Final Exam

Question 1

Who was the first programmer ever

Answer 1

Ada King

Question 2

Who proposed the idea of a programmable computer

Answer 2

Charles Babbage

Question 3

Who invented the first compiler because they were tired of generating machine code by hand

Answer 3

Grace Hopper

Question 4

Who designed the enigma machine during WW2 breaking the enigma code and proposed the notion of computer intelligence

Answer 4

Alan Turing

Question 5

Earliest computers were used for math “computation” like the ______

Answer 5

abacus

Question 6

What is a transistor

Answer 6

a small device that allowed to broad control of electrical signals is considered THE MOST important invention of the 20th century

Question 7

who created the first graphical user interface (engaging screens on computers, not just text)

Answer 7

Xerox

Question 8

what is Moore’s Law?

Answer 8

every 18th months, you can double the number of transistors on an integrated circuit (cost effective)

Question 9

The internet is truly a loose confederation of data communication networks

Question 10

http://cs.brown.edu - what does http represent?

Answer 10

Indication of what security measures are used on the website

Question 11

http://cs.brown.edu - what does cs.brown.edu represent

Answer 11

Domain name

Question 12

CPUs

Answer 12

at the heart of a computer: fetch -> decode -> executes instructions in a sequence

Question 13

GUI

Answer 13

graphical user interface

Question 14

what are the two parts computer storage is broken into?

Answer 14

RAM and ROM

Question 15

what does RAM stand for?

Answer 15

random access memory

Question 16

ROM

Answer 16

read only memory

Question 17

remider:
When you power off/close ur computer, RAM memory gets CLEARED
Non volatile memory maintains its state

Question 18

input/output (I/O) is the _____ of data and information between a user and the computer

Answer 18

exchange

Question 19

____ is the number system most computer architecture is built on

Answer 19

Binary

Question 20

Graphics, like images, are made up of thousands of tiny colored

Answer 20

____

Question 21

_______ refers to the capacity of detail contained in an image, message or symbols

Answer 21

resolution

Question 22

legality of computing: authentication answers what?

Answer 22

“who am i?”

Question 23

concept of security: is it ever possible for something to be 100% secure?

Answer 23

No. Fuck no.

Question 24

DDOS attacks

Answer 24

Cripple domains by flooding then with SO many requests that they become unusable. System gets overloaded

Question 25

Ransomware

Answer 25

holding a machine hostage through virasis until a random is paid

Question 26

how is sound captured?

Answer 26

captured through a microphone and then is converted into electrical signals

Question 27

CS (compact disk) stores __ minutes of music **

Answer 27

74

Question 28

Analog is continuous, digital is

Answer 28

discrete

Question 29

Analog to digital conversion is called

Answer 29

compression

Question 30

Images are colored through pixels denoted in RGB values: red green blue from ? to ?

Answer 30

0-255

Question 31

5 steps of software creation

Answer 31

1. Problem specification
2. Pseudodcoing
3. Coding
4. Testing and debugging
5. Planning and design

Question 32

what computing language is most commonly used for databases

Answer 32

SQL

Question 33

what does HTML stand for?

Answer 33

Hypertext Markup Language

Question 34

what does CSS stand for?

Answer 34

Cascading Style Sheets

Question 35

The Chinese Room problem describes the limitation of AI.

Answer 35

If a person in a room doesn’t kow Chinese, but has a book of Chinese responses, they can appear to the outside world as knowing Chinese
AI will never actually KNOW things, it solely knows HOW TO RESPOND

Question 36

IBM deep blue