Unit 01

What was the first commercially successful computer with mouse/GUI technology?

Which language was created specifically for the purpose of teaching computer programming?

About how many bytes are in a terabyte?

What was the first personal computer to be taken seriously as a business tool?

Why did Herman Hollerith invent the Tabulating Machine?

Which of these refers to a series of IBM computers that essentially standardized hardware?

Which will store temporary information and is erased when the computer is turned off?

Monitors, Printers, Scanners, and the computer itself are all examples of

What translates an entire program to low-level code before execution.

What was used to help decrypt the secret coded messages of the Germans during World War II?

Which language was marketed as being “everything for everyone” but was not successful?

Which of the following stores/retrieves information using laser light?

Which of the following was invented first?

What is a sequence of instructions, which enables a computer to perform a desired task?

Windows 7, Windows 8, UNIX and Linux are all examples of

Word, PowerPoint and Excel are all examples of

Which of the following describes ASCII?

About how many bytes are in a gigabyte?

What number system do people use?

Which of the following networks has at least one dedicated computer to handle services?

What device measures in a continuous fashion?

About how many bytes are in a megabyte?

Which of these is/are programmable?

What is the first platform independent language?

Which language will you learn in this class?

What company invented the computer mouse?

What information it is always possible to make a precise copy of the original.

What number system does the computer use to process information?

How many BITs are in a byte?

Which of the following is/are characteristics of modern computers?

What was the first stored program computer?

What translates a program one line at a time during execution.

What company produced the operating system for the first IBM-PC?

Most modern languages today use a

What is the Exposure Equation?

Which of the following describes the binary system used by a computer?

Which concepts are obvious when first introduced?

In computers, the main circuit board with all the primary computer components is called the

What was designed for beginners and was the first language to be used in personal computers?

Which language is made up of 1s and 0s and is understood by the computer?

Many so-called computer errors are caused by

What did Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invent?

Which of the following describes Morse code?

Which of the following is a small network where all of the computers are considered equal?

Which language added Object Oriented Programming to the existing language C?

Which of these was/were invented hundreds of years ago, but still uses in the 1970s?

Copying a file to a USB Jump Drive and then giving it to a friend to copy to his computer is:

Which language was the first successful programming language?

Which of the following is/are characteristics of early computers?

Who or what motivated the creation of the Internet?

Who is The Mother of Programming?

Who is The Father of Computers?

Which of the following stores permanent information and is not erased on shut off?

Which language was designed to help develop artificial intelligence?

Which language was designed for mathematicians, scientists and engineers?

Which language was created for the business community and the armed forces?

What was the first commercially available computer?

Which of the following is the brains of the computer?

Which of the following describes Unicode?

Which of these would be classified as a very high-level language?

Which of the following are advantages of an intranet?

How have computers changed over the past 70 years?

The connection of all of the networks in the world is called the

What was the first successful personal computer?

What was the first electronicgeneral purpose computer?

When comparing human capabilities with computer capabilities, which statements are true?