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1.  In the binary language each letter of the alphabet, each number and each special character is made up of a unique combination of:

A) eight bytes
B) eight kilobytes
C)  eight characters
D) eight bits

ANSWER= (D) eight bits

 

2. A Dual layer Blue-ray Disk can store data upto

A) 20 GB
B)  35 GB
C) 12 GB
D) 50 GB

ANSWER= (D) 50 GB

 

3. The term bit is short for:

A) megabyte
B) binary language
C) binary digit
D)  binary number

ANSWER= (C) binary digit

 

4. ___ are specially designed computer chips that reside inside other devices, such as your car or your electronic thermostat.

A) Servers
B)  Embedded computers
C) Robotic computers
D) Mainframes

ANSWER= (A) Embedded computers

 

5. To produce high quality graphics (hardcopy) in color, you would want to use a/n

A) rgb monitor
B)  plotter
C) ink-jet printer
D)  laser printer

ANSWER= (B) plotter

 

6. The operating system is the most common type of ___ software.

A) communication
B) application
C) system
D) word-processing software

ANSWER= (C) system

 

7.  What are the stages in the compilation process?

A) feasibility study, system design and testing
B) implementation and documentation
C) lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and code generation
D)  none of the above

ANSWER= (C) lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and code generation

 

8. One millisecond is

A) 1 second
B) 10th of a seconds
C) 1000th of a seconds
D) 10000th of a seconds

ANSWER= (C) 1000th of a seconds

 

9. A dumb terminal has

A)  an embedded microprocessor
B) extensive memory
C) independent processing capability
D)  a keyboard and screen

ANSWER= (D) a keyboard and screen

 

10. Who invented mechanical calculator called Pascaline?

A) Charles Babbage
B) Blaise Pascal
C) Alan Turing
D) Lee De Forest

ANSWER= (B) Blaise Pascal

 

11. What was the computer invented by Attanasoff and Clifford?

A) mark i
B) abc
C)  z3
D) none of above

ANSWER= (B) abc

 

12. A byte consists of

A) one bit
B) four bits
C) eight bits
D)  sixteen bits

ANSWER= (C) eight bits

 

13.  PARAM was developed by.....................

A) C-DAC
B) IIT Kanpur
C) BARC
D) IIT Delhi

ANSWER= (A)  C-DAC

 

14. Before a disk drive can access any sector record, a computer program has to provide the record’s disk address. What information does this address specify?

A) track number
B) sector number
C) surface number
D) all of above

ANSWER= (D) all of above

 

15. In which network the ends are not connected?

A) bus
B) star
C) ring
D) none of the above

ANSWER= (A) bus

 

16. Which of the following is also called translator?

A) Data representation
B) MS-DOS
C) Operating System
D)  Language Processor

ANSWER= (D)  Language Processor

 

17. Which type of computer could be found in a digital watch?

A) Mainframe
B) Super computer
C) Embedded computer
D) Notebook computer

ANSWER= (C) Embedded computer

 

18. CU stands for

A) Central unit
B) Closed unit
C) Control unit
D) Compressed unit

ANSWER= (C) Control unit

 

19. Which of the following is a secondary storage device

A) ALU
B) CU
C)  Optical disk
D) CPU

ANSWER= (C) Optical disk

 

20. Power connector on a floppy drive is called as:

A) berg connector
B) molex connector
C)  USB connector
D) Mini-molex connector

ANSWER= (D) Mini-molex connector

 

21. LPT stands for:

A) Line Printer transfer
B)  Live printer terminal
C) Line Printer Terminal
D) Line Print Transfer

ANSWER= (A) Line Printer Terminal

 

22. RAM

A)  raid applicable memory
B) random access memory
C) radio activated memory
D) none of the above

ANSWER= (B) random access memory

 

23. Memories are characterised by

A) function
B) capacity
C) response times
D) all of the above

ANSWER= (D) all of the above

 

24.  A computer falls into the ........................ category if it is, at the time of construction, one of the fastest computers in the world.

A) mini computer
B) super computer
C) micro computer
D) both (A) and (B)

ANSWER= (B) super computer

 

25. The memory closest to the processor is known as

A)  page
B) ram
C) cache
D)  none of the above

ANSWER= (C)  cache

 

26. Micro computer hardware consists of three basic categories of physical equipment-

A) Keyboard, monitor and hard drive
B) System unit, input / output and memory
C) System unit, input / output and secondary storage
D) System unit, primary storage and secondary storage

ANSWER= (C) System unit, input / output and secondary storage

 

27. How the quality of printer is measured ?

A) Alphabet per strike
B) Words per Inch
C)  Strike per Inch
D) Dots per Inch

ANSWER= (D) Dots per Inch

 

28. burning the PROM means

A) erasing the prom
B)  programming the prom
C) reading the prom
D) none of the above

ANSWER= (B)  programming the prom

 

29. an 8bit colour monitor can display _____ colours

A)  128
B)  32
C) 256
D)  1024

ANSWER= (C) 256

 

30. A ................... computer (also referred to as a laptop), is a small, lightweight personal computer that incorporates the screen, the keyboard, storage and processing components into a single por

A) Notebook
B) Journal
C) Diary
D) Briefcase

ANSWER= (A) Notebook

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