Computing Mock test (Prelims)

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Identify the Following: It is an activity that utilizes computers to manage, process, and communicate, critical information, that is an integral part of modern industrial technology.

Computing

As one of the most used payment methods, ATMs allow users to deposit and withdraw money anywhere and anytime easily.

Banking Industries

Identify the Following: It is the Foundation of computing today.

Early civilizations

They thrived in mesopotamia (Iraq) from 2000 BC and 500 BC

The Babylonians

_______ with mathematical text that contained basic arithmetic operations, cubes, and squareroots were found and deciphered in the 19th century

Clay Cuneiform Tablets

For their numerical system, they only used two symbols (1 and 10) to symbolize numbers, then will combine these symbols to form all other numbers.

The Babylonians

Counting Boards existed in the Babylonian civilization to: 1.) ? 2.) Solve simple calculations

Assist with Counting

Write True if the statement is true, and false if it is not. Counting Table Preceded the Abacus

False

Instructions: Write True if the statement is true, and false if it is not. The counting board was usually made out of wood. And had grooves that allowed beads to be placed at any point of the groove.

True

Instructions: Write True if the statement is true, and false if it is not. The Abacus differed in: That the beads didn't have holes that would enable them to be placed in a specific rod.

False

This Civilization solved practical problems such as: - Measuring Time - Measuring floods - Calculating the land area - Bookkeeping - Calculating taxes

The Egyptians

He was a German philosopher, mathematician, and one of the pioneers in mechanical calculation. He developed the binary number system used in digital computers

Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz

He became familiar with Blaise Pascal’s calculating machine, the Pascaline, in the early 1670s, which led him to his most significant contribution to computing.

Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz

Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz recognized the limitations of Pascaline as it could only run addition and subtraction operations, so he designed and created a calculating machine from _____?

1672-1964

It was created from 1672-1964 and it could perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and the extraction of roots. It was called "____ ________ " and was the first calculator to run the basic arithmetic operations.

Step Reckoner

He, along with George Boole, is considered one of the grandfathers of the computing field. Accurate mathematical tables fascinated him aware of the errors in the existing tables due to human error.

Charles Babbage

He designed a device in 1821 that aimed to be more advanced than Pascaline and the Step Reckoner, called “Difference Engine”. It was used to produce mathematical tables designed to precisely compute polynomial functions and logarithmic & trigonometric functions such as sine or cosine.

Charles Babbage

Ada Lovelace was an analyst working for this analytical engine and is considered the “first computer programmer” by many.

True

Babbage could only produce prototypes but never completed the machine until German engineers George and Edward Schuetz built the first working Difference Engine in 1853.

False

George and Edward Schuetz built the first working Difference Engine in ____?

1853

His work “Mathematical Analysis of Logic” in 1847 enhanced the ideas of a logical method. He contested that logic should be considered a separate branch of mathematics and not just a part of Philosophy.

George Boole

George Boole's study on logic introduced the quantities ___, ___

0, 1

Willheim Gottfried Leibniz used 1 to symbolize the universe of thinkable objects and 0 to symbolize the absence of any things. He then used symbols such as x, y, z, etc., to represent classes of objects given by the meaning attached to adjectives and nouns. Next, he introduced three operators (+, −, and ×) that combined classes of objects in mathematics.

False

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was a computer pioneer and naval officer. She received her graduate degree in mathematics from Yale.

True

She is best known for her trailblazing involvement in developing computer languages such as COBOL (Common Business-oriented Language) in 1959.

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

She promoted COBOL and its adoption by both military and private sector users. Her influence was vital at the time, and by the 1970s, COBOL was considered the “most extensively used computer language” in the world.

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

In 1962, the United States of America decided to send people to the moon. As one of NASA’s “computers”, She studied geometry for space travel which helped her figure out the paths for spacecraft to orbit Earth and land on the moon. Her calculations allowed NASA to send astronauts to the moon and back.

Katherine Johnson

Her skills and knowledge made her the second Black woman hired at the Naval Proving Ground in Virginia, USA, in 1956.

Gladys Mae West

Though her most outstanding contribution was creating a detailed geodetic model of the Earth, which became the basis for the Global Positioning System (GPS) development in the ____, West programmed the computer that calculated Earth’s geoid to adequate precisions to enable the existence of GPS.

