2. Which of the following is used for manufacturing chips?
Correct : D. Semiconductor
3. Which of the following is not a micro computer?
Correct : D. None of above
4. The value of each bead in earth is
Correct : A. 1
5. When did John Napier develop logarithm?
Correct : B. 1614
6. Which of the following terms is the most closely related to main memory?
Correct : D. Temporary
7. Which was the world’s first minicomputer and when was it introduced?
Correct : A. PDP-I, 1958
8. A group of magnetic tapes, videos or terminals usually under the control of one master is
Correct : D. Cluster
9. The word length of a computer is measured in
Correct : D. Bits
10. What type of memory is not directly addressable by the CPU and requires special softw3are called EMS (expanded memory specification)?
Correct : B. Expanded
11. Which unit holds data permanently?
Correct : B. Secondary storage unit
12. Before a disk can be used to store data. It must be_______
Correct : A. Formatted
13. Computer system comprises of major units
Correct : C. input unit, output unit, central processing unit and storage unit
14. The first general purpose electronic digital computer in the world was
Correct : A. UNIVAC
15. Signals can be analog or digital and a computer that processes the both type of signals is known as
Correct : C. Hybrid Computer
16. High level language is also called
Correct : D. All of the above
17. Human beings are referred to as Homosapinens, which device is called Sillico Sapiens?
Correct : D. Computer
18. Which of the following file organization is most efficient for a file with a high degree of file activity?
Correct : A. Sequential
19. Which of the following is associated with error detector?
Correct : C. Both of the above
20. Magnetic tape can serve as
Correct : A. Secondary storage media
21. Which company is the biggest player in the microprocessor industry?
Correct : C. Intel
22. The first digital computer built with IC chips was known as
Correct : C. IBM System / 360
23. EBCDIC can code up to how many different characters?
Correct : A. 256
24. MICR stands for
Correct : A. Magnetic Ink Character Reader
25. Number crunchier is the informal name for
Correct : B. Super computer
26. RATS stand for
Correct : A. Regression Analysis Time Series
27. Which technology is used in Compact disks?
Correct : D. Laser
28. Different components of the motherboard of a PC unit are linked together by sets of parallel electrical conducting lines. What are these lines called?
Correct : B. Buses
29. Which is the first electronic digital computer?
Correct : D. ABC
30. Which of the following is a storage device?
Correct : D. All of the above
31. The metal disks, which are permanently housed in, sealed and contamination free containers are called
Correct : C. Winchester disk
32. A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language is called a/an
Correct : C. Compiler
33. Intel corporation produces chips for which computers?
Correct : A. IBM PCs
34. The first microprocessor built by the Intel corporation was called
Correct : C. 4004
35. Which of the following is not a class of computers based on size?
Correct : D. Super Computers
36. Who invented EDSAC?
Correct : C. Maurice Wilkes
37. EEPROM stands for
Correct : A. Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
38. Which of the following is a class of computers based on model?
Correct : D. AT Computers
39. What are the computers called that performs calculations and comparisons usually in the binary numbering system?
Correct : B. Digital Computers
40. ASCII stands for
Correct : A. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
41. The data recording format in most of the modern magnetic tape is
Correct : D. 8-bit EBCDIC
42. Why ABC computer is called so?
Correct : B. Because it was thought to be the first computer so named with first alphabets of English
