AP CSP Review Questions 3/27

A company that develops educational software wants to assemble a collaborative team of developers from a variety of professional and cultural backgrounds. Which of the following is NOT considered a benefit of assembling such a team?

• Collaboration that includes diverse backgrounds and perspectives can eliminate the need for software testing.

• Collaboration that includes diverse backgrounds and perspectives can help the team anticipate the needs of a variety of software users.

• Collaboration that includes diverse backgrounds and perspectives can help the team avoid bias.

• Collaboration that includes diverse backgrounds and perspectives can reflect the strengths of the individual team members.

A company that develops mobile applications wants to involve users in the software development process. Which of the following best explains the benefit in having users participate?

• Users can identify and correct errors they encounter when using released versions of the software.

• Users can review the algorithms used in the software to help improve their efficiency.

• Users can provide documentation for program code at the end of the software development process.

• Users can provide feedback that can be used to incorporate a variety of perspectives into the software.

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of collaborating to develop a computing innovation?

• Collaboration can decrease the size and complexity of tasks required of individual team members.

• Collaboration can make it easier to find and correct errors during the development process.

• Collaboration eliminates the need to resolve differences of opinion.

• Collaboration facilitates multiple perspectives in developing ideas.

Which of the following actions are generally helpful in program development?

I. Consulting potential users of the program to identify their concerns

II. Writing and testing small code segments before adding them to the program

III. Collaborating with other individuals when developing a large program

• I and II only

• I and III only

• II and III only

• I, II, and III

Chad has written the majority of his code in Scratch and is ready to start thinking of test cases to make sure that his program functions properly, and when issues arise, fix them. Chad is also going to show his program to his classmate and ask for any feedback or changes he could add to make his program better. This process is known as what?

• Iterative Development Process

• Debugging

• Pseudocode

• Program Detection

For which of the follow grids will the code correctly navigate the robot to the final destination of the gray square?

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Which of the following images shows the path and ending location of the robot that will result from executing the code above. The starting location of the robot is shown as dotted triangle for cases where the robot does not start and end at the same location.

REPEAT 4 TIMES {

MOVE_FORWARD()

MOVE_FORWARD()

MOVE_FORWARD()

ROTATE_RIGHT(90)

MOVE_FORWARD()

ROTATE_RIGHT(90)

MOVE_FORWARD()

ROTATE_RIGHT(90)

}

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A piece of code you can use over and over again

• Function
• Abstraction
• Non-Function

What will the console log say when this program is run?

• "Starting my program!"

  "You clicked the button!"

  "Ending my program!"

• "Starting my program!"

  "Ending my program!"

  "You clicked the button!"

• "You clicked the button!"

  "Starting my program!"

  "Ending my program!"

• "You clicked the button!"

  "Ending my program!"

  "Starting my program!"

After the program is run, what will the text color of smallButton be?

• red

• blue

• green

• yellow