R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Computer Computer Fundamentals (New) Part 5

When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?

1. Hewlett-Packard
2. Epson 1981
3. Laplink traveling software In1982
4. Tandy model-2000 1985

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changed in 1924. What was that name?

1. Computer Tabulating Recording Co
2. The Tabulator Ltd.
3. International Computer Ltd.
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The personnel who deals with the computer and its management put together are called

1. Software
2. Human ware
3. Firmware
4. Hardware

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is input device?

1. scanner
2. speaker
3. monitor
4. projector

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is true?

1. Fields are composed of bytes
2. Records are composed of fields
3. Fields are composed of characters
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who built the world’s first electronic calculator using telephone relays light bulbs and batteries?

1. Claude Shannon
2. Konrard Zues
3. George Stibits
4. Howard H. Aiken

✅ Correct Answer: 3

WAN is a most used abbreviation in Newtorking what is its full form?

1. WAP Area Network
2. Wide Area Network
3. Wide Array of Network
4. Wireless Access Network

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which language is source program written?

1. English
2. Symbolic
3. High level
4. Temporary

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is correct acronym of VGA?

1. Video Graphics Array
2. Visual Graphics Array
3. Volatile Graphics Array
4. Video Graphics Adapter

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A song being played on comptuer speaker is

1. hard output
2. soft output
3. both hard and soft output
4. neither hard nor soft output

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In the IBM PC-At what do the words AT stand for

1. Additional Terminals
2. Advance technology
3. Applied technology
4. Advanced terminology

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Size of the primary memory of a PC ranges between

1. 2KB to 8KB
2. 64KB & 256KB
3. 256KB & 640KB
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the number of read-write heads in the drive for a 9-trac magnetic tape?

1. 9
2. 16
3. 18
4. 27

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Apple company used chips from ______ for its computers

1. Intel
2. Motorola
3. Both of above
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is a feature of fifth generation computers?

1. Use of natural language
2. artificial intelligence
3. bio-chips
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Charles Babbage was awarded by Royal Society for his

1. Difference Engine
2. Analytic Engine
3. Binary System in Analytic Engine
4. His concept of input mill output and storage

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A computer which CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as

1. Super computer
2. Mini computer
3. Micro computer
4. Macro computer

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When we look at the cost which of the following computer is most expensive?

1. Mainframe Computer
2. Mini Computers
3. Micro Computers
4. Super Computers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following will happen when data is entered into a memory location?

1. It will add to the content of the location
2. It will change the address of the memory location
3. It will erase the previous content
4. It will not be fruitful if there is already some data at the location

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment?

1. Keyboard
2. Mouse
3. Joystick
4. Track ball

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Mini computers and micro computers are from which generation of computers?

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

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Pick the one that is used for logical operations or comparisons such as less than equal to or greater than.

1. Arithmetic and Logic Unit
2. Control Unit
3. Both of above
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The operating speed of third generation computer was

1. Milliseconds
2. Microseconds
3. Nanoseconds
4. Picoseconds

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is true?

1. Mark I was 8 feet long
2. Mark I was 2 feet long
3. Mark I was 40 feet long
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Charles Babbage is considered the father of modern computers because

1. of his difference engine
2. of his analytical engine
3. his concept of input mill and output
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is used only for data entry and storage and never for processing?

1. Mouse
2. Dumb terminal
3. Micro computer
4. Dedicated data entry system

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What was the first computer brought in Nepal?

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The primary advantage of key-to-tape data entry system is

1. A large percentage of editing can be performed at the time of data entry
2. Key verification is easily performed
3. The tape is reusable
4. Keying errors can be detected as they occur.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Basic is ________ language.

1. a procedural
2. an object oriented
3. both A and B
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A computer Program that translates one program instruction at a time into machine language is called a/an

1. Interpreter
2. CPU
3. Compiler
4. Simulator

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following have the fastest access time?

1. Semiconductor Memories
2. Magnetic Disks
3. Magnetic Tapes
4. Compact Disks

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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?

1. 100
2. 20
3. 40
4. 80

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The computer that process both analog and digital is called

1. Analog computer
2. Digital computer
3. Hybrid computer
4. Mainframe computer

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip?

1. Intel 308
2. Intel 33
3. Intel 4004
4. Motorola 639

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following class of computers can process physical quantities such as speed?

1. Analog Computers
2. Digital Computers
3. Hybrid Computers
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

ow many types of storage loops exists in magnetic bubble memory

1. 8
2. 4
3. 16
4. 2

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When did IBM introduce the 20286 based PC/AT?

1. 1982
2. 1984
3. 1985
4. 1989

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The silicon chips used for data processing are called

1. RAM chips
2. ROM chips
3. Micro processors
4. PROM chips

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which computers used operating systems by Microsoft?

1. IBM PCs
2. Apple/Macintosh PCs
3. IBM Compatibles
4. Both A & C

✅ Correct Answer: 4

One of the main feature that distinguish microprocessors from micro-computer is

1. Words are usually large in microprocessors
2. Words are shorter in microprocessors
3. Microprocessor does not contain I/O device
4. Exactly the same as the machine cycle time

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Napier’s Bones were invented in

1. 1614
2. 1617
3. 1620
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

One computer that is not considered a portable computer is

1. Minicomput
2. A laptop computer
3. Tablet PC
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Computers built before the First Generation of computers were:

1. Mechanical
2. Electro-mechanical
3. Electrical
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?

1. Random access memory
2. Action method
3. Transfer method
4. Density method

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is System Analysis?

1. The design of the screen the user will see and use to enter or display data
2. System analysis defines the format and type of data the program will use
3. system Analysis involves creating formal model of the problem to be solved
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following devices have a limitation that we can only store information to it but cannot erase or modify it?

1. Floppy Disk
2. Hard Disk
3. Tape Drive
4. CDROM

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which is an item of storage medium in the form of circular plate?

1. Disk
2. CPU
3. Printer
4. ALU

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Daisy wheel printer is a type of

1. Matrix printer
2. Impact printer
3. Laser printer
4. Manual printer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A number system that has eight different symbols to represent any quantity is known as

1. Binary
2. Octal
3. Decimal
4. Hexadecimal

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A number system that has eight different symbols to represent any quantity is known as

1. Binary
2. Octal
3. Decimal
4. Hexadecimal

✅ Correct Answer: 1