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History of Technology Final Assessment

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is known as the first computer programmer because of the notes written on the analytical engine?

a)

Ada Lovelace

b)

John Mauchly

c)

Bill Gates

d)

Steve Jobs

2.

is a device designed to control the flow of electronic currents used to replace vacuum tubes in computers.

a)
Transistor
b)

Resistor

c)

Capacitor

d)

Diode

3.

In the 19th century, Alessandro Volta invented which of the following inventions?

a)

Refrigerated storage

b)

Transistor

c)

Electric circuit

d)

Battery

4.

Which of the following is considered operating system software and used to manage the computer?

a)

Lotus 1-2-3®

b)

Windows 95®

c)

TCP/IP

d)

Google®

5.

In 1995, a student in Ms. Espino’s class needed to use the computer to do research on the internet for an assignment. Which internet search engine would the student select?

a)

Microsoft® Word

b)

Yahoo!® Messenger

c)

Ask Jeeves®

d)

Internet Explorer®

6.

Skype® is an example of and was an online face-to-face meeting app developed in the 2000s.

a)
Video conferencing
b)

Cloud computing

c)

Social media

d)

Online gaming

7.

________ is a video sharing service, was founded in a garage in California in 2005.

a)

Twitter®

b)

Zoom®

c)

Play Station®

d)
YouTube®
8.

Which computer contained more than 17,000 vacuum tubes, consumed large quantities of energy, produced a great amount of heat and occupied a large room?

a)

ENIAC

b)

Census Machine

c)

ABC

d)

IBM® PC

9.

are paper cards containing computer instructions or data inserted into the computer.

a)

Computer program

b)
Punch cards
c)

Application software

d)

Programming languages

10.

In the 1950s, instructions used to create computer programs or software began to be developed and are known as .

a)

System software

b)

Integrated circuits

c)
Programming languages
d)

File storage

11.
a)

hard drive

b)

soft drive

c)

floppy drive

d)

microchip

12.
a)

hypertext markup language

b)

microchip

c)

microprocessor

d)

programming language

13.
a)

internet

b)

personal computer

c)

hypertext markup language

d)

microprocessor

14.
a)

internet browswer

b)

internet of things

c)

hard drive

d)

programming language

15.
a)

internet of things

b)

internet browswer

c)

programming language

d)

hypertext markup language

16.
a)

microchip

b)

microprocessor

c)

hard drive

d)

punch card

17.
a)

microprocessor

b)

microchip

c)

hard drive

d)

punch cards

18.
a)

personal computer

b)

hard drive

c)

microprocessor

d)

microchip

19.
a)

programming language

b)

internet of things

c)

internet browswer

d)

hypertext markup language

20.
a)

punch cards

b)

hard drive

c)

microchip

d)

internet