A Level Computational Methods

What is the process of incrementally building towards a solution, but abandoning partial success when the solution can't be completed and going back to a previous successful match?

• Data Mining
• Backtracking
• Huristics
• Performance Modelling
• Pipelining

What is the process used by companies to turn large volumes of raw data into useful information and trends?

• Data Mining
• Backtracking
• Huristics
• Performance Modelling
• Divide and Conquer

What are these examples of? Rule of thumb; educated guess; an intuitive judgement

• Data Mining
• Backtracking
• Huristics
• Performance Modelling
• Pipelining

What is the term used for a large collection of raw data on a particular topic?

• Data Mining
• Big Data
• Decomposition
• Modelling
• Backtracking

What is a technique used for problem solving that employs an educated guess to reach a solution, but does not guarentee the most optimal solution?

• Backtracking
• Pipelining
• Visualisation
• Heuristics
• Performance Modelling

What is the process of mathmatically simulating how a model works?

• Backtracking
• Pipelining
• Visualisation
• Heuristics
• Performance Modelling

What is the process of splitting a task up and then overlapping the processing of the subtasks to speed up the whole process?

• Divide and Conquer
• Backtracking
• Huristics
• Performance Modelling
• Pipelining

What process involes presenting a solution to a problem in a visual way?

• Backtracking
• Pipelining
• Visualisation
• Heuristics
• Performance Modelling

What is the process of splitting a large problem into smaller parts to reduce processing time?

• Divide and Conquer
• Backtracking
• Huristics
• Performance Modelling
• Pipelining