Computing devices (20thcentury to date) - SS1 ICT Past Questions and Answers - page 1
What does ENIAC stand for?
Electronic Digital Virtual Analyzer and Calculator
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Universal Automatic Computer 1
Which computing device accurately predicted the outcome of a U.S. presidential election?
EDVAC
ENIAC
UNIVAC 1
EDSAC
Which component was extensively used in early computing devices like ENIAC and UNIVAC 1?
Transistors
Microprocessors
Vacuum Tubes
RAM Modules
What was the primary purpose of ENIAC?
Business data processing
Artillery trajectory calculations
Military simulations
Weather forecasting
Who proposed the concept of EDVAC?
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
Grace Hopper
Charles Babbage
What key innovation did UNIVAC 1 bring to computing?
Punched card readers
Stored-program architecture
Quantum computing
Optical storage
What was the main advantage of EDVAC's stored-program concept?
Faster processing speed
Smaller physical size
Improved memory storage
Greater reliability
Which computing device played a significant role in the development of hydrogen bombs?
EDVAC
EDSAC
UNIVAC 1
ENIAC
When was UNIVAC 1 introduced?
Late 1930s
Mid 1940s
Early 1950s
Late 1950s
How did the concept of a stored-program architecture contribute to the advancement of computing devices like EDVAC?