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1. What was the name of of government funded computer used in World War II to compute firing
tables?
A) VAX Computer
B) IBM Computer
C) Colossus Computer
D) ENIAC Computer
2. The fundamental conceptual unit in in a computer is
A) CPU
B) Hard Drive
C) Operating system
D) Transister
3. First electronic computer was
A) EDVAC
B) ENIAC
C) IAS
D) None of these
4. ENIAC Means….
A) Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computation
B) Electrical Numerical Integrator and computing
C) Electronic Numerical integration and computer
D) Electronic Numerical integrator and computing
5. EDVAC Means…..
A) Electronic discrete variable and computer
B) Electronic discrete variable and computing
C) Electronic discrete variable and computer
D) Electronic discrete variable and computation
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6. ENIAC was a…………… machine.
A) Binary
B) Decimal
C) Hexadecimal
D) Octal
7. …..used stored program concept.
A) EDVAC
B) ENIAC
C) Ins
D) None of these
8. ENIAC data memory consisted of………. Accumulators and capable of storing …….digits decimal
number
A) 10 and 20
B) 20 and 10
C) 20 and 20
D) 10 and 10
9. IN EDVAC programs and their data were located in the………memory.
A) External
B) Separate
C) Additional
D) Same
10. …..invented an influential mechanical calculator
A) Elkert and mauchly
B) Blaise
C) Von Neumann
D) Charles Babbage
11. Floating points representation is used to store
A) Boolean valves
B) Whole number
C) Real number
D) Integer
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12. … designed the first mecinacial computer that can perform multistep operations automatically
A) Charge Babbage’s
B) Von Neumann
C) Blaise Pascal
D) Harvard
13. Calculator invented by pascal could do…… operations on decimal numbers
A) Multiply and add
B) Subtract and multiply
C) Compare and add
D) Add and subtract
14. First generation used….
A) Transistor
B) Integrated circuits
C) Vacuum tube
D) VLSI
15. Second generation had remarkable feature of used of….
A) Vaccum tubes
B) Transistors
C) Stored program
D) Integrated circuits
16. Integrated circuits were the feature of used of …
A) First
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fourth
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17. VLSI technology used in …… generation
A) First
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fourth
18. …was introduced of first minicomputer
A) IBM system 1360
B) POP 8
C) POP 6
D) IBM system 1340
19. …….introduction bus structure
A) IBM system 1360
B) POP 8
C) POP 6
D) IBM system 1340
20. First computer family was
A) IBM system 1360
B) Pop 8
C) Pop 6
D) IBM system 1340
21. …… and ….. invented IAS( Institute for advanced studies)
A) Von Neumann and gold Stine
B) Von Neumann and Pascal
C) Von Neumann and charge Babbage
D) Eckert and Maucly
22. In original IAS machine storage location was referred to as
A) Byte
B) Word
C) Digit
D) Number
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23. In IAS computer……..fetches and interprets the instructions in memory and causes them to be
executed.
A) ALU
B) Control unit
C) Accumulator
D) Program counter
24. Von Neumann architecture is
A) SISD
B) SIMD
C) MIMD
D) MISD
25. In Original Von Neumann machine memory unit consists of …… storage location of……….bits
each
A) 2048, 16
B) 4096, 20
C) 4096, 60
D) 4096, 40
26. In Von Neumann machine ………feature was responsible for performance bottleneck
A. Stored program
B. Separate memory for data and wide
C. I/o access
D. None of these
27. Which of the following operation are involved in an instruction cycles
A) Opcode decoding
B) Instruction execution
C) Instruction fetching
D) All of these.
