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Computer Trivia #5

Can you answer these general questions relating to computer science?
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On Windows, the common name given to the screen shown in the event of a "stop error" (i.e, a fatal system error caused by failure of software, hardware or drivers)
Blue Screen of Death
Crucial firmware which provides the instructions required to boot a computer's OS
Basic Input-Output System
One of the two most common HTTP methods, it is used to retrieve a resource from a web server
GET
In contrast with the above, it is used to send data to a web server, in order to create a resource or modify an already existing one
POST
A form of non-volatile memory; it cannot be modified in any way. Because of this, it is primarily used to store firmware
Read-only memory
A form of malicious software consisting of a set of tools which conceal themselves while maintaining elevated privilege, or granting it to another program
Rootkit
In JavaScript OOP, keyword used in order to signify that one class is a child of another
and allow inheritance
extends
Programming language, created in 2010, predominantly used for development of applications on Apple operating systems (e.g, macOS, iOS)
Swift
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In JavaScript, name of symbol used to enclose a concatenated string
Backtick
Logic gate and logical operator which returns a 1 or true if the two inputs are different
XOR
In CSS, a keyword which follows a selector (i.e, the tag name or element id) to define an
element's style for a specific event, for example :hover when the user hovers over the element
Psuedoclass
In programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java and C#, the keyword
used to skip over the current iteration of a for loop, while loop or switch/match block
continue
Used in similar context to the above, keyword used to completely end said loop and execute the code following it
break
In JavaScript, function used to generate a random float between 0 and 1
math.random()
PowerShell file extension
.ps1
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