1. Which of the following languages is more suited to a structured program?

A. PL/1
B. FORTRAN
C. BASIC
D. PASCAL
E. None of the above
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2. A computer assisted method for the recording and analyzing of existing
or hypothetical systems is
A. Data transmission
B. Data flow
C. Data capture
D. Data processing
E. None of the above
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3. The brain of any computer system is
A. ALU
B. Memory
C. CPU
D. Control unit
E. None of the above
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4. What difference does the 5th generation computer have from other
generation computers?
A. Technological advancement
B. Scientific code
C. Object Oriented Programming
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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5. Which of the following computer language is used for artificial
intelligence?
A. FORTRAN
B. PROLOG
C. C

D. COBOL
E. None of the above
1. A technique used by codes to convert an analog signal into a digital bit
stream is known as
A. Pulse code modulation
B. Pulse stretcher
C. Query processing
D. Queue management
E. None of the above
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2. An optical input device that interprets pencil marks on paper media is
A. O.M.R
B. Punch card reader
C. Optical scanners
D. Magnetic tape
E. None of the above
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3. Most important advantage of an IC is its
A. Easy replacement in case of circuit failure
B. Extremely high reliability
C. Reduced cost
D. Low power consumption
E. None of the above
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4. Data division is the third division of a _____ program.
A. COBOL
B. BASIC
C. PASCAL
D. FORTH
E. None of the above
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5. Which language was devised by Dr. Seymour Aubrey Papert?
A. APL
B. COBOL

C. LOGO
D. FORTRAN
E. None of the above
1. As compared to diskettes, the hard disks are
A. more expensive
B. more portable
C. less rigid
D. slowly accessed
E. None of the above
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2. What is the name given to the molecular-scale computer?
A. Femtocomputer
B. Nanocomputer
C. Supercomputer
D. Microcomputer
E. None of the above
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3. Who is considered the 'father' of the minicomputer and one of the
founder fathers of the modern computer industry world-wide?
A. George Tate
B. Kenneth H. Olsen
C. Seymour Cray
D. Basic Pascal
E. None of the above
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4. The first microprocessors produced by Intel Corpn. and Texas
Instruments were used primarily to control small
A. microwave ovens
B. washing machines
C. calculators
D. personal computers
E. robotics
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5. Which printer uses a combination of laser-beam & electro photographic
techniques.

A. Laser printers
B. Dot-Matrix
C. Line printer
D. Daisy wheel
E. None of the above
1. The access method used for cassette tape is
A. Direct
B. Random
C. Sequential
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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2. The arranging of data in a logical sequence is called:
A. sorting
B. classifying
C. reproducing
D. summarizing
E. None of the above
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3. Who is the creator of the PASCAL language?
A. Niklaus Wirth
B. Dijkstra
C. Donald Knuth
D. Basic Pascal
E. None of the above
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4. When was punched-card equipment used for the first time to process the
British census?
A. 1910
B. 1907
C. 1911
D. 1914
E. None of the above
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5. A hashing scheme is used with

A. sequential file organization
B. direct file organization
C. indexed sequential file organization
D. partitioned file organization
E. None of the above
1. What was the total number of UNIVAC-I sold eventually and by which
company?
A. 30, British Tabulating Machine Co. (BTM)
B. 40, International Business Machines (IBM)
C. 48, Remington Rand
D. 40, International Computer Ltd. (ICL)
E. None of the above
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2. A file containing relatively permanent data is
A. Random file
B. Transaction file
C. Master file
D. Sequential file
E. None of the above
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3. Communication that involves computers, establishing a link through the
telephone system is called
A. Teleprocessing
B. Microprocessing
C. Telecommunications
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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4. Dot-matrix is a type of
A. Tape
B. Printer
C. Disk
D. Bus

E. None of the above

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5. Which kind of devices allows the user to add components and capabilities
to a computer system?
A. System boards
B. Storage devices
C. Input devices
D. Output devices
E. Expansion slots
1. When an input electrical signal A=10100 is applied to a NOT gate, its
output signal is
A. 01011
B. 10001
C. 10101
D. 00101
E. None of the above
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2. The first practical commercial typewriter was invented in 1867 in the
United States by
A. Christopher Latham Sholes
B. Carlos Glidden
C. Samuel Soule
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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3. What is meant by quad-density (QD) diskette?
A. It is double-sided disk
B. It is double density disk
C. It has double the number of tracks per inch
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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4. Large computer system typically uses:
A. Line printers

