General Computer Test - 109

 

1. A set of rods where numbers were carved and used for multiplication and division aids is known as

A) Pascaline

B) Napier’s Bones

C) Stepped Reckoner

D) Slide Rule

 

2. Seek time is

A) time to position the head over proper track

B) time to position the head over proper sector

C) time to position the head over proper cylinder

D) none of above

 

3. Tape speed is measured in

A) Feet per second

B) Inch per second

C) Meter per second

D) Centimeter per second

 

4. Punched cards were first introduced by

A) Powers

B) Pascal

C) Jacquard

D) Herman Hollerith

 

5. Which computer support co-processors?

A) XT computer

B) AT computers

C) None of these

D) Both of these

6. A floppy disk contains

A) Circular tracks only

B) Sectors only

C) Both circular tracks and sectors

D) None of the above

 

7. The capacity of 3.5 inch floppy disk is

A) 1.40 MB

B) 1.44 GB

C) 1.40 GB

D) 1.44 MB

 

8. The contribution of Konrad Zuse was long ignored because

A) He made the computers secretly

B) his computers were very complicated and it took time for the people to recognize its power

C) of political reasons. He was German. D) All of the above

 

9. Any method for controlling access to or use of memory is known

A) Memory map

B) Memory protection

C) Memory management

D) Memory instruction

 

10. In what respect computers are superior to human beings?

A) Diligence

B) Intelligence

C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

11. Com in Latin is

A) intensifying prefix

B) intensifying suffix

C) a term that means to reckon

D) None of above

 

12. The system unit of a personal computer typically contains all of the following except:

A) Microprocessor

B) Disk controller

C) Serial interface

 D) Modem

 

13. Which of the following is related to fifth generation computers?

A) Knowledge information processing system

B) Very large scale integration (VLSI)

C) Both of above

D) Only b

 

14. The process of starting a or restarting a computer system by loading instructions from a secondary storage device into the computer memory is called

A) Duping

 B) Booting

C) Padding

D) CPS

 

15. MSI stands for

A) Medium Scale Integrated Circuits

B) Medium System Integrated Circuits

C) Medium Scale Intelligent Circuit

D) Medium System Intelligent Circuit

 

16. A Pixel is

A) A computer program that draws picture

B) A picture stored in secondary memory

C) The smallest resolvable part of a picture

D) None of these

 

17. A/n Device is any device that provides information, which is sent to the CPU

A) Input

B) Output

C) CPU

D) Memory

 

18. What was the nick name of the computer used by the Americans in 1952 for their H-bomb project?

A) ENIAC

B) EDSAC

C) MANIAC

D) UNIVAC

 

19. Which is the type of memory for information that does not change on your computer?

A) RAM

B) ROM

C) ERAM

D) RW / RAM

 

20. LSI, VLSI & ULSI chips were used in which generation?

A) First

B) Second

C) Third

D) Fourth

 

21. Which of the following is the largest manufacturer of Hard Disk Drives?

A) IBM

B) Seagate

C) Microsoft

D) 3M

 

22. Networking such as LAN, MAN started from

A) First generation

B) Second generation

C) Third generation

D) Fourth generation

 

23. Which characteristic of computer distinguishes it from electronic calculators?

A) Accuracy

B) Storage

C) Versatility

D) Automatic

 

24. Which of the following registers is used to keep track of address of the memory location where the next instruction is located?

A) Memory address register

B) Memory data register

C) Instruction register

D) Program counter

 

25. Which of the following is not the classification of computers based on application?

A) Electronic Computers

B) Analog Computers

C) Digital Computers

D) Hybrid Computers

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

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

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

General Computer Test - 108

 

1. Which of the following is not a primary storage device?

A) Magnetic tape

B) Magnetic disk

C) Optical disk

D) All of above

 

2. Who invented Analytical engine?

A) Blaise Pascal

B) George Bool

C) Charles Babbage

D) Dr. Herman Hollerith

 

