R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Computer Computer Fundamentals (New) Part 1

Which of the following is not valid statement?

1. Hard is referred to mean something temporary
2. Hard is used to mean something tangible
3. Soft is used to mean something permanent
4. Soft is used to mean something tangible

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Digital devices are

1. Digital Clock
2. Automobile speed meter
3. Clock with a dial and two hands
4. All of them

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Primary memory stores

1. Data alone
2. Programs alone
3. Results alone
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

After copying the content how many times can you paste?

1. 1
2. 16
3. 32
4. Many

✅ Correct Answer: 4

WAN stands for

1. Wap Area Network
2. Wide Area Network
3. Wide Array Net
4. Wireless Area Network

✅ Correct Answer: 2

An error in computer data is called

1. Chip
2. Bug
3. CPU
4. Storage device

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The instructions for starting the computer are house on

1. Random access memory
2. CD-Rom
3. Read only memory chip
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

1 nibble equals to

1. 1 bits
2. 2 bits
3. 4 bits
4. 8 bits

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Perforated paper used as input of output media is known as

1. paper tapes
2. magnetic tape
3. punched papers tape
4. card punch

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The secondary storage devices can only store data but they cannot perform

1. Arithmetic Operation
2. Logic operation
3. Fetch operations
4. Either of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which American computer company is called Big Blue?

1. Microsoft
2. Compaq Corp
3. IBM
4. Tandy Svenson

✅ Correct Answer: 3

It was in 2028 BS the _________ was brought in to calculate census data.

1. IBM 1400
2. IBM 1401
3. ICL 2950
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who is the inventor of ABC Computer?

1. John v. Atanasoff
2. Clifford Berry
3. Both of above
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is the largest unit?

1. data
2. field
3. record
4. database file

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Find out who is not the inventor of transistors among following names

1. John Burdeen
2. William Shockley
3. Walter Brattain
4. Lee de Forest

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not true for a magnetic disk?

1. It is expensive relative to magnetic tape
2. It provides only sequential access to stored data
3. Users can easily update records by writing over the old data
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A disadvantage of the laser printer is

1. It is quieter than an impact printer
2. It is very slow
3. The output is of a lower quality
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

he most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called

1. ASCII
2. EBCDIC
3. BCD
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which access method is used to access cassette tape?

1. Direct
2. Sequential
3. Both of the above
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A Compiler is ____

1. a combination of computer hardware
2. a program which translates from one high-level language to another
3. a program which translates from one high-level to a machine level language
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not valid statement?

1. Input unit
2. Secondary storage unit
3. Output Unit
4. Primary Memory Unit

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The computer size was very large in

1. First Generation
2. Second Generation
3. Third Generation
4. Fourth Generation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A name or number used to identify storage location devices?

1. A byte
2. A record
3. An address
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not computer language?

1. High level language
2. Medium level language
3. Low level language
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Reading data is performed in magnetic disk by

1. Read/write leads
2. Sectors
3. Track
4. Lower surface

✅ Correct Answer: 1

IBM 7000 digital computer

1. Belongs to second generation
2. Uses VLSI
3. Employs semiconductor memory
4. Has modular constructions

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not electro-mechanical computer?

1. Mark I
2. ABC
3. Zuse
4. UNIVAC

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The term ‘computer’ is derived from

1. Greek language
2. Sanskrit language
3. Latin language
4. German language

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which statement is valid about magnetic tape?

1. It is a plastic ribbon
2. It is coated on both sides with iron oxide
3. It can be erased and reused
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is first generation computer?

1. EDSAC
2. IBM 1401
3. CDC 1604
4. ICL 2950

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A hard copy would be prepared on a

1. Line printer
2. Dot matrix Printer
3. Typewriter terminal
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The term GIGO is related to which characteristics of computers?

1. Speed
2. Automatic
3. Accuracy
4. Reliability

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following programming language were used in first generation computers?

1. Machine language
2. Assembly language
3. Both of above
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

To locate a data item for storage is

1. Field
2. Feed
3. Database
4. Fetch

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who used punched cards practically for the first time in the history of computers?

1. Charles Babbage
2. Dr. Herman Hollerith
3. Howard Aikin
4. Joseph Jacquard

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Hard disk is coated in both sides with

1. Magnetic metallic oxide
2. Optical metallic oxide
3. Carbon layer
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following term means to reckon?

1. putare
2. com
3. computa
4. computar

✅ Correct Answer: 1

An input /output device at which data enters or leaves a computer system is

1. Keyboard
2. Terminal
3. Printer
4. Plotter

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is first generation of computer

1. EDSAC
2. IBM-1401
3. CDC-1604
4. ICL-2900

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A name or number used to identify a storage location is called

1. A byte
2. A record
3. An address
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Computer professionals working in a computer centre are

1. Software
2. Firmware
3. Hardware
4. Humanware

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The first general purpose electronic computer in the world was

1. UNIVAC
2. EDVAC
3. ENIAC
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The contents of information are stored in

1. Memory data register
2. Memory address register
3. Memory arithmetic registers
4. Memory access register

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is correct full form of BCD?

1. Binary Coded Decimal
2. Bit Coded Decimal
3. Binary Coded Digit
4. Bit Coded Digit

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which was the world’s first microcomputer that used Intel 80386 microprocessor chip?

1. IBM PS/2
2. HP-9830
3. DeskPro-386
4. IBM-360

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The qualitative or quantitative attribute of a variable or set of variables is termed as

1. data
2. information
3. both of above
4. none of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Main storage is also called

1. Accumulator
2. Control Unit
3. Register Unit
4. Memory

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following are (is) considered to be video component?

1. Resolution
2. Color depth
3. Refresh rate
4. All of the alcove

✅ Correct Answer: 4

For what Antikyathera was used?

1. For counting
2. For Calculating tax collection
3. For calculating astronomical positions
4. For calculating firing weapons

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Memory unit is one part of

1. Input device
2. Control unit
3. Output device
4. Central Processing Unit

✅ Correct Answer: 4