What is Computing?

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

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

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

A network that connects devices in geographically seperated areas

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

What is the purpose of an input device?

Computers have only been around since the 1940s

What kind of device is a mouse?

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

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

What kind of device is a router?

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

Which of the following is an application of Artificial Intelligence?

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

Who is considered the first founder of a computer program?

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

What is the purpose of a network device?

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

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

A human readable way to write computer instructions

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

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

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

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

Which one is the earliest computer ever recorded in history?

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

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

What kind of device is a web camera?

What is the purpose of a storage device?

What kind of device is a speaker?

True or False: BIOS stands for Binary Input Output Statistics

What is the purpose of an output device?

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

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

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

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

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