General Computer Test - 98

 

1. ASCII stands for

A) American Stable Code for International Interchange

B) American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange

C) American Standard Code for Information Interchange

D) American Standard Code for Interchange Information

 

2. Raw facts and figures about any particular topic are

A) Information

B) facts

C) data

D) none of above

 

3. A computer can solve more than one kind of problem. This is related to which of the following characteristics?

A) Accuracy

B) Reliability

C) Versatility

D) Automatic

 

4. From which generation computers the printers were used?

A) first

B) second

C) third

D) fourth

 

5. How many symbols exist in Baudot code?

A) 32

B) 116

C) 58

D) 76

 

6. Following IC chip integrates 100 thousands electronic components per chip

A) SSI

B) MSI

C) LSI

D) VLSI

 

7. An application program that helps the user to change any number and immediately see the result of that change is

A) Desktop publishing program

B) Database

C) Spreadsheet

D) All of above

 

8. In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytical Engine which he showed at the Paris Exhibition. In which year was it exhibition?

A) 1820

B) 1860

C) 1855

D) 1870

 

9. What is the name of the new color laptop computer which is powered by a 386 processor at 33 MHz and is built by Epson?

A) AX3/33

B) NEC-20

C) Magnum 2000

D) HCL-3000

 

10. In analog computer

A) Input is first converted to digital form

B) Input is never converted to digital form

C) Output is displayed in digital form

D) All of the above

 

11. Which of the following computer is not invented by J.P. Eckert and John Mauchly?

A) ENIAC

B) EDVAC

C) UNIVAC

D) EDSAC

 

12. When was the company named IBM?

A) 1914

B) 1924

C) 1975

D) None of above

 

13. Which of the following storage device can store the largest amount of data?

A) Hard Disks

B) Flash Disks

C) Blu-Ray Disks

D) DVDs

 

14. Who invented Mark I?

A) Howard Aikin

B) J. P. Eckert

C) John Mauchley

D) John v. Atanasoff

 

15. ALU is

A) Arithmetic Logic Unit

B) Array Logic Unit

C) Application Logic Unit

D) None of above

 

16. A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language at one time is called a/an

A) Interpreter

B) CPU

C) Compiler

D) Simulator

 

17. When did arch rivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to join hands?

A) 1978

B) 1984

C) 1990

D) 1991

 

18. The purpose of vacuum tube was to NOT act like

A) an amplifier

B) a switch

C) a router

D) None of above

 

19. As compared to diskettes, the hard disks are

A) More expensive

B) More portable

C) Less rigid

D) Slowly accessed

 

20. Which of the following is the most quickly accessible storage?

A) RAM

B) Registers

C) Disks

D) Pen Drive

 

21. The octal equivalence of 111010 is

A) 81

B) 72

C) 71

D) None of above

 

22. Excessive parallel processing is related to

A) First generation

B) Fourth generation

C) Fifth Generation

D) Third generation

 

23. Second generation computers were developed during

A) 1949 to 1955

B) 1956 to 1965

C) 1965 to 1970

D) 1970 to 1990

 

24. What do you call a single point on a computer screen?

A) Cell

B) Element

C) Pixel

D) Bit

 

25. Mostly which of the following device is used to carry user files?

A) Floppy Disk

B) Hard Disk

C) RAM

D) CDROM

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

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

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