Friday, 27 March 2015

MCQ on Computer Fundamental

MCQ SET 1

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

 The output quality of a printer is measured by
 Dot per sq. inch

 In analog computer
 Input is never converted to digital form

 In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed
 Both sequentially and parallel

 Who designed the first electronics computer – ENIAC?
  J. Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly

 Who invented the high level language c?
 Dennis M. Ritchie

 Personnel who design, program, operate and maintain computer equipment refers to
 Peopleware

 Human beings are referred to as Homosapinens, which device is called Sillico Sapiens?
 Computer

 An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for it?
 Glitch

 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 contributed the video display?
 Taiwan

 Personal computers use a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?
Motherboard

 In most IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drives, memory expansion slots and active components are mounted on a single board. What is the name of this board?
 Motherboard

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

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

 A computer program that translates one program instructions at a time into machine language is called a/an
Interpreter

The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from
Control section

All modern computer operate on

 Data

 Instructions and memory address are represented by
 Binary codes

Which of the following code used in present day computing was developed by IBM Corporation?
 EBCDIC Code

 What is the latest write-once optical storage media?
 CD-ROM disk

The two kinds of main memory are:
 ROM and RAM

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

Which printer is very commonly used for desktop publishing?
Laser printer

An output device that uses words or messages recorded on a magnetic medium to produce audio response is
 Voice response unit

 A storage area used to store data to a compensate for the difference in speed at which the different units can handle data is
Buffer

 Programs designed to perform specific tasks is known as
 Application software

 Time during which a job is processed by the computer is
Execution time

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

 An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is
 Over lapped processing

 A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a … resident package
Memory

Which of the following processors use RISC technology?
Power PC

 Current SIMMs have either … or … connectors (pins)
 30 or 72

 Which of the following is not an input device?
 COM (Computer Output to Microfilm)

 EBCDIC can code up to how many different characters?
 256

 Which is used for manufacturing chips?
 Semiconductors

 The computer code for the interchange of information between terminals is
 ASCII

 A byte consists of
 Eight bits

 A hybrid computer
 Resembles both a digital and analog computer


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Cloud computing is a computing term or metaphor that evolved in the late 2000s, based on utility and consumption of computing resources. Cloud computing involves deploying groups of remote servers and software networks that allow centralized data storage and online access to computer services or resources. Clouds can be classified as public, private or hybrid
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