TP 100 (002L) Software Design

Chapter 1 Assignment

Multiple Choice Answers

1- b, program
2- a, hardware.
3- d, CPU.
4- b, microprocessors.
5- c,main memory.
6- a, RAM
7- c, secondary storage
8- b, an input device
9- b, an input device
10- a, byte
11- d, bits
12- b, binary
13- c, 0
14- b, ASCII
15- c, Unicode
16- a, two’s complement
17- b, floating point
18- d, pixels
19- b, a stream of binary numbers
20- b, decode
21- c, machine language
22- a, assembler
23- d, key words
24- a, syntax
25- b, compiler

True or False

1- True
2- True
3- True
4- False
5- True
6- False
7- True
8- False
9- False
10- False

Short Answers

1- The CPU is the most important component in the computer because it actually is the part that runs the programs.
2- A bit that is turned off is represented by “0”. A bit that is turned on is represented by “1”
3- A device that work with binary data is called a digital device.
4- The words that make up a high level programming language are called keywords.
5- The short words that are used in assembly language are called mnemonics.
6- The compiler only translate a high level language program into a separate machine program, while the interpreter both translates and executes the instructions in a high level program.
7- The type of software that controls the internal operations of the computer’s hardware is the operating system.