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Harvard Mark 1
was invented by?
Herman Hollerith in 1890.
Konrad Zuse from 1936 to 1938.
Professor John Atanasoff between 1939 and 1942.
Howard H. Aiken in 1943
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ICT gives access to new tools that did not previously exist digital cameras, photo-editing software...
Improved access to education
Access to information
New tools, new opportunities
Communication
3
Transistors replaced vacuum tubes in this generation Allowing computers to be smaller, faster, cheaper, energy-efficient
First generation - 1946 to 1958
Fourth generation - 1971 to Today
Third generation - 1965 to 1970
Second generation - 1959 to 1964
4
It can be defined as the time between
1940 and right now
, Technologies such as FOTRAN, COBOL ENIAC, and MARK 1
Electromechanical
Electronic
Mechanical
Premechanical
5
Defined as the time between
1450 and 1840
, Technologies like the slide rule, Pascaline and the difference engine
Premechanical
Mechanical
Electronic
Electromechanical
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Computers can be used to give learners audio-visual packages, interactive exercises, and remote learning
Healthcare
Retail and Trade
Business
Education
7
The telephone (one of the most popular forms of communication ever) was created by?
Alexander Graham Bell, 1876
Samuel Morse, 1835
Guglielmo Marconi, 1894
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Continues to revolutionized, As well as digitized medical information making it easier to store and access patient data
Business
Education
Healthcare
Retail and Trade
9
Computers have made other forms of remote working increasingly common.
Social and Romance
Navigation
Working From Home
Military
10
It improves the quality and efficiency of services. this include city planning, law enforcement, traffic, and tourism
Government
Publishing
Science
Marketing
11
The first programmable computer. that was Created by Konrad Zuse in Germany from 1936 to 1938.
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
ENIAC
Z1
UNIVAC 1
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It has become increasingly computerized, especially since computer technology has been combined with GPS technology.
Navigation
Military
Working From Home
Social and Romance
13
Computers have opened up many ways of socializing that didn't previously exist
Working From Home
Social and Romance
Navigation
Military
14
The machine that can edd, subtract, multiply and divide automatically.
Pascaline
Stepped Reckoner
Arithmometer
Jacquard Loom
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Stepped Reckoner was Invented by?
John Napier in 1614.
William Oughtred in 1622.
Blaise Pascal in 1642.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.
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Computers can be used to design any type of publication. These include newsletters, fashion magazines, novels, or news..
Science
Publishing
Government
Marketing
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Osborne 1
was design by?
John Mauchly
John Presper Eckert
Von Neumann in 1952.
Osborne Computer Corporation 1981
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e.g. distance leaming and online tutorials. New ways of learning, e.g. Interactive multi-media and virtual reality.
Access to information
New tools, new opportunities
Communication
Improved access to education
19
UNIVAC 1 Stands for?
UNIVersal Automatic Computer 1
Unreliable Network Integrity Volatile Analog 1
Universal Integrated Vacuum Analog Computer 1
Unreliable Network Interface Volatile Analog Controller 1
20
Computers enable marketing campaigns to be more precise through the analysis and manipulation of data.
Science
Government
Publishing
Marketing
21
Computers can be used to buy and sell products online - this enables sellers to reach a wider market with low overheads
Retail and Trade
Healthcare
Business
Education
22
if people did not get the chance to meet and talk with other people they may feel isolated and unhappy.
Job loss
Competition
Cost
Reduced personal interaction
23
The first computer company and was founded in 1949 by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.
Bethesda Studios
Electronic Controls Company
Apple
Microsoft
24
Jacquard Loom was invented by?
Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1881.
Thomas de Colmar in 1820.
Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834
Per Georg Scheutz in 1843.
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It is Where Computers can process the large amounts of meteorological information.
Booking Vacations
Security and Surveillance
Weather Forecasting
Robotics
26
The first radio developed by?
Guglielmo Marconi, 1894
Alexander Graham Bell, 1876
Samuel Morse, 1835
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ENIAC Stands for?
Expensive Noisy Integrated Analog Computer
Excellent Network Integrity and Connection
Ethernet Network Interface Application Computer
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
28
Was the first commercial computer.and Designed by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.
UNIVAC 1
Z1
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
ENIAC
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The first use of the word "computer" was recorded in?
1713
1813
1613
1913
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Pascaline was invented by?
John Napier in 1614.
Blaise Pascal in 1642.
William Oughtred in 1622.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.
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It is the first mechanical computer, designed to tabulate polynomial functions
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Harvard Mark 1
Scheutzian Calculation Engine
Tabulating Machine
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Invented by Herman Hollerith in 1890. Intended To assist in summarizing information and accounting.