43. Who designed the first electronics computer ? ENIAC/
Correct : C. J. P. Eckert and J. W. Mauchly
44. Central Processing Unit is combination of
Correct : D. Arithmetic logic and control unit
45. IBM 1401 computer was
Correct : A. Mainframe Computer
46. Time during which a job is processed by the computer is
Correct : C. Execution time
47. CD-ROM stands for
Correct : D. Compact Disk Read Only Memory
48. Which unit converts user data into machine readable form?
Correct : A. Input unit
49. Which unit is known as nerve center of computer?
Correct : A. ALU
50. What does the disk drive of a computer do?
Correct : D. Both b and c
51. Access time is
Correct : A. seek time + latency time
52. Who invented the microprocessor?
Correct : A. Marcian E Huff
53. MICR stands for
Correct : A. Magnetic Ink Character Reader
54. The Width of a processor’s data path is measured in bits. Which of the following are common data paths?
Correct : A. 8 bits
55. MSI is the abbreviation of
Correct : A. Medium Scale Integrated
56. IMB launched its first personal computer called IBM-PC in 1981. It had chips from Intel, disk drives from Tandon, operating system from Microsoft, the printer from Epson and the application software from everywhere. Can you name the country which contribute
Correct : D. Taiwan
57. Which statement is valid about interpreter?
Correct : B. Object code is saved for future use
58. Easily reloctable language is
Correct : B. Assembly language
59. Which of the following memories needs refresh?
Correct : B. DRAM
60. Through which device the main components of the computer communicate with each other?
Correct : B. System Bus
61. What type of device is computer keyboard?
Correct : D. Input
62. Which is the limitation of high level language?
Correct : A. Lower efficiency
63. An example of a digital device can be
Correct : A. Digital clock
64. Which of the following is not true?
Correct : C. Transistors were less reliable
65. A characteristic of card systems is:
Correct : D. All of the above
66. The full form of EEPROM is
Correct : A. Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
67. The original ASCII code used__bits of each byte, reserving that last bit for error checking
Correct : C. 7
68. A computer programmer
Correct : A. Does all the thinking for a computer
69. Fifth generation computer is also known as
Correct : A. Knowledge information processing system
70. The commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called
Correct : D. All of above
71. Which of the following have low failure rate?
Correct : B. electronic devices
72. Which of the following memories need refresh?
Correct : B. DRAM
73. A typical personal computer used for business purposes would have__ of RAM.
Correct : D. 256 K
74. The ALU of a computer normally contains a number of high speed storage element called
Correct : B. Registers
75. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?
Correct : A. Analytical Engine
76. The processing speed of first generation computers was
Correct : A. milliseconds
77. Model 5100 was ______ in 1957.
Correct : A. The first PC built by IBM
78. VGA is
Correct : A. Video Graphics Array
79. A kind of scanner MICR is the short form of
Correct : A. Magnetic Ink Character Reader
80. Which of the following is not a class based on size?
Correct : D. Digital Computer
81. Which 8-bit chip was used in many of today’s TRS-80 computers?
Correct : D. Z-80
82. Which of the following disk is fixed disk?
Correct : A. Hard Disks
83. Which of the following professions has not been affected by personal computers?
Correct : D. None of the above
84. The word Abacus is derived from Abax, a word from
Correct : A. Latin language
85. In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed
Correct : C. Both sequentially and parallel
86. Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory system?
Correct : C. Magnetic tape
87. An online backing storage system capable of storing larger quantities of data is
Correct : C. Mass storage
88. A kind of serial dot-matrix printer that forms characters with magnetically-charged ink sprayed dots is called
Correct : B. Ink-jet printer
89. Which of the following does not affect the resolution of a video display image?
Correct : D. Screen size
90. Which of the following printing devices an output composed of a series of data?
Correct : D. Both a and c
91. Which of the following is an example of fifth generation computer?
Correct : A. PIM/m
92. Magnetic disks are the most popular medium for
Correct : C. Both of above
93. Which of the following is not a third generation computer?
Correct : B. IBM 1401
94. The number of records contained within a block of data on magnetic tape is defined by the
Correct : C. Blocking factor
95. Mark I is also known as
Correct : D. Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
96. Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC?
Correct : C. Instruction register
97. Which of the following are the cheapest memory devices in terms of Cost/Bit?
Correct : C. Compact Disks
98. MIS is designed to provide information needed for effective decision making by?
Correct : D. Managers
99. Which is valid statement
Correct : A. 1 KB = 1024 Bytes
100. Latency time is
Correct : A. Time to spin the needed data under head