1. Microprocessors can be used to make- 9.

The programs which are as permanent as

A) Computer B) Digital systems hardware and stored in ROM is known as:
C) Calculators D) All of the above A) Hardware B) Software
2. Which statement is valid about computer C) Firmware D) ROM ware
programs? 10. Which of the following memories must
A) High level languages must be converted be refreshed many times per second?
into machine language to execute A) Static RAM B) Dynamic RAM
B) High level language programs are more C) EPROM D) ROM
efficient and faster to execute 11. What do you call the translator which take
C) It is more difficult to identify errors in high assembly language program as input &
level language program than in low level produce machine language code as
programs output?
D) All of above A) Compiler B) Interpreter
3. By programmable machine we mean- C) Debugger D) Assembler
A) Computers 12. Serial access memories are useful in
B) Modern television applications where-
C) Washing machines A) Data consists of numbers
D) Anything that can be set to perform different B) Short access time is required
tasks with suitable programs C) Each stored word is processed
4. Which of the following is a secondary memory differently
device? D) Data naturally needs to flow in and out
A) Keyboard B) Disk in serial form
C) ALU D) All of the above 13. In _______mode, the communication
5. The memory which is programmed at the time it channel is used in both directions at the
is manufactured- same time?
A) ROM B) RAM A) Full-duplex B) Simplex
C) PROM D) EPROM C) Half-duplex D) None of above
6. One of the popular mass storage devices is 14. Who invented Slide Rules?
CD-ROM. What does CD-ROM stand for? A) John Naiper B) William Oughtred
A) Compactable Read Only Memory C) Gottfried Leibnitz D) Blaise Pascal
B) Compact Data Read Only Memory 15. The proper definition of a modern digital
C) Compactable Disk Read Only Memory computer is-
D) Compact Disk Read Only Memory A) An electronic automated machine that
7. Identify the true statement- can solve problems involving words and
A) Computers are 100% accurate but if can numbers
suffer from GIGO B) A more sophistic and modified
B) Computers are reliable because they use electronic pocket calculator
electronic component which has very low C) Any machine that can perform
failure rate mathematics operations
C) Computer is never tired and does not suffer D) A machine that works on binary code
from boredom 16. Memory is made up of-
D) All of above A) Set of wires B) Set of
circuits
8. FORTRAN is- C) Large number of cells
A) File Translation B) Format Translation D) All of these
 C) Formula Translation D) Floppy Translation
17. Which of the following are the most powerful 27. ASCII stands for-
computers? A) American Stable Code for
A) Mainframe Computers B) Mini Computers International Interchange
C) Micro Computers D) Super Computers B) American Standard Case for
18. Which of the printers used in conjunction with Institutional Interchange
computers use dry ink powder? C) American Standard Code for
A) Daisy wheel printer B) Line printer Information Interchange
C) Laser printer D) Thermal Printer D) American Standard Code for
19. What is the path from which data flow in a Interchange Information
computer system is known as - 28. A computer can solve more than one
A) Car B) Bus kind of problem. This is related to
C) Truck D) Road which of the following
20. Which term is used to describe RAM? characteristics?
A) Dynamic RAM (DRAM) A) Accuracy B) Reliability
B) Static RAM (SRAM) C) Versatility D) Automatic
C) Video RAM (VRAM) 29. From which generation computers the
D) All of the above printers were used?
21. In which year was chip used inside the computer A) First B) Second
for the first time? C) Third D) Fourth
A) 1964 B) 1975 30. How many symbols exist in Baudot
C) 1999 D) 1944 code?
22. Assembly language started to be used from- A) 32 B) 116
A) First generation computers C) 58 D) 76
B) Second generation computers 31. Following IC chip integrates 100
C) Third generation Computers thousand electronic components
D) Fourth generation computers per chips?
23. Which technology is more reliable? A) SSI B) MSI
A) Mechanical C) LSI D) VLSI
B) Electro-Mechanical 32. An application program that helps
C) Electronic the user to change any number and
D) For reliability it does not matter. immediately see the result of that
So, all of above are reliable change is-
24. Which of the following is not an XT A) Desktop publishing program
microprocessor? B) Database
A) 8006 B) 8086 C) Spreadsheet
C) 8088 D) None of above D) All of above
25. Hard disk is coated in both side with- 33. In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a
A) Magnetic metallic oxide machine called the Analytical Engine
B) Optical metallic oxide which he slowed at the Paris
C) Carbon layer Exhibition. In which year was its
D) All of the above exhibition?
26. Raw facts and figures about any particular A) 1820 B) 1860
topic is- C) 1855 D) 1870
A) Information B) Facts
 C) Data D) None of above
34. What is the name of the new color laptop 45. Which of the following is the most
computer which is powered by a 386 quickly accessible storage?
processor at 33 MHz and is built by Epson? A) RAM B) Registers
A) AX3/33 B) NEC-20 C) Disks D) Pen Drive
C) Magnum 2000 D) HCL-3000 46. The octal equivalence of 111010 is-
35. In analog computer - A) 81 B) 72
A) Input is first converted to digital form C) 71 D) None of above
B) Input is never converted to digital form 47. Excessive parallel processing is
C) Output is displayed in digital form related to-
D) All of the above A) First Generation
36. Which of the following computer is not B) Fourth Generation
invented by J.P. Eckert and John Mauchly? C) Fifth Generation
A) ENIAC B) EDVAC D) Third Generation
C) UNIVAC D) EDSAC 48. Second generation computers were
37. When was the company named IBM? developed during-
A) 1914 B) 1924 A) 1949 to 1955
C) 1975 D) None of above B) 1956 to 1965
38. Which of the following storage device can store C) 1965 to 1970
the largest amount of data? D) 1970 to 1990
A) Hard Disks B) Flash Disks 49. What do you call a single point on a
C) Blu-Ray Disks D) DVDs computer screen?
39. Who invented Mark 1? A) Cell B) Element
A) Howard Aikin B) J.P. Eckert C) Pixel D) Bit
C) John Mauchley D) John v. Atanasoff 50. Mostly which of the following device
40. ALU is- is used to carry user files?
A) Arithmetic Logic Unit A) Floppy Disk B) Hard Disk
B) Array Logic Unit C) RAM D) CDROM
C) Application Logic Unit
D) None of above
41. A computer program that converts an entire
program into machine language at one time
is called a/an
A) Interpreter B) CPU
C) Compiler D) Simulator
42. When did arch rivals IBM and Apple computers Inc.
decide to join hands?
A) 1978 B) 1984
C) 1990 D) 1991
43. The purpose of vacuum tube was to NOT act like-
A) An amplifier B) A switch
C) A router D) None of above
44. As compared to diskettes, the hard disks are-
A) More expensive B) More portable
C) Less rigid D) Slowly accessed
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