Section 3

Question 1

What is the earliest computing device?

Answer 1

The Abacus

Question 2

What device emerged between the Middle Ages & Modern Era? A device representing data through gear positioning was designed to perform basic but complex arithmetic operations.

Answer 2

The Leibniz Machine

Question 3

What device started in 1801, which communicated instructions with punched cards?

Answer 3

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator & Calculator)

Question 4

What device was constructed for arithmetic machines between 1937 & 1941?

Answer 4

Vacuum Tubes

Question 5

What did Steve Jobs & Stephen Wozniak build in 1976?

Answer 5

Apple Computer Inc.

Question 6

In 1981, what did IBM introduce?

Answer 6

PC (Personal Computer)

Question 7

During the 20th century, what connected individuals throughout the globe?

Answer 7

The Internet

Question 8

What did computers use during the first generation of computers?

Answer 8

Vacuum Tubes (1946-1959)

Question 9

What device was invented during the second generation of computers? Computers during this generation still relied on punched cards.

Answer 9

Transistors (1959-1965)

Question 10

What device was invented during the third generation of computers? This device was difficult to maintain and required air conditioning.

Answer 10

Integrated Circuits (1965-1971)

Question 11

What device was invented during the fourth generation of computers?

Answer 11

Microprocessors (1971-Present)

Question 12

What was invented during the fifth generation of computers (1980s)?

Answer 12

AI (Artificial Intelligience

Question 13

What is the study of a non-classical model of computation?

Answer 13

Quantum Computing

Question 14

What involves the use of nanoscale tools & nonbiological processes to build structures, devices, & systems at a molecular level?

Answer 14

Nanotechnology

Question 15

What are the physical/tangible parts of the computer called?

Answer 15

Hardware

Question 16

What are the instructions that can be stored & run by the physical hardware called?

Answer 16

Software

Question 17

What hardware is responsible for processing all information from programs run by your computer?

Answer 17

CPU (Central Processing Unit)

Question 18

What is the term of the speed of the processor measured by?

Answer 18

GHz (Gigahertz 0

Question 19

What hardware is found in the memory slot of the motherboard?

Answer 19

RAM (Random Access Memory)

Question 20

What device is responsible for storing permanent & temporary data?

Answer 20

Hard Drives

Question 21

What are the two types of hard drives?

Answer 21

Solid-State Drives (SSD)
Traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

Question 22

What hardware processes huge batches of graphic data?

Answer 22

GPU (Graphics Processor Unit)

Question 23

What hardware is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector or expansion slot?

Answer 23

Expansion Card

Question 24

What consists of hardware, software, networking & human components that work together?

Answer 24

The Computer System

Question 25

What is the term that input, processes & output results?

Answer 25

IPOS (Input-Process-Output-Storage)

Question 26

What are the three major components of the computer?

Answer 26

CPU, Storage & Peripheral Devices

Question 27

What are the three parts of the CPU?

Answer 27

ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit), Control Unit & Processor Register

Question 28

What register holds the memory location of data needed for access?

Answer 28

Memory Address Register (MAR)

Question 29

What register holds data being transferred from/to memory?

Answer 29

Memory Data Register (MDR)

Question 30

What register holds the ALU results?

Answer 30

Accumulator (AC)

Question 31

What register holds the address of the next program instruction that is to be executed?

Answer 31

Program Counter (PC)

Question 32

What register holds current instruction during processing?

Answer 32

Current Instruction Register (CIR)

Question 33

Ram is split into two partitions, what are they?

Answer 33

Address & Contents

Question 34

What is the hardware that stores instructions for crucial system activities?

Answer 34

ROM (Read-Only Memory)

Question 35

What hardware supports the input & output functions?

Answer 35

Peripheral Devices

Question 36

What hardware are the wires that serve as electrical roadways that transmit information between the CPU & other components?

Answer 36

Buses

Question 37

What bus carries the destination address of where the data is assigned to be processed?

Answer 37

Address Bus

Question 38

What bus carries data between the processor, and memory unit, and coordinates all activities within the computer system?

Answer 38

Control Bus

Question 39

What hardware contains components that can or cannot be removed? It holds the CPU, RAM, ROM chips & other hardware components.

Answer 39

The Motherboard

Question 40

What sends out a pulse of electricity at regular intervals?

Answer 40

The System Clock

Question 41

What are the sockets on the motherboard where expansion cards can be installed called?

Answer 41

Expansion Slots

Question 42

What are the sockets that allow cables to be plugged in without opening the system units?

Answer 42

Ports

Question 43

What device holds data & information permanently?

Answer 43

Secondary Storage

Question 44

What is the smallest unit set for 0 or 1 called?

Answer 44

Bit

Question 45

What device translates data into a form that the computer can understand?

Answer 45

Input Devices

Question 46

What device translates information into a form that humans can understand?

Answer 46

Output Devices

Question 47

What hardware allows a computer to send & receive data to/from computers?

Answer 47

Communication Devices

Question 48

What communication device enables data to be transmitted without the need for physical wires?

Answer 48

Bluetooth Technologies

Question 49

What communication device uses radio signals & orbiting satellites to receive and send messages from one system to another?

Answer 49

Satellite Communication

Question 50

What communication device facilitates wireless communication between electronic devices?

Answer 50

Bluetooth Adapters

Question 51

What type of computer is the biggest & fastest, designed to process huge data and is built with thousands of interconnected processors?

Answer 51

Supercomputer

Question 52

What type of computer is designed to support hundreds or thousands of users and programs simultaneously?

Answer 52

Mainframe Computers

Question 53

What type of computer is a single-user designed for technical or scientific applications?

Answer 53

Workstation

Question 54

What type of computer is commonly known as a personal computer?

Answer 54

Minicomputer