General Computer Test - 100

 

1. Why ABC is considered electro-mechanical computer?

A) Because it was invented before electronic computers were developed

B) Because there are wheels, drums, bars to rotate and move to produce result

C) Because they use the flow of electrons in different component

D) None of above

 

2. Binary circuit elements have

A) One stable state

 B) Two stable state

C) Three stable state

 D) None of above

 

3. Which of the following is used for manufacturing chips?

A) Control bus

 B) Control unit

C) Parity unit

D) Semiconductor

 

4. Which of the following is not a micro computer?

A) Laptop PCs

B) Tablet PCs

C) Desktop PCs

D) None of above

 

5. The value of each bead in earth is

A) 1

B) 3

C) 5

D) 7

 

6. When did John Napier develop logarithm?

A) 1416

B) 1614

C) 1641

D) 1804

 

7. Which of the following terms is the most closely related to main memory?

A) Non volatile

B) Permanent

C) Control unit

D) Temporary

 

8. Which was the world’s first minicomputer and when was it introduced?

A) PDP-I, 1958

B) IBM System/36, 1960

C) PDP-II, 1961

D) VAX 11/780, 1962

 

9. A group of magnetic tapes, videos or terminals usually under the control of one master is

A) Cylinder

B) Surface

C) Track

D) Cluster

 

10. The word length of a computer is measured in

A) Bytes

B) Millimeters

C) Meters

D) Bits

 

11. What type of memory is not directly addressable by the CPU and requires special softw3are called EMS (expanded memory specification)?

A) Extended

 B) Expanded

 C) Base

D) Conventional

 

12. Which unit holds data permanently?

A) Input unit

B) Secondary storage unit

C) Output Unit

D) Primary Memory Unit

 

13. Before a disk can be used to store data. It must be

A) Formatted

B) Reformatted

C) Addressed

D) None of the above

 

14. Computer system comprises of major units

A) input unit, output unit, control unit

B) input unit, output unit, control unit and storage

C) input unit, output unit, central processing unit and storage unit

D) input, output and storage units

 

15. The first general purpose electronic digital computer in the world was

A) UNIVAC

 B) EDVAC

C) ENIAC

D) All of above

 

16. Signals can be analog or digital and a computer that processes the both type of signals is known as

A) Analog computer

 B) Digital Computer

C) Hybrid Computer

D) Mainframe Computer

 

17. High level language is also called

A) Problem oriented language

B) Business oriented language

C) Mathematically oriented language

D) All of the above

 

18. Human beings are referred to as Homosapinens, which device is called Sillico Sapiens?

A) Monitor

B) Hardware

C) Robot

D) Computer

 

19. Which of the following file organization is most efficient for a file with a high degree of file activity?

A) Sequential

B) ISAM

 C) VSAM

D) B-Tree Index

 

20. Which of the following is associated with error detector?

A) Odd parity bit

B) Even parity bit

C) Both of the above

D) None of above

 

21. Magnetic tape can serve as

A) Secondary storage media

B) Output media

C) Input media

D) All of the above

 

22. Which company is the biggest player in the microprocessor industry?

A) Motorola

B) IBM

 C) Intel

 D) AMD

 

23. The first digital computer built with IC chips was known as

A) IBM 7090

B) Apple ? 1

C) IBM System / 360

D) VAX-10

 

24. EBCDIC can code up to how many different characters?

A) 256

B) 16

C) 32

D) 64

 

25. MICR stands for

A) Magnetic Ink Character Reader

B) Magnetic Ink Code Reader

 C) Magnetic Ink Cases Reader

 D) None

1-B        2-B        3-D        4-D        5-A

6-B        7-D        8-A        9-D        10-D      11-B      12-B      13-A      14-C      15-A

16-C      17-D      18-D      19-A      20-C      21-A      22-C      23-C      24-A      25-A