47. | What is a URL? | |||||||
Answer: Option C Explanation: URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is an address for a specific document found on the Web. |
48. | The Central Processing Unit is an embeded chip that acts as the ‘brains’ of a computer. What Intel chip was used in the Altair (the first real personal computer)? | |||||||
Answer: Option B Explanation: The Intel 8080 was a jazzed-up calculator chip. It was included in microcomputer kits which were little more than demonstration tools and did little except blink lights. Besides the 8080 chip, the Altair included a power supply, a front panel with a large number of lights and 256 bytes (not kilobytes) of memory. The kit sold for {$395} and had to be assembled. |
49. | What is a NIC? | |||||||
Answer: Option C Explanation: A NIC is a Network Interface Card. Usually a card that is plugged into a computer’s expansion slot. |
50. | The Internet was developed in the… | |||||||
Answer: Option D Explanation: As surprising as its age is, the Internet was born from the U.S. military’s need to construct a decentralized computer network that could withstand a nuclear war. The network was used and refined by universities throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but it wasn’t until 1992 that the Internet was made available to the general public. |