General Computer Test - 104

 

1. Latency time is

A) Time to spin the needed data under head

B) Time to spin the needed data under track

C) Time to spin data under sector

D) All of above

 

2. Who built the first Mechanical Calculator

A) Joseph Marie Jacquard

B) John Mauchly

C) Blaise Pascal

D) Howard Aiken

 

3. The most important advantage of a video disk is

A) Compactness

B) Potential capacity

C) Durability

D) Cost effectiveness

 

4. Which of the following generation computers had expensive operation cost?

A) First

B) Second

C) Third

D) Fourth

 

5. An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of:

A) Small-scale computer

B) Medium-scale computer

C) Large-scale computer

D) Super computer

 

6. Another word for a daisy wheel printer

A) Petal printer

B) Golf ball printer

C) Laser printer

D) Line printer

 

7. Cursor is a

A) Pixel

B) Thin blinking line

 C) Pointing device

D) None of these

 

8. Which device is used to backup the data?

A) Floppy Disk

B) Tape

C) Network Drive

D) All of the above

 

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

A) Daisy wheel

 B) Dot matrix

 C) Laser

D) Thimble

 

10. Which of the following items are examples of storage devices?

A) Floppy / hard disks

B) CD-ROMs

C) Tape devices

D) All of the above

 

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

A) American Stable Code for International Interchange

 B) American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange

C) American Standard Code for Information Interchange

 D) American Standard Code for Interchange Information

 

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

A) Mainframe Computer

B) Mini Computers

C) Micro Computers

D) Super Computers

 

13. Slide Rules was invented in

A) 1614

B) 1617

C) 1620

D) None of above

 

14. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to data?

A) 680 KB

B) 680 Bytes

C) 680 MB

 D) 680 GB

 

15. Which of the following required large computer memory?

A) Imaging

B) Graphics

C) Voice

D) All of above

 

16. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

A) Analytical engine

B) Arithmetic machine

C) Donald Knuth

D) All of above

 

17. The lower deck of an abacus is known as

A) heaven

B) sky

C) earth

D) floor

 

18. All modern computer operate on

A) Information

B) Floppies

C) Data

D) Word

 

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

A) Analog Computers

B) Digital Computers

 C) Hybrid Computers

D) Mainframe Computers

 

20. Offline device is

A) A device which is not connected to CPU

 B) A device which is connected to CPU

C) A direct access storage device

D) An I/O device

 

21. What is the latest write-once optical storage media?

A) Digital paper

B) Magneto-optical disk

C) WORM disk

D) CD-ROM disk

 

22. Which of the following programming language started from second generation?

A) LISP

 B) C

C) QBASIC

D) FORTRAN

 

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

A) Dumb terminal

 B) Smart terminal

 C) VDT

D) Intelligent terminal

 

24. Floppy disks typically in diameter

A) 3?

B) 5.25?

 C) 8?

D) All of above

 

25. Current SIMMs have either or connectors (pins)

A) 9 or 32

B) 30 or 70

C) 28 or 72

D) 30 or 72

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

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

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