WGU C182 Introduction to IT 2023/ 2024
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Q: When were mainframes introduced and computer no longer restricted to government labs or
universities?
Answer:
The second generation.
Q: What characteristics did third generation computers share?
Answer:
Silicon chips (AKA IC)
Q: When were minicomputers, dumb terminals and families of computers introduced? Small
businesses were also able to begin using computers.
Answer:
The third generation
Q: When was the software development field introduced?
Answer:
The third generation
Q: When was the single-chip processor introduced?
Answer:
The fourth generation
Q: When were personal computers first viable?
Answer:
The fourth generation
Q: What was the first personal computer?
Answer:
The Mark 8
Q: Was the Apple 1 considered a kit computer?
Answer:
Yes
Q: When were GUIs introduced?
Answer:
The fourth generation
Q: What is the most significant change that has occurred with computers since the fourth
generation began?
Answer:
Miniaturization
Q: What does Moore’s law say?
Answer:
That the number of transistors on a chip would double every year
Q: Did chip count increase linearly or by orders of magnitude?
Answer:
Orders of magnitude
Q: Is Moore’s law a physical law?
Answer:
No, it is an observation
Q: What is a pipelined CPU?
Answer:
The fetch-execute cycle is performed in an overlapped fashion on several instructions. For
instance, while instruction 1 is being executed, instruction 2 is being decoded and instruction 3 is
being fetched.
Q: What were early computer programs written in?
Answer:
Machine language
Q: Who wrote the earliest programs?
Answer:
The engineers who used the computer
Q: Where does the term bug come from?
Answer:
An early programmer could not get his program working even though the vacuum tubes were
working, his logic was correct, and the program was correctly entered. It turned out that a moth
had somehow gotten into a relay switch so that it would not pass current
Q: Which came first, translators or compilers?
Answer:
Translators
Q: What were translators also known as?
Answer:
Assemblers
Q: What came after machine language?
Answer:
Assembly language
Q: When were high-level languages introduced?