Gladys Mae West, 1960s

Their works centered on Geometry were two of the most remarkable contributions to early Greek mathematics, approximately 500-600 BC.

Pythagoras and Thales

His theorem in Euclidean geometry is his best contribution to mathematics. It states that if A, B, and C are points on a circle, where the line AC is the circle's diameter, then the angle <ABC is a right angle

Thales

A secret society which comprised men and women who believed in the transmigration of souls, and that number was the essence of all things.

The Pythagoreans

Today, it is used on clocks, building cornerstones, movie credits, and sports events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl.

Roman numerals

It is the application of hardware and software to deliver readily available, on-demand, and measured computing services over the Internet.

Cloud Computing

In the Islamic world, Which country is NOT where mathematicians and scholars resided

South Africa

The Islamic contribution to algebra was a continuation of the achievements of the Greek civilization.

True

The Islamic scholars later applied ____ to arithmetic and geometry and studied curves using equations

Algebra

Who was Willhelm Gottfried Leibniz familiar with in the early 1670s which led him to his most significant contribution to computing

Blaise Pascal

He developed the binary number system used in digital computers

Willhelm Gottfried Leibniz

The difference engine was NOT used to produce mathematical tables designed to precisely compute polynomial functions and logarithmic & trigonometric functions such as sine or cosine.

False

His work “Mathematical Analysis of Logic” in 1847 enhanced the ideas of a logical method.

George Boole

George Boole contested that logic should be considered a separate branch of mathematics and not just a part of Philosophy.

True

The collected data is stored in a “_____,” which symbolizes the Internet compared to traditional computers that use physical devices.

Cloud

Which is NOT an example of Cloud Computing

Static Webpage

This technology simulates hardware functions by creating multiple virtual machines on a physical server that acts as a hardware device.

Virtualization

Its essence is to detach software from hardware by converting “physical” devices into “logical” folders or files.

Virtualization

It is a network of an extensive range of physical objectives that automatically share data over the Internet.

Internet of Things

Internet of Things allows faster information exchange and communication between “things” such as global positioning systems (GPS) and laser scanners.

True

Which is not an example of Internet of Things

Streaming Services

These are massive and complex datasets characterized by high volume, variety of data types, and velocity as data are collected and analyzed at ever-increasing rates

Big data

In Big data, data volume was small during the early stages of IT.

True

Which is NOT an example of big data

Facial Recognition

It has always been regarded as the technology that can change the world on the one hand and end it on the other

Artificial Intelligence

Which is NOT an example of Artificial Intelligence

Environmental Sensors

It is an expansion of the idea of cloud computing proposed by Cisco.

Fog Computing

As the names suggest, the cloud is placed up in the sky, which is distant and remote, whereas the fog is closer to the ground, wherein servers are placed near the end-users

True

It allows local data analytics and management and the distribution of real-time data insights to customers in different areas such as factories, streetlights, and commodities

Fog Computing

Which is not an example of Fog Computing?

Facial Recognition

It is decentralized and distributed cloud computing; wherein “edge” is a general concept.

Edge computing

Edge computing deals with a computing infrastructure that is close to data sources.

True

Which is NOT an example of Edge Computing

Google Drive

Using applications such as Microsoft Excel and SQL Database will lessen the amount of human error in business management. The need for office cabinets is decreased as data spreadsheets take place in data storage and processing.

Business Organizations

Bank tellers can easily manage the files and accounts of their customers as quickly as possible using computers. They need to input the user's name to access banking information in a single process.

Banking Industries

Learning methods such as blended learning are an innovative approach to providing accurate and focused learning. Online degrees and courses in schools are also offered to reach students to develop extensive access to advanced education

Education

Records of patients’ treatment and medical history are stored in a database easily accessible to doctors. Using different tools such as medical applications and other hardware equipment is also in place to make diagnosis faster and easier.

Healthcare

With comprehensive computing equipment for storing public information, handling government works makes the customer experience faster and more reliable and creates more accurate results and services

Government

Robots such as factory and machine robots can help perform several tasks considered complex for human abilities

Robotics

The Contemporary World Mock test (Prelims)

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The Contemporary World Mock test (Prelims)