Computer Mcqs (754)

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• The system unit of a personal computer typically contains all of the following except:
1. Microprocessor
2. Disk controller
3. Serial interface
4. Modem
• What is meant by a dedicated computer?
1. Which is used by one person only
2. Which is assigned one and only one task
3. Which uses one kind of software
4. Which is meant for application software
• Personal computers use a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?
1. Daughter board
2. Motherboard
3. Father board
4. Breadboard
• Modern Computer are very reliable but they are not___________?
1. Fast
2. Powerful
3. Infallible
4. Cheap
• An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for it?
1. Leech
2. Squid
3. Slug
4. Glitch
• Personnel who design, program, operate and maintain computer equipment refers to__________?
1. Console-operator
2. Programmer
3. Peopleware
4. System Analyst
• Who invented the high level language “C”?
1. Dennis M. Ritchie
2. Niklaus Writh
3. Seymour Papert
4. Donald Kunth
• Who designed the first electronics computer – ENIAC?
1. Van-Neumann
2. Joseph M. Jacquard
3. J. Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly
4. All of above
• In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed___________?
1. Parallel only
2. Sequentially only
3. Both sequentially and parallel
4. All of above
• In analogue computer_____________?
1. Input is first converted to digital form
2. Input is never converted to digital form
3. Output is displayed in digital form
4. All of above
• The output quality of a printer is measured by____________?
1. Dot per inch
2. Dot per sq. inch
3. Dots printed per unit time
4. All of above
• Which of the following devices can be used to directly image printed text?
1. OCR
2. OMR
3. MICR
4. All of above
• Microprocessors as switching devices are for ___________generation computers?
1. First Generation
2. Second Generation
3. Third Generation
4. Fourth Generation
• The computer size was very large in__________?
1. First Generation
2. Second Generation
3. Third Generation
4. Fourth Generation
• Second Generation computers were developed during___________?
1. 1949 to 1955
2. 1956 to 1965
3. 1965 to 1970
4. 1970 to 1990
• Chief component of first generation computer was__________?
1. Transistors
2. Vacuum Tubes and Valves
3. Integrated Circuits
4. None of above
• IBM 1401 is_________?
1. First Generation Computer
2. Second Generation Computer
3. Third Generation Computer
4. Fourth Generation Computer
• Which of the following is first generation of computer?
1. EDSAC
2. IBM-1401
3. CDC-1604
4. ICL-2900
5. The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), developed at Britain';s Cambridge University, ran its first programs in 1949. It became the first stored-program computer in regular use, heralding the transition from test to tool.
• ASCII stands for__________?
1. American Stable Code for International Interchange
2. American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
3. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
4. American Standard Code for Interchange Information
• MIS is designed to provide information needed for effective decision making by?
1. Consumers
2. Workers
3. Foremen
4. Managers
• When did John Napier develop logarithm?
1. 1416
2. 1614
3. 1641
4. 1804
• Which of the following is a storage device?
1. Tape
2. Hard Disk
3. Floppy Disk
4. All of the above
• What does DMA stand for?
1. Distinct Memory Access
2. Direct Memory Access
3. Direct Module Access
4. Direct Memory Allocation
• Which of the following is not anti- viruses software?
1. Avira
2. Kaspersky
3. Oracle
4. McAfee
• Which programming languages are classified as low level languages?
1. BASIC, COBOL, Fortran
2. Prolog
3. C, C++
4. Assembly languages