AP CSP Unit 1 Quiz 1

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10 questions

1

Which of the following terms best describes the process of suppressing complex details of a
system and presenting a simplified version with just the relevant details?

Abstraction

Programming

Creativity

Free Thinking

A programmer completes the user manual for a video game she has developed and realizes
she has reversed the roles of “goats” and “sheep” throughout the text.
Consider the programmer’s goal of changing all occurrences of “goats” to “sheep” and all
occurrences of “sheep” to “goats.” The programmer will use the fact that the word “foxes”
does not appear anywhere in the original text.

Which of the following algorithms can be used to accomplish this?

First, change all occurrences of “goats” to “sheep”, and then change all occurrences of
“sheep” to “goats”.

First, change all occurrences of “goats” to “sheep,” then change all occurrences of
“sheep” to “foxes” and then change all occurrences of “foxes” to “goats”.

First, change all occurrences of “goats” to “foxes,” then change all occurrences
of “sheep” to “goats” and then change all occurrences of “foxes” to “sheep”.

First, change all occurrences of “goats” to “foxes,” then change all occurrences of
“foxes” to “sheep” and then change all occurrences of “sheep” to “goats”.

Chad has written the majority of his code in Scratch and is ready to start running his program
using a variety of carefully chosen conditions to see if it functions properly in all these cases.
Which of the following software development terms best describes this process?

Testing

Debugging

Implementing

Maintaining

The owner of a pet store wants to determine how many fish she can keep in a given
aquarium before the population becomes too overcrowded for the fish to survive. Rather than
risking the lives of actual fish, she decides to simulate an aquarium with a program in order to
determine its maximum capacity. Which of the following would NOT be a useful factor to include
when modeling the properties of the simulated tank and fish population?

The color of the fish

The size of the tank

The size of the fish

The amount of food in the tank

Which of the following statements about low-level languages are true?
Select TWO answers:

They are very rarely ambiguous

They are generally less readable by humans than other languages

They are difficult for machines and humans to parse

They are relatively easy for humans to write

The process by which computer programs are designed, developed and tested in repeated cycles is known as the:

iterative development process

visual programming language

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

abstraction

A process or set of instructions to be followed in calculations or other problem solving operations is an:

ambiguity

algorithm

iteration

abstraction

Uncertainty or being open to more than one interpretation is known as:

sequencing

iteration

ambiguity

algorithm

The processor or brains of the computer where calculations take place and instructions from programs are carried out is known as the:

abstraction

iterative development process

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

visual programming language

The process of source code being translated into machine code is known as:

abstraction

binary

compilation

iteration

Which of the following terms best describes the process of suppressing complex details of a
system and presenting a simplified version with just the relevant details?

Abstraction

Programming

Creativity

Free Thinking

A programmer completes the user manual for a video game she has developed and realizes
she has reversed the roles of “goats” and “sheep” throughout the text.
Consider the programmer’s goal of changing all occurrences of “goats” to “sheep” and all
occurrences of “sheep” to “goats.” The programmer will use the fact that the word “foxes”
does not appear anywhere in the original text.

Which of the following algorithms can be used to accomplish this?

First, change all occurrences of “goats” to “sheep”, and then change all occurrences of
“sheep” to “goats”.

First, change all occurrences of “goats” to “sheep,” then change all occurrences of
“sheep” to “foxes” and then change all occurrences of “foxes” to “goats”.

First, change all occurrences of “goats” to “foxes,” then change all occurrences
of “sheep” to “goats” and then change all occurrences of “foxes” to “sheep”.

First, change all occurrences of “goats” to “foxes,” then change all occurrences of
“foxes” to “sheep” and then change all occurrences of “sheep” to “goats”.

Chad has written the majority of his code in Scratch and is ready to start running his program
using a variety of carefully chosen conditions to see if it functions properly in all these cases.
Which of the following software development terms best describes this process?

Testing

Debugging

Implementing

Maintaining

The owner of a pet store wants to determine how many fish she can keep in a given
aquarium before the population becomes too overcrowded for the fish to survive. Rather than
risking the lives of actual fish, she decides to simulate an aquarium with a program in order to
determine its maximum capacity. Which of the following would NOT be a useful factor to include
when modeling the properties of the simulated tank and fish population?

The color of the fish

The size of the tank

The size of the fish

The amount of food in the tank

Which of the following statements about low-level languages are true?
Select TWO answers:

They are very rarely ambiguous

They are generally less readable by humans than other languages

They are difficult for machines and humans to parse

They are relatively easy for humans to write

The process by which computer programs are designed, developed and tested in repeated cycles is known as the:

iterative development process

visual programming language

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

abstraction

A process or set of instructions to be followed in calculations or other problem solving operations is an:

ambiguity

algorithm

iteration

abstraction

Uncertainty or being open to more than one interpretation is known as:

sequencing

iteration

ambiguity

algorithm

The processor or brains of the computer where calculations take place and instructions from programs are carried out is known as the:

abstraction

iterative development process

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

visual programming language

The process of source code being translated into machine code is known as:

abstraction

binary

compilation

iteration

AP CSP Unit 1 Quiz 1

AP CSP Unit 1 Quiz 1

Which of the following terms best describes the process of suppressing complex details of asystem and presenting a simplified version with just the relevant details?

Chad has written the majority of his code in Scratch and is ready to start running his programusing a variety of carefully chosen conditions to see if it functions properly in all these cases.Which of the following software development terms best describes this process?

Which of the following statements about low-level languages are true?Select TWO answers:

The process by which computer programs are designed, developed and tested in repeated cycles is known as the:

A process or set of instructions to be followed in calculations or other problem solving operations is an:

Uncertainty or being open to more than one interpretation is known as:

The processor or brains of the computer where calculations take place and instructions from programs are carried out is known as the:

The process of source code being translated into machine code is known as:

Which of the following terms best describes the process of suppressing complex details of a
system and presenting a simplified version with just the relevant details?

Chad has written the majority of his code in Scratch and is ready to start running his program
using a variety of carefully chosen conditions to see if it functions properly in all these cases.
Which of the following software development terms best describes this process?

Which of the following statements about low-level languages are true?
Select TWO answers: