CpE Foundations & History
This engineering discipline integrates electrical engineering and computer science to design hardware and software systems.
What is Computer Engineering?
This fundamental unit of measurement specifies the exact number of bits contained in a single standard byte.
What is 8 bits?
This primary printed circuit board acts as the central backbone of a desktop computer, connecting the CPU, RAM, and storage.
What is the Motherboard?
Does Computer Engineering (CpE) currently have a board exam or an active licensure examination under the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in the Philippines?
What is No/False?
It is a number system that covers digits from 0-7.
What is Octal?
In computer architecture, the acronym RAM stands for this type of volatile main memory.
What is Random Access Memory?
This term describes a finite sequence of rigorous, step-by-step instructions used to solve a problem or perform a computation.
What is an Algorithm?
This ultra-fast, volatile storage embedded directly on or next to the CPU processor chip minimizes memory fetch delays.
What is Cache memory?
Established in the Philippines in 1990, this national professional organization represents Computer Engineers across academic and industry chapters.
What is ICpEP (Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines)?
It is a numeral system, heavily utilized in computing and digital electronics, is base-16 and uses digits 0-9 alongside letters A-F
What is hexadecimal (or hex)?
He is widely considered the "Father of the Computer" for his 19th-century mechanical Analytical Engine concept.
Who is Charles Babbage?
This control structure is used in programming logic to repeatedly execute a block of code until a specific condition is met.
What is a Loop?
This fundamental sequential logic element stores a single bit of state and updates its value on a clock signal edge.
What is a Flip-Flop?
Created by Republic Act No. 10844 in 2016, this executive department is responsible for planning, developing, and promoting the national ICT agenda and cybersecurity infrastructure in the Philippines.
What is the DICT (Department of Information and Communications Technology)?
Because 2^3=8, exactly this many binary bits are needed to represent a single octal digit.
What is 3?
This term was popularized in 1947 after an actual moth was removed from a relay inside the Harvard Mark II computer.
What is a Computer bug?
This software tool translates entire human-readable source code files into binary machine code that a CPU can directly execute.
What is a Compiler?
This specific type of integrated circuit component allows hardware designers to configure and program custom digital circuits repeatedly post-manufacturing.
What is an FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array)?
Launched in 2016 through the PHL-Microsat program, this microsatellite became the Philippines' first earth observation satellite built in collaboration with Japanese universities.
What is Diwata-1?
In hexadecimal, numbers 0 through 9 stay the same, but letters are used for 10 through 15. This first letter of the alphabet represents the decimal value 10.
What is A?
The infamous "ILOVEYOU" computer worm that wreaked global havoc in May 2000 originated from this city.
Where is Manila?
Developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the 1970s, this language serves as the bedrock for operating systems and embedded microcontrollers.
What is C?
Named after a physical property of semiconductors, this fundamental 4-terminal passive circuit element was postulated by Leon Chua in 1971 as the fourth basic circuit element alongside R, L, and C.
What is a Memristor?
Located in Laguna, this specialized national research center under the DOST focuses on semiconductor design, embedded microelectronics testing, and IC development.
What is EPDC (Electronics Product Development Center)?
Expressed in decimal (base-10), this is the value of the binary number 1011₂.
What is 11? (8 + 0 + 2 + 1)