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Computer
Engineering Quiz Bee Q&A
(August
18, 2000)
Easy
1. Who is usually referred to as the 'Father of Computer'?
Answer:
Charles Babbage
2. What does the .org stands for in the website www.coess.org?
Answer:
Organization
3. What is the measure of computer storage capacity and is 2 to
the 40th power or, in decimal, approximately a thousand gigabytes.
Answer:
Terabyte
4. Who created the Pascal programming language. It's use exploded
after the introduction of Turbo Pascal, by Borland, in 1984?
Answer:
Niklaus Wirth
5. What is the first microprocessor, which is developed by Marcian
E. Hoff for Intel. It contains the equivalent of 2300 transistors
and was a 4 bit processor.
Answer:
4004
6. In pascal, the unit that provide control over screen mode, extended
keyboard codes, colors, windows, and sound.
Answer:
CRT
7. What type of microprocessor are the the Intel 80386, 80486,
and the Pentium family.
A.) CISC (Complex Instruction-Set Computing)
B.) RISC (Reduced Instruction-Set Computing)
Answer:
A.) CISC (Complex Instruction-Set Computing)
8. A development program that takes a text file of program steps
written by a human programmer and turns those steps into binary
code the CPU can recognize and accept as program instructions or
machine executable code.
Answer:
Compiler
9. Is a collection of data that is organized so that its contents
can easily be accessed, managed, and updated.
Answer:
Database
10. Is an industry term for a large computer, typically manufactured
by a large company such as IBM for the commercial applications of
Fortune 1000 businesses and other large-scale computing purposes.
Answer:
Mainframe
Average
1. A Web site or group of Web sites belonging to an organisation
and accessible only to the organisation's employees or those authorised.
Answer:
Intranet
2. What does the programming language "BASIC" stands for?
Answer:
Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
3. In what programming or scripting language was used in the creation
of famous "I LOVE YOU" worm which was supposedly written by a filipino.
Answer:
VBscript / Visual Basic script
4. What is the name of the largest computer company?
Answer:
IBM
5. In information technology, what is the name of the first commercial
ISP (Internet Service Provider) in the Philippines, established
on June 1994.
Answer:
MosCom / MosCom Internet / Mosaic Communications
6. What was invented by Tim Berners-Lee who saw the need for a
global information exchange that would allow physicists to collaborate
on research. His invention was the result of the integration of
hypertext and the Internet.
Answer:
World Wide Web / WWW
7. What company manufactured the fastest supercomputer named ASCI
Red ?
A.) Intel
B.) IBM
C.) SGI
D.) Cray Inc.
Answer:
A.) Intel
8. What does LPT mean which is the usual designation for a parallel
port connection to a printer or other device on a personal computer.
Answer:
Line Print Terminal
9. What is the operating system that originated at Bell Labs in
1969 as an interactive time-sharing system. It is the first operating
system written in the C language.
Answer:
UNIX
10. What is a Neural Network?
A.) A network of terminals connected to a central fileserver.
B.) A cluster of computers in a network designed to execute processes
in parallel.
C.) A system of programs and data structures that approximates
the operation of the human brain.
Answer:
C.) A system of programs and data structures that approximates
the operation of the human brain.
Difficult
1. What is the approach to computing based on "degrees of truth"
rather than the usual "true or false" (1 or 0) Boolean logic on
which the modern computer is based?
Answer:
Fuzzy logic
2. What is the term which originally mean as "a clever programmer",
a person who enjoys learning details of a programming language and
enjoys actually doing the programming rather than just theorizing
about it?
Answer:
Hacker
3. Who is the world's most famous computer hacker?
Answer:
Kevin Mitnick
4. What is the name of the second largest software company in the
world? The largest software company is Microsoft.
Answer:
Oracle
5. When is official birthday of the Internet, being the day that
the first packets were sent between the Sigma 7 mainframe that was
the first internet node and its Honeywell based IMP (Internet Message
Processor) at UCLA?
A.) December 7, 1949
B.) September 17, 1959
C.) September 2, 1969
D.) May 24, 1979
Answer:
C.) September 2, 1969
6. What is the name of Intel's first IA-64 processor which is formerly
known as Merced.
Answer:
Itanium
Difficult
7. What is the term which refers to an environment created by the
global networking of computer systems, which was popularized by
the science-fiction author William Gibson in his book Neuromancer.
Answer:
Cyberspace
8. What is the measure of memory or storage capacity and is 2 to
the 50th power bytes or, in decimal, approximately a thousand terabyte.
Answer:
Petabyte
9. What is the name of the universal code language?
Answer:
Unicode
10. Among the four companies, which is the first to release a 64
bit microprocessor?
A.) Intel
B.) AMD
C.) Sun Microsystems
D.) Cyrix
Answer:
C.) Sun Microsystems
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