General Computer Test - 92

 

1. Floppy disks typically in diameter

A) 3

B) 5.25

C) 8

D) All of above

 

2. The output quality of a printer is measured by

A) Dot per inch

B) Dot per sq. inch

C) Dots printed per unit time

D) All of above

 

3. On a PC, how much memory is available to application software?

A) 1024 KB

B) 760 KB

C) 640 KB

 D) 560 KB

 

4. In a computer is capable to store single binary bit.

A) Capacitor

 B) Flip flop

 C) Register

D) Inductor

 

5. What does DMA stand for?

A) Distinct Memory Access

 B) Direct Memory Access

 C) Direct Module Access

D) Direct Memory Allocation

 

6. Who invented Integrated Circuits?

A) Jack Kilby

B) Robert Noyce

 C) Both of above

 D) None of above

 

7. Operating system, editors, and debuggers comes under?

A) System Software

B) Application Software

C) Utilities

D) None of the above

 

8. One computer that is not considered a portable is

A) Minicomputer

B) Laptop computer

C) Notebook computer

D) All of above

 

9. Which of the following is not an electronic computer?

A) ENIAC B) ABC

C) UNIVAC

D) EDVAC

 

10. What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention?

A) Pixel

B) Reverse video

C) Touch screen

 D) Cursor

 

11. Which is the largest computer?

A) Mainframe Computer

B) Mini Computers

C) Micro Computers

 D) Super Computers

 

12. Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device?

A) Bits

B) Bytes

C) Hertz

D) Clock cycles

 

13. The personal computer industry was started by

A) IBM

B) Apple

C) Compaq

D) HCL

 

14. What is meant by a dedicated computer?

A) Which is used by one person only

B) Which is assigned one and only one task

C) Which uses one kind of software

D) Which is meant for application software

 

15. Which programming languages are classified as low level languages?

A) Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN

 B) Prolog 2, Expert Systems

C) Knowledge based Systems

D) Assembly Languages

 

16. What was the main disadvantage of vacuum tubes?

A) They were larger in size

B) They consumed a lot of electricity

C) They produced heat and often burned out

D) The operation cost was high

 

17. Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as

A) PC

B) Memory address registers

C) General purpose register

D) Flags

 

18. Which is not a computer of first generation?

A) ENIAC

B) UNIVAC

C) IBM 360

D) IBM 1401

 

19. Registers which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional codes (bits set by the CPU hardware as the result of operations), are known as

A) PC

B) Flags

C) Memory Address Registers

D) General Purpose Registers

 

20. Who invented vacuum tubes?

A) John Bardeen

B) William Shockley

C) Lee de Forest

D) All of above

 

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

A) On-line thesaurus

B) Multiprogramming

C) Over lapped processing

D) Outline processor

 

22. Who suggested Stored Program Concept

A) John Mauchley

B) J.P. Eckert

C) John Neumann

D) Joseph Jacquard

 

23. The central processing unit (CPU) consists of

A) Input, output and processing

B) Control unit, primary storage, and secondary storage

 C) Control unit, arithmetic-logic unit and

primary storage

 D) Control unit, processing, and primary storage

 

24. The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed in

A) First generation

B) Second generation

C) Third generation

D) Fourth generation

 

25. UNIVAC is

A) Universal Automatic Computer

B) Universal Array Computer

C) Unique Automatic Computer

D) Unvalued Automatic Computer

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

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

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