GCSE Computer Science Programming Knowledge Check Jan 19

GCSE Computer Science Programming Knowledge Check Jan 19

10th Grade

20 Qs

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GCSE Computer Science Programming Knowledge Check Jan 19

GCSE Computer Science Programming Knowledge Check Jan 19

Assessment

Quiz

Computers

10th Grade

Hard

Created by

Amanda Tudor

Used 30+ times

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20 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the first step of the linear search algorithm?

Identify the middle item in the list

Identify the first item in the list

Identify a random item in the list

Identify the last item in the list

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Ignoring any infomration about a problem that isn't important is called...

decomposition

abstraction

algorithmic thinking

pattern matching

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following search algorithms can only be carried out on an ordered list?

Linear search

Binary Search

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Computational thinking is used to...

imporve the efficiency of an existing program or piece of code

turn a problem into something that can be solved by the computer

help you think like a computer

tell the programmer the rules of a programming language

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A programmer solves a complex task by writing many small sub programs. This is an example of...

decomposition

abstraction

authentication

pipelining

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A program is used to sort a very large list of unordered words into alphabetical order. Which sorting algorithm would sort the list most efficiently?

Bubble sort

Insertion sort

Merge Sort

Binary Search

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

A benefit of using Algorithmn 1 over Algorithm 2 is that...

it can be more easily converted into a programming language.

it can be interpreted by all programming languages

it uses the proper syntax of all programming languages

it is vague and unstructured

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