1. TRUE or FALSE? The discipline of computer science is solely concerned with the design and development of computational machines.
2. TRUE or FALSE? Unlike in the natural sciences (such as physics and biology), the systems that computer scientists investigate are largely artificial (e.g., programs, computers, computation models).
3. TRUE or FALSE? The three recurring themes that define the discipline of computer science are hardware, software, and theory.
4. TRUE or FALSE? Theoretical computer scientists have proven that any problem that can be stated clearly is solvable via an algorithm.
5. TRUE or FALSE? Private-key encryption algorithms require the sender and recipient of a message to agree upon a secret key (or password) for encoding and decoding the message.
6. TRUE or FALSE? In a time-sharing computer, the processor executes user programs in sequence, completing the execution of one program before beginning the next one.
7. TRUE or FALSE? On an Ethernet network, computer A can send a message directly to computer B, without any other computer on the network receiving that message.
8. TRUE or FALSE? When developing large software projects, it generally takes more time to develop the code than it does to test and maintain it.
9. TRUE or FALSE? The Turing Test was proposed by Alan Turing as a means of determining whether an artificially intelligent machine has been constructed.
10. TRUE or FALSE? According to the Code of Ethics proposed by the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM), a computer professional is responsible for understanding the potential impact of his or her work and for striving to minimize risks to the public.