tedcqs@rs MCQ Bank for Computer Fundamentals

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534. A term used to describe intf/rconnected computer
configumtionis
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A) They used vacuum tubes or valves as main electronic component
A) Multiprogramming
B) They consumed lots of electricity and produced excessive heat
B) Modulation
C) They used machine language and assembly language to program C) Multiprocessing
the machine
D) Micro program sequence
D) None of above

s23. CAlstatdslor l) 535. While insertiry a diskette into the diskettc drive of a p|the
A) Computer aided design diskette's label side shouldface
B) Computer algorithm for design A) East
C) Computer application in design B) North
D) All ofthe above C) South
D) up
A 524, Which otthe following memories has the shortest occess
times? 536. Most of the inexpensive personalcomputerc do nothave arry
A)Cachememory D dkk or disketb drive. What is the name of such amputes?
B) Magnetic bubble memory A) Home computers
C) Magneticcore memory
B) Diskless computers
D) RAM
C) Dedicated computers
D) General purpose computers
D 525. A *,0,ll or intclligent devlce is so alled because tt contains
wltHn ita
Alcomputer 537. Wlwtisal@htpen?
B
B) Microcomputer A) Mechanical lnput da/ice
C)Prognmmable B) Optical input d€vice
DlSemor C) Electronic input device
D) Optical odput devie
D 52d-
Yre of ee toilowirg is ,tot a prlmary stwage det ice?
A) Magnetictape
B) Magneticdisk
C) Optkal disk
c 538, Whtch ofthe following class of compaters can not
multiple users simultaneou sb,?
supprt
A) Malnframe Computer
DlAllof abwe B) MiniComputers
C) Micro Computers
C 5 27. Who irtlrentrrl
A) Blabe Pascal
Anal fr cal e nginc? D)All ofthem can support

B) Georye Bool
C of the folloutirg is considercd firct coiputer ln the
5 39. llfhtch
C) Charles Babbag . world?
D) Dr. Herman Hollerith
A) 23

b 528, CPU speed of a

A) 32 KIPS
prconal amputer is B) ABC
C) Mark I

Bl 1m K|PS D) None of abwe

c) I M|PS
DlNoneofthese 540. When a key is pressed on the keyboad, which s&lnilard is
A used for cowertfig the krystoke into the corresponding
52t Ciruilar ilivision of disks to storc and retri*e ilata are known bits?
dr&
os A)ANsl
A) track B) ASCI
Bl s€ctors c) EBCDtc
C) cydes D) lso
Dl nngs

A 530, stntement is valid? A 541. In ordertaplay arld hear mund ona computer, one needs:
A) a sound card and speakers
A)'/Jtich
L(B = 1024 bytes
B) a microphone
B) 1 MB=2O48 bytes
C) 1MB = 10OO kilobytes
C) all ofthem required
D) 1 KB = 1000 bytes D) none ofthem required

53L fhe least signtfrcant bit ofthe binory number, wiich is

equiwlent to any odd decimal number, is: A 542. Whkh of the following devlces can be
printedtext?
sued to directly image

A)o A) ocR
B)1 B) OMR
C) 1 or0 c) MtcR
D)3 D) All of above

532. The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the

543. For which ofthe lollowing computzrc can t be used?
,nowmentw the changc in lts capa.citnnce,
A) gathering data
A) Capacitance keyboard
B) calculating data
B) Mechanical keyboard
C) comparing data
C) Qwerg keyboard
D) Dvorak keyboard D) Arranging data

C 533. Tlw Stcpped Reckoner was imtenfr,d by

A) John Napier
C 5,M. Which of the followirg ls called low level latguqges?
A) Machine language
B) William Oughtred B) Assembly language
c) Gotrfried Leibnitz C) Both ofthe above
D) Bleise Pascal D) None ofabove

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