Vocabulary Review APCSP 2021

A byte is _

• 8 bits

• 16 bits

• A sandwich

• a computer term

A finite set of instructions that accomplish a task.

• comments

• problem

• algorithm

• variable

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something without losing any information.

• data compression

• lossy compression

• lossless compression

• decompressing

A way of representing information using only 2 options.

• bit

• sampling

• byte

• binary

Online research output free of any and all restrictions on access and free of many restrictions on use, such as copyright or licenses restrictions

• Open Access

• Open Source

• Intellectual Property

• Creative ommons

An agreed-upon set of rules that specify the behavior of some system

• bandwidth

• protocol

• redundancy

• IP address

This states that speed and capability of computing will increase every 2 years.

• Shelby's Law

• Paquette's Law

• Moore's Law

• Morehouse's Law

A group of interconnected computing devices capable of sending or receiving data.

• computing network

• computing device

• computing system

• world wide web

The inclusion of extra components so that a system can continue to work even if individual components fail, for example by having more than one path between any two connected devices in a network

• servers

• redundancy

• server farm

• routing

Data with values that change continuously, or smoothly, over time. Some examples of analog data include music, colors of a painting, or position of a sprinter during a race

• digital data

• analog data

• computer data

• compression