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CSC205 Introduction to Computer Science - Test 1, Nov 2023 - Universit
- First Semester Test 1, Thursday 16/11/2023 (instructors Dr.
- Achankeng \& Mr.
- Mbungang), University of Buea: Part I Section A, 10 MCQs (computer generations, system/application software, operating systems, ethical/cultural classification of IT issues, data-protection principles, environmental IT issues, copyright law, proprietary software); Part I Section B, a discussion question on ethical/legal/cultural issues raised by a continuous-monitoring wearable device, a Turing-machine-to-modern-computer component-mapping table, and a fill-in-the-blank description of the computer boot process; Part II Exercise I, binary/hex/decimal/BCD conversions, 8-bit sign-magnitude and 2's-complement representation, and an IEEE-754 single-precision decode; Part II Exercise II, seven True/False statements (with mandatory justification) on Von Neumann vs Harvard architecture, the ALU vs Control Unit, clock rate, high-level vs assembly compilation, CISC instruction-length characteristics, and Type-1 vs Type-2 virtualization.
