Green IT and Sustainability – BCS456A

BMS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

(An Autonomous Institution affiliated to VTU, Belagavi)

Department of Information Science and Engineering

Course Name: Green IT and Sustainability Course Code: BCS456A

Module – 1
Green ICT: History, Agenda, and Challenges Ahead
Questions from Introduction
1. What was one significant consequence of the Industrial Revolution?
A) Decrease in global population
B) Rise of agricultural production
C) Growth of machine-based industries
D) Expansion of cottage industries

2. According to Eric McLamb, how much did the world's population grow with the onset of
the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1700s?
A) By 20%
B) By 57%
C) By 100%
D) By 200%

3. What is identified as one of the immediate repercussions of the Industrial Revolution?

A) Decrease in atmospheric pollution
B) Reduction in carbon emissions
C) Explosive growth of the world's population
D) Conservation of natural resources

4. What environmental issues arose as a result of the transformation to mass factory-based

production?
A) Increase in natural resource availability
B) Preservation of forests
C) Large-scale deforestation and depletion of resources
D) Decrease in carbon emissions

5. What significant event occurred in the early twentieth century that contributed to the
development of military technologies and is sometimes referred to as the Second Industrial
Revolution?
A) The Renaissance
B) The French Revolution
C) The World Wars
D) The Cold War

Dr. Harish Kumar N, Dept. of ISE, BMSIT

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Question from The Second Industrial Revolution—The Emergence of

Information and Communication Technologies

6. In which year did the first new generation of computers, ENIAC, emerge from US military
research?
A) 1846
B) 1946
C) 1746
D) 1646

7. What was the nickname given to ENIAC by the press?

A) Smart Brain
B) Supercomputer
C) Giant Brain
D) Mega Machine

8. According to Martin Weik, what components did ENIAC contain?

A) 10,000 vacuum tubes, 7200 resistors, and 1500 capacitors
B) 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7200 crystal diodes, and 1500 relays
C) 20,000 transistors, 5000 resistors, and 3000 capacitors
D) 30,000 vacuum tubes, 8000 crystal diodes, and 2000 relays

9. What was one of the limitations of ENIAC in terms of its functionality?

A) It could perform complex calculations instantly
B) It had a central memory unit for data storage
C) It could only store a maximum of twenty 10-digit decimal numbers
D) It consumed minimal power compared to modern computers

10. What was a rumored effect whenever ENIAC was switched on?
A) Lights in Philadelphia brightened
B) Lights in Philadelphia dimmed
C) Lights across the country flickered
D) Lights in the surrounding area turned off temporarily

Questions from The Integrated Circuit (IC) Revolution

11. What limited the use of systems like ENIAC primarily to large, mainly military-based
research labs?
A) Their high cost and limited functionality
B) Their small size and portability
C) Their ease of use and accessibility
D) Their widespread availability in consumer markets

12. Who fielded a patent for developing cheap hearing aids based on an "integrated-
circuit-like semiconductor amplifying device"?
A) Werner Jacobi
B) Jack Kilby
C) Geoffrey Drummer
D) Martin Weik

Dr. Harish Kumar N, Dept. of ISE, BMSIT

Green IT and Sustainability – BCS456A

13. Who successfully demonstrated a working version of the first truly integrated circuit
(IC) in 1958?
A) Werner Jacobi
B) Jack Kilby
C) Geoffrey Drummer
D) Martin Weik

14. What was a significant consequence of Jack Kilby's invention of the integrated circuit
(IC)?
A) Decrease in computer functionality
B) Increase in the size of computing systems
C) Greater functionality in smaller systems
D) Decrease in computer applications

15. For what achievement was Jack Kilby awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Inventing the first computer
B) Developing the first integrated circuit (IC)
C) Pioneering the field of semiconductor research
D) Inventing the first transistor

Questions from New Age of Computer Technology

16. What observation did Intel's founder, Gordon Moore, make regarding the growth of
the hardware industry?
A) The number of transistors in a dense IC doubled approximately every two years.
B) The number of computers doubled approximately every two years.
C) The speed of Internet connections doubled approximately every two years.
D) The number of installed PCs doubled approximately every two years.