3. CPU speed of a personal computer is

A) 32 KIPS

B) 100 KIPS

C) 1 MIPS

D) None of these

 

4. Circular division of disks to store and retrieve data are known as

A) tracks

B) sectors

C) cycles

D) rings

 

5. Which statement is valid?

A) 1KB = 1024 bytes

B) 1 MB=2048 bytes

C) 1 MB = 1000 kilobytes

D) 1 KB = 1000 bytes

 

6. The least significant bit of the binary number, which is equivalent to any odd decimal number, is:

A) 0

B) 1

C) 1 or 0

D) 3

 

7. The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the movement by the change in its capacitance,

A) Capacitance keyboard

 B) Mechanical keyboard

 C) Qwerty keyboard

D) Dvorak keyboard

 

8. The Stepped Reckoner was invented by

A) John Napier

B) William Oughtred

 C) Gottfried Leibnitz

D) Blaise Pascal

 

9. A term used to describe interconnected computer configuration is

A) Multiprogramming

B) Modulation

C) Multiprocessing

D) Micro program sequence

 

10. While inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette’s label side should face

A) East

B) North

 C) South

 D) Up

 

11. Most of the inexpensive personal computers do not have any disk or diskette drive. What is the name of such computes?

A) Home computers

B) Diskless computers

C) Dedicated computers

D) General purpose computers

 

12. What is a light pen?

A) Mechanical Input device

B) Optical input device

C) Electronic input device

D) Optical output device

 

13. Which of the following class of computers can not support multiple users simultaneously?

A) Mainframe Computer

B) Mini Computers

C) Micro Computers

D) All of them can support

 

14. Which of the following is considered first computer in the world?

A) Z3

B) ABC

C) Mark I

D) None of above

 

15. When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke into the corresponding bits?

A) ANSI

B) ASCII

C) EBCDIC

 D) ISO

 

16. In order to play and hear sound on a computer, one needs:

A) a sound card and speakers

B) a microphone

C) all of them required

D) none of them required

 

17. Which of the following devices can be sued to directly image printed text?

A) OCR

B) OMR

C) MICR

D) All of above

 

18. For which of the following computers can’t be used?

A) gathering data

 B) calculating data

C) comparing data

 D) Arranging data

 

19. Which of the following is called low level languages?

A) Machine language

 B) Assembly language

 C) Both of the above

D) None of above

 

20. A factor which would strongly influence a business person to adopt a computer is its

A) Accuracy

B) Reliability

C) Speed

D) All of above

 

21. Who invented punched cards?

A) Charles Babbage

B) Dr. Herman Hollerith

C) Howard Aikin

D) Joseph Jacquard

 

22. Each model of a computer has a unique

A) Assembly of a computer

B) Machine language

 C) High level language

D) All of the above

 

23. Which of the following is not a primary storage device?

A) Magnetic tape

 B) Magnetic disk

C) Optical disk

D) All of the above

 

24. In a punched card system, data is processed by a

A) Keypunch machine, sorter and posting machine

B) Accounting machine, posting machine, and billing machine

C) Sorter, posting machine, and billing machine

D) Accounting machine, keypunch machine and sorter

 

25. Which device is required for the Internet connection?

A) Joystick

B) Modem

 C) CD Drive

 D) NIC Card

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

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

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

General Computer Test - 107

 

1. Napier’s Bones were invented in

A) 1614

B) 1617

C) 1620

D) None of above

 

2. One computer that is not considered a portable computer is

A) Minicomputer

B) A laptop computer

C) Tablet PC

D) All of the above

 

3. Computers built before the First Generation of computers were:

A) Mechanical

B) Electro-mechanical

C) Electrical

D) None of these

 

4. Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?

A) Random access memory

B) Action method

C) Transfer method

D) Density method

 

5. What is System Analysis?

A) The design of the screen the user will see and use to enter or display data

B) System analysis defines the format and type of data the program will use

C) System Analysis involves creating formal model of the problem to be solved

D) None of the above

 

6. Which of the following devices have a limitation that we can only store information to it but cannot erase or modify it?

