Hardware & Software

Computer hardware is the non-physical components of the computer

• True

• False

External components are the parts that you can touch, for example the monitor, mouse, keyboard, and printer.  These are also known as....

• Peripherals 

• CPUs

• Storage

• Application software

Which of the following is not an internal component?

• Processor

• Hard Disk

• Sound card

• VGA cable

What is the general term used to describe all of the programs that we run on our computer?

• Hardware

• Software

• Firmware

• Embedded systems

What is the name of the software that is written to carry out certain housekeeping tasks on your computer?

• Application software

• System software

• Utility programs

• Library programs

True or false? Library programs carry out common tasks  
such as file maintenance and can be  
built into other programs.  

• False

• True

Translators are software used by programmers to convert programs from one language to another.  What are the three common types of translator?

• compilers, assemblers and interpreters. 

• composers, assemblies and interpreters

• compilers, ascenders and interpreters

• contractors, assemblers and interpreters

A program that translates a high level language into machine code by translating all of the code

• Compilers

• Assemblers

• Interpreters

A program that translates a program written in assembly language into machine code

• compiler

• assembler

• interpreter

A program from translating high-level language by reading each statement in the source code and immediately performing the action

• interpreter

• assembler

• compiler