2. The most important advantage of a video disk is
Correct : B. Potential capacity
3. Which of the following generation computers had expensive operation cost?
Correct : A. First
4. An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of:
Correct : A. Small-scale computer
5. Another word for a daisy wheel printer
Correct : B. Golf ball printer
6. Cursor is a ____
Correct : B. Thin blinking line
7. Which device is used to backup the data?
Correct : D. All of the above
8. Which of the following printers are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multi carbon forms?
Correct : C. Laser
9. Which of the following items are examples of storage devices?
Correct : D. All of the above
10. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand for?
Correct : C. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
11. Which computers are used as servers for any medium sized organizations?
Correct : B. Mini Computers
12. Slide Rules was invented in
Correct : C. 1620
13. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to __________data?
Correct : C. 680 MB
14. Which of the following required large computer memory?
Correct : D. All of above
15. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?
Correct : A. Analytical engine
16. The lower deck of an abacus is known as
Correct : C. earth
17. All modern computer operate on
Correct : C. Data
18. The computer that can input analog signals and return result in digital form
Correct : C. Hybrid Computers
19. Offline device is
Correct : A. A device which is not connected to CPU
20. What is the latest write-once optical storage media?
Correct : D. CD-ROM disk
21. Which of the following programming language started from second generation?
Correct : D. FORTRAN
22. Which one of the following input device is user-programmable?
Correct : D. Intelligent terminal
23. Floppy disks typically in diameter
Correct : D. All of above
24. Current SIMMs have either __ or __ connectors (pins)
Correct : D. 30 or 72
25. Dot-matrix is a type of
Correct : B. Printer
26. Which is not consisted in a processor
Correct : C. Memory
27. IBM 1401 is the first computer to enter in Nepal. It belonged to
Correct : B. Second Generation
28. The Third Generation Computer was made with ________.
Correct : C. IC
29. Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?
Correct : C. Control unit and ALU
30. Fifth generation computer is also known as
Correct : A. Knowledge information processing system
31. What is the name of the computer terminal which gives paper printout?
Correct : C. Hard copy terminal
32. Programs are executed on the basis of a priority number in a
Correct : B. Multiprogramming
33. When was Apple Macintosh II microcomputer introduced in the market?
Correct : C. 1983
34. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?
Correct : B. Epson, 1981
35. Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changed in 1924. What was that name?
Correct : B. The Tabulator Ltd.
36. The personnel who deals with the computer and its management put together are called
Correct : B. Human ware
37. Which of the following is input device?
Correct : A. scanner
38. Which of the following is true?
Correct : D. All of above
39. Who built the world’s first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?
Correct : C. George Stibits
40. WAN is a most used abbreviation in Networking, what is its full form?
Correct : B. Wide Area Network
41. In which language is source program written?
Correct : C. High level
42. Which of the following is correct acronym of VGA?
Correct : A. Video Graphics Array
43. A song being played on computer speaker is
Correct : B. soft output
44. In the IBM PC-At, what do the words AT stand for
Correct : B. Advance technology
45. Size of the primary memory of a PC ranges between
Correct : C. 256KB & 640KB
46. What is the number of read-write heads in the drive for a 9-trac magnetic tape?
Correct : A. 9
47. Apple company used chips from ______ for its computers
Correct : B. Motorola
48. Which of the following is a feature of fifth generation computers?
Correct : D. All of above
49. Charles Babbage was awarded by Royal Society for his
Correct : A. Difference Engine
50. A computer which CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as
Correct : A. Super computer
51. When we look at the cost, which of the following computer is most expensive?
Correct : D. Super Computers
52. Which of the following will happen when data is entered into a memory location?
Correct : C. It will erase the previous content
53. Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment?
Correct : B. Mouse
54. Mini computers and micro computers are from which generation of computers?
Correct : D. Fourth
55. Pick the one that is used for logical operations or comparisons such as less than equal to or greater than.
Correct : A. Arithmetic and Logic Unit
56. The operating speed of third generation computer was
Correct : C. Nanoseconds
57. Which of the following is true?
Correct : D. None of above
58. Charles Babbage is considered the father of modern computers because
Correct : C. his concept of input, mill and output
59. Which of the following is used only for data entry and storage, and never for processing?
Correct : B. Dumb terminal
60. What was the first computer brought in Nepal?
Correct : C. IBM 1401
61. The primary advantage of key-to-tape data entry system is
Correct : C. The tape is reusable
62. Basic is ________ language.
Correct : A. a procedural
63. A computer Program that translates one program instruction at a time into machine language is called a/an
Correct : A. Interpreter
64. Which of the following have the fastest access time?
Correct : A. Semiconductor Memories
65. The first electronic general purpose digital computer built by Eckert and Mauchly called ENIAC did not work on the stored program concept. How many numbers could it store in its internal memory?
Correct : B. 20
66. The computer that process both analog and digital is called
Correct : C. Hybrid computer
67. What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip?
Correct : C. Intel 4004
68. Which of the following class of computers can process physical quantities such as speed?
Correct : A. Analog Computers
69. How many types of storage loops exists in magnetic bubble memory
Correct : D. 2
70. When did IBM introduce the 20286 based PC/AT?
Correct : B. 1984
71. The silicon chips used for data processing are called
Correct : C. Micro processors
72. Which computers used operating systems by Microsoft?
Correct : D. Both A & C
73. One of the main feature that distinguish microprocessors from micro-computer is
Correct : C. Microprocessor does not contain I/O device
74. Napier’s Bones were invented in
Correct : B. 1617
75. One computer that is not considered a portable computer is
Correct : A. Minicomputer
76. Computers built before the First Generation of computers were:
Correct : B. Electro-mechanical
77. Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?
Correct : A. Random access memory
78. What is System Analysis?
Correct : C. System Analysis involves creating formal model of the problem to be solved
79. Which of the following devices have a limitation that we can only store information to it but cannot erase or modify it?
Correct : D. CDROM
80. Which is an item of storage medium in the form of circular plate?
Correct : A. Disk
81. Daisy wheel printer is a type of
Correct : B. Impact printer
82. A number system that has eight different symbols to represent any quantity is known as
Correct : B. Octal
83. The two basic types of record access methods are:
Correct : A. Sequential and random
84. Artificial Intelligence is associated with which generation?
Correct : C. Fifth Generation
85. One of a class of storage device devices that can access storage locations in any order is
Correct : B. DASD
86. The actual execution of instructions happens in
Correct : A. ALU
87. Floppy disks are available in
Correct : C. Both of above
88. Which of the following is not electro-mechanical computer?
Correct : D. ENIAC
89. Which of the following is a programming language?
Correct : B. Pascal
90. Which converts the user data into machine readable form?
Correct : A. input unit, output unit, control unit
91. In what respect human beings are superior to computers?
Correct : B. Intelligence
92. As compared to the secondary memory, the primary memory of a computer is
Correct : C. Fast
93. The language that the computer can understand and execute is called
Correct : A. Machine language
94. How was the generation of computer classified?
Correct : A. by the device used in memory & processor
95. Which of the following is not a feature of first generation computers
Correct : C. They used machine language and assembly language to program the machine
96. CAD stands for
Correct : A. Computer aided design
97. Which of the following memories has the shortest access times?
Correct : A. Cache memory
98. A small or intelligent device is so called because it contains within it a
Correct : D. Sensor
99. Which of the following is not a primary storage device?