1st Class Practice

The first calculator was built by

• Marie Jacquard

• Blaise Pascal

• Charles Babbage

• John Napier

A similarity between data and information is that both

• can be displayed on the monitor

• are

  computer inputs

• are processed facts

• are computer results

The computer hardware can be classified into

• ALU and Control Unit

• System Unit and Peripheral

• Central Processing Unit and Control Unit

• Input and Output Unit

The outcome  of a processed data in a computer is known as

• raw fact

• information

• database

• computer result

Which of the following devices is not a micro computer?

• Notebook

• Laptop

• EDVAC

• Desktop

Which of the following computing devices did not exist in the pre-computing age to the 19^th century?

• Napier’s bone

• Abacus

• ENIAC

• Slide Rule

The computing devices invented by Charles Babbage are

• Diffence engine and Abacus

• Analytical

  engine and Slide Rule 

• Abacus and Slide Rule 

•   Analytical and Difference engine

In a computer, the sets of instruction that directs it in performing a particular task is called

• information 

• program 

•   data 

•   file

The property of a disk that determines the amount of data it may contain is

•   size 

• volume

•   storage capacity 

• storage power

Which of the following is not a step involved in data processing?

• Input

• Output

• Process

• Transfer