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100
What is the field of "developing computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence"?
Artificial Intelligence
100
What company designed the first CPU?
Intel
100
What is 0x5 in decimal?
5
100
How many engineering majors does UCD have?
12
100
What keyboard combination do you press to restart a Windows computer?
CTRL + ALT + DELETE
200
What is the "the software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks, executing applications, and controlling peripherals"?
Operating System
200
How many types of programming languages are there?
4 (Imperative/Procedural, Functional, Logic, Object Oriented)
200
What is 0xb in binary?
0b1011
200
Who was the first dean of UC Davis College of Engineering?
Roy Bainer
200
How many employees does Github have?
95
300
A fault in a computer program which prevents it from working correctly is known as a?
Bug
300
When was C++ first developed?
1979 - 1980
300
What is 0b1001 >> 3 in decimal?
1
300
What percentage of students at UCD are CS majors?
3%
300
What does CTRL + ALT + S do?
Splits the document window
400
What store data or information temporarily and pass it on as directed by the control unit?
Register
400
What is the name of the first computer invented?
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
400
What is 29 in hexadecimal?
0x1d
400
When did Computer Science become an independent department at UC Davis?
1992
400
How heavy was the first computer invented?
ENIAC was 30 tons
500
What computer program converts an entire program into machine language?
Compiler
500
How much data could the first hard drive hold?
5MB
500
What is 10 << 2 in binary?
101000
500
How many undergraduate students does the UCD CS dept have? (as of Spring 2021)
1349
500
What's the Latin root of the word "computer"?
"computer" comes from the Latin "putare" which means both to think and to prune.