Mock Exam- Note Taking

 Instruction: Choose the correct answers based on your notes from the listening.

 

1. When did the engineers start working on ENIAC?

 

• At the beginning of World War II

• At the beginning of World War I

• In the middle of World War I

• In the middle of World War II

 

2. Why did the army want to build an electronic computer?

• Soldiers couldn’t do the calculations faster.

• Scientific projects of the army were slow

• Women, the computers, did the calculations by hand. 

• Women, the computers, were slow to calculate and made errors

Who was John Mauchly?

• psychologist

• computer engineer

• electrical engineer

• physicists

Why was John Mauchly interested in building a new type of computer at first? 

• He loved to design complex electronic devices. 

• He joined the project in the army. 

• He wanted to guess the weather conditions

• He was studying electrical engineering. 

What is the size of ENIAC?

• 1800 square foot

• 180.000 square foot

• 180 square foot

• 18.000 square foot

How many calculations could ENIAC do per second?

• 5500

• 5000

• 550

• 500

Which is NOT true about ENIAC?

 

• The army used ENIAC until 1955.

• ENIAC was finished in 1945.

• ENIAC was shown to the public in 1945

• It took 2 years to build ENIAC.

Which is NOT true for Eckert and Mauchly?

• They earned a lot of money after the ENIAC project

• They built two new types of computers. 

• They started their own companies. 

• They kept working with computers as their careers. 

 

9. What is the MAIN IDEA in the lecture?

• ENIAC was an important invention for Eckert and Mauchly in their careers.

• ENIAC was designed to calculate with the help of a chip. 

• ENIAC was the first electronic computer that made calculations easier.

• Eckert and Mauchly were the first designers of a computer.