Practice Questions | AP Computer Science Principles Questions & Answers
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AP Computer Science Principle
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AP Computer Science Principle
Using fraudulent emails in order to trick a user into voluntarily providing sensitive information is an example of... - ANSWERSA phishing attack
What is phishing? - ANSWERSThe practice of sending emails supposedly from reputable companies in effort to induce people into revealing their personal ...
Practice Questions | AP Computer
Science Principles Questions & Answers
Using fraudulent emails in order to trick a user into voluntarily providing sensitive
information is an example of... - ANSWERSA phishing attack
What is phishing? - ANSWERSThe practice of sending emails supposedly from
reputable companies in effort to induce people into revealing their personal information.
(i.e., passwords and credit card numbers).
Define the Internet - ANSWERSA global computing network that provides a variety of
information and communication facilities. It consists of interconnected networks that use
standardized communication protocols.
Define the World Wide Web - ANSWERSAn information system on the internet;
allowing documents to be connected to other docs by hypertext links, enabling users to
search for info by moving from one doc to another.
Explain the relationship between the Internet and the World Wide Web - ANSWERSThe
internet is a network of interconnected networks, and the World Wide Web is a system
of linked pages, programs, and files via the Internet.
Define network - ANSWERSA group or system of interconnected people or things
Define interconnected - ANSWERSHaving all constituent (being part of a whole) parts
linked or connected
How are analog audio signals represented by computers? - ANSWERSAnalog audio
signals are measured at regular intervals. Each measurement is stored as a sample,
which is represented at the lowest level of sequence bits.
What is NOT a benefit of collaborating to develop a computing innovation -
ANSWERSCollaboration eliminates the need to resolve differences of opinion
The internet is designed to... - ANSWERSScale to support an increasing number of
users
Define lossy compression - ANSWERSMethod of data compression where the size of
the file is reduced by eliminating data in the file. In doing so...image quality is sacrificed
to decrease file size. Any data that the algorithm deems expendable is removed from
the image.
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