Visualizing Technology (Geoghan)
Chapter 1 What Is a Computer?
1) Computers convert data into information using ________.
A) convergence
B) ergonomics
C) information processing cycle
D) Moore's Law
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
2) ________ is considered by many to be the first computer programmer.
A) Grace Hopper
B) Charles Babbage
C) Ada Lovelace
D) Joseph Jacquard
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
3) Which of the following is NOT a step in the IPC?
A) input
B) processing
C) storage
,D) convergence
Answer: D
Diff: 3
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
4) Data that has been processed by the computer is called ________.
A) bioinformatics
B) information
C) input
D) raw data
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
,5) ________ won a patent dispute naming him as the inventor of the electronic digital
computer.
A) Charles Babbage
B) Gordon Moore
C) John Atanasoff
D) John Mauchly
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Objective: 2: Describe the evolution of computer hardware, and explain the importance
of Moore's Law.
6) The ________ was the world first commercially available computer, it was used to
predict the outcome of the 1952 presidential election.
A) UNIVAC
B) ENIAC
C) Harvard Mark I
D) Colossus
Answer: A
Diff: 3
Objective: 2: Describe the evolution of computer hardware, and explain the importance
of Moore's Law.
7) A(n) ________ is a chip that contains the central processing unit of a computer.
A) transistor
B) server
C) client
D) microprocessor
Answer: D
, Diff: 2
Objective: 2: Describe the evolution of computer hardware, and explain the importance
of Moore's Law.
8) The mathematician, ________, wrote a program to calculate Bernoulli numbers but
was never able to test it because there were no machines capable of running it at the time.
A) Joseph Jacquard
B) Gordon Moore
C) Charles Babbage
D) Ada Lovelace
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
Chapter 1 What Is a Computer?
1) Computers convert data into information using ________.
A) convergence
B) ergonomics
C) information processing cycle
D) Moore's Law
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
2) ________ is considered by many to be the first computer programmer.
A) Grace Hopper
B) Charles Babbage
C) Ada Lovelace
D) Joseph Jacquard
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
3) Which of the following is NOT a step in the IPC?
A) input
B) processing
C) storage
,D) convergence
Answer: D
Diff: 3
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
4) Data that has been processed by the computer is called ________.
A) bioinformatics
B) information
C) input
D) raw data
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
,5) ________ won a patent dispute naming him as the inventor of the electronic digital
computer.
A) Charles Babbage
B) Gordon Moore
C) John Atanasoff
D) John Mauchly
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Objective: 2: Describe the evolution of computer hardware, and explain the importance
of Moore's Law.
6) The ________ was the world first commercially available computer, it was used to
predict the outcome of the 1952 presidential election.
A) UNIVAC
B) ENIAC
C) Harvard Mark I
D) Colossus
Answer: A
Diff: 3
Objective: 2: Describe the evolution of computer hardware, and explain the importance
of Moore's Law.
7) A(n) ________ is a chip that contains the central processing unit of a computer.
A) transistor
B) server
C) client
D) microprocessor
Answer: D
, Diff: 2
Objective: 2: Describe the evolution of computer hardware, and explain the importance
of Moore's Law.
8) The mathematician, ________, wrote a program to calculate Bernoulli numbers but
was never able to test it because there were no machines capable of running it at the time.
A) Joseph Jacquard
B) Gordon Moore
C) Charles Babbage
D) Ada Lovelace
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Objective: 1: Explain the functions of a computer.
