FIRST PERIODICAL EXAMINATION IN GRADE 7 ICT

Multiple Choice.
Instruction: Select the correct answer among the choices. Write your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. The Caveman counted with the only counting tools they knew, their
___________. These were considered the first counting tools.
a. Hairs c. Bones
b. Finger and Toes d. Nails

2. He invented a calculating machine that used marked strips of wood or bone,

side by side, to multiply and divide.
a. Biaise Pascal c. John Napier
b. Wilhelm Gottfried Liebniz d. Joseph-Marie Jacquard

3. It was a wooden box that could only add and subtract by means of a series of
gears and wheels.
a. Pascaline c. Stepped Reckoner
b. Jacquard’s Loom d. Abacus

4. The mechanical device of a computer.

a. Software c. Data
b. Users d. Hardware

5. It holds data and programs permanently.

a. Input Device c. Storage Device
b. Processing Device d. Output Device

6. The following are the steps to follow in the information processing cycle.
Arrange the steps accordingly which comes first in the information processing
cycle.

STORAGE INPUT PROCESSING OUTPUT

a. Storage Input Processing Storage

b. Input Processing Output Storage
c. Input Processing Storage Output
d. Input Storage Processing Output

7. The following inventors were under the gear-driven machine era, except one.
Which one is it?
a. Jacquard c. Herman Hollerith
b. Charles d. Gottfried Liebniz
8. Refers to the process of getting information into and out of the computer.
a. Input/Output c. Central Processing Unit
b. Primary Memory d. Output Unit

9. Which of the following is not an input hardware?

a. Scanner c. digital camera
b. Keyboard d. Monitor

10. What type of acquiring software that is copyrighted and generally costly?
a. Shareware c. Public domain software
b. Commercial software d. Open Source

11. This type of acquiring software is uncopyrighted and may be used or altered
without restriction.
a. Public domain software c. Freeware
b. Shareware d. Open Source

12. A computer profession that writes, tests, implements, and maintains

programs.
a. Management Information System c. Computer Programming
b. Computer Information System d. Information Technology

13. Which of the following statements best describe software piracy?

a. Making illegal copies of copyrighted software.
b. Small-medium sized business who purchase a few copies and distribute to
many users
c. Individual users who probably would not have purchased software on their
own anyway
d. Cheaper price

14. How fast information can be taken from or stored onto the computer memory
device’s medium?
a. 30 billionths of a second c. 20 billionths of a second
b. 40 billionths of a second. d. 50 billionths of a second

15. It is where the data and program that are currently in operation or being
accessed are stored during use.
a. Primary storage or memory c. Central Processing Unit
b. Input device d. Output Device

16. Who introduced the first electronic "computer" in the United States?
a. Herman Hollerith c. Vannevar Bush
b. Howard Aiken d. Grace Hopper
 17. What word that best describes the Enigma machine that was invented by the
Germans?
a. Hi-tech c. Unbreakable
b. Unbelievable d. Code breaker

18. It is one of the world's earliest working programmable electronic digital

computers.
a. Enigma machine c. Mark I
b. Colossus d. ENIAC

19. Together with John Presper Eckert and ___________ they developed the
first general-purpose electronic computer in 1946.
a. John von Neumann c. John Bardeen
b. William Shockley d. John William Mauchly

20. It contained 5,400 vacuum tubes and used magnetic tapes to give instructions
to the computer. It was used to predict the presidential election of Dwight
Eisenhower.
a. ENIAC c. EDSAC
b. UNIVAC d. EDVAC

Test II. True or False. Write the word True if the statement is True and write the
word False if it is False.

1.F 1. An example of a peripheral device is a keyboard.

2.T 2. Hardware needs software on the computer that can service the device.
3.F 3. Magnetic technology uses lasers to “read” the binary information from the
4.T medium.
5. F 4. 1 kilobyte is 1,024 bytes
6. T 5. RAM is permanent
7.T 6. CPU is often referred to as the “brain” of the computer.
8.T 7. Before computer networks became widespread, most viruses spread on
9.F removable media, particularly floppy disk.
10. 8. Windows XP is an operating system.
T 9. Charles Babbage was a British mathematician  conceives of a steam-driven
calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers.
10. In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden
cards to automatically weave fabric designs

Test III. Matching Type. Under Column A are the descriptions of computer
virus while Column B are the types of Computer viruses. Match Column A with
Column B.
1. Disguises itself to prevent from being detected a. Polymorphic
by antivirus software (i) b. Creeper
2. A virus that copies and multiplies itself (g)
c. Program virus
3. Infects boot sector of computers (k)
4. Act like a chameleon, changing its virus signature d. Logical bomb
(binary pattern) every time it multiples (a) e. E-mail virus
5. Allows hackers to access the hard drive of the f. Trojan horse
infected computer (h) g. Worm
6. The first recorded computer virus (b) h. My doom
7. It usually pretends as computer games or i. Stealth
application software (f)
j. Time bomb
8. A program that performs an activity on a particular date (j)
9. Usually it has extensions like .BIN, .COM, .EXE, .OVL, .DRV © k. Boot sector
10. Uses e-mail messages to spread which allows
to automatically forward itself to thousands of people (e)

Prepared by:

PRESCILLA G. DEREQUITO
TLE Teacher