ITC Quiz 1

A company is still manually computing taxes using an abacus. Which of the following best explains why this method might be inefficient in today's context?

• The abacus was designed only for division tasks

• It lacks programmability and data storage

• It's illegal to use traditional tools in business

• The abacus overestimates all computations

During wartime, a country struggles with breaking enemy codes. Which historical figure's work is most relevant to this situation? (clue: created machines like the Colossus to break the Enigma code in WWII)

• Grace Hopper

• Alan Turing

• Robert Noyce

• John Von Neumann

A tech museum displays a machine that uses punch cards for data entry and is connected to the U.S. Census. Which machine is this most likely to be?

• Analytical Engine

• Hollerith Census Machine

• Pascaline

• Harvard Mark I

A robotics company follows Moore’s Law in designing its AI chips. What principle are they applying?

• Hardware should run open-source software

• Software doubles in size every two years

• AI chips should be developed only by Intel

• Transistor count doubles every two years, increasing computing power

An instructor asks a student to draw a diagram based on the fetch-decode-execute cycle. Which architecture is being discussed?

• Turing Machine

• Von Neumann Architecture

• Quantum Architecture

• Babbage Analytical Engine

A city government needs to process large volumes of health records quickly. Which historical computing advancement directly inspired automated data processing for this kind of task?

• Von Neumann Architecture

• Pascaline

• Hollerith Census Machine

• Babbage’s Difference Engine

A tech firm is exploring how to develop computers that can solve complex chemical simulations instantly. Which area of modern computing is most aligned with this goal?

• Cloud Computing

• Artificial Intelligence

• Internet of Things

• Quantum Computing

Which of the following is considered the central part of a computer that processes all instructions?

• Monitor

• Keyboard

• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

• Hard Drive

Who is widely known as the "Father of the Computer" for designing the Analytical Engine?

• Alan Turing

• Herman Hollerith

• Charles Babbage

• Tim Berners-Lee

While working on a large electromechanical computer, a scientist found a literal moth inside the machine, which led to the coining of the term “debugging.” Who was this pioneering figure?

• Alan Turing

• Ada Lovelace

• Grace Hopper

• Joseph-Marie Jacquard