Q.1

In which area of the primary storage section are the intermediate processing results held temporarily?

  • Input storage area
  • Program storage area
  • Output storage area
  • Working storage space
  • None of the above
Q.2

An adder in which the bits of the operands are added one after another is

  • Half-adder
  • Full-adder
  • Serial adder
  • All of the above
  • None of the above
Q.3

Which of the following is not a factor affecting the processing capability or performance of a PC system?

  • The clock speed of the microprocessor
  • The revolutions per minute of the printer disk
  • The primary storage capacity of the processor
  • The built-in instruction set available to the microprocessor
  • None of the above
Q.4

An electronic circuit with abouttransistors fabricated on a silicon chip is known as

  • SSI
  • MSI
  • DPS
  • RJE
  • None of the above
Q.5

Instructions and memory addresses are represented by

  • character codes
  • binary codes
  • binary word
  • parity bit
  • None of the above
Q.6

Which is a basic technique, using activity networks.

  • CPA
  • VLSI
  • GIGO
  • MSI
  • None of the above
Q.7

A type of simulation method using random numbers to determine the evolution of a system is

  • Model dispersion
  • Monte carlo
  • Monadic
  • Padding
  • None of the above
Q.8

Sequential file organization is most appropriate for which of the following applications?

  • grocery-store checkout
  • bank checking accounts
  • payroll
  • airline reservations
  • None of the above
Q.9

A machine associated with card-based data processing is

  • Codomain
  • Collator
  • Cartridge
  • Digitizer
  • None of the above
Q.10

The most popular language used with microcomputers and time-shared mini computers, is an easy-to-use high level language.

  • COBOL
  • ADA
  • PASCAL
  • BASIC
  • None of the above
Q.11

In which mode, each user has a local input/output device.

  • Interactive
  • Time sharing mode
  • Batch processing mode
  • All of the above
  • None of the above
Q.12

The computer industry uses prefixes of Greek origin to measure large amounts of data. Which term describesbytes.

  • Kilobyte
  • Megabyte
  • Gigabyte
  • Terabyte
  • None of the above
Q.13

Which printer is very commonly used for desk-top publishing?

  • Laser printer
  • Ink-jet printer
  • Daisy wheel printer
  • Dot-matrix printer
  • None of the above
Q.14

A generalised software package produced to meet the bugs of a variety of data processing users is known as

  • Utility programs
  • System software
  • Operating system
  • Application package
  • None of the above
Q.15

The process of fetching and executing instructions, one at a time, in the order of increasing addresses is known as

  • instruction execution
  • straight line sequencing
  • instruction fetch
  • random sequencing
  • None of the above
Q.16

Which language is used in the areas of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence & for simulation of games.

  • APL
  • FORTH
  • LISP
  • CORAL
  • None of the above
Q.17

Which company is the biggest player in the microprocessor industry?

  • Motorola
  • IBM
  • Intel
  • AMD
  • Cyrix
Q.18

A sizeable geographical area with communication based on the telephone system is though as

  • Local area network
  • Wide area network
  • Modulator-Demodulator
  • All of the above
  • None of the above
Q.19

A computer is a box full of electronic

  • Switching devices
  • Chips
  • Circuits
  • Registers
  • None of the above
Q.20

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

  • Light pen
  • Mouse
  • Digitizer
  • Terminal
  • None of the above
Q.21

The OR, XOR & AND functions can be performed by _____ of the computer in a CPU.

  • ALU
  • CU
  • Memory
  • Register
  • None of the above
Q.22

Condensing output data to exhibit specific information is

  • Calculating
  • Recording
  • Merging
  • Summarising
  • None of the above
Q.23

A large computer designed to handle complex scientific calculations

  • may use only a firmed word-length storage approach
  • will likely require a character addressable storage unit
  • must use fixed length words of four character each
  • will not use numbered address locations
  • None of the above
Q.24

A database management system based on the concept of ownership is

  • Network topology
  • Network layer
  • Network database system
  • Network license system
  • None of the above
Q.25

Who is called the "grand father" of the computer?

  • Blaise Pascal
  • Charles Babbage
  • Joseph Jacquard
  • Dr. Herman Hollerith
  • None of the above
Q.26

Which kind of storage device can be carried around?

