First Quiz

Question 0

Who was Blaise Pascal

Answer 0

Invented Pascaline
First “digital calc”
Worked based on gears like car odometer

Question 1

Who was John Napier

Answer 1

Invented Napier’s rods
Used as calculators
Slide rule

Question 2

Who was Charles Babbage

Answer 2

Created difference engine
Laid theory of removable memory
Early theory of programming

Question 3

Who was Herman Hollerith

Answer 3

Created census counting machine
Implemented Babbage’s ideas
Founded IBM

Question 4

Describe first generation computers

Answer 4

Primary input was punch cards
Used valves as on/off switch
Very little memory
Programmed in machine language, then assembly

Question 5

Describe 2nd gen computers

Answer 5

Introduced transistors
Core memory and disk storage
Use of high level programming
-Fortran, COBOL

Question 6

Describe 3rd gen comps

Answer 6

Use integrated circuits
Terminals replaced punch cards
IBM introduced compatible family of computers 
Operating systems developed
Now pervaded most areas of business

Question 7

Describe 4th gen comps

Answer 7

Use of microprocessors 
PCs developed by IBM
VLSI (very large scale of integration)
chips used
Secondary storage reached Gb

Question 8

Describe 5th gen comps

Answer 8

Next generation of comps
AI controlled computers
Voice recognition
Quantum computers
Goal is to allow comps to learn and self organize

Question 9

What is Moore’s Law

Answer 9

Density of silicon chips will double every year

Mostly accurate

Question 10

Describe the end of Moore’s Law

Answer 10

Chips can’t physically hold any more transistors before the would melt from the heat produced

Question 11

What are the five forms of computers

Answer 11

1: Mainframe
2: Minicomputers
3: Microcomputer
4: Internet
5: Pervasive computing

Question 12

What are mainframe comps

Answer 12

All hardware centralized

Users access via dumb terminals

Question 13

What are minicomputers

Answer 13

Same as mainframe just smaller/faster

Question 14

What are microcomputer

Answer 14

Personal Computers

Connection to mainframe by network only

Question 15

What is Internet

Answer 15

Enables computer interaction on global scale.

Uses global standard protocols

Question 16

What is pervasive computing

Answer 16

Making computers mobile

I.e. laptops, cell phone etc.

Question 17

What are the two tasks of the CPU

Answer 17

Math and Information Flow Management

Question 18

What’s the address bus

Answer 18

One way outgoing path the computer uses to request information from rest of system

Question 19

What’s the data bus

Answer 19

Two way path that carries data from system to CPU

Question 20

What’s RAM

Answer 20

Random Access Memory
Working memory
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Question 21

What’s the I/O bus

Answer 21

Connects chipset with internal/external

I.e hard drive, flash, optical disks

Question 22

What’s the BIOS ROM

Answer 22

Basic Input/Output System Read Only Memory

Boots computer

Question 23

What’s the clock

Answer 23

Timing pulse to system

GHz of chips

Question 24

What’s cache

Answer 24

Amount of memory stored on CPU

Very volatile but very fast

Question 25

What are two types of GPU

Answer 25

Dedicated and Integrated

Question 26

What’s Dedicated GPU

Answer 26

Plugs into motherboard and uses its own RAM. Much, much better

Question 27

What’s integrated GPU

Answer 27

Resides in motherboard and shares system RAM

Question 28

What are the 5 core functions of Operating Systems

Answer 28

Supervision of hardware
Hardware utilities
Security
Communication services
Software utilities

Question 29

What is UNIX

Answer 29

Early operating system whose code is still used
Experiment at AT&T
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