Do you know your mainframe lingo?

Did your computer journey start with dial-up and dot matrix? Perhaps you cut your teeth coding COBOL, or maybe you dream in Rust. Whatever your beginning, both you and technology changed along the way. If you’re not modernizing your mainframe and your skills, you’re depreciating. Test your noggin and see if you’re keeping up.

1. “Big Iron” is another term for:

 Early steam-powered locomotives

 Extremely large, expensive, fast computers

 A 1970’s rock band that featured computer–generated sounds

 Custom rackmount servers

2. What was the first personal computer storage medium?

 Diskette

 CD

 Compact cassette

 Flash drive

3. What was a first with the Moonshot servers?

 First servers used with cold aisle containment

 First servers used by the Federal Aviation Administration

 First servers with embedded security measures

 First servers run on low-energy microprocessors

4. What does ENIAC stand for?

 Enabling Numerical Intelligence and Computing

 Electrocardiogram Needs Input Asynchronous Correlator

 Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

 Electronic Nicade Anagram Calculator

5.  Why do we call software defects “bugs”?

 U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper discovered a moth blocking a relay

 Thomas Edison penned the term to mean little difficulties and frustrations

 No one really knows

 The Middle English word bugge, which meant a threat or monster

6. True or false: Perfect code exists.

 True

 False

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