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Exam 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages

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When the computer is turned off,everything in secondary memory is lost.

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Several categories of computers exist,such as ____.

A) microframe, midframe, and miniframe
B) midsize, microframe, and mainframe
C) mainsize, midsize, and microsize
D) mainframe, midsize, and micro

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____ programs perform a specific task.

When you compile your program,the compiler identifies the logic errors and suggests how to correct them.

____ consists of 65,536 characters.

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

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

Main memory is called ____.

The ____ is the brain of the computer and the single most expensive piece of hardware in your personal computer.

The term GB refers to ____.

A program called a(n) ____ translates instructions written in high-level languages into machine code.

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

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

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

The ____ monitors the overall activity of the computer and provides services.

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

C++ programs have always been portable from one compiler to another.

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

The programming language C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Laboratories in the early ____.

The command that does the linking on Visual C++ 2010 Express and Visual Studio 2010 is Make or Remake.