WorksheetsEvolution of Computers
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 4mins
Q. The Greek island of _______ is the birth land of Abacus
Crete
Salamis
Rhodes
Corfu
Q. The ________ device consists of rods to perform calculations.
Pascaline
Abacus
None of the above
Q. ________ was the first gear - driven calculator
Leibniz Calculator
Abacus
Napier's Bones
Pascaline
Q. Napier also invented the ______ and ______ to transform multiplication problems into addition problems.
rings and rods
side rule and used logs
dials and tables
none of the above
Q. IBM created the Tabulating Machine.
True
False
Q. EDSAC stands for _________.
Epigraphical Device for Storage And Calculation
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
Q. Who is credited with inventing the first mechanical calculator?
Blaise Pascal
Charles Babbage
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Alan Turing
Q. _________ was the first commercially available electronic computer.
UNIVAC 1
EDSAC
ENIAC
None of the above
Q. The ________ was originally built to help the army launch missiles more accurately
ENIAC
EDSAC
UNIVAC 1
Harvard Mark 1
Q. The _________ could perform basic arithmetic operations upto thousands.
Harvard Mark 1
Pascaline
Difference engine
Abacus
Q. Fifth Generation computers include
Intigrated Circuits
Artificial intelligence
Transistors
Vacuum tubes
Q. The Microprocessor is a small _______ chip common in the ______ generation
zinc, fourth
copper, second
silicon, fourth
Q. Second generation computers used _________.
Vacuum tubes
Microprocessors
Transistors
Integrated circuits
Q. __________ coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' in the year ____.
Q. The term 'Artificial Intelligence' was coined by John McCarthy in 1956 at the
California Institute of Technology.
True
False
Q. In the second generation of computers, transistors made of _______ and _______ were
used as processors instead of vacuum tubes.
Q. The IBM-PC and Apple Macintosh are examples of the third generation
of computers.
True
False
Q. Versatility is a characteristic of computers that allows it to do any task provided
it is reduced to a set of instructions.
True
False
Q. The is invention replaced vacuum tubes and made computers much smaller and faster. However, it was eventually replaced by another invention.
EDSAC
ENIAC
microprocessor
Transistor
Q. MIPS stands for ________. ( Answer in regard to chapter. )
Millions of instructions per second
Q. Which of the following statements is true for Fourth Generation Computers?
They are very slow, expensive and large in size.
They used transistors like the second generation of computers.
They are portable, reliable and cheapest among all other generations of computers.
They are still in development.
Q. Which of these generations of computers used ICs?
First generation computers
Second generation computers
Third generation computers
Fourth generation computers
Q23. Who built the Difference engine and in which year?
Herman Hollerith, 1868
Blaise Pascal, 1927
Charles Babbage, 1823
Howard Aiken, 1956
Q. The third generation of computers uses a microprocessor which
is a small silicon chip
True
False
Q. Which of these characteristics match with the fourth generation
of computers?
Microprocessors, uses operating systems and software applications
