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The document is a multiple choice quiz testing knowledge about early computers and computing pioneers. It asks questions about Charles Babbage and the Analytical Engine he designed, the first programmable electronic computer (ENIAC), early computer names like EDSAC and EDVAC, the first commercial computer (Ferranti Mark 1), pioneers like Babbage, Lovelace, Zuse and others, components of different computer generations, and the first supercomputer (CRAY-1). It then has sections testing identification of inventions and enumeration of computer principles.

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The document is a multiple choice quiz testing knowledge about early computers and computing pioneers. It asks questions about Charles Babbage and the Analytical Engine he designed, the first programmable electronic computer (ENIAC), early computer names like EDSAC and EDVAC, the first commercial computer (Ferranti Mark 1), pioneers like Babbage, Lovelace, Zuse and others, components of different computer generations, and the first supercomputer (CRAY-1). It then has sections testing identification of inventions and enumeration of computer principles.

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1) What was the name of first computer designed by Charlse Babbage?

A.Analytical Engine
B.Difference Engine
C.Colossus
D.ENIAC
2) Which was the first electronics digital programmable computing device?
A.Analytical Engine
B.Difference Engine
C.Colossus
D.ENIAC
3) EDSAC stands for __________.
A.Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
B.Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer
C.Electronic Data Storage Automatic Calculator
D.Electronic Data Storage Automatic Computer
4) EDVAC stands for __________.
A.Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator
B.Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
C.Electronic Data Variable Automatic Calculator
D.Electronic Data Variable Automatic Computer
5) Which was the first commercial computer?
A.Ferranti Mark 1
B.Analytical Engine
C.Difference Engine
D.Colossus
6) This person created a machine called 'The Analytical Engine.' His ideas were
some of the first that led to the creation of computers. Guess the name of this
person.
A. Simon Konrad
B. Charles Babbage
C. John Lovelace
D. William Howard
7) This person is often called the inventor of the modern computer. He actually
created the first fully electronic computer. Guess the name of this person.
A. Konrad Zuse
B. Byron Lovelace
C. William Gates
D. Steve Jobs
8)This person created what is now known as the first computer program. The program
was made to help the Analytical Engine calculate numbers. Guess the name of this
person.
A. Charles Babbage
B. Konrad Apple
C. Ada Lovelace
D. William Zuse
9) __________as switching devices are for fourth generation.
A. vacuum tube
B. transistor
C. microprocessors
D. assembly board
10) First super computer in the world is _______.
A. CRAY-1
B. MARK-1
C. PARAM
D. C-DAC
TEST II
Identification
1.Invented by John Napier in 1614?
2.Invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C.?
3.Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672?
4.She writes programs for the Analytical Engine?
5.The first electro-mechanical computer?
Test III
Enumeration
Three principles characteristic of computer

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