1. Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changes in 1924. What was that name?
Correct : B. computing tabulating recording co.
2. Before a disk drive can access any sector record, a computer program has to provide the record’s disk address. What information does this address specify?
Correct : D. all of above
3. Each set of Napier’s bones consisted of ______ rods.
Correct : C. 11
4. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?
Correct : B. epson, 1981
5. A compiler is a translating program which
Correct : D. all of above
6. in which year was UK’s premier computing event called ?The which computer? started?
Correct : A. 1980
7. Which of the following were the contribution of John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly?
Correct : B. eniac
8. Which one of the follo0wing had design that remained central to computer engineering for next 40
years?
Correct : C. edvac
9. Who developed Intergrated Circuits?
Correct : B. jack kilby
10. Who introduced and marketed commercialised microcomputers?
Correct : A. ibm
11. Which one of the following is known as Mid Range computers?
Correct : D. mini computers
12. Which components invention led to the second generation of computers?
Correct : B. transistors
13. Which one of the following is related to 4th generation computers?
Correct : C. intel4004
14. How many characters cxan be coded in ASCII?
Correct : B. 128
15. Decimal equivqlent for binary number 111111 is
Correct : D. none of the above
16. Which of the following is the characteristics of a computer?
Correct : D. all of the above
17. Which one of the following is machine independent?
Correct : C. high level language
18. Fifth Generation languages is also known as
Correct : C. natural language
19. Which of the following is not a procedural language
Correct : C. lisp
20. MANTIS is an
Correct : A. application generator
21. Which one of the following is a natural language?
Correct : B. lisp
22. Which one of the following is a function of telecommunication software?
Correct : C. access control
23. In which network the ends are not connected?
Correct : A. bus
24. How many channels a half inch diameter fibreoptic cable can carry?
Correct : C. 50000
25. Which one of the following is a network protocol?
Correct : D. all of the above
26. Which one of the following is the oldest and most common transmission line?
Correct : A. twisted pair
27. which part is called the brain of the computer
Correct : B. cpu
28. 1giga byte s
Correct : C. 1024 mb
29. RAM
Correct : B. random access memory
30. Which of the following is not an output device
Correct : A. trackball
31. Cray Y-MP/C90 is a
Correct : D. supercomputer
32. which of the following is a portable computer?
Correct : D. all of the above
33. IBM S/390 is
Correct : C. mainframe
34. which one of the folowing is not a category of microcomputers
Correct : D. none of the above
35. sun Blade 2000 is a
Correct : B. worksation
36. DDP stands for
Correct : B. distributed data processing
37. which of these work well in DDP?
Correct : A. minicomputers
38. which one of the following is a Mainframe?
Correct : B. ibm z800
39. the complex procedure that converts raw data into usefull information
Correct : C. processing
40. the circuit board to which a microprocessor is attached is
Correct : C. motherboard
41. which one of the following is not a secondary storage device
Correct : D. none of the above
42. the chip used in IBM PC XT is
Correct : B. 8086
43. which one of these belong to Power PC family?
Correct : C. 603
44. Power Mac personal computers are built on
Correct : C. g3
45. which of the following belongs to 80x86 line
Correct : C. 80286
46. access time is also known as
Correct : C. latency
47. the performance of heirarchical memory is defined by
Correct : B. effective access time
48. The memory closest to the pricessor is known as
Correct : C. cache
49. Memories are characterised by
Correct : D. all of the above
50. the minimum period between two successive request is
Correct : C. memory cycle time
51. the unit of information transferred between items in memory hierarchy is
Correct : C. block
52. burning the PROM means
Correct : B. programming the prom
53. which of the following is called hyper page mode DRAM?
Correct : A. edodram
54. which one of the following run synchronously to the system clock?
Correct : C. sdram
55. which one of the following can be erased using UV light?
Correct : A. eprom
56. which one of the following can be erased using electricity
Correct : C. eeprom
57. which one of the following is not a flexible disk?
Correct : D. winchester disk
58. DDS stands for
Correct : C. digital data storage
59. Which company defined DDS standard?
Correct : C. sony and hp
60. Magnetic Disks are often called
Correct : B. dasd
61. QIC was introduced by the
Correct : D. 3m
62. which one of the following is an optical disk?
Correct : D. all of the above
63. Storage medium from which the data is read and to which it is written using laser
Correct : D. optical disk
64. The capacity of a super disk is
Correct : A. 120mb
65. The time it takes an access arm to get into position over a particular track
Correct : D. none of the above
66. The time it takes for the particular record to be positioned under the read/write Head
Correct : B. rotational delay time
67. what refers to sets of electronic instructions that tell the hardware what to do
Correct : B. software
68. The technology used in watches and calculators
Correct : A. lcd
69. VGA stands for
Correct : C. video graphics array
70. which one of the following is not a characteristics of a monitor
Correct : D. none of the above
71. Monochrome monitors display ____ colours
Correct : B. 2
72. Pixel is a short form for
Correct : B. picture element
73. _____ is a single point in graphics image
Correct : C. pixel
74. an 8bit colour monitor can display _____ colours
Correct : C. 256
75. true colour monitors use _____ bits per pixel
Correct : A. 24
76. _____ refers to how sharply an ondividual colour pixel on a monitor appears
Correct : C. convergence
77. VGA was developed by
Correct : D. none of the above
78. ____ is the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time
Correct : C. bandwidth
79. which one of the following video standards is not introduced by IBM
Correct : D. none of the above
80. which one of the following printers cannot produce letter-quality type?
Correct : D. dot matrix
81. which one of the following is not an impact printer?
Correct : C. laser printers
82. laser Printer is also known as
Correct : B. page printers
83. PCL stands for
Correct : A. printer control language
84. Plotters differ from printer in that they draw lines using a
Correct : B. pen
85. ____ is an expansion board that enables a computer to manipulate and output sounds
Correct : B. soundcard
86. the number of electron guns in a colour CRT monitors is
Correct : B. 3
87. which of the following is an operating system?
Correct : D. all of the above
88. which of the following is a database management system?
Correct : C. oracle
89. which of the following is a spreadsheet?
Correct : A. ms excel
90. which of thefollowing is a word processor?
Correct : D. all of the above
91. Program that converts a sourcecode into an object code
Correct : B. compilers
92. Program that analyses and excecute each line of the source code in succession
Correct : C. interpretor
93. which of the following is a systems software
Correct : B. debugger
94. which of the following is a presentation graphics software
Correct : A. lotus freelance graphics
95. SQL stands for
Correct : C. structured query language
96. which of the following is the most important program in a computer
Correct : D. none of the above
97. Primary purpose of operating sytem
Correct : A. productivity maximisation
98. MVS stands for
Correct : D. none of the above
99. which of the following is a multiuser operating system?