A) Floppy Disk

B) Hard Disk

 C) Tape Drive

 D) CDROM

 

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

A) Disk

B) CPU

C) Printer

D) ALU

8. Daisy wheel printer is a type of

A) Matrix printer

B) Impact printer

C) Laser printer

D) Manual printer

 

9. A number system that has eight different symbols to represent any quantity is known as

A) Binary

B) Octal

C) Decimal

D) Hexadecimal

 

10. The two basic types of record access methods are:

A) Sequential and random

B) Sequential and indexed

C) Direct and immediate

D) Online and real time

 

11. Artificial Intelligence is associated with which generation?

A) First Generation

B) Second Generation

C) Fifth Generation

D) Sixth Generation

 

12. One of a class of storage device devices that can access storage locations in any order is

A) DTE

B) DASD

C) DDE

 D) DDE

 

13. The actual execution of instructions happens in

A) ALU

B) CU

C) Memory

D) None of above

 

14. Floppy disks are available in

A) Single side single density

 B) Single side double density

C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

15. Which of the following is not electro-mechanical computer?

 

A) Z3

B) ABC

C) mark

D) ENIAC

 

16. Which of the following is a programming language?

A) Lotus

B) Pascal

C) MS-Excel

D) Netscape

 

17. Which converts the user data into machine readable form?

A) input unit, output unit, control unit

B) central processing unit

C) output unit

D) decoder unit

 

18. In what respect human beings are superior to computers?

A) Diligence

B) Intelligence

C) Slavery

D) Reliability

 

19. As compared to the secondary memory, the primary memory of a computer is

A) Large

 B) Cheap

C) Fast

D) Slow

 

20. The language that the computer can understand and execute is called

A) Machine language

B) Application software

C) System program

D) All of above

 

21. How was the generation of computer classified?

A) by the device used in memory & processor

B) by the speed of computer

C) by the model of the computer

D) by the accuracy of computer

 

22. Which of the following is not a feature of first generation computers

A) They used vacuum tubes or valves as main electronic component

B) They consumed lots of electricity and produced excessive heat

C) They used machine language and assembly language to program the machine

D) None of above

 

23. CAD stands for

A) Computer aided design

B) Computer algorithm for design

 C) Computer application in design

 D) All of the above

 

24. Which of the following memories has the shortest access times?

A) Cache memory

B) Magnetic bubble memory

C) Magnetic core memory

D) RAM

25. A small or intelligent device is so called because it contains within it a

A) Computer

B) Microcomputer

 C) Programmable

D) Sensor

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

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

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

General Computer Test - 106

 

1. Charles Babbage was awarded by Royal Society for his

A) Difference Engine

B) Analytic Engine

C) Binary System in Analytic Engine

D) His concept of input, mill, output and storage

 

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

A) Super computer

B) Mini computer

C) Micro computer

D) Macro computer

 

3. When we look at the cost, which of the following computer is most expensive?

A) Mainframe Computer

B) Mini Computers

 C) Micro Computers

 D) Super Computers

 

4. Which of the following will happen when data is entered into a memory location?

A) It will add to the content of the location

B) It will change the address of the memory location

C) It will erase the previous content

D) It will not be fruitful if there is already some data at the location

 

5. Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment?

A) Keyboard

B) Mouse

C) Joystick

D) Track ball

 

6. Mini computers and micro computers are from which generation of computers?

A) First

B) Second

C) Third

D) Fourth

 

7. Pick the one that is used for logical operations or comparisons such as less than equal to or greater than.

A) Arithmetic and Logic Unit

B) Control Unit

C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

8. The operating speed of third generation computer was

A) Milliseconds

 B) Microseconds

 C) Nanoseconds

 D) Picoseconds

 

9. Which of the following is true?

A) Mark I was 8 feet long

 B) Mark I was 2 feet long

 C) Mark I was 40 feet long

D) None of above

 

