CSP Final Review

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Encrypt your message with your private key.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

SSN

Question 3

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

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Syntax

Question 4

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

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Abstraction

Question 5

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

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GET

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

IP addresses

Question 7

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

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Recursion

Question 8

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

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Brute Force Attack

Question 9

A language executed on a web server before packets are sent to the client.

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PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor)

Question 10

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

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P Value

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Absolute File Name

Question 12

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

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Compiler

Question 13

Synchronous Encryption depends on:

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Handshaking (Exchange of a secret key)

Question 14

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

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Domain

Question 15

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

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Call

Question 16

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

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POST

Question 17

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 18

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

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SQL (Structured Query Language)

Question 19

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

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NP Problems

Question 20

Compression that decreases size but loses fidelity.

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lossy

Question 21

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

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Disaggregate Data

Question 22

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

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op code

Question 23

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

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Encapsulation

Question 24

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

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Emergent Behavior

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

fun.example.org

Question 26

1 == 1 and 2 > 3

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Boolean Expression

Question 27

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

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Alpha Channel

Question 28

Queries authoritative name servers until it can answer a request for domain information.

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Recursive DNS

Question 29

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 30

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

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Inferential Statistics

Question 31

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

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Module

Question 32

A method for creating an object in a class

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Constructor

Question 33

Jumping from one value to another without taking on all intermediate values. Not continuous.

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Discrete

Question 34

The prediction that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles every 18 months.

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Moore's Law

Question 35

Is the following IP address in IPv4 or IPv6 :12.65.124.34

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IPv4

Question 36

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

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Stochastic

Question 37

A continuous method of representing information like sound waves.

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Analog

Question 38

Given: https://free.coolsite.com:443/index/page1.html?x=1&y=3. What is the top level DNS?

Accepted Answer

.com

Question 39

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

Accepted Answer

Encrypt your message with their public key.

Question 40

An ordered collection of elements of the same type.

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Array

Question 41

The values that the programmer provides in the function call.

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Arguments

Question 42

Maintains a running total.

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Accumulator Value

Question 43

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

Accepted Answer

balloon_x is a function that instantiates an object.

Question 44

Which is not a built in function in python?

Accepted Answer

randint()

Question 45

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

Accepted Answer

Genetic Algorithm

Question 46

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 47

Which of the following is a one-byte binary number for the decimal number 15?

Accepted Answer

00001111

Question 48

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

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 50

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

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Normal Distribution

Question 51

Asynchronous Encryption depends on:

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NP problems

Question 52

Which circumstance has the greatest need for version control system?

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Four developers are working on the same encapsulated portion

Question 53

The ‘=’ char causes the compiler to store the value on the right in the variable on the left.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 54

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

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Low Level (Machine Code or Assembly)

Question 55

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 56

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

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Confidence Interval

Question 57

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

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Flops

Question 58

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

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Law of Accelerating Returns

Question 59

Value in decimal of the byte 01111111

Accepted Answer

127

Question 60

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

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Deterministic

Question 61

Running a stochastic simulation many times with combinations of parameters for reliability.

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Monte Carlo Simulation

Question 62

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

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Multiplying Prime Numbers

Question 63

A check to make sure that a computer or user is who/what it says it is.

Accepted Answer

Authenticate

Question 64

The hardware address, in hexadecimal, such as “34:5f:01:6d:33:ff”embeded in each wifi card.

Accepted Answer

MAC Address

CSP Final Review

Questions 80

CSP Final Review

Questions 80