Friday, 11 December 2020

General Computer Test - 90

 

1. John Napier invented Logarithm in

A) 1614

B) 1617

C) 1620

D) None of above

 

2. An integrated circuit is

A) A complicated circuit

B) An integrating device

C) Much costlier than a single transistor

D) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip

 

3. What type of control pins are needed in a microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent two devices from trying to use it at the same time?

A) Bus control

B) Interrupts

C) Bus arbitration

D) Status

 

4. Where as a computer mouse moves over the table surface, the trackball is

A) Stationary

B) Difficult to move

C) Dragged

D) Moved in small steps

 

5. Which of the following is used as a primary storage device?

A) Magnetic drum

B) Hard Disks

C) Floppy

D) All of above

 

6. Multi user systems provided cost savings for small business because they use a single processing unit to link several

A) Personal computers

B) Workstations

C) Dumb terminals

D) Mainframes

 

7. What are the three decisions making operations performed by the ALU of a computer?

A) Grater than

B) Less than

C) Equal to

D) All of the above

 

8. The word processing task associated with changing the appearance of a document is

A) Editing

B) Writing

C) Formatting

D) All of above

 

9. Nepal brought a computer for census of 2028 BS. This computer was of

A) first generation

B) second generation

C) third generation

D) fourth generation

 

10. Algorithm and Flow chart help us to

A) Know the memory capacity

B) Identify the base of a number system

C) Direct the output to a printer

D) Specify the problem completely and clearly

 

11. Which statement is valid about computer program?

A) It is understood by a computer

 B) It is understood by programmer

 C) It is understood user

D) Both a & b

 

12. The difference between memory and storage is that memory is and storage is

A) Temporary, permanent

 B) Permanent, temporary

 C) Slow, fast

D) All of above

 

13. When was Pascaline invented?

A) 1617

B) 1620

C) 1642

D) 1837

 

14. Which of the following statement is valid?

A) Lady Augusta is the first programmer

B) Ada is the daughter of Lord Byron, a famous English poet

 C) ADA is a programming language developed by US Defense

 D) All of above

 

15. A compiler is a translating program which

A) Translates instruction of a high level language into machine language

B) Translates entire source program into machine language program

C) It is not involved in program’s execution

D) All of above

 

16. What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?

A) Light pen

B) Mouse

C) Digitizer

 D) Terminal

 

17. Which of the following is the first computer to use Stored Program Concept?

A) UNIVAC

B) ENIAC

C) EDSAC

D) None of above

 

18. The term gigabyte refers to

A) 1024 bytes

B) 1024 kilobytes

C) 1024 megabytes

D) 1024 gigabyte

 

19. in which year was UK’s premier computing event started?

A) 1980

B) 1985

C) 1986

D) 1987

 

20. Once you load the suitable program and provide required data, computer does not need human intervention. This feature is known as

A) Accuracy

 B) Reliability

 C) Versatility

D) Automatic

 

21. What is a brand?

A) The name of companies that made computers

B) The name of product a company gives to identify its product in market

C) A name of class to indicate all similar products from different companies

D) All of above

 

22. Machine language is

 A) Machine dependent

 B) Difficult to program

 C) Error prone

D) All of above

 

23. A byte consists of

A) One bit

B) Four bits

 C) Eight bits

D) Sixteen bits

 

24. Modern Computers are very reliable but they are not

A) Fast

B) Powerful

C) Infallible

 D) Cheap

 

25. What is the date when Babbage conceived Analytical engine

A) 1642

B) 1837

C) 1880

D) 1850

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

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

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

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