R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Computer Computer Fundamentals (New) Part 6

In latest generation computers the instructions are executed

1. Parallel only
2. Sequentially only
3. Both sequentially and parallel
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory system?

1. Magnetic core
2. Semiconductor
3. Magnetic tape
4. Both a and b

✅ Correct Answer: 3

An online backing storage system capable of storing larger quantities of data is

1. CPU
2. Memory
3. Mass storage
4. Secondary storage

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A kind of serial dot-matrix printer that forms characters with magnetically-charged ink sprayed dots is called

1. Laser printer
2. Ink-jet printer
3. Drum printer
4. Chan printer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following does not affect the resolution of a video display image?

1. Bandwidth
2. Raster scan rage
3. Vertical and horizontal lines of resolution
4. Screen size

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following printing devices an output composed of a series of data?

1. Wire matrix printer
2. Band printer
3. Wang image printer
4. Both a and c

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is an example of fifth generation computer?

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

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Magnetic disks are the most popular medium for

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not a third generation computer?

1. IBM 360
2. IBM 1401
3. PDP-8
4. HP2115

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The number of records contained within a block of data on magnetic tape is defined by the

1. Block definition
2. Record contain clause
3. Blocking factor
4. Record per block

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Mark I is also known as

1. American Sequence Controlled Calculator
2. Automatic Sequence Calculating Controller
3. American Sequence Controlled Computer
4. Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC?

1. Memory address registers
2. Memory data registers
3. Instruction register
4. Program counter

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following are the cheapest memory devices in terms of Cost/Bit?

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

MIS is designed to provide information needed for effective decision making by?

1. Consumers
2. Workers
3. Foremen
4. Managers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which is valid statement

1. 1 KB = 1024 Bytes
2. 1 MB = 1024 Bytes
3. 1 KB = 1000 Bytes
4. 1 MB = 1000 Bytes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Latency time is

1. Time to spin the needed data under head
2. Time to spin the needed data under track
3. Time to spin data under sector
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who built the first Mechanical Calculator

1. Joseph Marie Jacquard
2. John Mauchly
3. Blaise Pascal
4. Howard Aiken

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The most important advantage of a video disk is

1. Compactness
2. Potential capacity
3. Durability
4. Cost effectiveness

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following generation computers had expensive operation cost?

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

✅ Correct Answer: 2

An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of:

1. Small-scale computer
2. Medium-scale computer
3. Large-scale computer
4. Super computer

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Another word for a daisy wheel printer

1. Petal printer
2. Golf ball printer
3. Laser printer
4. Line printer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Cursor is a ____

1. Pixel
2. Thin blinking line
3. Pointing device
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which device is used to backup the data?

1. Floppy Disk
2. Tape
3. Network Drive
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following printers are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multi carbon forms?

1. Daisy wheel
2. Dot matrix
3. Laser
4. Thimble

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following items are examples of storage devices?

1. Floppy / hard disks
2. CD-ROMs
3. Tape devices
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand for?

1. American Stable Code for International Interchange
2. American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
3. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
4. American Standard Code for Interchange Information

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which computers are used as servers for any medium sized organizations?

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

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Slide Rules was invented in

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to __________data?

1. 680 KB
2. 680 Bytes
3. 680 MB
4. 680 GB

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following required large computer memory?

1. Imaging
2. Graphics
3. Voice
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

1. Analytical engine
2. Arithmetic machine
3. Donald Knuth
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The lower deck of an abacus is known as

1. heaven
2. sky
3. earth
4. floor

✅ Correct Answer: 3

All modern computer operate on

1. Information
2. Floppies
3. Data
4. Word

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The computer that can input analog signals and return result in digital form

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Offline device is

1. A device which is not connected to CPU
2. A device which is connected to CPU
3. A direct access storage device
4. An I/O device

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is the latest write-once optical storage media?

1. Digital paper
2. Magneto-optical disk
3. WORM disk
4. CD-ROM disk

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following programming language started from second generation?

1. LISP
2. C
3. QBASIC
4. FORTRAN

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following input device is user-programmable?

1. Dumb terminal
2. Smart terminal
3. VDT
4. Intelligent terminal

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Floppy disks typically in diameter

1. 3?
2. 5.25?
3. 8?
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Current SIMMs have either __ or __ connectors (pins)

1. 9 or 32
2. 30 or 70
3. 28 or 72
4. 30 or 72

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Dot-matrix is a type of

1. Tape
2. Printer
3. Disk
4. Bus

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which is not consisted in a processor

1. ALU
2. CU
3. Memory
4. Registers

✅ Correct Answer: 3

IBM 1401 is the first computer to enter in Nepal. It belonged to

1. First Generation
2. Second Generation
3. Third Generatio
4. Frouth Generation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Third Generation Computer was made with ________.

1. Vacuum Tube
2. Discrete Components
3. IC
4. Bio Chips

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?

1. Control Unit and Registers
2. Registers and Main Memory
3. Control unit and ALU
4. ALU and bus

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Fifth generation computer is also known as

1. Knowledge information processing system
2. Very large scale integration
3. Both of above
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Second Generation computers were developed during

1. 1949 to 1955
2. 1956 to 1965
3. 1965 to 1970
4. 1970 to 1990

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the name of the computer terminal which gives paper printout?

1. Display screen
2. Soft copy terminal
3. Hard copy terminal
4. Plotter

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Programs are executed on the basis of a priority number in a

1. Batch processing system
2. Multiprogramming
3. Time sharing
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When was Apple Macintosh II microcomputer introduced in the market?

1. 1964
2. 1970
3. 1983
4. 1986

✅ Correct Answer: 3