Digi Tech - Computer Awareness W2

What is Information Technology? 

• The use of computers to store, study, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data.
• IT is the use of technology, such as pens and paper, to write information.
• Using a computer to play games. 
• Minecraft.

The first computer was called:

• ENIS
• ENAC
• ENIAC
• ENNIS

ENIAC stands for

• Electronic Numbers In A Computer
• Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
• Einstein's Ninth Indexing Algorithm Computer
• Nothing - That's just what it was called

This image shows what computing device?

• ENIAC
• An old telephone system
• An electricity box - like those find on a house, but larger for a business.
• ENAIC

What did the first program to run on a computer do?

• Displayed the text "Hello, World!"
• Displayed images of Earth taken from Space
• Calculated the required trajectory for military weapons at the end of WW2
• Calculated the highest factor of a given number

In what year was the Mouse patented?

• 1962
• 1963
• 1975
• 1988

What are these?

• Floopy Disks
• Floppy Disks
• Hard Drives
• Cassettes

This is an image of the first website released to the public. When did this happen?

• 1995
• 1988
• 1993
• 1991

What was the name of the first full length animated film? 

• Jungle Book
• Jurassic Park
• Toy Story 1
• A Bug's Life

Simply put, what was the Y2K scare about?

• A dangerous virus that would destroy a PC it infected
• A game based around the world ending in the year 2000
• A bug with computers dealing with dates after 31/12/1999
• A telecommunications mix-up that nearly caused a war at the start of 2000