laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | Computer Computer Fundamentals (New) Part 2

Which of the following computer implemented binary numbers perform calculations using electronics and implemented separate computation and memory for the first time?

1. Mark I
2. ABC
3. Z3
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

FORTRAN is a programming language. What does FORTRAN stand for?

1. File Translation
2. Format Translation
3. Formula Translation
4. Floppy Translation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following memories needs refreshing?

1. SRAM
2. DRAM
3. ROM
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Can you tell what passes into and out from the computer via its ports?

1. Data
2. Bytes
3. Graphics
4. Pictures

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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

1. Magnetic tape
2. Voice response unit
3. Voice recognition unit
4. Voice band

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the items below are considered removable storage media?

1. Removable hard disk cartridges
2. (Magneto-optical) disk
3. Flexible disks cartridges
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not purely output device?

1. Screen
2. Printer
3. Speaker
4. Plotter

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiple, divide and find square roots?

1. Napier
2. Babbage
3. Pascal
4. Leibniz

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The first Macintosh computer was from

1. First generation
2. Second generation
3. Third generation
4. Fourth generation

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not a form of data?

1. numbers and characters
2. images
3. sound
4. none of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Microprocessors can be used to make

1. Computer
2. Digital systems
3. Calculators
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which statement is valid about computer program?

1. High level languages must be converted into machine language to execute
2. High level langage programs are more efficient and faster to execute
3. It is more difficult to identify errors in high level language program than in low level programs
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

By programmable machine we mean

1. computers
2. modern television
3. washing machines
4. anything that can be set to perform different taks with suitable programs

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is a secondary memory device?

1. Keyboard
2. Disk
3. ALU
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The memory which is programmed at the time it is manufactured

1. ROM
2. RAM
3. PROM
4. EPROM

✅ Correct Answer: 3

One of the popular mass storage device is CD ROM. What does CD ROM stand for?

1. Compactable Read Only Memory
2. Compact Data Read Only Memory
3. Compactable Disk Read Only Memory
4. Compact Disk Read Only Memory

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Identify the true statement

1. Computers are 100% accurate but it can suffer from GIGO
2. Computers are reliable because they use electronic component which have very low failure rate
3. Computer is never tired and does not suffer from boredom
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

FORTRAN is

1. File Translation
2. Format Translation
3. Formula Translation
4. Floppy Translation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The programs which are as permanent as hardware and stored in ROM is known as

1. Hardware
2. Software
3. Firmware
4. ROM ware

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following memories must be refreshed many times per second?

1. Static RAM
2. ) Dynamic RAM
3. EPROM
4. ROM

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What do you call the translator which takes assembly language program as input & produce machine language code as output?

1. Compiler
2. Interpreter
3. Debugger
4. Assembler

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Serial access memories are useful in applications where

1. Data consists of numbers
2. Short access time is required
3. Each stored word is processed differently
4. Data naturally needs to flow in and out in serial form

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In ________ mode, the communication channel is used in both directions at the same time?

1. Full-duplex
2. Simplex
3. Half-duplex
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who invented Slide Rules?

1. John Napier
2. William Oughtred
3. Gottfried Leibnitz
4. Blaise Pascal

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The proper definition of a modern digital computer is

1. An electronic automated machine that can solve problems involving words and numbers
2. A more sophistic and modified electronic pocket calculator
3. Any machine that can perform mathematical operations
4. A machine that works on binary code

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Memory is made up of

1. Set of wires
2. Set of circuits
3. Large number of cells
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is the most powerful computers?

1. Mainframe Computer
2. Mini Computers
3. Micro Computers
4. Super Computers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the printers used in conjunction with computers uses dry ink powder?

1. Daisy wheel printer
2. Line printer
3. Laser printer
4. Thermal printer

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the path from which data flow in a computer system is knon as

1. Car
2. Bus
3. Truck
4. Road

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which term is used to describe RAM?

1. Dynamic RAM (DRAM)
2. Static RAM (SRAM)
3. Video RAM (VRAM)
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In which year was chip used inside the computer for the first time?

1. 1964
2. 1975
3. 1999
4. 1944

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Assembly language started to be used from

1. first generation computers
2. second generation computers
3. third generation computers
4. fourth generation computers

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which technology is more reliable?

1. Mechanical
2. Electro-Mechanical
3. Electronic
4. For reliability it does not matter. So all of above are reliable

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not an XT microprocessor?

1. 8006
2. 8086
3. 8088
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Hard disk is coated in both side with

1. Magnetic metallic oxide
2. Optical metallic oxide
3. Carbon layer
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Raw facts and figures about any particular topic are

1. Information
2. facts
3. data
4. none of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A computer can solve more than one kind of problem. This is related to which of the following characteristics?

1. Accuracy
2. Reliability
3. Versatility
4. Automatic

✅ Correct Answer: 3

From which generation computers the printers were used?

1. first
2. second
3. third
4. fourth

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How many symbols exist in Baudot code?

1. 32
2. 116
3. 58
4. 76

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Following IC chip integrates 100 thousands electronic components per chip

1. SSI
2. MSI
3. LSI
4. VLSI

✅ Correct Answer: 3

An application program that helps the user to change any number and immediately see the result of that change is

1. Desktop publishing program
2. Database
3. Spreadsheet
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytical Engine which he showed at the Paris Exhibition. In which year was it exhibition?

1. 1820
2. 1860
3. 1855
4. 1870

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the name of the new color laptop computer which is powered by a 386 processor at 33 MHz and is built by Epson?

1. AX3/33
2. NEC-20
3. Magnum 2000
4. HCL-3000

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In analog 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

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following computer is not invented by J.P. Eckert and John Mauchly?

1. ENIAC
2. EDVAC
3. UNIVAC
4. EDSAC

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When was the company named IBM?

1. 1914
2. 1924
3. 1975
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following storage device can store the largest amount of data?

1. Hard Disks
2. Flash Disks
3. Blu-Ray Disks
4. DVDs

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who invented Mark I?

1. Howard Aikin
2. J. P. Eckert
3. John Mauchley
4. John v. Atanasoff

✅ Correct Answer: 1

ALU is

1. Arithmetic Logic Unit
2. Array Logic Unit
3. Application Logic Unit
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language at one time is called a/an

1. Interpreter
2. CPU
3. Compiler
4. Simulator

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When did arch rivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to join hands?

1. 1978
2. 1984
3. 1990
4. 1991

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The purpose of vacuum tube was to NOT ack like

1. an amplifier
2. a switch
3. a router
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

As compared to diskettes, the hard disks are

1. More expensive
2. More portable
3. Less rigid
4. Slowly accessed

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is the most quickly accessible storage?

1. RAM
2. Registers
3. Disks
4. Pen Drive

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The octal equivalence of 111010 is

1. 81
2. 72
3. 71
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Excessive parallel processing is related to

1. First generation
2. Fourth generation
3. Fifth Generation
4. Third generation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

second generation computers were developed during

1. 1949 to 1955
2. 1956 to 1965
3. 1965 to 1970
4. 1970 to 1990

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What do you call a single point on a computer screen?

1. Cell
2. Element
3. Pixel
4. Bit

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Mostly which of the following device is used to carry user files?

1. Floppy Disk
2. Hard Disk
3. RAM
4. CDROM

✅ Correct Answer: 1