10. Charles Babbage is considered the father of modern computers because

A) of his difference engine

B) of his analytical engine

C) his concept of input, mill and output

D) All of above

 

11. Which of the following is used only for data entry and storage, and never for processing?

A) Mouse

B) Dumb terminal

C) Micro computer

D) Dedicated data entry system

 

12. What was the first computer brought in Nepal?

A) ICL/2950

B) ENIAC

C) IBM 1401

D) None of above

 

13. The primary advantage of key-to-tape data entry system is

A) A large percentage of editing can be performed at the time of data entry

B) Key verification is easily performed

C) The tape is reusable

D) Keying errors can be detected as they occur.

 

14. Basic is language.

A) a procedural

B) an object oriented

C) both A and B

D) none of the above

 

15. A computer Program that translates one program instruction at a time into machine language is

called a/an

A) Interpreter

B) CPU

C) Compiler

D) Simulator

 

16. Which of the following have the fastest access time?

A) Semiconductor Memories

B) Magnetic Disks

C) Magnetic Tapes

 D) Compact Disks

 

17. The first electronic general purpose digital computer built by Eckert and Mauchly called ENIAC did not work on the stored program concept. How many numbers could it store in its internal memory?

A) 100

B) 20

C) 40

D) 80

 

18. The computer that process both analog and digital is called

A) Analog computer

B) Digital computer

C) Hybrid computer

D) Mainframe computer

 

19. What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip?

A) Intel 308

B) Intel 33

C) Intel 4004

D) Motorola 639

 

20. Which of the following class of computers can process physical quantities such as speed?

A) Analog Computer

 B) Digital Computers

C) Hybrid Computers

D) None of above

 

21. How many types of storage loops exists in magnetic bubble memory

A) 8

B) 4

C) 16

D) 2

 

22. When did IBM introduce the 20286 based PC/AT?

A) 1982

B) 1984

C) 1985

D) 1989

 

23. The silicon chips used for data processing are called

A) RAM chips

B) ROM chips

C) Micro processors

D) PROM chips

 

24. Which computers used operating systems by Microsoft?

A) IBM PCs

B) Apple/Macintosh PCs

C) IBM Compatibles

D) Both A & C

 

25. One of the main feature that distinguish microprocessors from micro-computer is

A) Words are usually large in microprocessors

B) Words are shorter in microprocessors

C) Microprocessor does not contain I/O device

D) Exactly the same as the machine cycle time

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

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

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

General Computer Test - 105

 

1. Dot-matrix is a type of

A) Tape

B) Printer

C) Disk

D) Bus

 

2. Which is not consisted in a processor

A) ALU

B) CU

C) Memory

D) Registers

 

3. IBM 1401 is the first computer to enter in Nepal. It belonged to

A) First Generation

B) Second Generation

C) Third Generation

D) Froth Generation

 

4. The Third Generation Computer was made with .

A) Vacuum Tube

B) Discrete Components

C) IC

D) Bio Chips

 

5. Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?

A) Control Unit and Registers

B) Registers and Main Memory

C) Control unit and ALU

 D) ALU and bus

 

6. Fifth generation computer is also known as

A) Knowledge information processing system

B) Very large scale integration

C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

7. Second Generation computers were developed during

A) 1949 to 1955

B) 1956 to 1965

C) 1965 to 1970

D) 1970 to 1990

 

8. What is the name of the computer terminal which gives paper printout?

A) Display screen

B) Soft copy terminal

C) Hard copy terminal

 D) Plotter

 

9. Programs are executed on the basis of a priority number in a

A) Batch processing system

B) Multiprogramming

C) Time sharing

D) None of these

 

10. When was Apple Macintosh II microcomputer introduced in the market?

A) 1964

B) 1970

C) 1983

D) 1986

 

11. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?

A) Hewlett-Packard

B) Epson, 1981

C) Laplink traveling software In1982

D) Tandy model-2000, 1985

 

12. Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changed in 1924. What was that name?

