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WorksheetsHistory of Computer -Modern Computer
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who proposed the concept of a universal Turing machine?
a)
John von Neumann
b)
Alan Turing
c)
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
d)
Grace Hopper
2.
What is the central concept of the modern computer according to Turing's design?
a)
Stored program
b)
Random-access digital storage device
c)
Instruction set
d)
Transistors
3.
Which computer was the world's first stored-program computer?
a)
LEO I computer
b)
The Manchester Baby
c)
Harwell CADET
d)
Ferranti Mark 1
4.
What replaced vacuum tubes in computer designs?
a)
Transistors
b)
CMOS
c)
MOSFET
d)
Stored programs
5.
Which invention made it possible to build high-density integrated circuits?
a)
MOSFET
b)
Binary logic circuits
c)
Transistors
d)
Vacuum tubes
6.
Who invented the metal-oxide-silicon field-effect transistor (MOSFET)?
a)
Tom Kilburn
b)
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
c)
John Bardeen and Walter Brattain
d)
Mohamed M. Atalla and Dawon Kahng
7.
Which device replaced vacuum tubes and gave rise to the 'second generation' of computers?
a)
Bipolar junction transistors
b)
Stored programs
c)
Field-effect transistors
d)
Transistors
8.
What is the fundamental concept of Turing's design for a computer?
a)
Memory storage
b)
Universal computing machine
c)
Algorithm execution
d)
Stored program
9.
Which invention replaced vacuum tubes in computer designs?
a)
Transistors
b)
MOSFETs
c)
Valves
d)
Bipolar junction transistors
10.
Who developed the first compiler for a programming language?
a)
Tom Kilburn
b)
Grace Hopper
c)
John von Neumann
d)
Alan Turing
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