GST103

1. An _____________ is a program that acts as an interface between a user of a computer and the computer hardware.

2. The _____________method of data processing involves the use of machines such as typewriter, roneo machines, adding machines and the like.

3. ______________ printers have small nozzles that actually spray fastdrying ink onto the page to form characters or images.

4. A printed material is often called _____________

5. The purpose of an operating system is to provide an environment in which a user may ______________ programs.

6. The ______________ Key moves the cursor by five spaces to the right when pressed.

7. The basic types of computer are Digital, Analog and ________________

8. A small battery powers a ___________ to keep track of the time when the PC is turned off.

9. UPS stands for_____________

10. The earliest PCs were equipped with a CPU from Intel Corporation called the____________.

11. ______________ are peripheral devices used to digitize (convert to electronic format) artwork, photographs, text or other items from hard copy.

12. Troe or False. Today computer is still confined the laboratory

13. The _____________ Key deletes the characters to the left of the cursor when pressed and all other characters to the right of the cursor are shifted one space to the left.

14. A _____________is made up of group of instructions to perform a task.

15. A ____________ language is computer dependent.

16. FORTRAN was developed in the year_____________

17. The ____________ keys can be likened with the conventional typewriter keys.

18. True or False. Fiberglass cannot conduct electricity

19. The _____________generation of computer saw the first two supercomputers designed specifically for numeric processing in scientific applications.

20. ______________is used for purposes such as holding the program and its data

21. Eckert and Mauchly developed UNIVAC in ______________

22. A _____________ is the computer component that lets you create copies of the information stored in your computer on paper.

23. ALGOL was developed in the year_____________

24. Most of today’s computers are______________ computers

25. The earliest attempt to build an electronic computer was by J. V. Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State, in

26. _______________ refers to a mechanism for controlling the access of programs, processes, or users to the resources defined by a computer controls to be imposed, together with some means of enforcement.

27. LARC stands for______________

28. The ______________ranges from the building housing the other elements of the computing system namely the computer and the users, the furniture and auxiliary devices

29. ______________ are used with game software and help the user more effectively control the actions of computer-simulated airplanes or arcade-style games.

30. Computers use disk to store______________.

31. A _____________is basically defined as a tool or machine used for processing data to give required information.

32. The physical components of the computer are called the_______________

33. ENIAC is the acronym for_______________

34. By the 1950s programmers were using a symbolic notation known as ______________

35. _____________ is one of the greatest threats to computers and computer applications.

36. The processing unit is made up of the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU), control unit and ______________

37. ______________ counts the data it deals with whether representing numbers, letters or other symbols, are converted into binary form on input to the computer.

38. True or False. EDVAC was able to run orders of magnitude faster than ENIAC.

39. The first computer programs were written out in _______________

40. _______________is referred to facts about a person, object or place e.g. name, age, complexion, school, class and height

41. The two most common monitor sizes are ______________

42. A ______________ is a computer program that accepts a source program in one high-level language, reads and translates the entire user’s program into an equivalent program in machine language, called the object program or object code

43. The ____________method of data processing involves the use of chalk, wall, pen pencil and the like.

44. CPU stands for Central ____________ Unit.

45. MSI is the acronym for______________

46. The computer hardware comprises the input unit, processing unit and_____________.

47. The first general purpose programmable electronic computer was the______________

48. When a computer is switched on and running a program, ____________is used for purposes such as holding the program and its data

49. Series of programs linked together make up a ______________

50. In_____________, Seymour Cray developed the CDC 6600