A) Computer Tabulating Recording Co.

B) The Tabulator Ltd.

C) International Computer Ltd.

D) None of above

 

13. The personnel who deals with the computer and its management put together are called

A) Software

B) Human ware

C) Firmware

D) Hardware

 

14. Which of the following is input device?

A) scanner

B) speaker

 C) monitor

D) projector

 

15. Which of the following is true?

A) Fields are composed of bytes

B) Records are composed of fields

C) Fields are composed of characters

D) All of above

 

16. Who built the world’s first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?

A) Claude Shannon

B) Konrard Zues

C) George Stibits

D) Howard H. Aiken

 

17. WAN is a most used abbreviation in Networking, what is its full form?

A) WAP Area Network

B) Wide Area Network

C) Wide Array of Network

D) Wireless Access Network

 

18. In which language is source program written?

A) English

B) Symbolic

C) High level

 D) Temporary

 

19. Which of the following is correct acronym of VGA?

A) Video Graphics Array

B) Visual Graphics Array

C) Volatile Graphics Array

D) Video Graphics Adapter

 

20. A song being played on computer speaker is

A) hard output

B) soft output

C) both hard and soft output

D) neither hard nor soft output

 

21. In the IBM PC-At, what do the words AT stand for

A) Additional Terminals

 B) Advance technology

C) Applied technology

D) Advanced terminology

 

22. Size of the primary memory of a PC ranges between

A) 2KB to 8KB

B) 64KB & 256KB

C) 256KB & 640KB

 D) None of these

 

23. What is the number of read-write heads in the drive for a 9- trac magnetic tape?

A) 9

B) 16

C) 18

D) 27

 

24. Apple company used chips from for its computers

A) Intel

B) Motorola

C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

25. Which of the following is a feature of fifth generation computers?

A) Use of natural language

B) artificial intelligence

C) bio-chips

D) All of above

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

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

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

General Computer Test - 104

 

1. Latency time is

A) Time to spin the needed data under head

B) Time to spin the needed data under track

C) Time to spin data under sector

D) All of above

 

2. Who built the first Mechanical Calculator

A) Joseph Marie Jacquard

B) John Mauchly

C) Blaise Pascal

D) Howard Aiken

 

3. The most important advantage of a video disk is

A) Compactness

B) Potential capacity

C) Durability

D) Cost effectiveness

 

4. Which of the following generation computers had expensive operation cost?

A) First

B) Second

C) Third

D) Fourth

 

5. An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of:

A) Small-scale computer

B) Medium-scale computer

C) Large-scale computer

D) Super computer

 

6. Another word for a daisy wheel printer

A) Petal printer

B) Golf ball printer

C) Laser printer

D) Line printer

 

7. Cursor is a

A) Pixel

B) Thin blinking line

 C) Pointing device

D) None of these

 

8. Which device is used to backup the data?

A) Floppy Disk

B) Tape

C) Network Drive

D) All of the above

 

9. Which of the following printers are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multi carbon forms?

A) Daisy wheel

 B) Dot matrix

 C) Laser

D) Thimble

 

10. Which of the following items are examples of storage devices?

A) Floppy / hard disks

B) CD-ROMs

C) Tape devices

D) All of the above

 

11. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand 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

 

12. Which computers are used as servers for any medium sized organizations?

A) Mainframe Computer

B) Mini Computers

C) Micro Computers

D) Super Computers

 

13. Slide Rules was invented in

A) 1614

B) 1617

C) 1620

D) None of above

 

14. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to data?

