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Year 6 Computing Quiz

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the final value of b?
a)
0
b)
9
c)
10
d)
11
2.
What will the cat say when this script is run?
a)
Have a nice day. (only)
b)
Here's some fruit. (only)
c)
Here's some fruit. Have a nice day. 
d)
You can't have any. Have a nice day. 
3.

What is the color of an emerald?

a)

yellow

b)

red

c)

green

d)

pink

4.
A ____, which is formed when 8 bits are grouped together, provides enough different combinations of 0s and 1s to represent 256 different characters.
a)
bit
b)
byte
c)
cache
d)
digit
5.
which one of theese holds most data
a)
Hardrive
b)
RAM
c)
ROM 
d)
DISC
6.
State an input device
a)
Mouse
b)
Flash D
Flash Drive
c)
Tape
d)
Printer
7.

Which of these is a Hard Disk Drive (HDD)?

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.
What type of device is this? Microphone
a)
Input
b)
Output
c)
Storage
9.
What type of device is this? Speakers
a)
Input
b)
Output
c)
Storage
10.
What type of device is this? CD / DVD / Blu-Ray
a)
Input
b)
Output
c)
Storage
11.

From the code snippet, when will the microbit display "great job"?

a)

when the microbit shook for less than 30

b)

when the microbit shook for more than 30

c)

when the steps is equal to 30

d)

when the microbit shook

12.

From the code snippet, what will be displayed when steps is more than 30?

a)

Great job

b)

keep trying

c)

nothing will be displayed

d)

steps

13.

What is the primary purpose of an operating system?

a)

A. To manage hardware resources

b)

B. To provide a user interface

c)

C. To store data

d)

D. To process data

14.

What is the most common type of computer virus?

a)

A. Trojan

b)

B. Worm

c)

C. Spyware

d)

D. Adware

15.

What is the primary purpose of a firewall?

a)

A. To manage hardware resources

b)

B. To prevent unauthorized access to a network

c)

C. To store data

d)

D. To process data

16.

Which part of the Microbit ensures it knows which way up it is facing?

a)

Bluetooth antenna

b)

Accelerometer

c)

Compass

17.

Which part of the Microbit ensures it knows when it is being shaken?

a)

Bluetooth antenna

b)

Accelerometer

c)

Compass

18.
What is 1011 in denary?
a)
11
b)
14
c)
26
d)
1011
19.

Define the Internet...

a)

A group of densely connected artificial neurons which mimic brain activity.

b)

A set of satellites connected with fibre optic cable.

c)

A group of connected computers which communicate with one another on the one Global Network.

20.

Are the Internet and World Wide Web the same thing ?

a)

Yes, they are.

b)

They are opposites

c)

No, they are closely linked but are two different systems.

d)

The World Wide Web is a separate network with it's own registered computers on it.

21.

Who created the World Wide Web ?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Tim Berners-Lee

c)

Bill Gates

d)

Elon Musk

22.
What's the name of the highly addictive Russian puzzle game where you fit coloured shapes to make a wall 
a)
Tetris
b)
The Russian Front
c)
Minesweeper
d)
Puzzled
23.
When was the Playstation first released
a)
1991
b)
1994
c)
1999
d)
2004
24.

What is the chemical symbol for Water?

a)

H2O

b)

H30

c)

Towie

d)

H200

25.

Who did Ada Lovelace work with?

a)

Charles Cabbage

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Sylvia Pankhurst

d)

Malala

26.

Grace Hopper gave this name to fixing errors in computer code?

a)

Stooking

b)

Blogging

c)

Fixometrics

d)

Debugging

27.
When you are done with your account, do you need to log out?
a)
yes
b)
no
28.

Which code will get Angry Bird jumping ON the pig?

a)
b)
c)
29.

What Project is this code from?

a)

My First Game

b)

Sprites

c)

Chase the "Pizza or ??"

d)

It is not from a project

30.

Who created Pac Man

a)

Toru Iwatani

b)

Nolan Bushnell

c)

Ted Dabney

d)

Atari

31.

What is a website hosted on?

a)

Web Server

b)

An IP address

c)

Domain Name

d)

The internet

32.

Computer store data as 1's and 0's. This is called?

a)

Numbers

b)

ones and zeros

c)

binary

d)

Fred

33.

What is a bug found during computer programming?

a)

Data values that can change.

b)

A list of rules to follow in order to solve a problem.

c)

Finding mistakes and getting rid of them.

d)

Coding mistakes.

34.

Type the word winter

(a)  

35.

Type the word computer

(a)  

36.

Who invented the Difference Engine?

a)

Charles Blubber

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Charles Baggage

d)

Charles Blagger

37.

This is a Bombe machine used in WWII, where is it kept?

a)

In the kitchen

b)

In Hampton Court Palace

c)

In the Science Museum

d)

At Bletchley Park

38.

How often will the message "Hello Year 7" be displayed?

a)

All the time

b)

Once

39.

Type the following phrase: read rhymes with succeed

(a)  

40.

What is your favourite school subject?

a)

Computing

b)

Sports

c)

English

d)

Maths

e)

Science

41.

Where was Tim Berners-Lee born?

a)

Oxford

b)

London

c)

CERN

d)

European Organization for Nuclear Research

42.

What did Tim Berners-Lee propose in 1989?

a)

A system to share information at CERN

b)

A system to study physics at Oxford

c)

A system to develop web standards

d)

A system to connect with friends and family

43.

When did Tim Berners-Lee release the first web page?

a)

1955

b)

1990

c)

1989

d)

1991

44.

What is the World Wide Web based on?

a)

Hypertext

b)

Physics

c)

Software engineering

d)

Web standards

45.

What does URL stand for?


a)

Unique Real Location

b)

Universal Reality Level

c)

Uniform Resource Locator

d)

Uniformly Requested Level

46.

Tim Berners Lee developed 1 protocol when he created the World Wide Web - a protocol is a rule that allows computers to communicate with each other

a)

HTTP

b)

HTML

c)

URL

d)

Hypertext

47.

What does HTTP stand for?


a)


Hypertext transfer procedure

b)

Highlighted text transfer protocol

c)

Hypertext transmit protocol

d)

Hypertext transfer protocol

48.

Which organization did Tim Berners-Lee work at before inventing the World Wide Web?

a)

W3C

b)

CERN

c)

Oxford University

d)

Royal Society

49.
Used to browse webpages
a)
WWW
b)
The Internet
50.

Who is this?

a)

Ada Lovelace

b)

Grace Hopper

c)

Karen Spärck Jones

d)

Annie Easley