Quiz 1 Introduction to computing

A Device or computer system that holds data waiting to be processed (temporary storage area) ?

• Operating System

• Disk Drive

• Memory

• Motherboard

An electronic tool that allows information to be input, processed, and output ?

• Operating system

• Computer

• Motherboard

• Central Processing Unit

Invents Boolean Algebra in the late 1840s.

• George Boole

• Bill Gates

• Boolean Marx

• Alexander Graham Bell

The brain of the computer. This part does the calculation, moving and processing of information ?

• CPU

• Motherboard

• RAM

• Hard Drive

Part of a computer that allows a user to put information into the computer ?

• Output Device

• Operating System

• Input Device

• Software

Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded a company called?

• AMD

• IBM

• ASUS

• INTEL

A name for the short term memory of the computer that is lost when the computer is turned off ?

• RAM

• Processor

• ROM

• Hardware

The physical parts of a computer

• Hardware

• Disk Drive

• Hard Drive

• Software

Parts of a computer that allow the user to see or hear information that comes out from the computer ?

• Software

• Output Device

• Input Device

• Operating System

This part stores programs and other information on 2 or more disks that are located inside the computer it also serve as storage are?

• Motherboard

• USB

• Hard Drive

• Operating System