A) 680 KB

B) 680 Bytes

C) 680 MB

 D) 680 GB

 

15. Which of the following required large computer memory?

A) Imaging

B) Graphics

C) Voice

D) All of above

 

16. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

A) Analytical engine

B) Arithmetic machine

C) Donald Knuth

D) All of above

 

17. The lower deck of an abacus is known as

A) heaven

B) sky

C) earth

D) floor

 

18. All modern computer operate on

A) Information

B) Floppies

C) Data

D) Word

 

19. The computer that can input analog signals and return result in digital form

A) Analog Computers

B) Digital Computers

 C) Hybrid Computers

D) Mainframe Computers

 

20. Offline device is

A) A device which is not connected to CPU

 B) A device which is connected to CPU

C) A direct access storage device

D) An I/O device

 

21. What is the latest write-once optical storage media?

A) Digital paper

B) Magneto-optical disk

C) WORM disk

D) CD-ROM disk

 

22. Which of the following programming language started from second generation?

A) LISP

 B) C

C) QBASIC

D) FORTRAN

 

23. Which one of the following input device is user- programmable?

A) Dumb terminal

 B) Smart terminal

 C) VDT

D) Intelligent terminal

 

24. Floppy disks typically in diameter

A) 3?

B) 5.25?

 C) 8?

D) All of above

 

25. Current SIMMs have either or connectors (pins)

A) 9 or 32

B) 30 or 70

C) 28 or 72

D) 30 or 72

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

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

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

General Computer Test - 103

 

1. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

A) Analytical Engine

B) Arithmetic Machine

C) Donald Kunth

D) All of above

 

2. The processing speed of first generation computers was

A) milliseconds

B) microseconds

 C) nanoseconds

 D) picoseconds

 

3. Model 5100 was in 1957.

A) The first PC built by IBM

B) The first PC built by Apple

C) The first PC built by Motorola

D) The first PC built by Intel

 

4. VGA is

A) Video Graphics Array

B) Visual Graphics Array

C) Volatile Graphics Array

D) Video Graphics Adapter

 

5. A kind of scanner MICR is the short form of

A) Magnetic Ink Character Reader

B) Magnetic Ink Code Reader

C) Magnetic Ink Cases Reader

D) None

 

6. Which of the following is not a class based on size?

A) Mainframe Computer

B) Micro Computer

C) Mini Computer

D) Digital Computer

 

7. Which 8-bit chip was used in many of today’s TRS-80 computers?

A) Z-8000

B) Motorola 6809

C) Z-8808

D) Z-80

 

8. Which of the following disk is fixed disk?

A) Hard Disks

B) Flash Disks

C) Blu-Ray Disks

D) DVDs

 

9. Which of the following professions has not been affected by personal computers?

A) Medical

B) Clerical and law

C) Accounting

D) None of the above

 

10. The word Abacus is derived from Abax, a word from

A) Latin language

B) Greek Language

C) Sanskrit language

D) Ancient Egypt

 

11. In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed

A) Parallel only

B) Sequentially only

C) Both sequentially and parallel

D) All of above

 

12. Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory system?

A) Magnetic core

B) Semiconductor

 C) Magnetic tape

 D) Both a and b

 

13. An online backing storage system capable of storing larger quantities of data is

A) CPU

B) Memory

C) Mass storage

D) Secondary storage

 

14. A kind of serial dot-matrix printer that forms characters with magnetically-charged ink sprayed dots is called

A) Laser printer

B) Ink-jet printer

 C) Drum printer

D) Chan printer

 

15. Which of the following does not affect the resolution of a video display image?

A) Bandwidth

B) Raster scan rage

C) Vertical and horizontal lines of resolution

D) Screen size

 

16. Which of the following printing devices an output composed of a series of data?

A) Wire matrix printer

B) Band printer

C) Wang image printer

D) Both a and c

 

17. Which of the following is an example of fifth generation computer?

A) PIM/m

B) ICL 2950

C) IBM 1401

D) None of above

 

18. Magnetic disks are the most popular medium for

A) Direct access

B) Sequential access

C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

19. Which of the following is not a third generation computer?

A) IBM 360

B) IBM 1401

C) PDP-8

D) HP2115

 

20. The number of records contained within a block of data on magnetic tape is defined by the

A) Block definition

B) Record contain clause

C) Blocking factor

D) Record per block

 

21. Mark I is also known as

A) American Sequence Controlled Calculator

B) Automatic Sequence Calculating Controller

C) American Sequence Controlled Computer

D) Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator

 

22. Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC?

