General Computer Test - 95

 

1. Which of the following is not valid statement?

A) Hard is referred to mean something temporary

B) Hard is used to mean something tangible

C) Soft is used to mean something permanent

D) Soft is used to mean something tangible

2. Digital devices are

A) Digital Clock

B) Automobile speed meter

C) Clock with a dial and two hands

D) All of them

 

3. Primary memory stores

A) Data alone

B) Programs alone

C) Results alone

D) All of these

 

4. After copying the content how many times can you paste?

A) 1

B) 16

C) 32

D) Many

 

5. WAN stands for

A) Wap Area Network

 B) Wide Area Network

 C) Wide Array Net

D) Wireless Area Network

 

6. An error in computer data is called

A) Chip

 B) Bug

 C) CPU

D) Storage device

 

7. The instructions for starting the computer are house on

A) Random access memory

B) CD-Rom

C) Read only memory chip

D) All of above

 

8. 1 nibble equals to

A) 1 bits

B) 2 bits

 C) 4 bits

D) 8 bits

 

9. Perforated paper used as input of output media is known as

A) paper tapes

B) magnetic tape

C) punched papers tape

D) card punch

 

10. The secondary storage devices can only store data but they cannot perform

A) Arithmetic Operation

B) Logic operation

C) Fetch operations

D) Either of the above

 

11. Which American computer company is called Big Blue?

A) Microsoft

B) Compaq Corp

C) IBM

D) Tandy Svenson

 

12. It was in 2028 BS the was brought in to calculate census data.

A) IBM 1400

B) IBM 1401

C) ICL 2950

D) None of above

13. Who is the inventor of ABC Computer?

A) John v. Atanasoff

B) Clifford Berry

 C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

14. Which of the following is the largest unit?

A) data

B) field

C) record

D) database file

 

15. Find out who is not the inventor of transistors among following names

A) John Burdeen

B) William Shockley

 C) Walter Brattain

 D) Lee de Forest

 

16. Which of the following is not true for a magnetic disk?

A) It is expensive relative to magnetic tape

B) It provides only sequential access to stored data

C) Users can easily update records by writing over the old data

D) All of above

 

17. A disadvantage of the laser printer is

A) It is quieter than an impact printer

B) It is very slow

C) The output is of a lower quality

D) None of the above

 

18. The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called

A) ASCII

B) EBCDIC

 C) BCD

D) All of above

 

19. Which access method is used to access cassette tape?

A) Direct

B) Sequential

C) Both of the above

D) None of the above

 

20. A Compiler is

A) a combination of computer hardware

B) a program which translates from one high-level language to another

C) a program which translates from one high-level to a machine level language

D) None of these

 

21. Which unit holds data temporarily?

A) Input unit

B) Secondary storage unit

C) Output Unit

D) Primary Memory Unit

 

22. The computer size was very large in

A) First Generation

B) Second Generation

C) Third Generation

D) Fourth Generation

 

23. A name or number used to identify storage location devices?

A) A byte

B) A record

C) An address

D) All of above

 

24. Which of the following is not computer language?

A) High level language

B) Medium level language

C) Low level language

D) All of the above

 

25. Reading data is performed in magnetic disk by

A) Read/write leads

B) Sectors

C) Track

D) Lower surface

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

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

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