Living In The IT Era Reviewer

Question 1

It is the knowledge acquired from another

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Information

Question 2

Methods of transfer information

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• Image
• Text
• Sound
• Video

Question 3

Other form of greek word “Technologies”

Answer 3

Techne - art, skill or craft

Logia - study

Question 4

Uses of computer

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- Store
- Transmit
- Retrieve
- Manipulate data or information

Question 5

Uses of ICT in our daily lives

Answer 5

Job opportunities

Education

Socializing

Question 6

Positive impacts of ICT

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1. Access to Information
2. Improve access to education
3. Distance learning
4. New tools, new opportunities
5. Information management
6. Security
7. Communication

Question 7

Negative impact of ICT

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1. Job loss
2. Reduced personal interaction
3. Reduced physical activity
4. Cost
5. Competition

Question 8

It is a programmable machine.

Answer 8

Computer

Question 9

Ancient memory device to record and document numbers, quantities or even messages

Answer 9

Tally Stick

Question 10

A mechanical device used to aid an individual in performing Mathematical calculations

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Abacus (2400 BC)

Question 11

Invented by John Napier

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Napier bones (1614)

Question 12

Invented by William Oughtred

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Slide Rule (1622)

Question 13

Invented by Blaise Pascal

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Pascaline 1642

Question 14

Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Stepped Reckoner 1672

Question 15

Invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard

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Jacquard Loom (1881)

Question 16

The first mass produced calculating machine invented by Thomas de Colmar

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Arithmometer 1820

Question 17

It is the first mechanical computer made by Charles Babbage

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Difference and Analytical Engine (1822 and 1834)

Question 18

First computer Programmer

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Augusta Ada Byron (1840)

Question 19

It is the first printing calculator invented by Per Georg Scheutz

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Scheutzian Calculation Engine (1843)

Question 20

Invented by Herman Hollerith

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Tabulating Machine (1890)

Question 21

The first electro-mechanical computer invented by Howard H. Aiken

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Harvard Mark 1 (1943)

Question 22

The first programmable computer created by Konrad Zuse in Germany

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Z1 (1936-1938)

Question 23

First electronic digital computing device that invented by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry

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ABC “Atanasoff-Berry Computer” (1942)

Question 24

Developed by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly

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ENIAC “Electronic Numerical Intergrator and Computer” (1946)

Question 25

First commercial computer designed by **John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly**

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**UNIVAC 1 "Universal Automatic Computer"**

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First stored program Computer designed by **Von Neuman**

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**EDVAC "Electronic Device Variable Automatic Computer" (1952)**

Question 27

First Portable computer released by the **Osborne Computer Corporation**

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**Osborne 1 (1981)**

Question 28

First computer company founded by **John Eckert and John Mauchly**

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**Electronics Control Company (1949)**

Question 29

Four stages of ICT?

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1. **Premechanical Age (3000 BC - 1450 AD)** 2. **Mechanical Age (1450 - 1840)** 3. **Electromechanical Age (1840 - 1940)** 4. **Electronic Age (1941 - Present)**

Question 30

Pre-Mechanical devices

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1. Petroglyph 2. Papyrus 3. Egyptian Systems 4. Abacus

Question 31

Mechanical age devices

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1. First information explosion (mechanized printing press) Johann Gutenberg in 1450 2. Calculating machine (first mechanical calculator) by William Schickard in 1623 3. Pascaline (1642) 4. Babbage's engines - Difference Engine (1821) - Analytical Engine (1832)

Question 32

Father of modern computer

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**Charles Babbage**

Question 33

Electromechanical Age devices

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1. Morse Code (1835) by Samuel Morse 2. Telephone and Radio (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell 3. Comptograph (1885) by Dorr Felt 4. Punch Card (1890)

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Electronic Age devices

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1. Z1 (1941) 2. Mark 1 (1942) 3. ABC (1942)

Question 35

First generation computer

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**Vacuum Tubes (1946 - 1958)**

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2nd generation computer

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**Transistors (1959 - 1964)**

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3rd gen computers

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**Integrated Circuits (1965 - 1970)**

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4th gen computers

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**Microprocessors (1970 - Present)**

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5th generation computer

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**Artificial Intelligence (Present - Future)**

Question 40

Application of ICT (Computers) in our Daily Lives

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1. Business 2. Education 3. Health Care 4. Retail and Trade 5. Government 6. Marketing 7. Science 8. Publishing 9. Arts and Entertainment 10. Communication 11. Banking and finance 12. Transport 13. Working from Home 14. Navigation 15. Military 16. Social and Romance 17. Booking Vacations 18. Security and Surveillance 19. Weather Forecasting 20. Robotics