Chapter 1 Q

In a broad sense, the two primary categories of programming languages are:

Low-level and High-level

Which of the following is not one of the five major components of a computer system?

Preprocessor

The computer's main memory is commonly known as:

RAM

At the heart of the computer is its central processing unit. The CPU's job is

To carry out the operations commanded by the instructions. To produce some outcome or resultant information. To fetch instructions.

A CPU really only understands instructions that are written in machine language.

True

What does the term hardware refer to?

the physical components that a computer is made of

An example of a secondary storage device is:

a hard disk

Which of the following best describes an operator?

An operator allows you to perform operations on one or more pieces of data.

________ are used to translate each source code instruction into the appropriate machine language instruction.

Compilers

This term refers to the programmer reading the program from the beginning and stepping through each statement.

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