SLR6 - Abstraction and Automation (AS)

What is the term used to represent a sequence of steps that can be followed to complete a task and always terminates?

• Pseudocode

• Flowchart

• Syntax

• Algorithm

What is the process of hiding all details of an object that do not contribute to its essential characteristics?

• Data abstraction

• Functional abstraction

• Information hiding

• Procedural abstraction

What is the result of a procedural abstraction?

• Function

• Procedure

• Algorithm

• Data object

What is the term for breaking a problem into a number of sub-problems, so that each sub-problem accomplishes an identifiable task?

• Decomposition

• Composition

• Abstraction

• Automation

What is the term for creating algorithms and implementing them in program code to solve problems?

• Automation

• Abstraction

• Dijkstra's algorithm

• Optimisation

What is the concept of abstraction used in computations that involves grouping by common characteristics to arrive at a hierarchical relationship?

• Abstraction by generalisation

• Representational abstraction

• Problem abstraction

• Decomposition

What is the result of abstracting away the actual values used in any particular computation?

• Computational pattern

• Data object

• Procedure

• Function

What is the term for putting models into action to solve problems by creating algorithms and implementing them in program code?

• Dijkstra's algorithm

• Automation

• Abstraction

• Optimisation

What is the methodology that enables us to isolate how a compound data object is used from the details of how it is constructed?

• Functional abstraction

• Data abstraction

• Procedural abstraction

• Information hiding

What is the term for removing details until the problem is represented in a way that is possible to solve?

• Composition

• Problem abstraction

• Automation

• Decomposition