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
