COMP100 – CH 1, 2 & 3 QUIZ

1. The ____________ was the first fully electronic, 11. Conventional personal computers that are
general-purpose, programmable computer. designed to fit on or next to a desk are often
a. EDSAC c. Mark I referred to as Desktop computer
b. ENIAC d. EDVAC
12. The progression of input, processing, output,
2. Input, Output devices and storage is sometimes referred to as the IPOS
cycle or the information processing cycle.
Mouse - input
barcode reader - input 13. When data is processed into a meaningful form,
Optical Character Reader - input it becomes information.
CD-R King speaker - output
Philips LED monitor - output 14. Mechanical devices for performing complex
Touchscreen - input calculations existed prior to the twentieth century.
Stylus pen - input Select one:
Epson Laser printer - output True False
laser mouse - input
touchpad - input 15. ___________ occurs when data is entered into the
projector - output computer.
Pointing stick - input a. Output c. Storage
portable scanner - input b. Processing d. Input
RFID reader - input
headphone - output 16. The Pascaline and Leibnitz’s Wheel are examples
of early computers.
3. The term software refers to the programs or Select one:
instructions used to tell the computer hardware True False
what to do. Pascaline and Leibnitz’s Wheel belong to the
Seventeenth century devices or mechanical
4. System unit refers to the case that contains and computing devices.
protects the motherboard and other internal
hardware devices? 17. Match the functions of each Seventeenth
century devices
5. Another term for Laptop is notebook computer. It is a direct adding machine (it has no crank), so
the value of a number is added to the accumulator
6. Which of the following terms includes speakers, as it is being dialed in.
webcams, and printers as examples? Pascaline
a. integrated systems
b. peripherals It is used primarily for multiplication and division,
c. embedded computers and also for functions such as exponents, roots,
d. ports logarithms, and trigonometry, but typically not for
addition or subtraction.
7. Which of the following are small speakers that The slide rule
rest inside each ear canal?
a. earphones c. earbud It was an early aid for mathematical computations
b. headsets d. headphones which consists of rings that slide over rods
Abacus
8. What is the electronic component that interprets
and carries out the basic instructions that operate It was the first calculator that could perform all four
the computer? arithmetic operations.
a. motherboard c. control unit the Leibniz wheel
b. arithmetic unit d. processor
A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each
9. Which kind of keyboard projects an image of a divided into nine spaces, and containing the
keyboard on a flat surface? numbers of a column of the multiplication table
a. automatic c. digital Napier’s bones
b. virtual d. embedded
18. What is the term for an ultrathin laptop (like the
10. Which of the following is NOT a type of kiosk? one shown in the accompanying figure) that uses
a. visitor c. financial the Windows operating system?
b. media d. ticket a. thinkbook c. thinclient
b. slimbook d. Ultrabook

19.
1.) A mobile device is loosely defined as a small memory where information was stored in a
device that has built-in computing or Internet machine-readable form.
capability. a. electric
2.) Consumer kiosks are small self-service b. mathematically efficient
computer-based stations that provide information c. compact
or other services to the public, including those used d. programmable
for ATM transactions and bridal registries.
3.) One trend involving servers is virtualization, 27. Just as you can learn to drive a car without
which means creating virtual (rather than actual) knowing much about car engines, you can learn to
versions of a computing resource. use a computer without understanding the
4.) embedded computer is a special-purpose technical details of how a computer works.
computer that functions as a component in a larger Select one:
product? True False
5.) You are looking for a computer to provide a
central location for online game play. What kind of 28. Computer literacy is knowing about and
computer do you need? Server understanding computers and their uses.

20. Servers computers that host data and programs

available to a small group of users.

21. During the ____ generation of computing, the

desktop machine shrunk to the size of a typewriter.
a. First c. First
b. Fourth d. Second

22. The physical parts of a computer are collectively

referred to as Hardware.

23.

Which design of tablet, as shown on the right in the

accompanying figure, has an attached keyboard?
a. baseline tablet c. convertible tablet
b. dynamic tablet d. slate table

24. Which of the following kinds of computing

refers to an environment of servers that house and
provide access to resources users access through
the Internet?
a. digital c. liberated
b. disperse d. cloud

25.

Servers like the one in the accompanying figure

typically support only one computer at a time.
Select one:
True False

26. Jacquard’s Loom was considered the first

“computing device” because it was ____ and had