Computer Components This quiz tests the knowledge of the computer and the components needed to make it run effeciently. fmugwagwa06 published on March 26, 2013 Stacked 1/10 When where the earliest electronical computers created? 1840's 1940's 1950's 2/10 Computers are programmed to carry out instructions. These instructions are usually very simple and require adding numbers together, moving data from one place to another etc, is this True or False? True False 3/10 Which of these is a is a non-volitale storage device which retains information/data without a power supply. CD-ROM Hard-disk Keyboard 4/10 What passive component in a computer systems is commonly used to cool the processor by dissipating any heat into the surrounding air. Fan & Heatsink Power supply Motherboard 5/10 What is a Motherboard? is a central circuit board in a system that is used in many of the modern computers and it has the primary function of holding many of the different crucial ... refers to the components that are used to retain digital data for the user. is a non-volitale storage device which mainly means that it can retain information/data without a power supply. the hard disk has a user magnetic reader used... 6/10 Computers interact with a number of different I/O (input/output) devices to exchange information. Some of these peripheral devices include the keyboard, mouse, display, hard drive, printer and more.True or False? True False 7/10 Network and Graphic cards are additional plugin devices usually connected through the motherboard. True or False? True False 8/10 Microsoft windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Opera and Adobe. These are types of what? Hardware Software Internet providers 9/10 It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus and was created by the Farooq Alvi brothers. In which year was the virus created? 1976 1886 1986 10/10 The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data. True or False? True False