GIAC GFACT Exam Review 2024 | Gfact Giac Exam Update Latest 2024 Questions and Correct Answers Rated A+ Low level programming language -ANSWER -a programming language that is closer to how the processor thinks and hardware (machine code), are quite difficult to learn (EX. C) High level programming language -ANSWER -a language wh ere the code you write is more abstract from the machine code that it produces (EX. Python); enables development of a program in a much more user -friendly programming context Version Control System -ANSWER -powerful tools that enable you to track changes t o programming projects; enable you to look back at your code at any point in time in the past, collaborate with other developers and merge the work of many into a working product Repository (Repo) -ANSWER -the place where a project lives Commit -ANSWER -an incremental change to the repository Origin -ANSWER -the location of the remote repository Master -ANSWER -the name of the default branch in the git repository Branches -ANSWER -in Git allow you to work on specific features independently, without touching the code in master Types: *The master branch *The dev branch Master Branch -ANSWER -the production state of your application. Dev Branch -ANSWER -the testing state of your application, which would be what you test on Pull request (pr) -ANSWER -allow you to review all the code that would be changed in the merge and either approve or reject it. script.py -ANSWER -the filename of the Python program you want to run Variables -ANSWER -a way of storing data in programs; the act of assigning a value where we use the equals (=) operator. String -ANSWER -A series of characters (basically, text); are always surrounded by quotes Integer -ANSWER -A whole number (could be positive or negative) Float -ANSWER -A number with a decimal point Boolean -ANSWER -A True or Fals e value; can be represented as 1 (True) and 0 (False) "Whitespace" -ANSWER -refers to a type of character that doesn't print anything out, but adds some sort of spacing formatting to the output. \n character combination -ANSWER -tell the program where we w ant our line breaks \t character combination -ANSWER -can add tabs to our output lstrip() -ANSWER -can strip whitespace off the left side of a string email = ' jane@email.com ' email.lstrip() Output: "jane@email.com " rstrip() -ANSWER -can strip whitespac e off the right side of a string email = ' jane@email.com ' email.rstrip() Output: " jane@email.com" strip() -ANSWER -strip both sides of a string at the same time email = " jane@email.com " email.strip() Output: "jane@email.com" print() -ANSWER -program will output the result of a string/mathematical operator round() function -ANSWER -it rounds decimal numbers up or down, to a given preferred decimal place Lists -ANSWER -a list of things stored in a particular order (EX. fav_linux_distros = ['Mint', 'Deb ian', 'Ubuntu'] Index of -1 -ANSWER -Python will always return the last item in the list (EX. print(fav_linux_distros[ -1]) ) upper() function -ANSWER -modified an item from our list to appear in all uppercase (EX. top_fav_distro.upper() ) len() function -ANSWER -get a quick count of the things in our list (EX. print(len(fav_linux_distros)) ) sort() function -ANSWER -sorts a list alphabetically (EX. fav_linux_distros = ['Mint', 'Debian', 'Ubuntu', 'Manjaro', 'Fedora', 'Arch'] fav_linux_distros.sort() Outpu t: ['Arch', 'Debian', 'Fedora', 'Manjaro', 'Mint', 'Ubuntu'] ) reverse() funtcion -ANSWER -reverse the order of a list (EX. fav_linux_distros = ['Mint', 'Debian', 'Ubuntu', 'Manjaro', 'Fedora', 'Arch'] fav_linux_distros.reverse() Output: ['Ubuntu', 'Mint' , 'Manjaro', 'Fedora', 'Debian', 'Arch'] ) append() function -ANSWER -allows us to stick items onto the end of a list. (EX. travel_bucket_list.append('Toronto') ) insert() fucntion -ANSWER -add items into an existing list at any position we want (EX. trave l_bucket_list.insert(0, 'New York') )
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