Oldies But Goodies

In the early days of computing, mainframe computers were not just the largest computers; they were the only computers and few businesses could afford them.

• True

• False

A mainframe is what businesses use to host the commercial databases, transaction servers, and applications that require a greater degree of security and availability than is commonly found on smaller-scale machines.

• True

• False

The first general purpose computer, introduced by IBM in 1964, was the:

• ISeries

• System/370

• 3390

• System/360

Which of the following is NOT a mainframe operating system?

• Z/OS

• Z/VSE

• Z/AIX

• Z/VM

What mainframe is this?

• The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10

• IBM System/360

• Tandem Computers NonStop

• Fujitsu-ICL VME BS2000

What are the characteristics of a Tamdem Computer?

• It is a Copyrighted trademark of Bill Cosby

• Provide automatic high-speed failover in the case of a hardware or software failure

• The machine consisted of a least 16 CPUs

• It has to be operated by two operators at the same time to perform

What does RDBMS stand for?

• relative database model system

• relational database mainframe system

• rational database management system

• relational database management system

What is IBM's family of relational database management system products?

• OS390

• z/Linux

• DB2

• SEZ320

One of the earliest computer programming languages was introduced by IBM in 1957. The language was a group effort led by John Backhus. The aim of the language was to help with translating mathematical formulas into machine understandable code. What is the name of this scientific language?

• TRANFORM

• TRANSFORM

• FORMULAX

• FORTRAN

This computer programming language was designed by a committee of scientists and the first release was introduced in 1958. What is the name of this language that was created to meet the need for scientific calculations?

• ALDOL

• ALLAN

• ALGOL

• ARGON