ACS Unit 1 Assessment

1. The Analytical Engine was built in the 1800s by Alan Turing.

• True

• False

1. In WWII The Germans had a machine called ____ that encoded all of their communications.

• 1. The Morse Code Apparatus

• 1. The Analytical Engine

• 1. The Enigma Machine

• 1. The ENIAC

1. Morse Code is…

• 1. A coding language to build websites

• 1. A series of dots and dashes that translate to letters

• 1. A secret encryption format that writes every word backwards.

• 1. Raised bumps on a paper that allows the visually impaired to read.

1. ____ was the leader of the software engineering division of the Apollo program.

• 1. Margaret Hamilton

• 1. Alan Turing

• 1. Ada Lovelace

• 1. Bill Gates

1. Before automatic dialing, you had to call a person to transfer you to the phone you wanted to reach. This person was called a ___.

• 1. Switch Monkey

• 1. Operator

• 1. Router

• 1. Switchboard Transmitter

How did you share computer files across long distances before the ARPANET?

• 1. Physically move the storage device

• 1. Send it to Dropbox or iCloud

• 1. Use a special SATA cable to connect it to the mainframe

• 1. Send it through a telephone line using packet switching

1. Which country started the ARPANET program?

• UK

• Germany

• US

• 1. Canada

1. Each research facility in the ARPANET program received a special computer for transmitting data. This computer was called the ___.

• AGC

• 1. IMP

• 1. MAC

• TCP

1. A laboratory in Switzerland that served as the birthplace of HTML.

• KERN

• CERN

• LEARN

• MERN

1. What does HTML stand for?

• 1. High Terminal Machine Language

• 1. Hyper Text Markup Language

• Hyper Text Meaning Language

• 1. High-speed Transfer Marking Logic