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This set of Informatics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Informatics Set 3

Q1 | ………….became a computing device when it was first used to design the abacus.
  • arpanet
  • wood
  • ligo
  • flesh
Q2 | The ………………..has the lowest level capacity.
  • minicomputers
  • microcomputer
  • medium-size computers
  • large computers
Q3 | Large-scale production of ……………began in 1971 and this has been of great use in the production of microcomputers.
  • arpanet
  • silicon chips
  • minicomputers
  • rom
Q4 | ……………..is a digital computer system that is controlled by a stored program that uses a microprocessor, a programmable read-onlymemory (ROM) and a random-access memory (RAM).
  • minicomputers
  • the microcomputer
  • medium-size computers
  • large computers
Q5 | The …………..defines the instructions to be executed by the computer while RAM is the functional equivalent of computer memory.
  • arpanet
  • rom
  • silicon chips
  • metals
Q6 | The Apple IIe, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Genie III are examples of microcomputers and are essentially …………..generation devices.
  • first
  • second
  • third
  • fourth
Q7 | ……………..have from 4k to 64k storage location and are capable of handling small, single-business application such as sales analysis, inventory, billing and payroll.
  • microcomputers
  • minicomputers
  • medium-size computers
  • large computers
Q8 | In the……………, the growing demand for a smaller stand-alone machine brought about the manufacture of the minicomputer, to handle tasks that large computers could not perform economically.
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
Q9 | ……………were well known in the 1940s although they are now uncommon.
  • analog computers
  • digital computers
  • hybrid computers
  • minicomputers
Q10 | In…………., Babbage designed a more ambitious machine, called the Analytical Engine but unfortunately it also was only partiallycompleted.
  • 1842
  • 1852
  • 1862
  • 1872
Q11 | ………………, together with Ada Lovelace recognized several important programming techniques, including conditional branches, iterativeloops and index variables.
  • herman hollerith
  • george scheutz
  • babbage
  • j.v.atanasoff
Q12 | A second early electronic machine was Colossus, designed by……………….for the British military in 1943.
  • alan turing
  • eckert
  • mauchly
  • john von neumann
Q13 | The first general purposes programmable electronic computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of………………..
  • pennsylvania
  • cambridge
  • london
  • harvard
Q14 | In 1964, …………….developed the CDC 6600, which was the first architecture to use functional parallelism.
  • larry augustin
  • george b.selden
  • seymour cray
  • bob kahn
Q15 | ……………….of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (Basic Computer Programming Language, 1967).
  • martin richards
  • george b.selden
  • todd anderson
  • larry augustin
Q16 | In 1970 …………………of Bell Labs developed yet another simplification of CPL called simply B, in connection with an early implementation ofthe UNIX operating system.
  • ken thompson
  • george b.selden
  • larry augustin
  • lawrence roberts
Q17 | ………………….invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) which introduced electronic binary logic in the late 1930s.
  • lawrence roberts
  • howard aiken
  • george b.selden
  • john atanasoff
Q18 | …………………first machine was known as Mark I and originally named the IBM ASCC and this was the first machine that could solvecomplicated mathematical problems by being programmed to execute a series of controlled operations in a specific sequence.
  • bob kahn’s
  • george b.selden’s
  • lawrence roberts’
  • howard aiken’s
Q19 | The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was displayed to the public on February 14, 1946, at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of…………………..
  • georgia
  • massachusetts
  • california
  • pennsylvania
Q20 | The DEHOMAG D11 tabulator was invented in…………...
  • california
  • harvard
  • massachusetts
  • germany
Q21 | …………….is popularly recognized in Germany as the father of the computer and his Z1, a programmable automaton built from 1936 to 1938, is said to be the world’s ‘first programmable calculating machine’.
  • peter scott
  • lawrence roberts
  • ray tomlinson
  • korad zuse
Q22 | …………..built the Z4, a relay computer with a mechanical memory of unique design, during the war years in Berlin.
  • korad zuse
  • eduard stiefel
  • dr. heinz
  • george b.selden
Q23 | During the World war II, a young German engineer, ……………studied the application of electronic analog circuits for the guidance and control system of liquid-propellant rockets and developed a special purposeanalog computer, the ‘Mischgerat’ and integrated it into the rocket.
  • peter scott
  • george b.selden
  • lawrence roberts
  • helmut hoelzer
Q24 | The Colossus was designed and constructed at the Post Office Research Laboratories at Dollis Hill in North ……………..in 1943 to help Bletchley Park in decoding intercepted German telegraphic messages.
  • oxford
  • harvard
  • cambridge
  • london
Q25 | ………………, supercomputer and Internet pioneer, was born in 1954, in Nigeria, Africa.
  • philip emeagwali
  • george b.selden
  • todd anderson
  • larry augustin