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This document contains three sections - an identification test with 5 questions about inventors and inventions related to early computers, an enumeration test asking to list 3 principles of computers and 4 things that make computers powerful, and identifying 4 basic types of computer parts. It covers early pioneers like Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, John Napier, Gottfried Leibniz and inventions like the Analytical Engine, Difference Engine, abacus and log tables.

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Prelim

This document contains three sections - an identification test with 5 questions about inventors and inventions related to early computers, an enumeration test asking to list 3 principles of computers and 4 things that make computers powerful, and identifying 4 basic types of computer parts. It covers early pioneers like Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, John Napier, Gottfried Leibniz and inventions like the Analytical Engine, Difference Engine, abacus and log tables.

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1.

Which one is the result of the output given by a computer


A. Data
B. Instruction
C. Information
D. Excursion
2. Which one of these is also known as read/write memory?
A.ROM
B.RAM
C.DVD
D. Hard Disk
3. The printed output from a computer is called
A. Copy
B. Soft Copy
C. Hard Copy
D. Paper
4. MS-Word is an example of _____
A. An operating system
B.A processing device
C. Application software
D. An input device
5. ________ is the process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors
A. Tracking
B. Formatting
C. Crashing
D. Allotting
6) What was the name of first computer designed by Charles Babbage?
A. Analytical Engine
B. Difference Engine
C. Colossus
D.ENIAC
7) Which was the first electronics digital programmable computing device?
A. Analytical Engine
B. Difference Engine
C. Colossus
D.ENIAC
8) EDSAC stands for __________.
A. Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
B. Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer
C. Electronic Data Storage Automatic Calculator
D. Electronic Data Storage Automatic Computer
9) EDVAC stands for __________.
A. Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator
B. Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
C. Electronic Data Variable Automatic Calculator
D. Electronic Data Variable Automatic Computer
10) Which was the first commercial computer?
A. Ferranti Mark 1
B. Analytical Engine
C. Difference Engine
D. Colossus
11) This person created a machine called 'The Analytical Engine.' His ideas were some of the
first that led to the creation of computers. Guess the name of this person.
A. Simon Konrad
B. Charles Babbage
C. John Lovelace
D. William Howard
12) This person is often called the inventor of the modern computer. He actually created the first
fully electronic computer. Guess the name of this person.
A. Konrad Zuse
B. Byron Lovelace
C. William Gates
D. Steve Jobs
13)This person created what is now known as the first computer program. The program was
made to help the Analytical Engine calculate numbers. Guess the name of this person.
A. Charles Babbage
B. Konrad Apple
C. Ada Lovelace
D. William Zuse
14) __________as switching devices are for fourth generation.
A. vacuum tube
B. transistor
C. microprocessors
D. assembly board
15) First super computer in the world is _______.
A. CRAY-1
B. MARK-1
C. PARAM
D. C-DAC
TEST II
Identification
1.Invented by John Napier in 1614?
2.Invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C.?
3.Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672?
4.She writes programs for the Analytical Engine?
5.The first electro-mechanical computer?
Test III
Enumeration
Three principles characteristic of computer?1-3
What makes a computer powerful?4-6
There are 4 basic types of computer parts?7-10

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