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This set of Informatics and History Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Informatics And History Set 7
Q1 | ……………..is a digital computer system that is controlled by a storedprogram that uses a microprocessor, a programmable read-only memory (ROM) and a random-access memory (RAM).
- Minicomputers
- The microcomputer
- Medium-size computers
- Large computers
Q2 | The …………..defines the instructions to be executed by the computerwhile RAM is the functional equivalent of computer memory.
- ARPANET
- ROM
- Silicon chips
- Metals
Q3 | The Apple IIe, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Genie III are examplesof microcomputers and are essentially …………..generation devices.
- First
- second
- third
- fourth
Q4 | ……………..have from 4k to 64k storage location and are capable ofhandling small, single-business application such as sales analysis, inventory, billing and payroll.
- Microcomputers
- Minicomputers
- Medium-size computers
- Large computers
Q5 | In the……………, the growing demand for a smaller stand-alonemachine brought about the manufacture of the minicomputer, to handle tasks that large computers could not perform economically.
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1970s
- 1980s
Q6 | ……………were well known in the 1940s although they are now uncommon.
- Analog computers
- Digital computers
- Hybrid computers
- Minicomputers
Q7 | ………………., Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibnitz were amongmathematicians who designed and implemented calculators that were capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division included.
- Wilhelm Schickhard
- Clifford Berry
- Ray Tomlinson
- Burton Stein
Q8 | The first multi-purpose or programmable computing device wasprobably Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, which was begun in …………….but never completed.
- 1823
- 1827
- 1832
- 1865
Q9 | In…………., Babbage designed a more ambitious machine, called theAnalytical Engine but unfortunately it also was only partially completed.
- 1842
- 1852
- 1862
- 1872
Q10 | ………………, together with Ada Lovelace recognized several importantprogramming techniques, including conditional branches, iterative loops and index variables.
- Herman Hollerith
- George Scheutz
- Babbage
- J.V.Atanasoff
Q11 | A second early electronic machine was Colossus, designed by ……………….for the British military in 1943.
- Alan Turing
- Eckert
- Mauchly
- John von Neumann
Q12 | The first general purposes programmable electronic computer was theElectronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of………………..
- Pennsylvania
- Cambridge
- London
- Harvard
Q13 | In 1964, …………….developed the CDC 6600, which was the firstarchitecture to use functional parallelism.
- Larry Augustin
- George B.Selden
- Seymour Cray
- Bob Kahn
Q14 | ……………….of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (BasicComputer Programming Language, 1967).
- Martin Richards
- George B.Selden
- Todd Anderson
- Larry Augustin
Q15 | In 1970 …………………of Bell Labs developed yet another simplificationof CPL called simply B, in connection with an early implementation of the UNIX operating system.
- Ken Thompson
- George B.Selden
- Larry Augustin
- Lawrence Roberts
Q16 | ………………….invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) whichintroduced electronic binary logic in the late 1930s.
- Lawrence Roberts
- Howard Aiken
- George B.Selden
- John Atanasoff
Q17 | …………………first machine was known as Mark I and originally namedthe IBM ASCC and this was the first machine that could solve complicated 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
Q18 | The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) wasdisplayed to the public on February 14, 1946, at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of…………………..
- Georgia
- Massachusetts
- California
- Pennsylvania
Q19 | The DEHOMAG D11 tabulator was invented in…………...
- California
- Harvard
- Massachusetts
- Germany
Q20 | …………….is popularly recognized in Germany as the father of the computer and his Z1, a programmable automaton built from 1936 to1938, is said to be the world’s ‘first programmable calculating machine’.
- Peter Scott
- Lawrence Roberts
- Ray Tomlinson
- Korad Zuse
Q21 | …………..built the Z4, a relay computer with a mechanical memory ofunique design, during the war years in Berlin.
- Korad Zuse
- Eduard Stiefel
- Dr. Heinz
- George B.Selden
Q22 | 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 purpose analog computer, the ‘Mischgerat’ and integrated it into the rocket.
- Peter Scott
- George B.Selden
- Lawrence Roberts
- Helmut Hoelzer
Q23 | 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
Q24 | ………………, supercomputer and Internet pioneer, was born in 1954, inNigeria, Africa.
- Philip Emeagwali
- George B.Selden
- Todd Anderson
- Larry Augustin
Q25 | A computer ……………is a computer peripheral device that produces ahard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics, usually on paper) from data stored in a computer connected to it.
- printer
- ICT
- ARPANET
- scanner