General Computer Test - 20

 

1. The most popular language for interactive use is

(a)    COBOL

(b)    PASCAL

(c)     BASIC

(d)    FORTRAN

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

2. In which mode, each user has a local input/output device?

(a)    Interactive

(b)    Time sharing mode

(c)     Batch processing mode

(d)    All of these

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

3. A standard tape recorder used to save or load computer information is known as

(a)    magnetic tape

(b)    cassette drive

(c)     punched paper tape

(d)    card punch

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

4. Programs designed to perform specific tasks is known as

(a)    system software

(b)    application software

(c)     utility programs

(d)    operating system

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

5. Perforated paper used as input or output media is known as

(a)    paper tape

(b)    magnetic tape

(c)     punched paper tape

(d)    card punch

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

6. A computer with CPU speed around 100 million instructions per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as

(a)    super computer

(b)    mini computer

(c)     mainframe computer

(d)    micro computer

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

7. An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is

(a)    on-line thesaurus

(b)    multiprogramming

(c)     overlapped processing

(d)    outline processor

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

8. A directly accessible appointment calendar is a feature of a resident package.

(a)    CPU

(b)    Memory

(c)     Buffer

(d)    ALU

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

9. The term gigabyte refers to

(a)    1024 bytes

(b)    1024 kilobytes

(c)     1024 megabytes

(d)    1024gigabytes

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

10. CAD stands for

(a)    Computer Aided Design

(b)    Computer Algorithm for Design

(c)     Computer Application in Design

(d)    All of these

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

11. In which language is a source program written?

(a)    English

(b)    Symbolic

(c)     High-level

(d)    Machine

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

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

(a)    Non-volatile

(b)    Permanent

(c)     Control unit

(d)    Temporary

(e)    None of these

Ans : (d)

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

(a)    Control bus

(b)    Control unit

(c)     Parity unit

(d)    Semiconductor

(e)    None of these

Ans : (d)

14. Which of the following is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?

(a)    Terminal

(b)    Light pen

(c)     Digitizer

(d)    Mouse

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

15. Who is considered the ‘father’ of the minicomputer and one of the founder fathers of the modem computer industry world-wide?

(a)    George Tate

(b)    Kenneth H. Olsen

(c)     Seymour Cray

(d)    Basic Pascal

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

16. Multiprogramming was made possible by

(a)    input/output units that operate independently of the CPU

(b)    operating system

(c)     both (a) and (b)

(d)    neither (a) nor (b)

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

17. Network topology, consisting of nodes attached in a ring, without a host computer, is known as

(a)    star

(b)    ring

(c)     bus

(d)    tree

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

18. Which of the following terms does not describe a database structure used by a DBMS to link data from several files?

(a)    Relational

(b)    Structural

(c)     Network

(d)    All of these

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

19. A communication protocol that converts noisy data links into communication channels free of transmission errors is known as

(a)    data link protocol

(b)    data link

(c)     data medium

(d)    data model

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

20. Control of computer system or subsystem operation by an operator who may intervene at arbitrary times is

(a)    manual control

(b)    mapping

(c)     shift register

(d)    ALU

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

21.A plastic card similar to a credit card but having some memory and a microprocessor embedded within it is

(a)    punched paper tape

(b)    chip card

(c)     card punch

(d)    magnetic tape

(e)    None of these

Ans : (b)

22. A repository for data, usually covering specific topic is

(a)    database

(b)    data requisition

(c)     databank

(d)    data collection

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

23. An on-line backing storage system capable of storing larger quantities of data is

(a)    CPU

(b)    memory

(c)     mass storage

(d)    secondary storage

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)

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

(a)    Disk

(b)    CPU

(c)     Printer

(d)    ALU

(e)    None of these

Ans : (a)

25. The progressing of two or more programs in parallel is

(a)    concatenation

(b)    data module

(c)     concurrency

(d)    colossus

(e)    None of these

Ans : (c)