Harvard Mark 1
Tabulating Machine
Scheutzian Calculation Engine
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
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They are use for training purposes. used for analyzing intelligence data. They are used to control smart technology
Navigation
Military
Social and Romance
Working From Home
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Information to produce lists for targeted advertising. Improved stock control, resulting in less wastage
Creation of new more interesting jobs
Information management
Distance learning
Security
35
Also known as IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC). Invented by Howard H. Aiken in 1943
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Harvard Mark 1
Scheutzian Calculation Engine
Tabulating Machine
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Used primarily for-multiplication-division-roots-logarithms-Trigonometry; Not normally used for addition or subtraction
Tally sticks
Napier's Bones
Abacus
Slide Rule
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Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.
Stepped Reckoner
Arithmometer
Pascaline
Jacquard Loom
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Invented by William Oughtred which is Is based on Napier's ideas about logarithms.
Tally sticks
Abacus
Napier's Bones
Slide Rule
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Slide Rule was Invented by?
Blaise Pascal in 1642.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.
William Oughtred in 1622.
John Napier in 1614.
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Computers have made real-time communication over the internet easy, Families can connect and video, businesses meetings
Banking and Finance
Transport
Communication
Arts and Entertainment
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it was Invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. limited to addition and subtraction. And known to be too expensive
Pascaline
Jacquard Loom
Stepped Reckoner
Arithmometer
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They used vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were
often enormous, taking up entire rooms.
Fourth generation - 1971 to Today
First generation - 1946 to 1958
Third generation - 1965 to 1970
Second generation - 1959 to 1964
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Allowed the operator to multiply, divide and calculate square and cube roots by moving the rods around and placing them
Napier's Bones
Tally sticks
Slide Rule
Abacus
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Defined as the time between
1840 and 1940
, where such Morse Code and Telegraph
Electromechanical
Premechanical
Mechanical
Electronic
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The first electronic general-purpose computer.Completed in 1946 Developed by John Presper Eckert and John Mauch
UNIVAC 1
Z1
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
ENIAC
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Can be employed to store and maintain accounts, personnel records, manage projects, track inventory, create reports.
Healthcare
Business
Retail and Trade
Education
47
Manual operations being replaced by automation. e.g. robots replacing people on an assembly line. Job export. e.g
Reduced personal interaction
Job loss
Competition
Cost
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ABC Stands For?
Alpha - Bravo Computer
Artificial Beneficial Computer
Automated Backup Computer
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
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According to lecture, the Earliest Computers originally calculations were computed by?
Tally Sticks
Humans
Abacus
Calculators
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Z1
was created by?
Konrad Zuse from 1936 to 1938.
Herman Hollerith in 1890.
Howard H. Aiken in 1943
Professor John Atanasoff between 1939 and 1942.
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Cost savings by using Instead of normal telephone, email / messaging instead of post, video conferencing
Improved access to education
New tools, new opportunities
Access to information
Communication
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Computers are now used in virtually every branch of the arts, as well as in the wider entertainment industry.
Communication
Banking and Finance
Arts and Entertainment
Transport
53
It is the First reliable, useful, mass produced and commercially successful calculating machine.
Arithmometer
Stepped Reckoner
Pascaline
Jacquard Loom
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It is the first portable computer and was Released in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation.
EDIVAC
Electronic Controls Company
Osborne 1
ENIAC
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Usually a good thing, but for some organizations being exposed to greater competition can be a problem.
Competition
Reduced personal interaction
Job loss
Cost
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combines computer engineering to produce machines that can replace humans, do specific jobs that humans are unable to do
Booking Vacations
Weather Forecasting
Robotics
Security and Surveillance
57
The first electro-mechanical computer is?
Harvard Mark 1
Tabulating Machine
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Scheutzian Calculation Engine
58
Computers can be used by travelers to study timetables, examine route options, and buy plane, train, or bus tickets.
Security and Surveillance
Booking Vacations
Robotics
Weather Forecasting
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Most banking now takes place online can use computers to check your account balance, transfer money, or pay off credits
Banking and Finance
Arts and Entertainment
Communication
Transport
60
Is the earliest age of information technology. It can be defined as the time between
3000B.C. and 1450A.D.
Electromechanical
Electronic
Mechanical
Premechanical
61
The First Stored Program Computer that was Designed by Von Neumann in 1952, has memory to hold stored program and data.
ENIAC
EDIVAC
Electronic Controls Company
Osborne 1
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ICT solves or reduces some security problems, e.g. Encryption methods can keep data safe from unauthorized people.
Information management
Creation of new more interesting jobs
Security
Distance learning
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A mechanical and automatic loom, controlled by punched cards invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1881
Stepped Reckoner
Arithmometer
Pascaline
Jacquard Loom
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There are how man generations computer are there?
