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  1.  The first mechanical calculating machine was made by

  2. A.

    William Oughtred

    B.

    Gottfried Leibnitz

    C.

    Blaise Pascal

    D.

    Charles Babbage


  3.  The original ASCII code used _____ bits of each byte, reserving that last bit for error checking.

  4. A.

    4

    B.

    5

    C.

    7

    D.

    9


  5.  The computer industry uses prefixes of Greek origin to measure large amounts of data. Which term describes 1024 bytes.

  6. A.

    Kilobyte

    B.

    Megabyte

    C.

    Gigabyte

    D.

    Terabyte


  7.  One nibble is equal to

  8. A.

    4 bits

    B.

    8 bits

    C.

    6 bits

    D.

    16 bits


  9.  Which of the following is used for manufacturing chips?

  10. A.

    control bus

    B.

    parity unit

    C.

    control unit

    D.

    semiconductor


  11.  Which of the following terms applies to communication between separate computer systems?

  12. A.

    Computer literacy

    B.

    Power supply

    C.

    Applications software

    D.

    Connectivity


  13.  A packet switching network that was sponsored by the Commission of the EEC and became operational in 1979 is

  14. A.

    Euronet

    B.

    Star network

    C.

    a single server

    D.

    none of these


  15.  What is the standard code the computer industry created to represent characters?

  16. A.

    DASI

    B.

    ASCII

    C.

    BASCII

    D.

    EPROM


  17.  A sizeable geographical area with communication based on the telephone system is though as

  18. A.

    Local area network

    B.

    Wide area network

    C.

    Modulator-Demodulator

    D.

    All of the above


  19.  Which one of the following is the first second-generation computer?

  20. A.

    IBM 801

    B.

    IBM 7070

    C.

    IBM 7090

    D.

    All of the above