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Quiz #2 - History of Computers

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

______________ considered by many to be the earliest recorded calculating device.

a)

Internet

b)

hardware

c)

computer

d)

software

2.

Who invented the Punch Card Tabulating Machine and Sorter?

a)

Dr. John Napier

b)

Dr. J, Presper Eckert

c)

Dr. John Mauchly

d)

Dr. Herman Hollerith

3.

What do you call a glass tube that look similar to light bulbs which needed replacing constantly?

a)

Integrated Circuits

b)

Vacuum Tubes

c)

Transistor

d)

Microprocessor

4.

It is the first general purpose electronic computer.

a)

Abacus

b)

ENIAC

c)

UNIVAC

d)

Punch Card

5.

A miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material.

a)

Processor

b)

Vacuum Tubes

c)

Transistors

d)

Integrated Circuit

6.

What generation began using transistors?

a)

Second-Generation

b)

First Generation

c)

Third-Generation

d)

Fourth-Generation

7.

One major technological development of this generation are microprocessors.

a)

2nd Generation

b)

3rd Generation

c)

1st Generation

d)

4th Generation

8.

In this generation, computers were smaller, more powerful, cheaper, more energy-efficient and more reliable.

a)

1st Generation

b)

2nd Generation

c)

3rd Generation

d)

4th Generation

9.

In this generation, computer systems are going to be based on principles of Artificial Intelligence.

a)

5th Generation

b)

3rd Generation

c)

2nd Generation

d)

4th Generation

10.

The history of computers is often referred to as _____________________.

a)

year of

b)

inventions

c)

generations

d)

none