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Fundamentals of Computers (New) Part 1
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1. Which is the largest computer?
Mainframe Computer
Mini Computers
Micro Computers
Super Computers
2. Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device
Bits
Bytes
Hertz
Clock cycles
3. The personal computer industry was started by
IBM
Apple
Compaq
HCL
4. What is meant by a dedicated computer?
Which is used by one person only
Which is assigned one and only one task
Which uses one kind of software
Which is meant for application software
5. Which programming languages are classified as low level languages?
Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN
Prolog 2, Expert Systems
Knowledge based Systems
Assembly Languages
6. What was the main disadvantage of vacuum tubes?
They were larger in size
They consumed a lot of electricity
They produced heat and often burned out
The operation cost was high
7. Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as
PC
Memory address registers
General purpose register
Flags
8. Which is not a comptuer of first generation?
ENIAC
UNIVAC
IBM 360
IBM 1401
9. Registers which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional codes (bits set by the CPU hardware as the result of operations), are known as
PC
Flags
Memory Address Registers
General Purpose Registers
10. Who invented vacuum tubes?
John Bardeen
William Shockley
Lee de Forest
All of above
11. An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is
On-line thesaurus
Multiprogramming
Over lapped processing
Outline processor
12. Who suggested Stored Program Concept
John Mauchley
J.P. Eckert
John Neumann
Joseph Jacquard
13. The central processing unit (CPU) consists of
Input, output and processing
Control unit, primary storage, and secondary storage
Control unit, arithmetic-logic unit and primary storage
Control unit, processing, and primary storage
14. The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed in
First generation
Second generation
Third generation
Fourth generation
15. Which is a semi conductor memory
Dynamic
Static
Bubble
Both a & b
16. RJ45 UTP cable has ________ Cables.
2 pair
3pair
4 pair
5 pair
17. Which of the following is not a valid size of a Floppy Disk?
8?
5 ¼?
3 ½?
5 ½?
18. The earliest calculating devices are
Abacus
Clock
Engine
None of these
19. Word length of a Personal Computer is ___
4 bits
8 bits
16 bits
64 bits
20. What was the first computer to perform all calculation using electronics rather than wheels, ratchets, or mechanical switches?
Mark I
ABC
Z3
None of above
21. A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a __ resident package
CPU
Memory
Buffer
ALU
22. The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed
Input unit
Output unit
ALU
Control Unit
23. The full form of ALU is
Arithmetic Logic Unit
Array Logic Unit
Application Logic Unit
None of above
24. What produces useful information out of data?
Computer
Processing
Programming
None of above
25. Which of the following device was not invented by Babbage
Pascaline
Difference Engine
Analytical Engine
None of above
26. A digital computer did not score over an analog computer in terms of
Speed
Accuracy
Reliability
Cost
27. Which number system is usually followed in a typical 32-bit computer?
Binary
Decimal
Hexadecimal
Octal
28. A computer has very low failure rate because it uses electronic components. It produces very consistent results. This is highlighted by which of the feature of computer?
Accuracy
Reliability
Versatility
Automatic
29. A paper printout of a document is known as
Softcopy output
Hardcopy output
Permanent Output
All of above
30. Which electronic component was made out of semiconductor material?
Vacuum tubes
Transistors
Ics
All of above
31. The act of retrieving existing data from memory is called
Read-out
Read from
Read
All of above
32. Which part of the computer is used for calculating and comparing?
Disk unit
Control uni
ALU
Modem
33. ABC is a
Special purpose computer
General purpose computer
All Purpose Computer
None of above
34. The computer code for the interchange of information between terminals is
ASCII
BCD
EBCDIC
All of above
35. When was the X window system born?
1984
1989
1988
1990
36. What is the first stage in software development?
Specification and design
Testing
System Analysis
Maintenance
37. Which of the following is valid statement?
Data in itself is useless unless it is processed
The data that is processed is called a program
The data which is not yet processed is information
Information is processed by computer to generate data.
38. The Second Generation Computer was based on ________.
Vacuum Tube
Silicon Chips
Transistor
Bio Chips
39. EBCDIC stands for
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange Code
Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange Code
Extended Binary Case Decimal Interchange Code
40. Personnel who design, program, operates and maintains computer equipment refers to
Console-operator
Programmer
Peopleware
System Analyst
41. IBM System/360 is
Mainframe Computer
Mini Computers
Micro Computers
None of above
42. A system is
an integration of different units so as to achieve an objective
input unit
input and output unit
input, output and storage units
43. Which of the following programming language started from second generation?
COBOl
BASIC
C
LISP
44. The translator program used in assembly language is called
Compiler
Interpreter
Assembler
Translator
45. EEPROM stands for
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
None of the above
46. Regarding data, computers are very good at
store
Processing
retrieve
All of above
47. Bit map terminal
support display containing multiple window
require considerable amount of video RAM
requires tremendous amount of copying and hence low performance
all of above
48. First generation computers used _________ for memory
vacuum tubes
silicon chips
magnetic drum
RAM
49. Which of the following memories allows simultaneous read and write operations?
ROM
RAM
EPROM
None of above
50. EPROM can be used for
Erasing the contents of ROM
Reconstructing the contents of ROM
Erasing and reconstructing the contents of ROM
Duplicating ROM
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