General Computer Test - 107

 

1. Napier’s Bones were invented in

A) 1614

B) 1617

C) 1620

D) None of above

 

2. One computer that is not considered a portable computer is

A) Minicomputer

B) A laptop computer

C) Tablet PC

D) All of the above

 

3. Computers built before the First Generation of computers were:

A) Mechanical

B) Electro-mechanical

C) Electrical

D) None of these

 

4. Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?

A) Random access memory

B) Action method

C) Transfer method

D) Density method

 

5. What is System Analysis?

A) The design of the screen the user will see and use to enter or display data

B) System analysis defines the format and type of data the program will use

C) System Analysis involves creating formal model of the problem to be solved

D) None of the above

 

6. Which of the following devices have a limitation that we can only store information to it but cannot erase or modify it?

A) Floppy Disk

B) Hard Disk

 C) Tape Drive

 D) CDROM

 

7. Which is an item of storage medium in the form of circular plate?

A) Disk

B) CPU

C) Printer

D) ALU

8. Daisy wheel printer is a type of

A) Matrix printer

B) Impact printer

C) Laser printer

D) Manual printer

 

9. A number system that has eight different symbols to represent any quantity is known as

A) Binary

B) Octal

C) Decimal

D) Hexadecimal

 

10. The two basic types of record access methods are:

A) Sequential and random

B) Sequential and indexed

C) Direct and immediate

D) Online and real time

 

11. Artificial Intelligence is associated with which generation?

A) First Generation

B) Second Generation

C) Fifth Generation

D) Sixth Generation

 

12. One of a class of storage device devices that can access storage locations in any order is

A) DTE

B) DASD

C) DDE

 D) DDE

 

13. The actual execution of instructions happens in

A) ALU

B) CU

C) Memory

D) None of above

 

14. Floppy disks are available in

A) Single side single density

 B) Single side double density

C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

15. Which of the following is not electro-mechanical computer?

 

A) Z3

B) ABC

C) mark

D) ENIAC

 

16. Which of the following is a programming language?

A) Lotus

B) Pascal

C) MS-Excel

D) Netscape

 

17. Which converts the user data into machine readable form?

A) input unit, output unit, control unit

B) central processing unit

C) output unit

D) decoder unit

 

18. In what respect human beings are superior to computers?

A) Diligence

B) Intelligence

C) Slavery

D) Reliability

 

19. As compared to the secondary memory, the primary memory of a computer is

A) Large

 B) Cheap

C) Fast

D) Slow

 

20. The language that the computer can understand and execute is called

A) Machine language

B) Application software

C) System program

D) All of above

 

21. How was the generation of computer classified?

A) by the device used in memory & processor

B) by the speed of computer

C) by the model of the computer

D) by the accuracy of computer

 

22. Which of the following is not a feature of first generation computers

A) They used vacuum tubes or valves as main electronic component

B) They consumed lots of electricity and produced excessive heat

C) They used machine language and assembly language to program the machine

D) None of above

 

23. CAD stands for

A) Computer aided design

B) Computer algorithm for design

 C) Computer application in design

 D) All of the above

 

24. Which of the following memories has the shortest access times?

A) Cache memory

B) Magnetic bubble memory

C) Magnetic core memory

D) RAM

25. A small or intelligent device is so called because it contains within it a

A) Computer

B) Microcomputer

 C) Programmable

D) Sensor

1-B        2-A        3-B        4-A        5-C        6-D        7-A        8-B        9-B        10-A

11-C      12-B      13-A      14-C      15-D      16-B      17-A      18-B      19-C      20-A

21-A      22-C      23-A      24-A      25-D