B. Ink-jet printers
C. Dot-matrix printers
D. Daisy wheel printers
E. None of the above
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5. First generation computers are characterised by
A. Vaccum tubes and magnetic drum
B. Minicomputers
C. Magnetic tape and transistors
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
1. A typical modern computer uses
A. LSI chips
B. Vacuum tubes
C. Valves
D. All the above
E. None of the above
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2. ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) had huge
advantage over Mark I because it used electronic valves in place of the
electromagnetic switches. In the beginning, ENIAC was used for
calculating the path of artillery shells. For which other was weapon design
was it utilized?
A. hydrogen bomb
B. atom bomb
C. agnimissile
D. fighter aircraft
E. None of the above
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3. Who was the father of Punched Card Processing?
A. J Presper Eckert
B. Charles Babbage
C. Dr. Herman Hollerith
D. Blaise Pascal
E. None of the above

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4. When did Hewlett-Packard Inc. Introduce its first HP-110 laptop
computer?
A. 1984
B. 1986
C. 1990
D. 1995
E. None of the above
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5. The computer program language which is widely used in computer
science and engineering and also in business is
A. COBOL
B. FORTRAN
C. PASCAL
D. LISP
E. None of the above
1. Which of the following bus types are used by the Apple Macintosh
computer?
A. ISA
B. NuBus
C. EISA
D. MCA
E. PCI Bus
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2. When the time to establish link is large and the size of data is small, the
preferred mode of data transfer is
A. Circuit switching
B. Packet switching
C. Time division multiplexing
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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3. Group of instructions that directs a computer is called
A. Storage
B. Memory

C. Logic
D. Program
E. None of the above
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4. A computer-controlled device for training exercises that duplicates the
work environment is a:
A. simulator
B. duplicator
C. trainer
D. COM device
E. None of the above
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5. Which of the following is not an output device of a computer?
A. Printer
B. keyboard
C. VDU
D. CRT screen
E. All of the above
1. In negative logic, the logic state 1 corresponds to
A. negative voltage
B. zero voltage
C. more negative voltage
D. lower voltage level
E. None of the above
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2. Which of the following is a part of the Central Processing Unit?
A. Printer
B. Keyboard
C. ) Mouse
D. Arithmetic Logic Unit
E. None of the above
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3. The least expensive OCR units can read
A. hand printed numbers

B. machine printed numbers

C. marks
D. handwriting
E. None of the above
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4. The input unit of a computer
A. feeds data to the CPU or memory
B. retrieves data from CPU
C. directs all other units
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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5. File specification books are created primarily for the use of
A. systems analysts
B. programmers
C. operators
D. managers
E. None of the above
1. Which of the following is usually a special one-time operation that must
be completed over a limited time period?
A. Batch
B. Patch
C. Project
D. Word
E. None of the above
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2. A device or system not directly connected to the CPU is
A. On-line
B. Keyboard
C. Memory
D. Off-line
E. None of the above
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3. The microprocessor of a computer cannot operate on any information if

that information is not in its.

A. secondary storage
B. main storage
C. ALU
D. logic unit
E. None of the above
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4. A device which converts human readable data into machine language is
A. Card reader
B. Card punch
C. Punched paper tape
D. Character reader
E. None of the above
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5. What digits are representative of all binary numbers?
A. 0
B. 1
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. 3
E. None of the above
1. The input and output devices are located away from the central computer
facility in which particular type of processing.
A. Time sharing
B. Batch processing
C. Interactive mode
D. Real time processing
E. None of the above
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2. Which is a swapping device is used to hold the images of pages in main
memory.
A. Plex
B. Paging drum
C. Card punch
D. Optical mark reader

E. None of the above

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3. A section of code that may only be executed by one process at any one
time is
A. CPM
B. Critical resource
C. Critical region
D. Gray code
E. None of the above
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4. The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the movement by the
change in its capacitance. What are these keyboards called?
A. Capacitance keyboards
B. Mechanical keyboards
C. Qwerty keyboards
D. Dvorak keyboards
E. None of the above
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5. A step-by-step procedure used to solve a problem is called
A. Operating system
B. Algorithm
C. Application program
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
1. Which is a basic technique, using activity networks.
A. CPA
B. VLSI
C. GIGO
D. MSI
E. None of the above
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2. A large computer designed to handle complex scientific calculations
A. may use only a firmed word-length storage approach
B. will likely require a character addressable storage unit

