Review Quiz Midterm Intro to Computing

1. What is a computer?

• A. Device for playing games
• B. Programmable device that processes, stores, and retrieves data
• C. Machine for writing letters
• D. Tool for managing emails

2. Who did calculations manually?

• A. Programmer
• B. Analyst
• C. Computer
• D. Mathematician

3. Which uses transistors?

• A. Digital Computers
• B. Analog Computers
• C. Mechanical Computers
• D. Quantum Computers

4. Who invented the Differential Analyzer?

• A. James Thomson
• B. Vannevar Bush
• C. Jack Kilby
• D. Charles Babbage

5. First large-scale analog computer for differential equations?

• A. Atanasoff-Berry Computer
• B. Differential Analyzer
• C. Colossus
• D. ENIAC

6. CPU part for calculations?

• A. Control Unit
• B. Memory Unit
• C. Arithmetic-Logic Unit
• D. Input Unit

7. Integrated circuits began in which generation?

• A. First
• B. Second
• C. Third
• D. Fourth

8. Invented the integrated circuit in 1958?

• A. Jack Kilby
• B. Alan Turing
• C. John von Neumann
• D. Steve Jobs

9. Microprocessors marked the beginning of which generation?

• A. Fourth
• B. Third
• C. Second
• D. First

10. The Intel P4004 microprocessor was introduced in:

• A. 1965
• B. 1979
• C. 1969
• D. 1951