Top 250+ Solved Informatics and History MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ……………were well known in the 1940s although they are now uncommon.
a. Analog computers
b. Digital computers
c. Hybrid computers
d. Minicomputers
Q. ………………., Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibnitz were amongmathematicians who designed and implemented calculators that were capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division included.
a. Wilhelm Schickhard
b. Clifford Berry
c. Ray Tomlinson
d. Burton Stein
Q. ………………, together with Ada Lovelace recognized several importantprogramming techniques, including conditional branches, iterative loops and index variables.
a. Herman Hollerith
b. George Scheutz
c. Babbage
d. J.V.Atanasoff
Q. A second early electronic machine was Colossus, designed by ……………….for the British military in 1943.
a. Alan Turing
b. Eckert
c. Mauchly
d. John von Neumann
Q. The first general purposes programmable electronic computer was theElectronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of………………..
a. Pennsylvania
b. Cambridge
c. London
d. Harvard
Q. In 1964, …………….developed the CDC 6600, which was the firstarchitecture to use functional parallelism.
a. Larry Augustin
b. George Selden
c. Seymour Cray
d. Bob Kahn
Q. ……………….of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (BasicComputer Programming Language, 1967).
a. Martin Richards
b. George Selden
c. Todd Anderson
d. Larry Augustin
Q. In 1970 …………………of Bell Labs developed yet another simplificationof CPL called simply B, in connection with an early implementation of the UNIX operating system.
a. Ken Thompson
b. George Selden
c. Larry Augustin
d. Lawrence Roberts
Q. ………………….invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) whichintroduced electronic binary logic in the late 1930s.
a. Lawrence Roberts
b. Howard Aiken
c. George B.Selden
d. John Atanasoff
Q. …………………first machine was known as Mark I and originally namedthe IBM ASCC and this was the first machine that could solve complicated mathematical problems by being programmed to execute a series of controlled operations in a specific sequence.
a. Bob Kahn’s
b. George Selden’s
c. Lawrence Roberts’
d. Howard Aiken’s
Q. The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) wasdisplayed to the public on February 14, 1946, at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of…………………..
a. Georgia
b. Massachusetts
c. California
d. Pennsylvania
Q. The DEHOMAG D11 tabulator was invented in…………...
a. California
b. Harvard
c. Massachusetts
d. Germany
Q. …………….is popularly recognized in Germany as the father of the computer and his Z1, a programmable automaton built from 1936 to1938, is said to be the world’s ‘first programmable calculating machine’.
a. Peter Scott
b. Lawrence Roberts
c. Ray Tomlinson
d. Korad Zuse