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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.
Q2 | The ………………..has the lowest level capacity.
Q3 | Large-scale production of ……………began in 1971 and this has been of great use in the production of microcomputers.
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).
Q5 | The …………..defines the instructions to be executed by the computer while RAM is the functional equivalent of computer memory.
Q6 | The Apple IIe, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Genie III are examples of microcomputers and are essentially …………..generation devices.
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.
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.
Q9 | ……………were well known in the 1940s although they are now uncommon.
Q10 | In…………., Babbage designed a more ambitious machine, called the Analytical Engine but unfortunately it also was only partiallycompleted.
Q11 | ………………, together with Ada Lovelace recognized several important programming techniques, including conditional branches, iterativeloops and index variables.
Q12 | A second early electronic machine was Colossus, designed by……………….for the British military in 1943.
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………………..
Q14 | In 1964, …………….developed the CDC 6600, which was the first architecture to use functional parallelism.
Q15 | ……………….of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (Basic Computer Programming Language, 1967).
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.
Q17 | ………………….invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) which introduced electronic binary logic in the late 1930s.
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.
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…………………..
Q20 | The DEHOMAG D11 tabulator was invented in…………...
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’.
Q22 | …………..built the Z4, a relay computer with a mechanical memory of unique design, during the war years in Berlin.
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.
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.
Q25 | ………………, supercomputer and Internet pioneer, was born in 1954, in Nigeria, Africa.