Computer Science final exam

Fifteen questions on all of Computer Science. Answer all 15 to see your score. Questions are drawn from a bank of 45, so every attempt is different.

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Hiding low-level details so you can work at a higher level is called:

The 1936 paper that defined an abstract model of computation was written by:

The first commercial microprocessor, released in 1971, was the:

Breaking a big problem into smaller parts is the computational-thinking step called:

Roughly what share of the world's population was still offline in the mid-2020s?

Binary 11111111 equals decimal:

Each hexadecimal digit represents how many bits?

In two's complement, a negative number is formed by:

An XOR gate outputs 1 when:

MP3 audio is an example of:

Which register holds the address of the next instruction?

L1, L2, and L3 are levels of:

Most smartphones and Apple's M-series Macs use which instruction set?

Letting a disk transfer data to memory without the CPU handling each byte is:

If 90% of a program can be parallelised, the maximum speedup with unlimited cores is: