Counting to Two
The simplest language of computing, this two digit number system emulates an electrical system's state of on or off.
What is binary?
A type of program that is made with the user in mind, such as a browser or a word processor.
What is an application?
This data type serves mathematical operators, such as true and false.
What is boolean?
The four essential functions of a computing device.
What is input, output, processing and storage?
A programmer codes "hello world" in binary. Each character requires one byte to encode. How large is the file?
11 B.
The most common numbering system, featuring digits from 0 to 9.
What is decimal?
The final process of the troubleshooting model, this prevents problems from becoming redundant.
What is documenting the problem?
This type of data is used to store a single character.
What is char?
A type of software that allows a computer to communicate with a third-party device, such as a wireless mouse.
What is a device driver?
There's a shady store that is selling multiple weirdly labelled routers. They have ones with transfer rates of 180 Mbps, 1200 Kbps, 1000 Mbps, and 2 Gbps. Which one of the routers is faster?
2 Gbps. Also, this store is terrible and I'm leaving.
The number 17 represented in binary.
What is 10001?
A common text encoding scheme that includes characters for every type of language, and even some small images called 'emoji'.
What is Unicode?
This data type refers to a chain of text characters put together, like an English sentence.
What is a string?
How throughput rates are measured, or the movement of data between two places.
What is bits per second (bps)?
An internet browser makes a vector logo that they use on their host website and marketing materials. They want to protect it so their rivals cannot use a similar logo. What would the logo be protected with in U.S. law?
A trademark.
What is hexadecimal?
A list that is used to inform a file system which users are allowed to read and write files.
What is an Access Control List?
This data type can store a number with a decimal place, like 5.07.
What is a float?
This measurement of speed is used for the processing speed of computing devices, like a CPU. Many CPUs can run one billion cycles a second.
What is Hertz (hz)?
A company of ten employees has a thriving business that recycles and provides regular shipments of cardboard to local factories. What would be the most damaging thing to lose: a computer, a server, a database, or a copyright?
A database - if the company loses track of who and when they make their shipments, it will lose their source of revenue.
This language is the closest step of programming to working on bare metal - other than coding in binary.
What is assembly language?
The process of turning data into useful information, such as studying market trends for commercial purposes.
What is a backslash? (\)
A test that runs when power is supplied to the computer, it troubleshoots basic issues in assembly via a series of audible beeps.
A programmer wants to change a binary number into a hexadecimal number. How many digits of binary would represent one number?
4.