C. must use fixed length words of four character each

D. will not use numbered address locations
E. None of the above
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3. The 7-bit ASCII code widely used
A. For data communication work
B. In IBM mainframe models
C. For coding external memory
D. In large machines produced by non-IBM vendors
E. None of the above
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4. A technique for processing jobs on a first-come, first-served basis is
known as
A. FAX
B. FIFO
C. GIGO cable
D. Optical mark reader
E. None of the above
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5. A device mounted on a communication satellite which receives, amplifies
and re-transmits signals from earth station is
A. Track
B. Transponder
C. Transistor
D. Terminal
E. None of the above
1. A type of simulation method using random numbers to determine the
evolution of a system is
A. Model dispersion
B. Monte carlo
C. Monadic
D. Padding
E. None of the above
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2. A database management system based on the concept of ownership is

A. Network topology
B. Network layer
C. Network database system
D. Network license system
E. None of the above
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3. Which of the following printers, are you sure will not to use if your
objective is to print on multicarbon forms?
A. daisy wheel
B. dot-matrix
C. laser
D. thimble
E. All of the above
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4. The term MIPS refers to _____
A. millions of instructions per second
B. multiple instructions per second
C. megabytes of instructions per seconds
D. millions input processor set
E. multi-inductance processing system
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5. The primary memory of a personal computer consists of:
A. ROM only
B. RAM only
C. Both ROM and RAM
D. Memory module
E. None of the above
1. The light pen was developed in
A. 1942
B. 1976
C. 1950
D. 1992
E. None of the above
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2. The two main components of the CPU is

A. Control unit and registers
B. Control unit and ALU
C. Registers and main memory
D. ALU and bus
E. None of the above
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3. A factor which might cause an individual to consider using a computer in
criminal activities is:
A. The computer's access to large sums of money
B. The speed with which the crime can be accomplished
C. EFTS (Electronic Funds Transfer System)
D. All the above
E. None of the above
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4. Transmission and presentation of text and graphics is called
A. Tele-text
B. Network
C. Telematique
D. Video text
E. None of the above
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5. Which of the following is directry controlled from a keyboard.
A. Card punch
B. Punched paper tape
C. Magnetic disk
D. Magnetic tape
E. None of the above
1. The 2's complement number of 110010 is
A. 001101
B. 110011
C. 010011
D. All of the above

E. None of the above

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2. The purpose of an application program is to
A. Convert program written in high level language to machine language
B. Meet specific user needs
C. Allow the operating system to control resources better
D. Make off-line equpment run better
E. None of the above
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3. Which of the following translate back from machine code something
resembling the source language
A. Interpreter
B. Compiler
C. Assembler
D. Decompiler
E. None of the above
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4. Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add,
subtract, multiply, divide and find square roots?
A. Napier
B. Babbage
C. Pascal
D. Leibnitz
E. None of the above
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5. Serial access memories are useful in applications where
A. data consists of numbers
B. short access time is required
C. each stored word is processed differently
D. data naturally needs to flow in and out in serial form
E. None of the above
1. Computer can not do anything without a
A. Chip
B. Memory

C. Output device
D. Program
E. None of the above
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2. The ability of a computer system to remain operational despite various
failures is
A. Relation
B. Schema
C. Resilience
D. Versatility
E. None of the above
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3. Which of the following memories must be refreshed many times per
second?
A. Static RAM
B. Dynamic RAM
C. EPROM
D. ROM
E. None of the above
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4. The third generation of computers covers the period:
A. 1971-1982

B. 1982-1994

C. 1959-1964

D. 1965-1971

E. 1995-now
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5. An electronic logic gate whose output is logic 0 only when all inputs are
logic 1 is
A. NOR
B. NAND
C. OR
D. NOT
E. None of the above
1. The first mechanical calculating machine was made by
A. William Oughtred

B. Gottfried Leibnitz
C. Blaise Pascal
D. Charles Babbage
E. None of the above
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2. Which programming language is much in vogue among users of
microcomputers
A. ALGOL
B. APL
C. LOGO
D. FORTH
E. None of the above
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3. Multiplication of 1112 by 1012 is
A. 1100112
B. 1000112
C. 1111002
D. 0001012
E. None of the above
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4. Which of the following registers is used to keep track of address of the
memory location where the next instruction is located?
A. Memory Address Register
B. Memory Data Register
C. Instruction Register
D. Program Counter
E. None of the above
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5. Which is not a factor when categorizing a computer?
A. Speed of the output device
B. Amount of main memory the CPU can use
C. Cost of the system
D. Capacity of the hard disk
E. Where it was purchased