What is Computing?

This enables you to interact with the computer using application displays and icons rather than a text-based console.

True or False: The physical components of a computer are referred to as software.

The amount of transistors will double the processing speed of a computer should double every 2 years is called?

Which of the following devices is the device that connects all of the physical components of a computer together?

Who is considered the first founder of a computer program?

What is the purpose of an output device?

What is the purpose of a network device?

What is the purpose of a storage device?

What kind of device is a mouse?

True or False: Physical components that process incoming binary data and emit electrical signals are logic gates

Charles Babbage theorized and started creating what computing device, even though it was never fully built by him.

What kind of device is a router?

Which of the following choices lists the three main components of a computer's hardware?

True or False: The military was a driving force to the development of computers

What kind of device is a speaker?

Which of the following is an application of Artificial Intelligence?

True or False: Computers are able to perform tasks by using logic

Which of the following will allow a user to access the internet

True or False: Random Access Memory will store information if the power is OFF

What kind of device is a web camera?

A computer that uses enzymes and DNA strands to perform specific computations. Can store billions time more data.

This person holds the patent for the first color PC monitor, and the first gigahertz chip.

Is something that performs calculations by following and executing specific instructions to solve a problem.

True or False: BIOS stands for Binary Input Output Statistics

A number system with only 1's and 0's that give instructions to computers is called

Computers have only been around since the 1940s

True or False: CPU stands for Computer's Processing Unit

A human readable way to write computer instructions

A network that connects devices in geographically seperated areas

What is the purpose of an input device?

Which one is the earliest computer ever recorded in history?

Who created the world's first compiler and the first programming language, COBOL.

John Mauchly and Presper Eckert helped design this general purpose computer to help the military win the war.

Which of the following are programs that run on your computer and helps the user perform tasks.

Which one was invented in 1950 as the first modern computer with a keyboard as an input device.

One reason computers were 1st developed was to mathematical computations faster

The Operating system of a computer is responsible for managing memory allocation for all applications