17. According to Gartner Inc., what was the estimated number of installed PCs worldwide
by early 2014?
A) Over 1 billion units
B) Over 500 million units
C) Over 2 billion units
D) Over 100 million units

18. What did the author experience in early 1992 regarding the Internet?
A) Accessing the Library of Congress information page
B) Connecting to the other side of the Atlantic at high speed
C) Using the Mosaic interface for the first time
D) Experiencing the development of the World Wide Web (WWW)

Dr. Harish Kumar N, Dept. of ISE, BMSIT

Green IT and Sustainability – BCS456A

19. What replaced the clumsy text-based interface used by the author in the early days of
the Internet?
A) Google Inc.
B) Microsoft's Bing
C) Mosaic (graphic capable) interface
D) World Wide Web (WWW)

20. What is one estimate of the size of the Internet and the WWW according to
www.factshunt.com?
A) 1 petabyte of accessible data
B) 10,000 servers owned by Google Inc.
C) 100 billion webpages indexed by Google Inc.
D) 1 yottabyte of total data stored on the Internet

Questions from Global Mobile Computing and Its Environmental Impact

21. What challenges are associated with estimating the overall cost model for the new
digital age?
A) The lack of consistent data boundaries and methodologies
B) The simplicity and stability of data sets
C) The uniformity of data sources
D) The absence of energy consumption in digital technologies

22. What components contribute to the energy footprint of the new technology age?
A) Only the electricity consumed by laptops and smartphones
B) Electricity consumed by devices, manufacturing, and operational maintenance
C) The energy required to manufacture smartphones only
D) The energy required for global illumination

23. According to Mark Mills, what percentage of the world's electricity generation does
the Information Communications Technologies (ICT) ecosystem consume annually?
A) Less than 1%
B) Approximately 5%
C) About 10%
D) Over 50%

24. What comparison does Mark Mills make regarding the energy consumption of the
ICT ecosystem?
A) Equal to the electric generation of China
B) Equivalent to the global aviation industry
C) Similar to the energy used for agricultural production
D) Comparable to the energy consumption of household appliances

Dr. Harish Kumar N, Dept. of ISE, BMSIT

Green IT and Sustainability – BCS456A

25. Why have major technology corporations like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo chosen
to build their new data centers on the Columbia River?
A)Availability of hydroelectric power and a source of cooling
B) Proximity to urban areas for better connectivity
C) Access to skilled labor force
D) Government incentives for environmental sustainability

Questions from The Agenda and Challenges Ahead

26. What are some of the key agenda items for the "Green Information and
Communication Technology" (ICT) debate?
A) Focusing on big infrastructure and big data computing
B) Overlooking existing legacy systems and measuring ICT performance
C) Addressing challenges in measuring ICT sustainability and advancing energy harvesting
technologies
D) Implementing legal frameworks for green IT and promoting cloud computing

27. What is highlighted as a critical challenge facing green Information Technology in

terms of legal frameworks?
A) Lack of regulations at the national level
B) The need for international collaboration
C) Enforceable regulations for energy-efficient devices
D) Compliance with European Union rules for device power management

28. What was one promise of cloud computing regarding energy consumption?
A) Utilizing device-dependent power-hungry applications
B) Reducing energy consumption by using virtualized resources
C) Increasing hardware and software elements in a distributed fashion
D) Creating a more device-dependent computing environment

29. What are two areas of research highlighted in green Information Technology?
A) Energy storage and cloud computing
B) Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning
C) Energy harvesting and IoT
D) Cloud computing and data storage optimization

30. According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, how does he compare the future changes in
Information Technology to the emergence of powerful Web search engines?
A) He believes the future changes will have a similar effect to the emergence of Web search
engines.
B) He predicts that the future changes will be less impactful than the emergence of Web
search engines.
C) He suggests that the future changes will be unrelated to the emergence of Web search
engines.
D) He argues that the future changes will be more impactful than the emergence of Web
search engines.

Dr. Harish Kumar N, Dept. of ISE, BMSIT