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  • 1. 
    About how many computer languages are in use?

  • 20
  • 2,000
  • 50
  • 5,000

  • 2. 
    Which of these is not an early computer?

  • SAGE
  • ENIAC
  • NASA
  • UNIVAC

  • 3. 
    Who founded Apple Computer?

  • Steve Jobs
  • Sheryl Sandberg
  • Sundar Pichai
  • Bill Gates

  • 4. 
    Which of these is not a peripheral, in computer terms?

  • mouse
  • motherboard
  • keyboard
  • monitor

  • 5. 
    Which of these is not one of the early “protocols,” or ways to use the Internet?

  • FTP
  • blogging
  • Gopher
  • Telnet

  • 6. 
    What does the Internet prefix WWW stand for?

  • Wide Width Wickets
  • Western Washington World
  • Worldwide Weather
  • World Wide Web

  • 7. 
    A network designed to allow communication within an organization is called:

  • the World Wide Web
  • an intranet
  • the Internet
  • a browser

  • 8. 
    Which of these is not a kind of computer?

  • Lenovo
  • Dell
  • Apple
  • Lada

  • 9. 
    What device, released in 1993, gave rise to the term personal digital assistant?

  • Newton MessagePad
  • iPhone
  • Microsoft Surface
  • Palm Pilot

  • 10. 
    What is the name for a computer pointing device?

  • a monitor
  • a sound card
  • a mouse
  • a modem

  • 11. 
    What operating system did Google develop?

  • Android
  • iOS
  • BlackBerry OS
  • Windows

  • 12. 
    What does the acronym FTP stand for?

  • file tripling power
  • free transistor protocol
  • file transfer protocol
  • fast total processing

  • 13. 
    Computer trojans are an example of:

  • network security devices
  • spyware
  • computer worms
  • malware

  • 14. 
    What was the name of the chess-playing computer that made history when it defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1996?

  • Rybka
  • Chiptest
  • Deep Thought
  • Deep Blue

  • 15. 
    Which of these was the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer?

  • BINAC
  • EDVAC
  • Acorn Network Computer
  • ENIAC

  • 16. 
    Who coined the term "artificial intelligence"?

  • Donald Ervin Knuth
  • Charles Bachman
  • Herbert A. Simon
  • John McCarthy

  • 17. 
    Which company released its first notebook computer, the 316LT, in 1989?

  • Lenovo
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Dell
  • Apple

  • 18. 
    Which of these was the first supercomputer?

  • CDC 6600
  • ENIAC
  • Cray-1
  • Sierra

  • 19. 
    Which of these was the first personal computer?

  • Apple I
  • Altair
  • Osborne 1
  • Apple Lisa

  • 20. 
    Which of these was the first cell phone to use the Android operating system?

  • LG Voyager
  • Samsung Rant
  • BlackBerry Storm
  • T-Mobile G1

  • 21. 
    Which of these education-oriented computer languages was developed by Niklaus Wirth?

  • Logo
  • Hypertalk
  • BASIC
  • Pascal

  • 22. 
    Who created the computer-programming language FORTRAN?

  • Dennis Ritchie
  • John McCarthy
  • Bill Atkinson
  • John Backus

  • 23. 
    Who was the first recipient of the A.M. Turing Award?

  • Maurice Wilkes
  • Alan Jay Perlis
  • John McCarthy
  • Marvin Minsky

  • 24. 
    Which of these was the first large-scale electronic computer?

  • LEO
  • Cray-1
  • Colossus
  • Osborne 1

  • 25. 
    Which of these was the world's first business computer?

  • LEO
  • IBM 1401
  • Apple II
  • HP-85

  • 26. 
    In what year was Google founded?

  • 1998
  • 1995
  • 1989
  • 2001

  • 27. 
    Who invented the distributed network as well as data packet switching across distributed networks?

  • Steven Ballmer
  • Manuel Blum
  • Paul Baran
  • Jean Bartik

  • 28. 
    What device converts digital signals to analog signals?

  • motherboard
  • central processing unit (CPU)
  • transistor
  • modem

  • 29. 
    What was the name of the controversial software surveillance system developed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and used during investigations circa 2000–02?

  • ECHELON
  • Blue Iris
  • PRISM
  • Carnivore

  • 30. 
    Who is known as the first computer programmer?

  • Charles Babbage
  • Alan Turing
  • Ada Lovelace
  • Steve Jobs

  • 31. 
    Which of these was the first microprocessor, developed in 1971?

  • Intel Pentium
  • Intel 4004
  • Intel 8088
  • MOS Technology 6502

  • 32. 
    What coding issue was projected to create havoc in computer networks around the world in 2000?

