Ch. 1 Chapter Quiz

The ____ decodes an instruction and generates electrical signals

control unit

During which stage does the central processing unit retrieve from main memory the next instruction in the sequence of program instructions

fetch

this is a set of instructions that must be followed when constructing a program

syntax

A variable declaration announces the name of a variable that will be used in a program as well as__

the type of data it will be used to hold

Even when there is no power to the computer, data can be held in;

secondary storage

Mistakes that cause a running program to produce incorrect results are called

logic erros

Computer programs are also known as

software

the statements by the programmer are called:

source code

in the process of translating a source code file into an executable file, which of the following is the correct sequence?

source code, preprocessor, modified source code, compiler, object code, linker, executable code

Internally, the CPU consists of two parts:

the control unit and the arithmetic and logic unit

The name for a memory location that may hold data is

variable

Programmer- defined names of memory locations that may hold data are:

variables

An Integrated Development Environment typically consists of

a debugger a text editor a compiler

An example of a secondary storage device is

a hard disk

The programmer usually enters source code into a computer using:

a text editor

a set of well-defined steps for performing a task or solving a problem is known as a(n)

algorithm

The computers main memory is commonly known as:

RAM

Characters or symbols that perform operations on one or more operands are

operators

in a broad sense, the two primary categories or programming languages are:

low-level language and high-level

A(n) ______ is a set of instructions that the computer follows to solve a problem

program