Acc 260 Exam 1

Front 1

Computers can directly understand only their native _________ language, which is composed of only 1's and 0's.

Back 1

machine

Front 2

Computers process data under the control of sets of instructions called computer ________.

Back 2

programs

Front 3

The three types of computer programming languages discussed in the chapter are machine languages, ______ and ________.

Back 3

assembly languages, high-level languages

Front 4

Programs that translate high-level-language programs into machine language are called ________.

Back 4

compilers

Front 5

Visual Studio is a _______.

Back 5

IDE (integrated development environment)

Front 6

Visual Basic is an ________
event-driven language.

Back 6

object-oriented

Front 7

_______ is a programming language that was created by Microsoft specifically for the .NET platform.

Back 7

C#

Front 8

_________ is a language for sharing information via "hyperlinked" text documents on the world wide web.

Back 8

HyperText Markup language

Front 9

The __________ executes .NET programs.

Back 9

Common Language Runtime
(CLR)

Front 10

Objects have ________ (also called properties) and perform actions (also called methods or __________)

Back 10

attributes, behaviors

Front 11

___________ models software in terms similar to those that people use to describe real-world objects.

Back 11

Object-oriented design (OOD)

Front 12

With _________, you build much of the new software you'll need by combining existing classes.

Back 12

object technology

Front 13

The UML is used primarily to implement object-oriented systems.

Back 13

False. The UML is used primarily to DESIGN object-oriented systems.

Front 14

Visual Basic is an object-oriented language.

Back 14

True

Front 15

Visual Basic is the only language available for programming .NET applications.

Back 15

False. Visual Basic is one of many .NET languages (C# and Visual C++)

Front 16

Computers can directly understand high-level languages.

Back 16

False. Computers can directly understand their own machine language.

Front 17

MSIL is the common intermediate format to which all .NET programs compile, regardless of their original .NET language.

Back 17

True

Front 18

The .NET Framework is portable to non-Windows platforms.

Back 18

True

Front 19

The technique of __________ allows you to create GUI's without writing any code.

Back 19

visual programming

Front 20

A __________ is a group of one or more projects that collectively form a Visual Basic program.

Back 20

solution

Front 21

The _________ feature hides a window when the mouse pointer is moved outside the windows area.

Back 21

auto-hide

Front 22

A ________ appears when the mouse pointer hovers over an icon.

Back 22

tool tip

Front 23

The ________ _______ window allows you to browse solution files.

Back 23

Solution Explorer

Front 24

The properties in the Properties window can be sorted ________ or _________.

Back 24

alphabetically or categorically

Front 25

A form's ________ property specifies the text displayed in the form's title bar.

Back 25

Text

Front 26

The ________ allows you to add controls to the form in a visual manner.

Back 26

Toolbox

Front 27

Using _________ displays relevant help articles, based on current context.

Back 27

context-sensitive help

Front 28

The _________ property specifies how text is aligned within a Labels boundaries.

Back 28

TextAlign

Front 29

The title bar of the IDE displays the IDE's mode.

Back 29

True

Front 30

The X box toggles auto-hide.

Back 30

False. The pin option toggles auto-hide. The X box closes the window.

Front 31

The toolbar icons represent various menu commands.

Back 31

True

Front 32

The toolbar contains icons that represent controls you can drag onto a Form.

Back 32

False. The toolbar contains icons that represent such controls.

Front 33

Both forms and labels have a title bar.

Back 33

False. Forms have a title bar but Labels do not (they do have Label Text).

Front 34

Control properties can be modified only by writing code.

Back 34

False. Control properties can be modified using the Properties window.

Front 35

PictureBoxes typically display images.

Back 35

True

Front 36

Visual Basic files use the extension .bas.

Back 36

False, they use .vb.

Front 37

A Forms background color is set using the BackColor property.

Back 37

True

Front 38

The Form's ________ property specifies the text that is displayed in the Form's title bar.

Back 38

Text

Front 39

Property _________ specifies how text is aligned within a Label's boundaries.

Back 39

TextAlign

Front 40

A Button's text should use _________ capitalization.

Back 40

book-title

Front 41

An output Label should ________.

Back 41

Be distinguishable from all other labels.
Initially have an empty text property or a default value.
Use Fixed3D for the BorderStyle property.

Front 42

A Button's _______ property sets the text on the face of the Button.

Back 42

Text

Front 43

If there are errors in an application, they appear in the window known as the __________.

Back 43

Error List

Front 44

When a value is placed in a memory location, the value _________ the previous value in that location.

Back 44

replaces

Front 45

When value is read from memory, that value is ____________.

Back 45

not overwritten

Front 46

Arithmetic expressions in must be written ________ to facilitate entering applications into the computer.

Back 46

in straight-line form

Front 47

The expression to the right of the assignment operator (=) is evaluated ___________ the assignment occurs.

Back 47

before

Front 48

Comments cause the computer to print the text after the ' on the screen when the program executes.

Back 48

False. Comments do not cause any action to be performed when the program executes. They're used to document programs and improve their readability.

Front 49

All variables must be declared before they can be used in a Visual Basic program.

Back 49

True

Front 50

Visual Basic considers the variable name names number and nuMbEr to be different.

Back 50

False. Identifiers are not case sensitive.

Front 51

The arithmetic operators *, /, and - all have the same level of precedence.

Back 51

False. Subtraction is a lower precedence than multiplication and division.

Front 52

A string of characters contained between double quotation marks is called a phrase or phrase literal.

Back 52

False. A string of characters is called a string or string literal.

Front 53

Integer division reveals an Integer result.

Back 53

True