History of Technology Final Assessment

Who is known as the first computer programmer because of the notes written on the analytical engine?

• Ada Lovelace

• John Mauchly

• Bill Gates

• Steve Jobs

is a device designed to control the flow of electronic currents used to replace vacuum tubes in computers.

• Transistor
• Resistor

• Capacitor

• Diode

In the 19th century, Alessandro Volta invented which of the following inventions?

• Refrigerated storage

• Transistor

• Electric circuit

• Battery

Which of the following is considered operating system software and used to manage the computer?

• Lotus 1-2-3®

• Windows 95®

• TCP/IP

• Google®

In 1995, a student in Ms. Espino’s class needed to use the computer to do research on the internet for an assignment. Which internet search engine would the student select?

• Microsoft® Word

• Yahoo!® Messenger

• Ask Jeeves®

• Internet Explorer®

Skype® is an example of and was an online face-to-face meeting app developed in the 2000s.

• Video conferencing
• Cloud computing

• Social media

• Online gaming

________ is a video sharing service, was founded in a garage in California in 2005.

• Twitter®

• Zoom®

• Play Station®

• YouTube®

Which computer contained more than 17,000 vacuum tubes, consumed large quantities of energy, produced a great amount of heat and occupied a large room?

• ENIAC

• Census Machine

• ABC

• IBM® PC

are paper cards containing computer instructions or data inserted into the computer.

• Computer program

• Punch cards
• Application software

• Programming languages

In the 1950s, instructions used to create computer programs or software began to be developed and are known as .

• System software

• Integrated circuits

• Programming languages
• File storage