Acropolis Technical Campus, Indore

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Basic Computer Engineering Quiz Question (BE-205)

1. Which one of the following is not an input device?

A. Keyboard B. Joystick C. Printer D. Optical Character Reader

Answer: C. Printer

2. The input device that is most likely to be used to play computer game is the

A. Joystick B. Keyboard C. Touch Screen D. Mouse

Answer: Joystick

3. The Input device that is closely related to a touch screen is the

A. Keyboard B. Light pen C. Scanned D. Joystick

Answer: B. Light pen

4. A bus is a / an

A. electronic track system B. Part of register C. Special memory D. Part of a Cpu

Answer: A. electronic track system

5. A byte represents a group of

A. 10 bits B. 40 bits C. 8 bits D. 22 bits

Answer: C. 8 bits

6. Which one of the following is a standard code used to exchange information among data
processing and communication system?

A. ANSI B. ASCII C. ACM D. APL

Answer: ASCII

7. A mouse is connected to
 A. LPT1 port B. LPT2 port C. The serial port D. None of these

Answer: C. the serial port

8. Windows is

A. an operating system B. An operating environment

C. a character user interface D. None of these

Answer: B. an operating environment

9. Where is the headquarters of Intel located?

A. Redmond, Washington B. Tucson, Arizona

C. Santa Clara, California D. Richmond, Virginia

Answer: C. Santa Clara, California

10. Another word for the CPU is

A. Microprocessor B. Execute C. Micro chip D. Decode

Answer: A. Microprocessor

11. The computer is a machine and all other equipments associated with it, are termed as A.
Hardware B. Software C. Firmware D. Humanware

Answer: A. Hardware

12. The component of a computer system with the circuitry to control interpretation and execution of
an instruction is known as

A. ALU B. Memory C. Control D. CPU

Answer: B. Memory

13. Which of the following was the first Intel processor introduced?

A. 3080 B. 4004 C. 8080 D. 8086

 Answer: B. 4004

14. Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to

A. Client B. Network C. Super Computer D. Mainframe

Answer: B. Network

15. _________ generates characters from grid of pins?

A. Inkjet Printers B. Laser Printers C. Dot Matrix Printers D. Daily wheel Printers

Answer: C. Dot Matrix Printers

16. RAM stands for

A. Random Access Memory B. Really Annoying Machine

C. Read A Manual D. Real Absolute Memory

Answer: A. Random Access Memory

17. The results of arithmetical and logical operations are stored in

A. accumulator B. Instruction register C. Cache D. Rom

Answer: A. accumulator

18. Who is considers as the father of computers?

A. Blase Pascal B. Charles Babbage C. William Napier D. Blase Pascal

Answer: B. Charles Babbage

19. Which below file extension is not a type of compressed file?

A. .bin B. .rar C. .tar D. .z

Answer: C. .tar

20. Which of the following provides hard (paper) copy from computer?
 A. E–mail B. Fax C. Printer D. Software

Answer: C. Printer

21. Software is -------

A. Equipment B. Peripheral C. Computer program D. None of these

Answer: C. Computer program

22. An optical input device that is used to read documents printed in a special type font is known as
A. Documentation B. Printer C. Scanner D. Document reader

Answer: D. Document reader

23. The Vacuum Tube are related to ---------------

A. First generation computers B. Second generation computers

C. Third generation computers D. Fourth generation computers

Answer: A. First generation computers

24. Following is not a non impact printer -------

A. Thermal printer B. Ink jet printer C. Dot matrix printer D. Laser printer

Answer: C. Dot matrix printer

25. CD–ROM is a kind of

A. Magnetic disk B. Optical disk C. Magneto–Optical disk D. None

Answer: A. Magnetic disk

26. This type of memory is commonly called temporary or volatile storage

A. ROM B. RAM C. Flash Memory D. Virtual Memory

Answer: B. RAM
27. The smallest unit of any computer system is --------- which eight are combines to form a byte. A.
Bit B. Binary C. Octal D. Gigabyte

Answer: A. Bit

28. The Computer keyboard in English normally uses ---------

A. Abcdef base B. Asdfg base C. Zxcvbv base D. QWERT base

Answer: D. QWERT base

29. The word length of a computer is measured in

A. Bits B. Bytes C. Millimetres D. Metres

Answer: B. Bytes

30. One byte is equivalent to

A. 4 bits B. 8 bits C. 16 bits D. 32 bits

Answer: B. 8 bits

31. Select the smallest memory size

A. Kilobyte B. Gigabyte C. Megabyte D. Terabyte

Answer: Kilobyte

32. The processing of input to output is directed by ---------------

A. Hardware B. Software C. Printer D. None of these

Answer: B. Software

33. Which of the following memories is an optical memory?

A. Floppy Disk B. CD-ROM C. Core Memories D. Bubble Memories

Answer: B. CD-ROM