5
7
3
8
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It was the first electronic digital computing device. and was Invented by Professor John Atanasoff
UNIVAC 1
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
Z1
ENIAC
66
UNIVAC 1
was design by?
John Mauchly
John Presper Eckert
Osborne Computer Corporation 1981
Von Neumann in 1952.
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Arithmometer was invented by?
Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1881.
Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834
Per Georg Scheutz in 1843.
Thomas de Colmar in 1820.
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Invented by Per Georg Scheutz in 1843 which Based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
Harvard Mark 1
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Tabulating Machine
Scheutzian Calculation Engine
69
Napler's Bones was invented by?
William Oughtred in 1622.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.
Blaise Pascal in 1642.
John Napier in 1614.
70
Road vehicles, trains, planes, and boats are increasingly automated with computers being used to maintain safety
Arts and Entertainment
Communication
Transport
Banking and Finance
71
A mechanical calculator invented by Thomas de Colmar in 1820
Jacquard Loom
Pascaline
Stepped Reckoner
Arithmometer
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Students can access teaching materials from all over the world.
Distance learning
Creation of new more interesting jobs
Security
Information management
73
Tabulating Machine
was invented by?
Herman Hollerith in 1890.
Professor John Atanasoff between 1939 and 1942.
Konrad Zuse from 1936 to 1938.
Howard H. Aiken in 1943
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Who among the following was Considered as the First Human Proggrammer using binary code in 1840?
Thomas de Colmar
William Oughtred
John Napier
Augusta Ada Byron
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Slide rule was invented in?
1522
1722
1622
1822
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Mechanical device invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C. used to aid an individual in performing mathematical calculations.
Napier's Bones
Abacus
Slide Rule
Tally sticks
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The abacus in the form we are most familiar with was first used in _____ around 500 BC?
India
Middle East
China
Europe
78
This generation computers moved from cryptic binary machine language to symbolic, or assembly, languages,
First generation - 1946 to 1958
Second generation - 1959 to 1964
Fourth generation - 1971 to Today
Third generation - 1965 to 1970
79
Morse code was created by?
Samuel Morse, 1835
Guglielmo Marconi, 1894
Alexander Graham Bell, 1876
80
It an automatic, mechanical calculator Invented by Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834
Scheutzian Calculation Engine
Tabulating Machine
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Harvard Mark 1
81
An ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages
Abacus
Napier's Bones
Tally sticks
Slide Rule
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EDVAC
was design By?
John Mauchly
Von Neumann in 1952.
John Presper Eckert
Osborne Computer Corporation 1981
83
Microprocessor
brought this generation, Where thousands of integrated circuits were built onto a single silicon chip
Second generation - 1959 to 1964
Fourth generation - 1971 to Today
Third generation - 1965 to 1970
First generation - 1946 to 1958
84
Computers combined with biometric passports make it harder for people to fraudulently enter a country
Security and Surveillance
Booking Vacations
Weather Forecasting
Robotics
85
Examples would be systems analysts, programmers and software engineers, as well as help desk operators and trainers.
Information management
Security
Creation of new more interesting jobs
Distance learning
86
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine was invented by?
Thomas de Colmar in 1820.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1881.
Per Georg Scheutz in 1843.
Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834
87
The development of the
integrated circuit
was the hallmark of this generation Transistors were miniaturized and...
Second generation - 1959 to 1964
Third generation - 1965 to 1970
First generation - 1946 to 1958
Fourth generation - 1971 to Today
88
____ can be used for research, sharing information as well as collecting, categorizing, analyzing, and storing data.
Publishing
Marketing
Government
Science
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Increase in access to information and services that has accompanied the growth of the Internet.
Access to information
Improved access to education
Communication
New tools, new opportunities
90
ENIAC
was design by?
Osborne Computer Corporation 1981
John Presper Eckert
John Mauchly
Von Neumann in 1952.
91
Napier bones was Invented by John Napier in?
1614
1514
1814
1714
92
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
was invented by?
Konrad Zuse from 1936 to 1938.
Professor John Atanasoff between 1939 and 1942.
Howard H. Aiken in 1943
Herman Hollerith in 1890.
93
Scheutzian Calculation Engine was invented by?
Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834
Per Georg Scheutz in 1843.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1881.
Thomas de Colmar in 1820.
94
What does "EDIVAC" stands for?
Engineered Device for Integrated Virtual Assistance and Control
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
Experimental Data Integration and Visualization Analysis Center
Enhanced Domain Interface for Virtual Allocation and Coordination
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A lot of ICT hardware and software is expensive, both to purchase and to maintain. and usually requires specialist staff
Reduced personal interaction
Competition
Job loss
Cost