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Question : 16

_________ is a set of keywords, symbols, and a system of rules for constructing statements by which humans can communicate the instructions to be executed by a computer.

a) A computer program

b) A programming language

c) An assembler

d) Syntax

e) None of these

Question : 17

What is the name for the process that is used to convert a series of instructions, or program, written in a high-level language into instructions (or a program) that can be run on a computer?

a) Assembling

b) Compiling

c) Translating

d) Uploading

e) None of these

Question : 18

An error in a computer program is called a __________.

a) crash

b) power failure

c) bug

d) virus

e) fatal error

Question : 19

Companies use which of the following vendors to provide access to software and services rather than purchasing the applications and maintaining the applications themselves?

a) Open source vendors

b) Alliances

c) Application service providers

d) All of the above

e) None of these

Question : 20

Modern Computers represent characters and numbers internally using one of the following number systems __________.

a) Penta

b) Octal

c) Hexa

d) Septa

e) Binary