APCSP Review 2019

What is the purpose of a DDoS attack?

• Exhaust the resources of its target

• Destroy botnets

• Steal customer information

• Blackmail the black market

What does Moore’s law state?

• The number of available IP addresses will eventually run out

• Processing power doubles every 2 years

• There is a set amount of available data space

• The processing power for computer will triple every year

What is the value for 15 MOD 6?

• 3

• 2.5

• 2

• .4

Which of the following is true for lossless compression?

• Lossless compression will throw away unimportant details that humans can't detect

• Lossless compression is fully reversible

• Lossless compression only works when lossy does not

• Lossless compression will result in higher quality images

What is the function of a parameter?

• A named memory location

• A collection of commands that cam be used in programming

• Stores a value that can be used throughout your program

• A way to give input to function

Which of the following protocols is used to store and send IP addresses when requested using a domain name?

• URL

• HTTP

• DNS

• HTML

If you need to represent each card in a deck (of 52) as a binary value, how many digits would you need?

• 6

• 5

• 26

• 64

If you use a key to encrypt your password, but then must use a different key to decrypt the password, which best describes the type of encryption your using?

• Caesar cipher

• Symmetric encryption

• Substitution Cipher

• Asymmetric encryption

Which of the following terms represents a parameter in the above code?

• drawSquare

• 4

• size

• TIMES

What part of this pseudocode is a constant?

X -> 5

Y -> INPUT()

sum -> x+y

DISPLAY (sum);

• INPUT

• X

• SUM

• Y