A) Memory address registers

B) Memory data registers

C) Instruction register

D) Program counter

 

23. Which of the following are the cheapest memory devices in terms of Cost/Bit?

A) Semiconductor memories

B) Magnetic Disks

 C) Compact Disks

D) Magnetic Tapes

 

24. MIS is designed to provide information needed for effective decision making by?

A) Consumers

B) Workers

C) Foremen

D) Managers

 

25. Which is valid statement

A) 1 KB = 1024 Bytes

B) 1 MB = 1024 Bytes

 C) 1 KB = 1000 Bytes

D) 1 MB = 1000 Bytes

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

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

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

General Computer Test - 102

 

1. What does the disk drive of a computer do?

A) Rotate the disk

B) Read the disk

C) Load a program from the disk into the memory

D) Both b and c

 

2. Access time is

A) seek time + latency time

B) seek time

C) seek time

D) latency time

 

3. Who invented the microprocessor?

A) Marcian E Huff

B) Herman H Goldstein

C) Joseph Jacquard

D) All of above

 

4. MICR stands for

A) Magnetic Ink Character Reader

B) Magnetic Ink Code Reader

C) Magnetic Ink Case Reader

 D) None of the above

 

5. The Width of a processor’s data path is measured in bits. Which of the following are common data paths?

A) 8 bits

B) 12 bits

 C) 16 bits

 D) 32 bits

 

6. MSI is the abbreviation of

A) Medium Scale Integrated

B) Medium System Integrated

C) Medium Scale Intelligent

D) Medium System Intelligent

 

7. IMB launched its first personal computer called IBM-PC in 1981. It had chips from Intel, disk drives from Tandon, operating system from Microsoft, the printer from Epson and the application software from everywhere. Can you name the country which contribute

A) India

B) China

C) Germany

D) Taiwan

 

8. Which statement is valid about interpreter?

A) It translates one instruction at a time

B) Object code is saved for future use

C) Repeated interpretation is not necessary

D) All of above

 

9. Easily reloctable language is

A) Machine language

B) Assembly language

C) High level language

D) Medium level language

 

10. Which of the following memories needs refresh?

A) SRAM

B) DRAM

C) ROM

D) All of above

 

11. Through which device the main components of the computer communicate with each other?

A) Keyboard

B) System Bus

C) Monitor

D) Memory

 

12. What type of device is computer keyboard?

A) Memory

B) Output

 C) Storage

 D) Input

 

13. Which is the limitation of high level language?

A) Lower efficiency

B) Machine dependence

C) machine level coding

D) None of above

 

14. An example of a digital device can be

A) Digital clock

B) Automobile speed meter

C) Clock with a dial and two hands

D) All of the above

 

15. Which of the following is not true?

A) Transistors are much smaller

B) Transistors produce low heat

C) Transistors were less reliable

D) Transistors were used in radios and other electronic devices

 

16. A characteristic of card systems is:

A) Slowness in processing data

B) Using cards as records of transactions

C) Needing a larger DP staff

D) All of the above

 

17. The full form of EEPROM is

A) Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

B) Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

C) Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

D) None of the above

 

18. The original ASCII code used__bits of each byte, reserving that last bit for error checking

A) 5

B) 6

C) 7

D) 8

 

19. A computer programmer

A) Does all the thinking for a computer

B) Can enter input data quickly

C) Can operate all types of computer equipments

D) Can draw only flowchart

 

20. Fifth generation computer is also known as

A) Knowledge information processing system

B) Very large scale integration (VLSI)

 C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

21. The 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

 

22. Which of the following have low failure rate?

A) mechanical devices

B) electronic devices

C) electro-mechanical devices

D) None of above

 

23. Which of the following memories need refresh?

A) SRAM

 B) DRAM

 C) ROM

D) All of the above

 

24. A typical personal computer used for business purposes would have of RAM.

A) 4 KB

 B) 16 K

C) 64 K

 D) 256 K

 

