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What is a computer program?

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Question 2

what is a software?

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Question 3

what are the types of software?

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what is system software?

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what is bios?

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Question 6

what is operating system?

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Question 7

what is an programming language?

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Question 8

state the types of programming language?

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Question 9

what is machine level language?

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Question 10

what is assembly level language?

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Question 11

what is high level language?

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Question 12

what do u mean by an compiler?

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Question 13

what is the difference between compiler and interpreter?

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Question 14

state and explain the translators.

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Question 15

what are 4GL?

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Question 16

what is c language?

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Question 17

state the process for developing a program

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Question 18

what is program definition?

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Question 19

what is program design?

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Question 20

whats an algorithm?

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Question 21

whats an flowchart?

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Question 22

state the types of logic used in flowcharts.

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Question 23

what is modular programming?

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Question 24

state the guidelines one must follow while coding.

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Question 25

whats debugging?

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Question 26

state the tools and methods used to debug a program

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Question 27

explain: simulator

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Question 28

explain: logic analyzers

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Question 29

explain: breakpoints

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Question 30

explain: software interrupts

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Question 31

explain: memory dump

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Question 32

explain: trace routine

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Question 33

what is use of testing?

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Question 34

what is documentation?

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Question 35

whats the use of maintainence?

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Question 36

what is utility software?

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Question 37

whats firmware?

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Question 38

whats opensource software?

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whats trialware?

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Question 40

whats the difference between shareware and freeware software?

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Question 41

FIB: ___ acts as an interface between user and machine.

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Softwares

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____ software is used in functioning of computer system.

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System

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BIOS is an ___ software loaded on bios chip

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Low level

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Bios is loaded on ___ chip

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Bios

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Bios stands for ___

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Basic input output software

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___ is a semiconductor chip in which bios is stored

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Bios

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Bios chip is an ___

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Semiconductor chip

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Bios chip is a dualline chip with ___ pins

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28/32

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Major manufacturers of BIOS Chip are __

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Ami Phoenix/award Intel

Question 50

Cmos stands for ___.

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Complementary metaloxide semiconductor chip

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____ is a memory chip that stores certain computer settings

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Cmos

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Cmos chip stores settings like __.

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Date/time

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Cmos settings are stored as soon as the computer is powered on.(T/F)

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False

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Cmos gets its power from ___.

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Cmos battery

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Cmos battery is installed on ____

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Motherboard

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T/F: | O/s acts as an interface between system and application software

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False. Acts as an interface between software/hardware

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State the use of foll program: post

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Checks and compares all the hardware with their configuration

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Post stands for ___

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Power on self test

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State the use of: i/o routine

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Establishes connection between input device, output devices and cpu

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State the use of: bootstrap loader

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Used to load the o/s of secondary device on primary memory ie RAM. Ie it Performs booting

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What is booting?

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Loading the o/s of secondary device on the primary memory ie ram

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Give example of o/s:

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Unix Linux Windows 8

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True or false: programming language is easier as compared to natural language ie English

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True.as it has basic syntax snd less complexities