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CMPE 3334 Systems Midterm Exam questions and answers
with complete solutions verified graded a++ 2025/2026
Terms in this set (116)
(QUIZ 1.1) System True
programming (or
systems
programming) is the
activity of
programming
computer system
software. System
programming
requires a great
degree of hardware
awareness. Its
overall goal is to
achieve efficient use
of available
resources.
(QUIZ 1.1) Originally True
systems
programmers wrote
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system software in
machine language.
In the 60s decade,
systems
programmers
invariably wrote in
assembly language
but experiments
with hardware
support in high level
languages in the
late 1960s led to the
use of programming
languages as PL/S,
BLISS, BCPL
associated to
particular systems.
In the 1980s, C
became a ubiquitous
system
programming
language, aided by
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the growth of
operating system
Unix.
(QUIZ 1.1) False
Application software
is concerned with
supporting the use
and operation of the
computer system.
(QUIZ 1.1) Operating False
systems, assemblers,
compilers,
compressors, loaders,
linkers, debuggers are
application software.
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(QUIZ 1.1) A simple True
programming
environment could
be:
1.- A text editor for
program preparation
like vim.
2.- An Assembler
and/or a compiler for
translating programs
to machine language
like nasm and gcc.
3.- A simple
operating system
consisting of I/O
drivers and a file
system like Linux.
(QUIZ 1.1) In spite of True
the fact that the
implementation of
system programs are
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CMPE 3334 Systems Midterm Exam questions and answers
with complete solutions verified graded a++ 2025/2026
Terms in this set (116)
(QUIZ 1.1) System True
programming (or
systems
programming) is the
activity of
programming
computer system
software. System
programming
requires a great
degree of hardware
awareness. Its
overall goal is to
achieve efficient use
of available
resources.
(QUIZ 1.1) Originally True
systems
programmers wrote
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system software in
machine language.
In the 60s decade,
systems
programmers
invariably wrote in
assembly language
but experiments
with hardware
support in high level
languages in the
late 1960s led to the
use of programming
languages as PL/S,
BLISS, BCPL
associated to
particular systems.
In the 1980s, C
became a ubiquitous
system
programming
language, aided by
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the growth of
operating system
Unix.
(QUIZ 1.1) False
Application software
is concerned with
supporting the use
and operation of the
computer system.
(QUIZ 1.1) Operating False
systems, assemblers,
compilers,
compressors, loaders,
linkers, debuggers are
application software.
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(QUIZ 1.1) A simple True
programming
environment could
be:
1.- A text editor for
program preparation
like vim.
2.- An Assembler
and/or a compiler for
translating programs
to machine language
like nasm and gcc.
3.- A simple
operating system
consisting of I/O
drivers and a file
system like Linux.
(QUIZ 1.1) In spite of True
the fact that the
implementation of
system programs are
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