Spelman College Computer Science OlympiadMid-Atlantic Regional 2007

Hardware and SoftwareIntegration

Event

Jeopardy-style Competition

The first team to buzz in will answer the question: 1 point for the correct answer -1 point for the wrong answer

In the case of a wrong answer, other teams may attempt the question

If no correct answer within 60 seconds, move on to the next question

Trivia questions: 2 points for the correct answer -1 point for the wrong answer

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

What is the main program that controls how your computer system functions? It manages the computer’s hardware, including the CPU, memory, and storage devices, as well as peripheral devices.

INTERNET

What is the bolded red portion of the following URL called?

URL http:// www.nytimes.com/Pages/cartoons/

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

RAM has limited capacity. When there isn’t enough room in RAM for the OS to store the required data and instructions, it borrows room from the hard drive. What is this borrowed hard drive space called?

INTERNET

What are the text files stored on client computers when visiting Web sites? These files are used on return visits to Web sites.

PROGRAMMING

What is name of the OOD concept in which a new class of objects is derived by absorbing characteristics of existing classes?

NETWORKS

A core Internet protocol, this connection-less protocol is commonly used for streaming media applications and VoIP. What is its name?

PROGRAMMING

According to the flowchart given below, what will be displayed?

Begin

End

(NOT ((3 <> 5) OR (5> 3)))False True

Output:"OVER"

Output:"NOT YET"

TRIVIA

How did Alan M. Turing, the father of artificial intelligence, die?

DATABASE

What is the name of this type of diagram?

PROGRAMMING

What is the output of a programming language translator such as compiler or interpreter?

NETWORKS

Devices like the one shown in this picture, that help make data flow possible, are called _______ .

INTERNET

Name three popular web browsers.

DATABASE

When designing a database, the procedure that successively changes a given collection of relations to some more desirable form is called _____

PROGRAMMING

What is the set of written words and symbols that allows the programmer or user to communicate with the computer?

INTERNET

In a(n) _________________ transmission, the Web server begins playing multimedia data before the entire content is completely transferred.

TRIVIA

Who created the first compiler, which was known as A-0?

INTERNET

IETF RFC 2616 specifies the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP/1.1. What does RFC stand for?

PROGRAMMING

Not a computer program, but a step-by-step method of solving a problem that can be developed into a computer program. What is this called?

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

What is the red, bolded part in the following file path?

d: \Sample\mysample.txt

DATABASE

A pre-set action that will be taken only when certain database event occurs, is called a ______ .

PROGRAMMING

With C++, the rich collection of existing classes and functions are available in ___________.

INTERNET

The item marked 3 in the figure above is the ____ button on the Firefox Navigation toolbar.

PROGRAMMING

What is the boolean operator that returns a value of true only when both of its operands are true?

TRIVIA

A Bluetooth network is one example of a PAN. What does PAN stand for?

INTERNET

The MPEG format’s audio track is called ____ .

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

The hardware component pointed to by the ? is

?

PROGRAMMING

In OOD, programmers create their own user-defined types called _____.

DATABASE

What is the most commonly used language to manipulate and retrieve data in a relational database?

PROGRAMMING

What does the following code snippet do? for (i=0, j=strlen(s)-1; i<j; i++, j--){ temp = s[i];

s[i] = s[j];s[j] = temp;

}

NETWORKS

The Internet directory service where human-readable computer hostnames are translated into IP addresses is called ____ .

PROGRAMMING

In a computer program, what represents a memory cell whose contents may change or vary as the program executes?

TRIVIA

What is the origin of the word algorithm?

PROGRAMMING

What is the informal language that helps programmers represent an algorithmic solution without having to worry about the strict details of real programming language syntax?

What does LCD stand for?

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

PROGRAMMING

Java programs are portable across hardware platforms because they are not executed by the OS, they are interpreted by the _________ .

NETWORKS

Software or hardware which interacts with a server, usually over a communications link, is called ______ .

NETWORKS

What is the IEEE standard for wireless LAN?

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

The file extension .pdf stands for ______.

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

What is the name of the program which loads the computer operating system?

TRIVIA

What was the name of the first officially incorporated computer company?

DATABASE

To ensure the value of an attribute in a relation R2 matches one of the primary key values of another relation R, you can declare the attribute in R2 as a __________ .

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

To fix/resolve software errors, what can be downloaded for free from the software company’s website?

The kind of network architecture illustrated by the figure on the right is called ____ .

NETWORKS

DATABASE

The data type of a field/attribute in the relational model is also known as the _________.

NETWORKS

Software or hardware designed to close logical ports to invaders is called ____ .

DATABASE

In a relational database system, _____ and user privileges are used to shield one part of a database table from some users, but still make the other part of the table accessible to all users.

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

The computer system hardware parts shown below are _________.

NETWORKS

The connection-oriented protocol used in the Internet which provides some guarantees of delivery and ordering of data is called _____ .

TRIVIA

Name the computer designer who adopted the Binary Number System and built the first binary digital computer in the world.

DATABASE

The immunity of applications to changes in storage structure and access technique is referred to as ______ .

NETWORKS

A network entity that satisfies HTTP requests on the behalf of an origin Web Server is called ______.

DATABASE

What type of join selects all the records of one table and just the records with matching values in the joined field from the other table?

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

The type of portable computers with handwriting recognition and speech recognition capability is called

NETWORKS

A type of LAN that uses IP and is maintained by a private business or organization is called ____ .

NETWORKS

Malicious code that comes disguised as a legitimate program file is called ______.

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

What is the portable storage that keeps data as tiny pits that are burned into a disk by a high-speed laser? These pits are less than 1 micron in diameter. Data is read off the storage by a laser beam, with the pits and nonpits translating into the 1’s and 0’s.

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

The small amount of memory located on the CPU chip or near it, that stores recent or frequently used instructions and data for quick access by the CPU is called _____ .

TRIVIA

Electrical pathway used to move data between components is called ____ .

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

What is the component that manages the switches inside the CPU?

PROGRAMMING

Which of the three basic control structures (not the specific statement) represents the decision making ability of the computer.

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

What’s the hardware component pointed to by the ? ?

DATABASE

If an index has been created on attribute a of relation R, what kind of search will be used by a RDBMS for the following query?

SELECT a FROM R;

INTERNET

The top level domain name mil usually represents what kind of organization that hosts the web site?

PROGRAMMING

What is the name of the translator program that converts assembly-language programs to machine language?

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

Name an example of a non-impact printer.

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