Early computers like ENIAC, EDVAC, and UNIVAC I all can be classified as _____________.
Answer: C
Correct answer: First Generation Computers
All three were built between 1945 and 1951 and all three switched with vacuum tubes, which is the defining feature of the first generation.
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____is the science that attempts to produce machines that display the same type of intelligence that humans do.
Answer: D
Correct answer: Artificial intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence is the field concerned with making machines reason, learn and perceive as people do. Nanoscience and nanotechnology deal with matter at atomic scale, and simulation imitates a system's behaviour without any claim to intelligence.
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Which was an early mainframe computer?
Answer: D
Correct answer: ENIAC
ENIAC, completed in 1946, was among the earliest electronic mainframes; the other three names are not computers at all. Note the spelling: UNIVAC was a real machine, but UNIC is not.
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What difference does the 5th generation computer have from other generation computers?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Technological advancement
The first four generations are each marked by a change of switching technology, and the fifth is marked in the same way - by very large scale integration and parallel processing put to the service of artificial intelligence. Object-oriented programming is a software development and belongs to no generation of hardware.
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The computer size was very large in
Answer: A
Correct answer: First Generation
Vacuum tubes are large, run hot and need heavy power supplies and cooling, so first generation machines filled entire rooms - ENIAC weighed some thirty tons. Each later generation shrank the switching element and with it the machine.
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The most important or powerful computer in a typical network is _____
Answer: C
Correct answer: Network server
The server holds the shared data and services and answers requests from every other machine, so it needs the most capacity and is the most important machine on the network. Clients, stations and desktops are the machines making those requests.
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Which among the following disk is fixed disk?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Hard Disks
A fixed disk is one sealed inside the drive and not meant to be taken out, which is what a hard disk is. Flash drives, Blu-ray discs and DVDs are all removable media.
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Which among the following printing devices produces output composed of a series of dots?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Both a and c
A wire matrix printer forms each character by firing pins at the ribbon, and a Wang image printer builds the page from dots as well. A band printer carries fully formed characters on a moving band and so prints solid type rather than dots.
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Which 8-bit chip was used in many of today’s TRS-80 computers?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Z-80
The TRS-80 was built around the Zilog Z-80, an 8-bit processor; the name of the machine itself echoes it. The Z-8000 is a 16-bit chip, and the other two designations are not real Zilog parts.
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The first mechanical adding machine was invented by Blaise Pascal in ____________.
Answer: B
Correct answer: 1642
Pascal built his mechanical adding machine, the Pascaline, in 1642, at the age of nineteen, to help his father with tax accounts.
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