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28. …… stores address of next instruction to be executed
A) AR
B) AC
C) PC
D) IR
29. AR in IAS is …. Wide
A) 12 bit
B) 14 bit
C) 16 bit
D) 48 bit
30. Data register in IAS is……..wide
A) 16 bit
B) 20 bit
C) 40 bit
D) 48 bit
31. Accumulator and MQ (Multiplier Quotient) register in IAS is…….wide.
A) 16 bit
B) 20 bit
C) 40bit
D) 48 bit
32. …..used to store an operand during the execution of instruction
A) AR
B) DR
C) IR
D) IBR
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33. Program control unit of IAS fetches………instructions simultaneously
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Six
34. IR stores……instruction
A) Immediately Executable
B) Later executable
C) Currently executing
D) Aborted type
35. IBR stores……instruction.
A) Immediately executable
B) Later executable
C) Currently executing
D) Aborted type
36. Data transfer instruction…..transfer content register MQ to the accumulator AC
A) ACMQ
B) ACAC+MQ
C) AC →MQ
D) MQAC
37. ….architecture shows separate memory banks for data and program
A) Princeton
B) Harved
C) Von Neumann
D) Rockwell
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38. Harvard architecture shows feature of executing instructions in …… instruction cycles than von
Neumann
A) More
B) Double
C) Reduced.
D) Exactly half
39. …. Is the example of Harvard architecture
A) Microprocessor
B) Microcontroller
C) Complier
D) Assemblers
40. ….is the example of Von Neumann architecture
A) Microprocessor
B) Microcontroller
C) Complier
D) Assembler
41. ……..architecture used both RISC and CISC architecture.
A) Von Neumann
B) Harvard
C) Babbage
D) None of these
42. ….architecture used only RISE architecture
A) Von Neumann
B) Harvard
C) Babbage
D) None of these
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43. ….bus is unidirectional
A) Data
B) Address
C) Control
D) None of these
44. Use of …..isolates CPU from frequent accesses to main memory
A) Local I/o controller
B) Expansion bus interface.
C) Cache structure
D) System bus
45. In Harvard machine instruction are executed in instruction cycles than von Neumann machine.
A) Fever
B) More
C) Two
D) none of these
46. In Harvard machine greater amount of instruction parallelism is achieved due to separate ......
A) processing units
B) execution units
C) memory banks
D) none of these
47. The instruction suffer register stores
A) Data
B) Address
C) Instruction
D) Operand
48. The first generation computer was designated and constructed by.......
A) Von Neumann
B) Blaise Pascal
C) Charles Babbage
D) Eckert and Mauchly
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49. The first generation computer was a…..machine
A) Decimal
B) Binary
C) Octal
D) Hexadecimal
50. Timing involves a clock line. ......
A) Synchronous
B) Asynehronous
C) symmetric
D) None of these
51. . ..... more data between system modules
A) Data bus
B) Address bus
C) Control bus
D) None of these
52. …….designed source or destination of data of the data bus.
A) Data bus.
B) Address bus
C) Control bus
D) None of these
53. ……control access to and use of the data and address lines.
A) Dat bus
B) Address bus
C) Control bus
D) None of these
54. ….timing takes advantage of mixture of slow and fast device sharing the same bus
A) Synchronous
B) Asynchronous
C) Asymmetric
D) None of these
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55. Second generation computes can handle operation
A) Fixed point
B) Floating point
C) Both (a) And (b)
D) None of these
56. The opcode fetched from memory is placed in ….. of process
A) Accumulator
B) instruction register
C) instruction decoder
D) data register
57. ......bus is used to connect major computer components.
A) Address
B) Data
C) Control
D) System
58. Data bus is......
A) Unidirectional
B) Bidirectional
C) Unidirectional or Bidirectional
D) none of these
59. .......bus width decides the number of bits transformed at one time.
A) Data
B) Address
C) Control
D) System
60. .....bus width decides the range of locations that can be accessed.
A) Data
B) Address
C) Control
D) System
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61. Assembly language
A) uses alphabetic codes in place of binary numbers used in machine language
B) is the earliest language to write programs
C) need not be translated into machine language
D) none of these
62. Any computer must at least consist of
A) Data bus
B) Address bus
C) control bus
D) all of the above
63. A binary digit is called a
A) Bit
B) Byte
C) Number
D) Character
64. In third generation magnetic cone memories were replace by ….. memories
A) Magnetic tape
B) Optical
C) Ic
D) Magnetic disk
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