8.5 MCQ Assessment

Devices connected together over a small geographical location (such as a building) are known as a:

• Wide Area Network (WAN)

• Local Area Network (LAN)

• Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN)

• WiFi

A firewall is needed because it

• Controls which programs on your computer can send and receive data packets.

• Scans your computer for unwanted data packets.

• Stops your computer from sending and receiving data packets.

• Stops malware from spreading onto your computer system.

The data inside RAM is volatile what does this mean? ​

• Data is stored on a hard drive

• Data is lost after power loss

• Data is saved after power loss

• Data is read only

When you run multiple programs RAM storage becomes full, what is then used to continue to run your programs?    

• ROM

• RAM

• Virtual memory

• The operating system

Secondary storage is needed

• When there is not enough primary storage

• As RAM is volatile and cannot hold data permanently

• For long term permanent storage

• To run the BIOS and start up the computer

Which computing term means to break a complex problem down into smaller solvable problems?

• Abstraction

• Programming

• Algorithmic thinking

• Decomposition

Which computing term means to reduce the complexity of a problem by removing unnecessary details 

• Decomposition

• Abstraction

• Algorithmic thinking

• Simplifying

Which best describes the term algorithm?

• Getting a computer to solve a problem

• A sequence of instructions that helps to solve most of the problem

• A sequence of instructions in order to a solve a problem

• A sequence of computer commands used to solve a problem.

How many times will this program print "Hello World"?

• 9 times

• 1 time

• 11 times

• 10 times

If the userAge was 17 – what would be output?​

• "You are not old enough"

• "You are 18 or over"

• Output both "You are not old enough" "You are 18 or over"

• None of the above