WorksheetsOldies But Goodies
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
In the early days of computing, mainframe computers were not just the largest computers; they were the only computers and few businesses could afford them.
True
False
A mainframe is what businesses use to host the commercial databases, transaction servers, and applications that require a greater degree of security and availability than is commonly found on smaller-scale machines.
True
False
The first general purpose computer, introduced by IBM in 1964, was the:
ISeries
System/370
3390
System/360
Which of the following is NOT a mainframe operating system?
Z/OS
Z/VSE
Z/AIX
Z/VM
What mainframe is this?
The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10
IBM System/360
Tandem Computers NonStop
Fujitsu-ICL VME BS2000
What are the characteristics of a Tamdem Computer?
It is a Copyrighted trademark of Bill Cosby
Provide automatic high-speed failover in the case of a hardware or software failure
The machine consisted of a least 16 CPUs
It has to be operated by two operators at the same time to perform
What does RDBMS stand for?
relative database model system
relational database mainframe system
rational database management system
relational database management system
What is IBM's family of relational database management system products?
OS390
z/Linux
DB2
SEZ320
One of the earliest computer programming languages was introduced by IBM in 1957. The language was a group effort led by John Backhus. The aim of the language was to help with translating mathematical formulas into machine understandable code. What is the name of this scientific language?
TRANFORM
TRANSFORM
FORMULAX
FORTRAN
This computer programming language was designed by a committee of scientists and the first release was introduced in 1958. What is the name of this language that was created to meet the need for scientific calculations?
ALDOL
ALLAN
ALGOL
ARGON
This computer programming language was introduced by Niklaus Wirth in late 1970. What is the name of the language that was named after a famous French mathematician?
DESCARTES
PASCAL
GAUSS
EULER
This language was developed in the early 1980s by a team headed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France. The language was named after which mathematician, who is also considered to be the first programmer?
Florence Ada Keynes
Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Fisher
Augusta Ada Lovelace
Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum started implementing this language in late 1989. What was the name of this "reptilian" language that was inspired by Rossum's favourite TV show?
Cobra
Salamander
Toad
Python
Computer scientist and programmer Yukihiro Matsumoto released this language in late 1995. After discussions with a colleague they decided to name the new language after which red gem?
Amethyst
Ruby
Aquamarine
Agate
What programming languages was the first:
IPL
FORTRAN
LISP
ALGOL 58
COBOL
Programming Languages Still in Use:
MATLAB (1984)
Ada (early 1980s)
Smalltalk (1972)
BASIC (1964)
Fortran (1957)
