IS1001

Question 1

What are the 4 proto computers?

Answer 1

abacus (chinese)
antikythera mechanism (greek)
jacquard loom
automata like barrel organ

Question 2

who developed the binary numbers

Answer 2

gottfried leibinz 1664-1716

Question 3

who created difference enigine
analyse engine and difference engine 2

Answer 3

charles babbage

Question 4

who was the first computer programmer, mathematician and writer?

Answer 4

ada countes of lovelace

Question 5

who was a professor in cork?

Answer 5

george boole

Question 6

what did george boole develope?

Answer 6

boolean algebra

Question 7

what did george boole believe?

Answer 7

that all general questions can be expresssed mathematically

Question 8

what did victor shestakov propose?

Answer 8

the theory of electrical switches based on the boolean logic

Question 9

who demostrated the electrical application of boolean algebra?

Answer 9

Claude Shannon

Question 10

what was considered the world’s first programmable, electronic, digital computer

Answer 10

colossus

Question 11

what was developed in 1943-1945 for cryptanalysis

Answer 11

colossus

Question 12

what did the colossus use to preform boolean and counting operations

Answer 12

vacumm tubes

Question 13

what was the First electronic general purpose computer

Answer 13

EINIAC

Question 14

How many calculation could the EINIAC do per second

Answer 14

50,000

Question 15

who was the co -inventor of the transistor

Answer 15

william shockely

Question 16

where are silicon chips found

Answer 16

in modern computers

Question 17

silicon chip was invented by whom?

Answer 17

robert noyce anf jak kilby

Question 18

what is moores law?

Answer 18

Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years

Question 19

personal computers appear thanks to ?

Answer 19

steve jobs and steve wozniak

Question 20

GUI stands for?

Answer 20

Graphical user interface

Question 21

How do computers process information?

Answer 21

binary numbers

Question 22

8 bit is equal to?

Answer 22

1 byte

Question 23

1 kilobyte is equal to?

Answer 23

1,024 bytes

Question 24

1 megabyt =

Answer 24

1,048,576 bytes

Question 25

1 gigabyte (GB) =

Answer 25

1,073,741,824 bytes

Question 26

1 terabyte (TB) =

Answer 26

1,000 gigabytes

Question 27

1 petabyte (PB) =

Answer 27

1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes

Question 28

boolean logic true and false = what?

Answer 28

true= 1/on false= 0/off

Question 29

galactic network was propsed by whom?

Answer 29

licklider

Question 30

What does the Dot com bubble refer to?

Answer 30

the period between 1999-2000 when investors pumped money into internet based startups

Question 31

what does www stand for?

Answer 31

world wide web

Question 32

http means?

Answer 32

hypertext transfer protocool

Question 33

what does the http do?

Answer 33

transfers data

Question 34

IP Address is what ?

Answer 34

a unique number to identify a device on the internet

Question 35

RIR stands for?

Answer 35

regional internet registries

Question 36

range of IP address?

Answer 36

0-255

Question 37

how to you trck an IP address

Answer 37

with DNS

Question 38

DNS means?

Answer 38

doman name system

Question 39

web- server1.training.microsoft.com. what is the root?

Answer 39

.

Question 40

web-server1.training.microsoft.com. what is top level domain?

Answer 40

com

Question 41

web-server1.training.microsoft.com. what is the second level domain?

Answer 41

microsoft

Question 42

web-server1.training.microsoft.com. Fourth-level domain or host:

Answer 42

web-server1

Question 43

historical.server4.sales.amazon.com What is the fourth level domain

Answer 43

Server

Question 44

historical.server4.sales.amazon.com What is the subdomain of sales?

Answer 44

server4

Question 45

historical.server4.sales.amazon.com What is the host?

Answer 45

historical

Question 46

what is spyware?

Answer 46

software installed without the user’s knowledge

Question 47

what are cookies for?

Answer 47

identify users when browsing websites

Question 48

what is an intelligent agent (IA)

Answer 48

anything which perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously in order to achieve goals, and may improve its performance with learning or may use knowledge.

Question 49

what are the two purposes of AI?

Answer 49

1) to use the power of computers to augment human thinking 2) use a computer's artificial intelligence to understand how humans think and replicate it in a humanoid way

Question 50

what is intelligence?

Answer 50

the ability to apply and acquire knowledge and skills

Question 51

what are 4 components of intelligence?

Answer 51

- Ability to interact with the real world - Reasoning and planning - Learning and adaptation - Ability to Interact with the Real World

Question 52

what is the turning test?

Answer 52

a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both.

Question 53

how many scrolls in the library of Alexandria?

Answer 53

532,000 scrolls

Question 54

what is big data?

Answer 54

a broad term for data sets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate.”

Question 55

what are the characteristics of big data?

Answer 55

volume velocity variety veracity value

Question 56

concerns with big data?

Answer 56

- storage and analysis - ethics - complexity and cost - privacy breaches and embarrassments

Question 57

what contained basic components of modern computers:central processing unit, memory, input, output

Answer 57

difference engine 1825