Performance
What does GPU stand for?
Graphics Processing Unit
What do you call a mistake that prevents code from working as intended?
A bug.
What is the secret word/phrase used to log into an account?
A password
What does AI stand for?
Artificial intelligence
What is the name of the physical parts of a computer?
Hardware
What does FPS stand for?
Frames per second.
What would this print:
print (3+4*2)
11
Is it safer to use the same password everywhere or a unique one each time?
A unique password each time.
What is the name for an AI-generated image, video or audio clip designed to look or sound like a real person?
A deepfake
What two digits are used in the binary number system
0 and 1
What is clock speed measured in?
Hertz
What is a loop used for in programming?
Repeats a block of code. Either a set number of times or in a condition.
You recieved an email claiming you won a prize , but it asks you to click a strange link and enter your details. What type of scam of this?
Phishing
What is the name for the data used to test an AI model on examples it hasn't learned from during training?
Test data
A file is 1,000 megabytes in size. Roughly how many gigabytes is that, using the usual decimal units?
1 GB
Your PC is slow and there are lots of apps open. Which component is running out of space for active tasks?
RAM
What will this print:
for i in range (3):
print (i)
0
1
2
What does 2 Factor Authentification add to a login process?
A second verificaition step beyond the password.
(Accept examples)
E.g. a code.
An AI recognises cats in thousands of labelled pictures and then identifies cats in new pictures. What broad AI approach is this?
Machine learning — specifically supervised learning, because it learns from labelled examples.
What is the decimal number 13 in binary?
1101
A game monitor runs at 144Hz. How is this different from a games FPS
The monitor can refresh its image up to 144/s whereas FPS measures the number of frames the game renders per second.
A program needs to guess a number from 1-100. After each guess it says too high or too low. What strategy can find the number in at most 7 guesses?
Binary Search
A website stores users passwords. Why is storing a salted password hash generally safer than storing the actual passwords, even if the database is stolen?
An AI model scores 99% on the questions it trained on but performs badly on new questions. What is this problem called?
Overfitting. The model has learned the training examples too specifically and doesn't generalise well to new data.
You have 8 identical-looking balls, but one is heavier than the others. Using a balance scale, what is the minimum number of weighings needed to guarantee finding the heavier ball?
2 weighings. Weigh 3 against 3. If they balance, the heavier ball is among the remaining 2; otherwise, it's among the heavier group of 3. One final weighing identifies it.