Duplicate of CSP Final Review

Question 1

Idea that the rate of change itself tends to increase exponentially with regards to technology.

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Law of Accelerating Returns

Question 2

An attack on passwords or encryption that tries every possible password or encryption key.

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Brute Force Attack

Question 3

Which best defines the following: C:\Users\Bob\Desktop\PLTW\song.wav

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Absolute File Name

Question 4

Maintains a running total.

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Accumulator Value

Question 5

Probability that a pattern has arisen by chance and not due to a pattern that actually exists.

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P Value

Question 6

How might you ensure your recipient knows a message you sent came from you.

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Encrypt your message with your private key.

Question 7

A standard component of a GUI.

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Widget

Question 8

Level of abstraction for creating a software application.

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High Level (Java, Python, C++)

Question 9

the following URL: https://free.coolsite.com:443/index/page1.html?x=1&y=3. What is the scheme?

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https

Question 10

Data associated with an object.

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Attributes

Question 11

Keeping details together in one part of a program to ease working on others parts.

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Encapsulation

Question 12

Describes how much time an algorithm will need given a size input, based on the worst-case.

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Time Order Complexity

Question 13

An encapsulated collection of related classes, each with its own methods and attributes.

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Module

Question 14

The contents of a webpage are sent to machines that are not controlled by sender or receiver.

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True

Question 15

Value in decimal of the byte 01111111

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127

Question 16

Range where such predictions will be correct 95% of the time.

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Confidence Interval

Question 17

The classic "bell curve" that is commonly observed because of the Central Limit Theorem.

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Normal Distribution

Question 18

When a function that calls itself until a base case is reached.

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Recursion

Question 19

An HTTP method in which the client requests data such as a web page.

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GET

Question 20

An ordered collection of elements of the same type.

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Array

Question 21

Is the following IP address in IPv4 or IPv6 :12.65.124.34

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IPv4

Question 22

Test of AI: human tries to decide if the intelligence at the other end of a text chat is human.

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Turing Test

Question 23

Precise rules defining the letters, words, and punctuation of a programming language.

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Syntax

Question 24

Which is a one way function. (Easy to compute, hard to inverse) ex. Hash

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Multiplying Prime Numbers

Question 25

Utilizing many different processors in concert to solve difficult problems

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Distributed Computing

Question 26

An instruction in machine language that will be executed by the CPU

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op code

Question 27

Synchronous Encryption depends on:

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Handshaking (Exchange of a secret key)

Question 28

Which of the following cannot be represented with zeros and ones?

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The number pi

Question 29

Level of abstraction for learning programming basics

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Graphical Language (Scratch, App Inventor)

Question 30

A program downloaded as part of a web page executed by the browser on a user’s computer.

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Service Side Scripting

Question 31

Undesired software intended to advertise product to the user.

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Addware

Question 32

What information is most likely to be provided in the API of a library of object-oriented code?

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The methods and attributes of classes defined in the library

Question 33

Which of the following would be an ideal candidate for a primary key for a relational database.

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SSN

Question 34

Next state of a computational model cannot be determined ahead of time due to randomness.

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Stochastic

Question 35

Level of abstraction for optimizing code for a particular computer architecture.

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Low Level (Machine Code or Assembly)

Question 36

What Domain Name Server stores the IP address of cs.fun.example.org

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fun.example.org

Question 37

A database management system, a software suite designed to organize and search data.

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SQL (Structured Query Language)

Question 38

Verified in polynomial time, but it is unknown if they can be solved in polynomial time.

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NP Problems

Question 39

Value in decimal of the hexadecimal number 2A

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42

Question 40

A region of the Internet that is grouped together for administrative purposes.

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Domain

Question 41

Code telling the interpreter or compiler to execute a function or method defined elsewhere.

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Call

Question 42

The number of floating point operations per second that a device can perform. (Measure Speed)

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Flops

Question 43

Hiding some details so that the programmer can focus on a manageable amount of complexity.

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Abstraction

Question 44

To separate the data into groups in order to compare values of another variable between groups.

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Disaggregate Data

Question 45

Part of a pixel’s data that tells how opaque or transparent that color should appear

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Alpha Channel

Question 46

Makes predictions about a population of measurements based on a sample of measurements.

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Inferential Statistics

Question 47

Packets sent over the Internet are always addressed using which of the following information?

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IP addresses

Question 48

Unpredictable phenomena that occur as the result of the interaction of individual behaviors.

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Emergent Behavior

Question 49

Which is not a native type in python (built in types are often faster and more efficient)

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Canvas

Question 50

A method for creating an object in a class

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Constructor

Question 51

In Python a variable has a local scope or global scope, which statement is false

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Variables in functions are global by default.

Question 52

Given the following code, which answer is false: balloon_x = Balloon('red', 100, 2)

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balloon_x is a function that instantiates an object.

Question 53

Which is not a built in function in python?

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randint()

Question 54

Next state of a computational model is completely determined by actions taken in this state.

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Deterministic

Question 55

Which of the following is the correct binary representation of the number "12" using one byte?

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00001100

Question 56

An HTTP method that accepts data from the client. Used any time the server will be changed.

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POST

Question 57

How might you ensure only your recipient can read your message.

Accepted Answer

Encrypt your message with their public key.

Question 58

Which circumstance has the greatest need for version control system?

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Four developers are working on the same encapsulated portion

Question 59

A computer program created to read an entire program and convert it into a lower-level language

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Compiler

Question 60

1 == 1 and 2 > 3

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Boolean Expression

Question 61

A means for solving computational problems using evolutionary theory as a model.

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Genetic Algorithm

Question 62

A continuous method of representing information like sound waves.

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Analog

Question 63

Asynchronous Encryption depends on:

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NP problems

Question 64

Which is not a reason SSL (Secure Socket Layer) uses both Synchronous/Asynchronous Encryption.

Accepted Answer

It is the safest way to exchange your private key.

Duplicate of CSP Final Review

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Duplicate of CSP Final Review

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