AP Computer Science Practice Test 2

Every night, at 12:00 am, you notice that some files are being uploaded from your PC device to an unfamiliar website without your knowledge. You check the file and find that these files are from the day’s work at the office. What is this an example of?

The employees of an organization receive an email from the organization’s payroll department. It states that the employees must send their updated banking information by the end of the day so their paychecks can be transferred to their accounts.

Upon asking the payroll department, they deny ever sending such an email. What is this an example of?

An organization requires multi-factor authentication before giving the site access to its employees. One of the authentication factors requires an employee to use a security token that is texted to their mobile phones.

What factor is being used to identify the employee?

The same task is performed through sequential and parallel computing models. The time taken by the sequential setup was 30 seconds, while it took the parallel model only 10 seconds.

What will be the speedup parameter for working with the parallel model from now on?

What will be the output at the three highlighted points in the following figure of a Boolean logic circuit algorithm if A= 1, B=0, C= 0, and D=1?

Ford Motors Ltd. wants to design its own sensors for its new self-driving cars. What condition would not be a parameter for testing when these sensors are simulated?

A vending machine counts the number of quarters inserted before dispensing drinks. The vending machine requires four quarters to give a drink.

The vending machine uses the following flow chart. What will happen if five coins are inserted into the machine simultaneously?

When customers log into their account on an online shirts retail store, they can access information about the selected shirts before making their purchase.

Some information about the shirts includes ID, Type, price, size, color, and available units of the selected shirt. What additional information can be derived from the available dataset?

A biologist is researching bird nesting behavior by studying and making a data set of the different species of birds, their nests, and their ability to raise their young.

Which of the following would be an example of metadata from the following information if it is stored in the dataset?

John and May previously developed a children’s game that did not capture much of a following. They want to first make a focus group to get feedback to improve their game. Which of the following steps can John and May take to get the correct feedback?