Test Your Knowledge On Basic Computers Quiz!
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 153
This quiz will test your knowledge of chapter 1 and chapter 2.
Questions and Answers
- 1.It is a(n) _________ design issue whether a computer will have a multiply instruction.1. It is a(n) _________ design issue whether a computer will have a multiply instruction.
- A.
Architectural
- B.
Memory
- C.
Elementary
- D.
Organizational
- 2.It is a(n) _________ issue whether the multiply instruction will be implemented by a special multiply unit or by a mechanism that makes repeated use of the add unit of the system.
- A.
Architectural
- B.
Memory
- C.
Elementary
- D.
Organizational
- 3.A __________ system is a set of interrelated subsystems.
- A.
Secondary
- B.
Hierarchical
- C.
Complex
- D.
Functional
- 4.When data are moved over longer distances, to or from a remote device, the process is known as __________.
- A.
Data communications
- B.
Registering
- C.
Structuring
- D.
Data transport
- 5.A common example of system interconnection is by means of a __________.
- A.
Register
- B.
System bus
- C.
Data transport
- D.
Control device
- 6.The _________ was the world’s first general-purpose electronic digital computer.
- A.
UNIVAC
- B.
MARK IV
- C.
ENIAC
- D.
Hollerith’s Counting Machine
- 7.The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer project was a response to U.S. needs during _________.
- A.
The Civil War
- B.
The French-American War
- C.
World War I
- D.
World War II
- 8.The ENIAC used __________.
- A.
Vacuum tubes
- B.
Integrated circuits
- C.
IAS
- D.
Transistors
- 9.The ENIAC is an example of a _________ generation computer.
- A.
First
- B.
Second
- C.
Third
- D.
Fourth
- 10.The __________ interprets the instructions in memory and causes them to be executed.
- A.
Main memory
- B.
Control unit
- C.
I/O
- D.
Arithmetic and logic unit
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