CS-1010 Introduction to Computers and Software Midterm Exam I Spring Quarter, 1999 Name________________________ Section__________ Mark all answers on the answer sheet provided. Part I. History of Computing Select your answers to all questions in this section from the list below. Choose the SINGLE BEST ANSWER to each question. a. integrated circuits (IC's) b. vacuum tubes c. transistors d. microprocessors e. electronic relays 1. The ENIAC had 18,000 of these. 2. The Apollo spacecraft that landed on the moon used which of these in its computer? 3. The PC's in UMD's computer labs use which technology? 4. Konrad Zuse's early computers used this technology. 5. The "single most important invention of the twentieth century" (from the films) 6. The "tyranny of numbers" pertains to which of these 7. Which is associated with the first generation of computers? 8. Which is associated with the second generation of computers? 9. Which is associated with the third generation of computers? 10. Which is associated with the fourth generation of computers? For questions 11-75, use each answer (a-e) only once. Use these answers for questions 11-15 a. Alan Turing b. Herman Hollerith c. Konrad Zuse d. Eckert and Mauchly e. Thomas Watson, Sr. 11. Invented the binary computer 12. Founded IBM 13. Built the ENIAC 14. Won a U.S. Census Bureau technology contest 15. Famous British mathematician and computer scientist Part II. Software concepts Use the choices below for questions 16-20. a. data b. ASCII text c. bits d. information e. byte 16. Structured, organized data 17. A group of 8 bits 18. A group of 8 bits representing a character 19. Raw facts 20. Binary digits (1=true, 0-false) Use the answers below for questions 21-25. a. Windows 98 b. The Macintosh operating system c. System software d. Applications software e. Command-line interface 21. The first graphics user interface (GUI) 22. DOS and unix are examples of this 23. Produced by MicroSoft 24. MicroSoft Word is an example of this 25. Windows 95 is an example of this Use the answers below for questions 26-30. a. spreadsheet b. graphics c. database d. web browser e. desktop publisher 26. Netscape 27. MicroSoft Excel 28. Adobe PageMaker 29. Adobe Illustrator 30. MicroSoft Access Part III. Hardware Basic concepts Use the answers below for questions 31-35. a. supercomputer b. minicomputer c. microcomputer d. mainframe e. none of the above 31. parallel processing, TeraFLOPS, Cray 32. office file server, workstations 33. UMD's bulldog computer 34. Personal Digital Assistants 35. Typical desktop PC The CPU Use the answers below for questions 36-45. a. Pentium III b. G3 c. K6-2 d. MHz e. none of the above 36. Produced by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) 37. The fastest microprocessor now available 38. Produced by Motorola 39. Means "million instructions per second" 40. Produced by Intel Use the following choices for questions 41-45. a. The ALU b. The CPU c. RAM d. The controller e. ROM 41. Volatile primary storage medium, stores your programs while they are running. 42. Permanent primary storage medium, boots up the computer. 43. Does the number-crunching and logical comparisons 44. Determines order of instruction processing 45. "computer on a chip" Storage Devices Use the following choices for questions 46-50. a. Magnetic tape b. Standard Iomega Zip disk c. Standard floppy disk d. CD-ROM e. DVD disk 46. Stores 17 Gbytes 47. Stores 650 Mbytes 48. Stores 100 Mbytes 49. Stores 1.44 Mbytes 50. Is a sequential access storage device Use the following choices for questions 51-55. a. WORM b. Secondary storage c. Rewritable CDs d. Primary storage e. Standard CD 51. RAM 52. Magneto-optical technology 53. Used for making archival copies of data that cannot be changed once saved 54. Hard disks 55. Being replaced by DVD Use the following choices for questions 56-60. a. magnetized particles b. pits and lands c. gears with 10 cogs d. vacuum tubes e. none of the above 56. CD-ROM's represent bits this way 57. Hard disks represent data this way 58. The UNIVAC represented data this way 59. Memory chips represent data this way 60. Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine Part IV. Input and Output Use the following choices for questions 61-65. a. POS terminals b. Standard keyboard c. Trackball d. Touch screen e. OCR software 61. Reduces range of motion to fingertips only 62. Used for information kiosks 63. Source data automation 64. Translates pictures of words to words 65. QWERTY Use the following choices for questions 66-70. a. resolution b. dot pitch c. refresh rate d. screen size e. SVGA 66. should be .28mm or lower to avoid fuzziness 67. Causes flicker if too low 68. The number of pixels a screen can display 69. Diagonal 70. More than 640 x 480 pixels Use the following choices for questions 71-75. a. page printer b. character printer, commonly used for color output c. impact printer, letters made by configurations of pins d. plotter e. high volume printer, but poor quality 71. line printer 72. dot matrix printer 73. ink-jet printer 74. laser printer 75. maps, diagrams, blueprints Answer Key 1. b 2. a 3. d 4. e 5. c 6. c 7. b 8. c 9. a 10. d 11. c 12. e 13. d 14. b 15. a 16. d 17. e 18. b 19. a 20. c 21. b 22. e 23. a 24. d 25. c 26. d 27. a 28. e 29. b 30. c 31. q 32. b 33. d 34. e 35. c 36. c 37. e 38. b 39. d 40. a 41. c 42. e 43. a 44. d 45. b 46. e 47. d 48. b 49. c 50. a 51. d 52. c 53. a 54. b 55. e 56. b 57. a 58. d 59. e 60. c 61. c 62. d 63. a 64. e 65. b 66. b 67. c 68. a 69. d 70. e 71. e 72. c 73. b 74. a 75. d