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Question 1

What was introduced in the 1960s, where a massive amount of computational power may be placed in this device with small power consumed, and can be mass produced?

Answer 1

IC

Question 2

To which ancient mathematics was the sexagesimal system associated to?

Answer 2

Babylonian mathematics

Question 3

To which timeline did the Babylonian civilization flourished in Mesopotamia?

Answer 3

2000 BC until about 300 BC

Question 4

A computer dedicated to providing one or more services and is supposed to be dependable, capable of running for several years, and capable of providing valuable diagnostics in the event of an error.

Answer 4

Server

Question 5

What program released by Adobe Systems was created in 1987 and was used for image editing in the pseudopod scene in the movie “The Abyss”?

Answer 5

Photoshop

Question 6

This was an intermediate-sized computer, which was widely used in business computing during the the 1950s up to the early 1960s.

Answer 6

IBM 650

Question 7

What scripts are being referred to as “sacred inscriptions”?

Answer 7

Hieroglyphs

Question 8

A British scientist, mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst who used vacuum tube technology to build the Colossus to counter act the German code scrambling device in 1943.

Answer 8

Alan Turing

Question 9

What stage of the data processing cycle, apps subject the data to various powerful machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms and each single process might contain multiple execution mini-threads that work simultaneously, depending on the data?

Answer 9

processing data

Question 10

In the van Neumann architecture, which of the following contains the address of the next instruction to be executed fetched from memory and executed?

Answer 10

control unit

Question 11

He developed Binary Algebra or also known as Boolean Algebra in 1842

Answer 11

George Boole

Question 12

An American computer programmer and entrepreneur known for his social networking site launched in 2004 in his room dormitory at Harvard University.

Answer 12

Mark Zuckerberg

Question 13

How data being represented in analog computers?

Answer 13

on and off

Question 14

What device was developed by physicist John Mauchly in 1942 an all electronic calculating machine needed to calculate complex wartime ballistic tables?

Answer 14

ENIAC

Question 15

What is a three-terminal, solid-state electronic device that can control electric current or voltage between two of the terminals by applying an electric current or voltage to the third terminal?

Answer 15

transistor

Question 16

What first generation of digital computer that was developed at the University of Iowa in 1942 to solve equations automatically?

Answer 16

ABC

Question 17

Which computer came about from the work done by von Neumann, Eckert, Mauchly and others on the design of binary serial computer with automated multiplication, addition, subtraction and automatic checking?

Answer 17

EDVAC

Question 18

This was an intermediate-sized computer, which was widely used in business computing during the the 1950s up to the early 1960s.

Answer 18

IBM 650

Question 19

The first computer programmer. This person created the program for the invention of Charles Babbage of the Difference Engine in 1842?

Answer 19

Ada Augusta Lovelace

Question 20

This introduced in the 1960s which was an 18-bit machine with an early time-sharing operating system.

Answer 20

PDP minicomputer

Question 21

What device was developed by physicist John Mauchly in 1942 an all electronic calculating machine needed to calculate complex wartime ballistic tables?

Answer 21

ENIAC

Question 22

A computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and was introduced to be used for whom computing was a hobby?

Answer 22

Apple computer I

Question 23

What device that relies on the flow of an electric current through thermionic valves widely used in electronic devices?

Answer 23

Vacuum tubes

Question 24

A system of writing in the ancient middle east which was coined from Latin and middle French roots meaning “wedge-shaped”.

Answer 24

Cuneiform

Question 25

What machine, designed to be considered to be the concept for the first general mechanical computer that featured an arithmetic logic unit?

Answer 25

Analytical engine

Question 26

What is considered to be the world first microprocessor and was released in 1969?

Answer 26

Intel P4004

Question 27

This machine was introduced in 1983, had more memory, a dual-sided diskette drive and a high-performance fixed-disk drive.

Answer 27

IBM PC XT

Question 28

Which machine was used by Germans to code their military communications during WWII?

Answer 28

Enigma machine

Question 29

This type of data processing uses electronic communication tools to process raw data efficiently and timely.

Answer 29

EDP or electronic data processing

Question 30

He founded the W3C in 1993 and is considered the Father of the Web.

Answer 30

Time Berners-Lee

Question 31

What operating mechanism invented in 1672 was the first calculator that could perform all four arithmetic operations, that is addition, subtraction, multiplication, and addition?

Answer 31

Step Reckoner

Question 32

It was Australia’s first digital computer which had its first run in November 1949 and was the fourth stored program computer in the world?

Answer 32

CSIRAC

Question 33

Who designed the IBM 360 series mainframe computers which was known to be the first general purpose digital computer to use the integrated circuit?

Answer 33

Amdahl

Question 34

It is a computer in which multiple individuals may log on at various times, having usernames and passwords, with files they see and the computer’s settings tailored to their specific account.

Answer 34

shared computer

Question 35

Which was the fastest and very expensive type of computer developed in 1976?

Answer 35

Cray I

Question 36

This stage of data processing requires the manipulation of data into a suitable format to analyze and process. This stage sets the analysis by screening the issues, to avoid misleading results.
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input data

Answer 36

preparing data

Question 37

What computer is an all-black computer having a Motorola microprocessor, has an 8 MB RAM with the inclusion of an magneto-optical disk drive?

Answer 37

NeXT Cube

Question 38

What is this thing created by an Egyptian scribe called Ahmose which contains many kind of arithmetic and geometric problems?

Answer 38

Rhind papyrus