How well do you know Computers
English
Intermediate
It’s about the history of early computing. It can be answered my student with elementary education to college education
Description
30
Questions
30 sec
Per question
4:58
Average time
3.0
Contest Score
3.3
Community Rating
15
Participants
1. Question 2: The person who actually invented the binary system was Leibniz[1], not Francis Bacon.
2. Question 5: A programming language actually mustn't necessarily have a translator (an example would be Machine Language[2]). What a language actually does need is a code, i.e., a mapping from a set of input symbols to certain operations, otherwise the language can't be used to do anything.
3. Question 7: Just a typo here, should be "Zuse."
4. Question 29: The answer here is not correct for general cases. A blue screen in Windows 10 can be caused by many things, and is actually most often solved by restarting the computer (answer 2), which clears out the RAM. Another reason could be faulty hardware, and while "opening the CPU and bringing out the mother board" is a bit extreme, simply uninstalling unnecessary applications isn't always the first action that should be taken.
5. Question 30: The answer is also not always correct. To give an example, there are systems (such as certain Unix variants) which have a text-only interface, those don't even have a desktop.
Another problem is that a Desktop is almost never the first thing you see when powering on a computer, because the Desktop is a part of the OS[3], and before the OS is loaded the BIOS runs a bunch of self checks (such as POST[4]). So the actual first thing the computer would display is the BIOS/UEFI startup screen.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_number#History
[2]: https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/machine_language.html
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test
Please read more https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_code.
Furthermore, in question 29, I did not limit my answers to the correct option which is in the question. Experience may vary and sometimes what works for Mr. A won't necessarily work for the other. By default windows automatically restarts the system after it experiences BSOD...(blue screen of Death). And my question was more specific.
Furthermore, I think the correct way to have asked the question number 30 is "what comes up after the booting process" . Or anything like that.
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