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WorksheetsIntroduction to Computers and Emerging Technologies
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
Which of the following is an output device?
DVD-ROM
touchpad
hard driver
printer
What kind of device is a keyboard?
Internal device
input device
output device
storage device
What is the main circuit board inside the computer called?
CD-ROM
video card
ROM
Mother board
Which of the following is usually used to connect a monitor to a computer?
DVI cable
USB cable
Ethernet cable
SATA cable
Which of the following software maintenance steps erases gaps caused by deleting files from the hard drive?
update system software
defragging
virus scan
installing firewall
Eric’s computer slows down when he opens several computer programs. Why does this happen?
Eric has limited RAM space
Eric has a small hard drive
Eric does not have a powerful video card
Eric has a bad ROM
In a PC, which of the following components stores the BIOS?
CPU
RAM
ROM
hard driver
Which of the following would hold the most information?
500 megabytes
5 gigabytes
5000 bytes
50,000 000 kilobytes
What does the BIOS chip stand for?
Basic input output system
basic input operating system
basic internal operating system
basic internal output system
Joe’s computer crashed and now he is looking for a replacement. Which of the following criteria is the least important?
RAM
money
color
usage
Which of the following is a device designed to act as a transmitter by converting sound waves to electronic waves and as a resistor by controlling electronic currents?
GUI
Transistor
Electric computer
Electronic computer
The computer was originally what type of machine?
Calculator
GPS
MP3 Player
Tablet
When was Yahoo founded?
1980
1984
1994
1995
What year was the first microprocessor with a built in mouse created?
1970
1971
1974
1976
Which of the following was the first personal computer?
Scelbi
Apple I
Apple II
Commodore PET
Which of the following is NOT a major leader in the computer industry as noted in the segment?
Cisco
Apple
Dell
Norton
Nonvolatile memory technology was created by which company?
Intel
Apple
Scandisk
Adobe
Which of the following capabilities for the modern computer was NOT created by the Atanasoff-Berry Computer?
Parallel processing
First form of memory or storage
Disc Drives
Separation of memory and computing functions
Which of the following was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, which helped him create the World Wide Web?
Video monitors
GUI
HTML
Hard drives
Which of the following is an example of emerging technologies?
Television
Radio
Streaming video
Automobiles
Streaming video applications account for what percentage of all Internet traffic?
60%
50%
40%
30%
What allows a computer to display graphics and images rather than just text on a monitor?
HTML
Microns
MIPS
GUI
Which of the following is NOT an important element which comprises microchips?
Transistor
MIPS
PDFs
Microns
The computer was originally what type of machine?
Calculator
GPS
MP3 Player
Tablet
Who built ABC in 1937
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
John V. Atanasoff
Steve Wozniak
How many transistors did the first computer have?
One million
One thousand
One hundred
One
Why was the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research Program developed?
To improve the functioning capabilities of the microprocessor in the next decade
To progress computing technology in the next decade
To decrease the size of computers and increase the amount of processing capabilities in the next decade
To advance the amount of memory used by computers in the next decade
Which company created TIPC networking?
Adobe
Intel
Gateway
Apple
From where did Bill Gates graduate college?
Harvard
yale
Cornell
Bill Gates sis not graduate college
Which of the following is NOT true of data mining?
It is the process of turning large amounts of data into useful
information
It is a tool used to extract patterns and correlations from data
It requires carefully analyzing data from various dimensions
It is no longer supported with current software
Why are mobile devices able to process more and store larger amounts of data?
The microprocessor is continually getting smaller and more capable
The microprocessor is continually getting larger and more capable
Microprocessors are continually being added and becoming more
capable
Microprocessors are continually being removed and becoming more
capable
Which of the following is NOT a type of security device?
Fingerprint devices
Bag searches
Built in GPS system
Retinal scanning machines
The process of getting progressively smaller and more capable, which integrated circuits or microprocessors have gone through is known as which of the following?
Microminiaturization
Micron progression
Parallel processing
Metadata
What was Intel’s first product released in 1969 which gives computers memory space for open or running programs?
Microprocessor
RAM
Microchip
The bit
Paul Allen and Bill Gates first designed which program for the Altair 8800, which led them to start Microsoft®?
Windows
COBOL - 80
VisiCalc
BASIC
Adobe® created which of the following which allows images to be replicated on a computer screen and printed?
VisiCalc
PostScript
GUI
