NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic
Unit 1 Quiz
1.
This electronic device was used as a switch in the first digital computer.
a. Integrated circuit
b. Transistor
c. MOSFET
d. Vacuum tube
2.
ENIAC stands for __________.
a. Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator
b. EDVAC Nearly Integrated Accumulator Computer
c. Estimating Nano Integrator and Computer
d. Electronic Nuclear Interconnected Accumulator Calculator
3.
Who is credited with creating the stored program computer model?
a. Atanasoff
b. Berry
c. Eckert
d. von Neumann
4.
Limits to computing power are caused by throughput bottlenecks between the CPU
and__________.
a. input devices
b. output devices
c. memory
d. other CPUs
5.
Which device uses a lot of power and gives off a lot of heat?
a. Integrated circuit
b. Transistor
c. MOSFET
d. Vacuum tube
6.
The silicon used to make a MOSFET works as a __________.
a. conductor
b. electrode
c. insulator
d. semiconductor
7.
Which of these companies was not one of the original personal computer makers?
a. AMD
b. Apple
c. IBM
d. MITS
NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic
Unit 1 Quiz
8.
Moore’s law that states that the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit chip
__________ every 18-24 months.
a. doubles
b. triples
c. quadruples
d. increases ten-fold
9.
The first operating system for the personal computer was __________.
a. Windows 3.x
b. DOS
c. Windows 9x
d. Windows XP
10.
A generic PC is also called __________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
alienware
an eMachine
a white-box system
a voodooPC
11.
The “von Neumann bottleneck” refers to a limit on throughput between _____________.
a. CPU and memory
b. input and memory
c. output and memory
d. input and output
12.
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley received the Nobel Prize for inventing the __________.
a. computer
b. integrated circuit
c. transistor
d. vacuum tube
13.
N-type silicon __________________.
a. lacks free electrons
b. has an excess of free electrons
c. is identical to P-type silicon
d. is pure silicon
14.
The first IBM PC used the __________ microprocessor.
a. 8008
b. 8080
c. 8085
d. 8088
NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic
Unit 1 Answer Sheet
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Answer Key
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