WorksheetsChapter 1 Test Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
When was the first computer invented?
The 1940s
The 1960s
The 1980s
The 1990s
Which of the following describes an important advantage the ENIAC had over earlier computing devices?
It was smaller and generated less heat
It could be re-programmed by the machine operator
It used transistors instead of vacuum tubes
It had multiple CPUs
What concept describes the idea of storing computer programs in memory?
Integrated circuit
Vacuum sealed
Moore's Law
von Neumann architecture
Which of the following was a job for the ENIAC computer?
Calculate artillery firing tables
Make atomic energy calculations
Predict the weather
All of these
The first computers used _________________ to create electronic signals.
vacuum tubes
transistors
semiconductors
batteries
According to Moore's Law, what happens about every two years?
The heat generated by the same size of integrated circuit doubles
Microprocessors can do the same work with half as many transistors
The number of transistors we can cheaply place in the same physical area doubles
Computer programs will get twice as complicated
Moore's Law can be used to predict computer power in the near future.
True
False
Which of the following describes the external shell that holds most other computer components inside?
Motherboard
Computer case
CPU
Removable storage media
CD-ROMS, compact flash drives, and USB memory sticks are all examples of what kind of component?
Peripheral
Hard drive
Removable storage media
CPU
Why might you want to install a separate video card into your system?
Because you wouldn't see anything at all otherwise
Because it's cheaper than the built-in video card component on your motherboard
Because video cards can give you advanced sound features also
To get higher quality and higher performance in your graphical output
Which of the following is a good example of an output peripheral device?
A printer
A keyboard
A mouse
A touchpad
Which of the following is NOT an example of a hardware platform?
Desktop
Mac OS X
Game Consoles
Smartphones
What type of internal drive stores information in integrated circuits that have no moving parts?
A Hard Drive
A Compact Disk Drive
A DVD Drive
An SSD Drive
Which of the following operating systems is open source and runs on many embedded devices?
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Mac OS
All of these
What is the purpose of a device driver?
To make a piece of hardware work with your operating system
To let you run other programs on your computer
To automatically update your operating system when new versions are available
To help you write code
Which of the following applications are used by programmers to design, code, and test programs?
Word processor
Database
Spreadsheet
IDE
What term do we use to describe the programs that make computers do useful work?
Software
Hardware
IDE
Booster
What is the largest storage device on a computer?
USB Drive
Hard Drive
Video Card
RAM Memory
Which of the following is an example of an application software?
A web browser
An email program
A video game
All of these are application software
Which of the following forms a computer's primary memory, where information is accessed very quickly but lost when power is turned off?
RAM
CPU
Hard drive
Removable storage media
