,000 instructions for every person on the planet.
B)Today's key programming methodology is object-oriented programming.
C)The vast majority of the microprocessors produced each year are used in general-purpose computers.
D)Computers process data under the control of sets of instructions called computer programs..

Question 18

class extension on a file means that the file:

A)Contains java source code
B)Contains HTML
C)is produced by the Java compiler (javac).
D)None of the above.

Question 19

Which edition of Java is geared toward developing large-scale,distributed networking applications and web-based applications?

A)Standard Edition.
B)Industrial Edition.
C)Enterprise Edition.
D)Micro Edition.

Question 20

Which of the following statements is false?

A)Object-oriented programming is today's key programming methodology.
B)Java has become the language of choice for implementing Internet-based applications and software for devices that communicate over a network.
C)Software commands computer hardware to perform tasks.
D)In use today are more than a trillion general-purpose computers and trillions more Java-enabled cellphones,smartphones and other handheld devices.

Question 21

Which software product release category is "generally feature complete and supposedly bug free,and ready for use by the community?"

A)Alpha.
B)Beta.
C)Release candidate.
D)Continuous beta.

Question 22

________ involves reworking programs to make them clearer and easier to maintain while preserving their correctness and functionality.

A)Object-oriented programming
B)Refactoring
C)Agile software development
D)LAMP

Question 23

________ helps Internet-based applications perform like desktop applications.

A)Ajax
B)Blogging
C)RSS
D)Mashups

Question 24

Which of the following companies is widely regarded at the "signature" company of Web 2.0 ?

A)Foursquare.
B)Facebook.
C)Google.
D)Groupon.