25. The ALU of a computer normally contains a number of high speed storage element called

A) Semiconductor memory

B) Registers

C) Hard disks

D) Magnetic disk

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

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

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

General Computer Test - 101

 

1. Number crunchier is the informal name for

A) Mini computer

 B) Super computer

C) Microcomputer

D) Mainframe computer

 

2. RATS stand for

A) Regression Analysis Time Series

 B) Regression Analysis Time Sharing

 C) Real Analysis Series

D) All of above

 

3. Which technology is used in Compact disks?

A) Mechanical

B) Electrical

C) Electro Magnetic

D) Laser

 

4. Different components of the motherboard of a PC unit are linked together by sets of parallel electrical conducting lines. What are these lines called?

A) Conductors

B) Buses

C) Connectors

D) Consecutives

 

5. Which is the first electronic digital computer?

A) ENIAC

B) MARK

 C) Z3

D) ABC

 

6. Which of the following is a storage device?

A) Tape

B) Hard Disk

C) Floppy Disk

D) All of the above

 

7. The metal disks, which are permanently housed in, sealed and contamination free containers are called

A) Hard disks

B) Floppy disk

C) Winchester disk

D) Flexible disk

 

8. A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language is called a/an

A) Interpreter

B) Simulator

C) Compiler

D) Commander

 

9. Intel corporation produces chips for which computers?

A) IBM PCs

B) Apple/Macintosh PCs

C) Both of above

D) None of above

 

10. The first microprocessor built by the Intel corporation was called

A) 8008

B) 8080

C) 4004

D) 8800

 

11. Which of the following is not a class of computers based on size?

A) Mainframe Computers

B) Mini Computers

 C) Micro Computers

D) Super Computers

 

12. Who invented EDSAC?

A) John v. Neumann

B) J.P. Eckert and John Mauchley

C) Maurice Wilkes

D) Howard Aiken

 

13. EEPROM stands for

A) Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

B) Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

C) Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

D) Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

 

14. Which of the following is a class of computers based on model?

A) Digital Computer

B) Hybrid Computer

 C) Analog Computers

D) AT Computers

 

15. What are the computers called that performs calculations and comparisons usually in the binary numbering system?

 A) Analog Computers

B) Digital Computers

C) Hybrid Computers

D) None of above

 

16. ASCII stands for

A) American Standard Code for Information Interchange

B) American Scientific Code for International Interchange

 C) American Standard Code for Intelligence Interchange

D) American Scientific Code for Information Interchange

 

17. The data recording format in most of the modern magnetic tape is

A) 7-bit ASCII

B) 7-bit EBCDIC

C) 8-bit ASCII

D) 8-bit EBCDIC

 

18. Why ABC computer is called so?

A) Because it was developed by Atanasoff and Berry

B) Because it was thought to be the first computer so named with first alphabets of English

C) Both of above are the reason to name the computer ABC

D) None of above are true

 

19. Who designed the first electronics computer ? ENIAC/

A) Von Neumann

B) Joseph M Jacquard

C) J. P. Eckert and J. W. Mauchly

D) All of above

 

20. Central Processing Unit is combination of

A) Control and storage

B) Control and output unit

C) Arithmetic logic and input unit

D) Arithmetic logic and control unit

 

21. IBM 1401 computer was

A) Mainframe Computer

B) Mini Computers

C) Micro Computers

 D) None of above

 

22. Time during which a job is processed by the computer is

A) Delay times

B) Real time

C) Execution time

D) Down time

 

23. CD-ROM stands for

A) Compactable Read Only Memory

B) Compact Data Read Only Memory

C) Compactable Disk Read Only Memory

D) Compact Disk Read Only Memory

 

24. Which unit converts user data into machine readable form?

A) Input unit

B) Output unit

C) ALU

D) Control Unit

 

25. Which unit is known as nerve center of computer?

A) ALU

 B) CU

C) Memory

D) Registers

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

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

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