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| Who is known as the father of modern computing? |
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| Who is known as the mother of Computer Programming? |
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| George Boole developed a special form of algebra based on _________, called __________. |
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| Herman Hollerith used _________ to calculate the US Census in 1890, he went on to found a company now known as IBM. |
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| This brilliant mathmetician helped crack German Code in World War II. |
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| What are the two parts of thinking that Alan Turing identified? |
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| A Structure and a Process |
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| What type of statements make up the processes in the Turing Machine? |
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| Conditional Statements, If, then |
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| The Turing Machine can process anything that can be broken down into __________ steps. |
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| Ideas software and programming make up the ________ part of the computer |
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| Hardware and electric signals make up the ________ part of a computer. |
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| What are the four elements Von Neumann thought should make up a computer? What do we call machines based on these four elements? |
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| Calculating Unit, Control Unit, Memory, and structure for input and output. Von Neumann architecture. |
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| What unit did Von Neumann advocate using as the computer's smallest unit? |
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| What type of processing does Von Neuman architecture use to process data? |
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| _______ was invented by Bell Labs in 1947, replaced vacuum tubes, and allowed computers to be much smaller. |
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| Who invented the first integrated circuit? |
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| Who invented the first microprocessor? |
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| What was the first personal computer? |
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| What processor was used in the first IBM PC? |
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| What do we call the rule of thumb that states that the amount of transistors on a microprocessor should double every 12 to 18 months? |
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| Who formed the Apple Computer Company? |
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| Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak |
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| Artificial Intellegence, its supposed to make computers think like humans. |
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| A Personal Digital Assistant |
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| Which numbering system is a base 2? |
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| Which numbering system is a base 10? |
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| Which numbering system is a base 16? |
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| What is the most basic unit understood by computers? |
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| What are the two possible values for a bit? |
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| How many bits make up a crumb? |
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| How many bits make up a nibble? |
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| How many bits make up a byte? |
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| What do we call a small lowercase symbol placed at the bottom right hand corner of a number used to indicate its base system? |
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| What is the decimal equivalent of the highest possible binary representation in one byte? |
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| What do we call the comprehensive collection of character, glyph, and formatting commands that incorporates many international language symbols? |
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| American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a way of representing the english language in binary code. |
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| What type of electricity causes computers to malfunction? |
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| What type of signal can take an infinite number of intermediate values between 1(on) and 0(off)? |
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| What type of signal has two fixed states and no in between? |
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| Electricity flows easily through this type of substance. |
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| What type of material conducts less electricity than a conductor, but more than an insulator? |
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| List three good conductors. |
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| List three good insulators. |
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| List two good semiconductors. |
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| What device did Bell Labs invent in 1947 that revolutionized computers? |
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| What are the three leads on a discrete transistor? |
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| Collector, Emitter, and Base |
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| What do we call miniature circuits that translate electrical flow into meaningful information? |
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| What do we call the microchip that is etched onto the silicon wafer? |
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| What do we call the socket we place PGA processors into? |
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| ZIF(Zero Insertion Force) Sockets |
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| What type of carrier does the Pentium 4 and the AMD Athalon XP use? |
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| What does SECC stand for? |
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| Single Edge Contact Cartridge |
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| What branch of mathematics is both computer programming and hardware based on? |
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| Logic is the science or art of ____________________. |
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| What type of circuit does electricity flow through? |
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| Which logic gate acts as an inverter? |
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| Another name for an if-then statement, which is often used in logic and computer programming. |
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| Which logic gate uses addition? |
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| Which logic gate uses multiplication? |
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| What do we call a computers primary language which is represented in binary code? |
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| What are the four main actions common to all microprocessors? |
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| Fetch, Decode, Execute, and Write |
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| What do we call the workspace that the CPU uses to temporarily hold data? |
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| If we have a 64 bit processor what does that mean? |
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| The CPU's register can hold 64 bits of data |
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| What unit in the CPU handles arithmatic using integers and Boolean operations? |
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| ALU (Arithmatic logic unit) |
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| What is the name of the unit that specializes in handling numbers that involve exponents and fractions? |
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| Type of number that includes all positive and negative whole numbers. |
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| This type of number allows the position of the decimal to move. |
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| This component acts as the computer's heartbeat. |
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| What do we call the assembly line within a processor? |
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| What do we call instructions that are part of the physical design of the processor and consist of logic gates? |
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| What two types of information does the CPU recieve via the system bus? |
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| Program Code Messages and Embeded Instructions |
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| This type of chip design provides a large library of instructions that can be accessed internally for processing. |
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| Type of chip design that uses a limited amount of internal instructions. |
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| Which chip design introduced the pipeline concept? |
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| Name the function of the Pentium 4 Advanced Dynamic Execution Unit which ensures the computer has enough data in its pipelines to keep it from becoming idle. |
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| What do we call the act of CPU's processing functions that have not yet been requested? |
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| What is the front end of the Pentuim 4 responsible for? |
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| Controlling and Managing efficient routing of data to the pipelines. |
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| What do we call the amount of time one component must wait to recieve data from another component? |
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| List the four scheduling queues in the Pentium 4. |
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| Memory Scheduler, Fast ALU Scheduler, Slow ALU/General FPU Scheduler, and Simple FP Scheduler |
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| What do we call the Pentium 4 Northwood's two ALU's that run at twice the speed of the processor? |
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| Allows a single processor to logically act as two, only effective when supported by software you are running |
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| What do we call the architecture that allows multiple pipelines to operate parrallel to each other? |
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| What specialized type of processing does the G4 use? |
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| The G4 is able to process 128-bit instructions in its execution engine known as ________________. |
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| What does RISC stand for? |
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| Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
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| What does CISC stand for? |
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| Complex Instruction Set Computer |
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| What dioes FPU stand for? |
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| What does VLIW stand for? |
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| Very Long Instruction Word |
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| What does SRAM stand for? |
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| Static Random Access Memory. Also known as Cache |
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| What does DRAM stand for? |
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| Dynamic Random Access Memory |
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| Architecture backward compatible to the Intel 8086 chip. All Intel and AMD chips are x86 |
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| What does MIPS stand for? |
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| Millions of Instructions Per Second. Number of machine instructions CPU can process per second |
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| What does SIMD stand for? |
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| Single Instruction/Multiple Data. Parallel processing system that handles multiple sets of data as one instruction |
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| Address Generation Unit. Part of CPU's back end execution engine that manages where data is stored and loaded |
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| Branch Target Buffer. In charge of fetching instructions and making predictions for computer's front end |
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| Translation Look Aside Buffer. Holds a temporary map of virtual address space. |
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| Interprocess communication. is a set of programming interfaces that allow a programmer to coordinate activities among different program processes that can run concurrently in an operating system. |
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| What invention(s) led to Charles Babbage being known as the fater of computing? |
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| Difference Engine and Analytical Engine |
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| What did Ada Lovelace do to be known as the mother of Computer Programming? |
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| Wrote software for the difference engine |
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| Who founded what we now know as IBM? What was it called when it was founded? |
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| Herman Hollerith, Tabulating Machine Company |
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| What did Vannevar Bush do? |
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| Created Analog computers to solve complex systems, calculated ballistic tables for the Military |
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| What was the "structure" of the Turing Machine? |
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| An infinite length of tape divided into squares. |
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| What common items in use today are based on the Turing Machine? |
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| Tape players, tape drives, hard drives, cd players |
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| Who developed game theory? |
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| Which method of sending data allows us to send it side by side? |
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| Which type of carrier looks similar to a PGA but has no pins? |
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| What is Quanti-Speed Architecture? |
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| Super Scalar Architecture within the FPU |
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