Question 1

…………….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'.

Accepted Answer

A)  Peter Scott
B)  Lawrence Roberts
C)  Ray Tomlinson
D)  Korad Zuse D

Question 2

The Apple IIe, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Genie III are examples of microcomputers and are essentially …………..generation devices.

Accepted Answer

A)  First
B)  second
C)  third
D)  fourth D

Question 3

……………..have from 4k to 64k storage location and are capable of handling small, single-business application such as sales analysis, inventory, billing and payroll.

Accepted Answer

A)  Microcomputers
B)  Minicomputers
C)  Medium-size computers
D)  Large computers A

Question 4

In…………., Babbage designed a more ambitious machine, called the Analytical Engine but unfortunately it also was only partially completed.

Accepted Answer

A)  1842
B)  1852
C)  1862
D)  1872

Question 5

In 1970 …………………of Bell Labs developed yet another simplification of CPL called simply B, in connection with an early implementation of the UNIX operating system.

Accepted Answer

A)  Ken Thompson
B)  George B.Selden
C)  Larry Augustin
D)  Lawrence Roberts

Question 6

……………….of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (Basic Computer Programming Language, 1967).

Accepted Answer

A)  Martin Richards
B)  George B.Selden
C)  Todd Anderson
D)  Larry Augustin

Question 7

The DEHOMAG D11 tabulator was invented in…………...

Accepted Answer

A)  California
B)  Harvard
C)  Massachusetts
D)  Germany

Question 8

………………, together with Ada Lovelace recognized several important programming techniques, including conditional branches, iterative loops and index variables.

Accepted Answer

A)  Herman Hollerith
B)  George Scheutz
C)  Babbage
D)  J.V.Atanasoff

Question 9

………………….invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) which introduced electronic binary logic in the late 1930s.

Accepted Answer

A)  Lawrence Roberts
B)  Howard Aiken
C)  George B.Selden
D)  John Atanasoff

Question 10

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  1960s
B)  1970s.
C)  1970s
D)  1980s

Question 11

…………………first machine was known as Mark I and originally named the 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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Bob Kahn's
B)  George B.Selden's
C)  Lawrence Roberts'
D)  Howard Aiken's

Question 12

…………..built the Z4, a relay computer with a mechanical memory of unique design, during the war years in Berlin.

Accepted Answer

A)  Korad Zuse
B)  Eduard Stiefel
C)  Dr. Heinz
D)  George B.Selden

Question 13

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…………………..

Accepted Answer

A)  Georgia
B)  Massachusetts
C)  California
D)  Pennsylvania

Question 14

The first multi-purpose or programmable computing device was probably Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, which was begun in …………….but never completed.

Accepted Answer

A)  1823
B)  1827
C)  1832
D)  1865

Question 15

A second early electronic machine was Colossus, designed by ……………….for the British military in 1943.

Accepted Answer

A)  Alan Turing
B)  Eckert
C)  Mauchly
D)  John von Neumann

Question 16

………………, supercomputer and Internet pioneer, was born in 1954, in Nigeria, Africa.

Accepted Answer

A)  Philip Emeagwali
B)  George B.Selden
C)  Todd Anderson
D)  Larry Augustin

Question 17

A computer ……………is a computer peripheral device that produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics, usually on paper) from data stored in a computer connected to it.

Accepted Answer

A)  printer
B)  ICT
C)  ARPANET
D)  scanner

Question 18

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………………..

Accepted Answer

A)  Pennsylvania
B)  Cambridge
C)  London
D)  Harvard

Question 19

……………were well known in the 1940s although they are now uncommon.

Accepted Answer

A)  Analog computers
B)  Digital computers
C)  Hybrid computers
D)  Minicomputers

Question 20

The …………..defines the instructions to be executed by the computer while RAM is the functional equivalent of computer memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  ARPANET
B)  ROM
C)  Silicon chips
D)  Metals

Exam 4: A History of Computing Devices: From Calculators to Microcomputers