Pre-Assessment/Review Quiz

What is software?

• Clothing designed to be worn by computer users

• Instructions that tell the hardware what to do

• Flexible parts of a computer case

• Any part of the computer that has a physical structure

The computer’s main circuit board is called a ________.

• motherboard

• Bluetooth card

• monitor

• hard drive

RAM is like a computer’s ________, while a hard drive is like a computer’s ________.

• short-term memory/long-term memory

• long-term memory/short-term memory

• nervous system/brain

• brain/nervous system

What is an Ethernet port used for?

• Creating new user accounts

• Providing power to the computer

• Connecting smartphones and other peripherals

• Connecting to the Internet

What is Wi-Fi?

• A type of wireless network

• A type of software that scans for viruses

• An extra-wide computer case used by servers

• A type of sound card

________ is the father of computer.

• Herman Hollerith

• Ada Byron

• Blaise Pascal

• Charles Babbage

A desktop computer is also known as

• PC

• Laptop

• Mainframe

• Palmtop

CPU is the _______ of computer.

• Brain

• Ear

• Eye

• All of the Above

_________ is the physical device of a computer system.

• Program

• Software

• Hardware

• Application

Which of the following is not a type of computer hardware?

• RAM

• Microsoft Windows

• Hard Drive

• Keyboard