GCSE Computer Science (9-1) - EDEXCEL Computers T4

What is a digital computer?

• An automatic programmable data processor

• A device that only uses 1 & 0

• A programmable processor

• An automatic processor that uses 1 & 0

What is hardware?

• Something that is sold in the hardware store

• A physical component located inside or outside of a computer

• A non-physical component in a computer

• A physical component located outside of a computer

What is software?

• The soft fluffy parts of a computer

• Items that can be bought in a software shop

• Programs that run on a computer

• Computer hardware we use but cannot touch

What is a computer system?

• something that takes a set of inputs and produces a set of outputs

• something that processes inputs

• something that i use to do my computer science homework

• something that takes a set of inputs, processes them and produces a set of ouputs

What two steps can be added to the input, process, output model?

• response & feedback

• reponse & storage

• storage & feedback

• storage and print

Computer languages can be

• high level

• low level

• high level, mid level & low level

• high level & low level

Computer languages are

• human-readable

• machine-readable

• non-readable

• human-readable & machine-readable

machine code is written in....

• binary

• mnemonics

• programming code

• non of the above

Assembly language is written in

• binary

• mnemonic

• programming code

• non of the above

Python & Java are examples of...

• low level languages

• high level languages

• mid level languages

• peripheral languages