ICT First Term 2023/2024 Half Term Test

Devices that involve the use of physical force to operate them are called?

• Electronic devices

• Electro-mechanical devices

• Mechanical devices

• Early counting devices

Who designed the first linear Slide Rule?

• 
  Blaise Pascal

• Charles Babbage

• Sir Abdulrasheed Aliyu

• William Oughtred

Abacus is mainly used for

• addition and multiplication

• division and subtraction

• addition and subtraction

• division and multiplication

Which of the following devices was invented by Charles Babbage

• Pascaline

• Analytical engine

• Abacus

• Napier’s bone

Who is referred to as the father of computers?

• 
  Charles Babbage

• Robert Bissakar

• Gottfried Leibnitz

• Mister AbdulAzeez

One major problem with early counting devices is that

• they occupy small space

• they waste time

• they can be used to count large numbers

• they were fast

Vacuum Tubes are related to which generation of computers?

• First generation

• Second generation

• Third generation

• Fourth generation

A counting device that consists of beads strung on wire or wooden rods in a rectangular frame is

• Slide Rules

• Napier's Bones

• Abacus

• Guitar

These are early counting devices except

• Cowries

• Pebbles

• Sticks

• Abacus

Most of our day-to-day jobs are being influenced by the use of computers

• True

• False

• I am not sure

• I don't know