  • Floppy disk
  • Hard disk
  • System cabinet
  • Hard disk drive
  • Floppy disk drive
Q.27

One nibble is equal to

  • 4 bits
  • 8 bits
  • 6 bits
  • 16 bits
  • None of the above
Q.28

What is the term which represents the use of links between information of all sorts whether text, graphics, video oi audio-based?

  • Hypertext
  • Hypermedia
  • HyperCard
  • Wildcard
  • None of the above
Q.29

Codes which do not require to be frequently updated also promote user efficiency due to

  • Simplicity
  • Sortability
  • Stability
  • Expansibility
  • None of the above
Q.30

A medium for transferring data between two locations is called

  • Network
  • Communication channel
  • Modem
  • Bus
  • None of the above
Q.31

A Winchester disk is a

  • Disk Stack
  • Removable disk
  • Flexible disk
  • All of the above
  • None of the above
Q.32

A prewritten program that's sold to perform a common task is called an application

  • System software
  • Package
  • Utilities
  • Program
  • None of the above
Q.33

Which of the following is used for manufacturing chips?

  • control bus
  • control unit
  • parity unit
  • semiconductor
  • None of the above
Q.34

The 7-bit ASCII code widely used

  • For data communication work
  • In IBM mainframe models
  • For coding external memory
  • In large machines produced by non-IBM vendors
  • None of the above
Q.35

Which of the following printers, are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multicarbon forms?

  • daisy wheel
  • dot-matrix
  • laser
  • thimble
  • All of the above
Q.36

Which one of the following is the first second-generation computer?

  • IBM 7090
  • IBM 801
  • IBM 7070
  • IBM 650
  • None of the above
Q.37

Locations in the main memory of a computer are called

  • Alphabets
  • Words
  • Data
  • Characters
  • None of the above
Q.38

Which of the following terms applies to communication between separate computer systems?

  • Computer literacy
  • Power supply
  • Applications software
  • Connectivity
  • None of the above
Q.39

A technique for processing jobs on a first-come, first-served basis is known as

  • FAX
  • FIFO
  • GIGO cable
  • Optical mark reader
  • None of the above
Q.40

The term MIPS refers to _____

  • millions of instructions per second
  • multiple instructions per second
  • megabytes of instructions per seconds
  • millions input processor set
  • multi-inductance processing system
Q.41

Which of the following is a communication network that is devoted to carrying computer information.

  • Data point
  • Data module
  • Data network
  • Data pack
  • None of the above
Q.42

Output hardware is often categorized according to whether it:

  • is expensive
  • requires a large amount of electricity to work
  • produces hardcopy or softcopy
  • can fit on a desktop
  • None of the above
Q.43

A device mounted on a communication satellite which receives, amplifies and re-transmits signals from earth station is

  • Track
  • Transponder
  • Transistor
  • Terminal
  • None of the above
Q.44

The primary memory of a personal computer consists of:

  • ROM only
  • RAM only
  • Both ROM and RAM
  • Memory module
  • None of the above
Q.45

A typical modern computer uses

  • LSI chips
  • Vacuum tubes
  • Valves
  • All the above
  • None of the above
Q.46

Which of the following bus types are used by the Apple Macintosh computer?

  • ISA
  • NuBus
  • EISA
  • MCA
  • PCI Bus
Q.47

In negative logic, the logic state 1 corresponds to

  • negative voltage
  • zero voltage
  • more negative voltage
  • lower voltage level
  • None of the above
Q.48

Which of the following is usually a special one-time operation that must be completed over a limited time period?

  • Batch
  • Patch
  • Project
  • Word
  • None of the above
Q.49

The input and output devices are located away from the central computer facility in which particular type of processing.

  • Time sharing
  • Batch processing
  • Interactive mode
  • Real time processing
  • None of the above
Q.50

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) had huge advantage over Mark I because it used electronic valves in place of the electromagnetic switches. In the beginning, ENIAC was used for calculating the path of artillery shells. For which other was weapon design was it utilized?

  • hydrogen bomb
  • atom bomb
  • agnimissile
  • fighter aircraft
  • None of the above
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