401. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?
A) Analytical Engine ✔
B) Arithmetic Machine
C) Donald Kunth
D) All of above
402. The processing speed of first generation computers was
A) milliseconds ✔
B) microseconds
C) nanoseconds
D) picoseconds
403. 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
404. VGA is
A) Video Graphics Array ✔
B) Visual Graphics Array
C) Volatile Graphics Array
D) Video Graphics Adapter
405. 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
406. Which of the following is not a class based on size?
A) Mainframe Computer
B) Micro Computer
C) Mini Computer
D) Digital Computer ✔
407. 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 ✔
408. Which of the following disk is fixed disk?
A) Hard Disks ✔
B) Flash Disks
C) Blu-Ray Disks
D) DVDs
409. 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 ✔
410. The word Abacus is derived from Abax, a word from
A) Latin language ✔
B) Greek Language
C) Sanskrit language
D) Ancient Egypt
411. In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed
A) Parallel only
B) Sequentially only
C) Both sequentially and parallel ✔
D) All of above
412. 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
413. An online backing storage system capable of storing larger quantities of data is
A) CPU
B) Memory
C) Mass storage ✔
D) Secondary storage
414. 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
415. 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 ✔
416. 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 ✔
417. Which of the following is an example of fifth generation computer?
A) PIM/m ✔
B) ICL 2950
C) IBM 1401
D) None of above
418. Magnetic disks are the most popular medium for
A) Direct access
B) Sequential access
C) Both of above ✔
D) None of above
419. Which of the following is not a third generation computer?
A) IBM 360
B) IBM 1401 ✔
C) PDP-8
D) HP2115
420. 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
421. 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 ✔
422. 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
423. 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
424. MIS is designed to provide information needed for effective decision making by?
A) Consumers
B) Workers
C) Foremen
D) Managers ✔
425. Which is valid statement
A) 1 KB = 1024 Bytes ✔
B) 1 MB = 1024 Bytes
C) 1 KB = 1000 Bytes
D) 1 MB = 1000 Bytes
426. 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
427. Who built the first Mechanical Calculator
A) Joseph Marie Jacquard
B) John Mauchly
C) Blaise Pascal ✔
D) Howard Aiken
428. The most important advantage of a video disk is
A) Compactness
B) Potential capacity ✔
C) Durability
D) Cost effectiveness
429. Which of the following generation computers had expensive operation cost?
A) First ✔
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fourth
430. An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of:
A) Small-scale computer ✔
B) Medium-scale computer
C) Large-scale computer
D) Super computer
431. Another word for a daisy wheel printer
A) Petal printer
B) Golf ball printer ✔
C) Laser printer
D) Line printer
432. Cursor is a ____
A) Pixel
B) Thin blinking line ✔
C) Pointing device
D) None of these
433. Which device is used to backup the data?
A) Floppy Disk
B) Tape
C) Network Drive
D) All of the above ✔
434. 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
435. 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 ✔
436. 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
437. Which computers are used as servers for any medium sized organizations?
A) Mainframe Computer
B) Mini Computers ✔
C) Micro Computers
D) Super Computers
438. Slide Rules was invented in
A) 1614
B) 1617
C) 1620 ✔
D) None of above
439. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to __________data?
A) 680 KB
B) 680 Bytes
C) 680 MB ✔
D) 680 GB
440. Which of the following required large computer memory?
A) Imaging
B) Graphics
C) Voice
D) All of above ✔
441. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?
A) Analytical engine ✔
B) Arithmetic machine
C) Donald Knuth
D) All of above
442. The lower deck of an abacus is known as
A) heaven
B) sky
C) earth ✔
D) floor
443. All modern computer operate on
A) Information
B) Floppies
C) Data ✔
D) Word
444. 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
445. 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
446. What is the latest write-once optical storage media?
A) Digital paper
B) Magneto-optical disk
C) WORM disk
D) CD-ROM disk ✔
447. Which of the following programming language started from second generation?
A) LISP
B) C
C) QBASIC
D) FORTRAN ✔
448. Which one of the following input device is userprogrammable?
A) Dumb terminal
B) Smart terminal
C) VDT
D) Intelligent terminal ✔
449. Floppy disks typically in diameter
A) 3?
B) 5.25?
C) 8?
D) All of above ✔
450. Current SIMMs have either __ or __ connectors (pins)
A) 9 or 32
B) 30 or 70
C) 28 or 72
D) 30 or 72 ✔
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