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Automata Theory Challenge

Welcome to the Automata Theory Challenge! Test your knowledge with 30 thought-provoking questions about automata theory, context-free grammars, Turing machines, and more. Explore the foundations of computer science and see how well you understand these essential concepts.

This quiz is designed for students, educators, and anyone with an interest in theoretical computer science. Here’s what you can expect:

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A proof by contradiction is a proof that assumes the negation of the conclusion and shows that this leads to a contradiction

True

False

A DFA has a unique transition for each input symbol and state.

True

False

An NFA has a unique transition for each input symbol and state

True

False

A CFG automaton consists of a finite set of states, a set of input symbols, a stack, and a set of transition rules.

False

True

The order in which the nodes are arranged in a parse tree does not matter

True

False

Some context free languages are regular

True

False

All finite languages are context free

True

False

A CFG can contain the production AA → BB

True

False

A CFG is not closed under Iteration

True

False

A CFG is ambiguous if it has more than one rightmost derivations

True

False

Automata theory is a mathematical model for computational problems such as pattern recognition and other problems

True

False

A pushdown automaton is a 5-tuple (Q, Σ, δ, q0, F).

True

False

Context free language is the subset of context sensitive language.

True

False

Computability theory is classifying problems according to their difficulty .

True

False

Every language defined by a regular expression can be represented using a DFA.

True

False

If M is a finite automaton, then L(M) is regular.

True

False

The two regular expressions abc(phi) and abc(phi)* are equivalent.

True

False

A RE is a language for describing simple languages and patterns

True

False

(aa + ab + ba + bb)* represents all non empty strings of even length

True

False

Regular Expressions cannot be used with the Arabic language.

True

False

A grammar can generate the same string in different way

True

False

TC consists of : Automata theory, Computability theory, Complexity theory

True

False

In FA Any problem can be presented in form of a decidable problem that can be answered by classification

True

False

RE can not express some languages such as plaindrome strings a^n b^n

True

False

In NFA There is no a fixed number of states

True

False

A Turing machine is a finite state machine

True

False

A context-free grammar can generate any regular language

True

False

A regular language is a context-free language.

True

False

A context-free language is a recursive language.

True

False

A regular language is a recursive language

True

False

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