  • Storm Worm
  • Y2K bug
  • Year 2038 problem
  • CryptoLocker

  • 33. 
    Who designed the high-speed computers known as supercomputers?

  • Larry Page
  • Bill Atkinson
  • Alan Turing
  • Seymour R. Cray

  • 34. 
    Who is credited with inventing the term "software engineer"?

  • Tommy Flowers
  • Grace Hopper
  • Evelyn Granville
  • Margaret Hamilton

  • 35. 
    What is the name of the digital file format that was devised in 1987 to reduce the size of images and short animations?

  • JPEG
  • GIF
  • TIFF
  • PNG

  • 36. 
    What blogging site was founded by David Karp in 2007?

  • Medium
  • Tumblr
  • Lifehacker
  • WordPress

  • 37. 
    What type of electromagnetic waves does Wi-Fi use?

  • microwaves
  • infrared waves
  • radio waves
  • gamma rays

  • 38. 
    In the 1990s, this company created a computer programming language called Java:

  • Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • IBM
  • Oracle Corporation

  • 39. 
    A number that uniquely identifies each computer on the Internet is called:

  • IP address
  • Gopher
  • MAC address
  • DNS

  • 40. 
    The computer programming language used for typesetting technical documents is called:

  • SGML
  • SQL
  • LaTeX
  • LISP

  • 41. 
    In what year was the first text message sent?

  • 1992
  • 1988
  • 1995
  • 1983

  • 42. 
    When was Microsoft founded?

  • 1980
  • 1975
  • 1986
  • 1969

  • 43. 
    What technology helps make telephone calls over the Internet possible?

  • XML
  • Ethernet
  • Bluetooth
  • VoIP

  • 44. 
    Who created WikiLeaks?

  • David Karp
  • Alan Turing
  • Julian Assange
  • Bill Gates

  • 45. 
    Which of these video game consoles was released in 1994?

  • Xbox
  • Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Atari 2600
  • PlayStation

  • 46. 
    Who is known for his patent for the computer mouse?

  • Ray Kurzweil
  • Gary Kildall
  • Douglas Engelbart
  • Reynold Johnson

  • 47. 
    What kind of computer is intermediate in size between a laptop and a smartphone and uses a keyboard, a stylus, or a touch screen to input information?

  • minicomputer
  • personal computer
  • tablet computer
  • supercomputer

  • 48. 
    What does the acronym EPROM stand for?

  • embedded proxy read-only messaging
  • electronic prioritized read-only memory
  • equipped programmable read-only machine
  • erasable programmable read-only memory

  • 49. 
    What does the acronym DNS stand for?

  • document name system
  • domain name system
  • domain number system
  • domain network security

  • 50. 
    What was the first interactive computer-graphics program?

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Sketchpad
  • Notepad
  • CorelDRAW

  • 51. 
    When was Oracle Corporation founded?

  • 1977
  • 2005
  • 1982
  • 1995

  • 52. 
    Which of these is not a computer language?

  • Hypertalk
  • Windows 2000
  • Ada
  • COBOL

  • 53. 
    What does the acronym VPN stand for?

  • virtual private network
  • visual protocol network
  • visual protocol networking
  • visual processing network

  • 54. 
    What part of a URL is unique and assigned by a registrar accredited by ICANN?

  • IP address
  • hosting server
  • protocol type
  • domain name

  • 55. 
    Which of these is not an example of malware?

  • trojan
  • spyware
  • computer worm
  • plug-in

  • 56. 
    Who is known as the father of computer graphics?

  • Gary Kildall
  • Timothy Paterson
  • Ivan Edward Sutherland
  • Robert Elliot Kahn

  • 57. 
    Which computer language was designed to extract data from a database?

  • FORTRAN
  • COBOL
  • SQL
  • BASIC

  • 58. 
    Which of these is an example of an integrated circuit?

  • rectifier
  • thyristor
  • sound card
  • battery

  • 59. 
    Who coined the term "bug" to refer to unexplained computer failures?

  • Ada Lovelace
  • Anita Borg
  • Jean Bartik
  • Grace Hopper

  • 60. 
    One byte is equivalent to how many bits?

  • 32
  • 64
  • 8
  • 12

  • 61. 
    WAN is an acronym for what in computer science?

  • wide area network
  • world area network
  • wide action network
  • wide analysis network

  • 62. 
    What feature is often used to identify whether a visitor to a Web site is human or not?

  • DENDRAL
  • CAPTCHA
  • General Problem Solver
  • CYC
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