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AP Computer Science Principles EXAM Questions and Answers
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AP Computer Science Principles EXAM Questions and AnswersOverflow - Answer -error that results when the number of bits is not enough to hold the number, like a car's odometer "rolling over"
Round-off - Answer -error that results when the number of bits is not enough to represent the actual number, like 3 digits to represent π as 3.14
Lossy - Answer -Compressing data in a way that throws some data away and makes it almost impossible to recover the original, great compression, like JPEG images
Lossless - Answer -Compressing data in a way that preserves all data away and allows full recovery of the original, good compression -- usually not as good as lossy, like PNG images
Metadata - Answer -data about data, like a camera storing the location, aperture, shutter speed, etc. for a digital photo
Sequencing - Answer -code flows line by line, one after another, like a recipe
Selection - Answer -a boolean condition to determine which of two algorithmic paths are
taken, aka if-then
Iteration - Answer -using a looping control structure, like while, for, foreach, repeat, repeat-until, etc.
Reasonable Time - Answer -polynomial in the number of steps an algorithm takes in the
worst case based on the input size
Not reasonable time - Answer -Usually exponential in the number of steps, like doubling
every time your input grows by one
Heuristic - Answer -using a "rule" to guide an algorithm, like always walking toward the north star if you were stuck in a forest Undecidable - Answer -A problem that is so difficult, we can't ever create an algorithm that would be able to answer yes or no for all inputs, like determining if a user's program
run on some input would always stop and not run forever
Linear Search - Answer -Going one by one vs starting in the middle and going left/right like looking for a word in the dictionary
Binary Search - Answer -requires the list to be sorted in order and then cutting the list in
half
APIs - Answer -Application Programming Interface
Citizen Science - Answer -Lots of people to help with a scientific project, like asking everyone around the world to count the butterflies they see one day
Cloud Computing - Answer -Using distributed calculations and/or storage for big data or a web application
Crowdsourcing - Answer -Asking lots of users online to help with something, like funding
a project, or running SETI@Home to help look for extraterrestrial signals
Creative Commons - Answer -An alternative to copyright that allows people to declare how they want their artistic creations to be shared, remixed, used in noncommercial contexts, and how the policy should propagate with remixed versions
Open Access - Answer -A policy that allows people to have read access to things, e.g., libraries or online data
Moore's Law - Answer -The # of transistors on a chip doubles every two years
Peer-to-peer Networks - Answer -A system where one user's computer connects through the Internet to another user's computer without going through an intermediary "centralized" computer to manage the connection
Digital Divide - Answer -The idea that some communities / populations have less access
to computing than others
ISP - Answer -Internet Service Provider
How does internet communication arrive at its destination? - Answer -Speech on the Internet goes from the source to an ISP, into the cloud, out of the cloud to another ISP, and to its destination
How can the government control speech on the Internet? - Answer -1) It can try to control the speaker or the speaker's ISP, by criminalizing certain kinds of speech. But that won't work if the speaker isn't in the same country as the listener.
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