COMPUTER FUNDAMENTAL-IV

1. The first electronic computer devised in 1946 was 12. Peripheral storage devices were first used with
(a) EDSAC (b) IBM computers of
(c) ENIAC (d) UNIVAC (a) First generation (b) Second generation
2. The vacuum tubes used in the First Generation (c) Third generation (d) Fourth generation
Computers were replaced in the Second Generation 13. Which of the following is not a merit of using transistors
Computers by in place of vacuum tubes ?
(a) IC’s (b) Transistors (a) Transistors occupy less space than vacuum tubes
(c) Capacitors (d) Chips (b) They consume less power than vacuum tubes
3. The name of the computer ‘EDSAC’ stands for (c) They are faster and cheaper than vac uum tubes
(a) Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (d) None of these
(b) Electronic Disc Storage Alphanumeric Computer . 14. The high level language not used by IBM 7000 series
was
(c) Electronic Digital Signal Advanced Computer
(a) ALGOL (b) SNOBOL
(d) None of these
(c) MIRANDA (d) FORTRAN
4. Who fabricated the first electronic cornputer? 15. The Personnel Computers involve the use of
(a) Shockley (a) Silicon transistors (b) Microprocessor Chips
(b) Brattain (c) Germanium transistors (d) Vacuum tubes
16. Large organisations such as banks which require
(c) Prof. Eckert and Mauchly,
storage of data as large as several Giga bytes use
(d) Van De Graff (a) Laptop PCs (b) Desktop PCs
5. Who invented the concept of stored program? (c) Workstations (d) Mainframe Computers
(a) Bardeen 17. Which type of parallel computer is scalable?
(b) Prof. Maurice Wilkie, (a) Shared memory parallel computer
(c) Remington Rand (b) Distributed memory parallel computer
(c) Both of these
(d) Prof. John Von Neumann
(d) None of these
6. The first stored program computer was 18. Portable computers are called
(a) UNIVAC I (b) IBM (a) Calculators (b) Laptop PCs
(c) UNIX (d) ENIAC (c) Microprocessors (d) Parallel computers
7. The first commerically produced computerwas 19. Human readable characters printed on documents such
(a) EDSAC (b) UNIVACI as cheques, can be entered into a floppy by means of a
(c) IBM (d) MIPS (a) VDU (b) Keyboard
(c) MICR (d) OCR
8. W hat was the switching device used in the first
generation computers ? 20. In a VDU a character is displayed by a dot matrix of the
form
(a) VLSI
(a) 7x5 (b)8x4 (c) 5x5 (d)4x8
(b) Integrated Circuits
21. A dot matrix printer is a
(c) Germanium Transistors
(a) Drum printer (b) Chain printer
(d) Vacuum Tubes (c) Serial printer (d) None of these
9. The language available to the First Generation 22. A Drum printer consists of a cylindrical drum with
computers was characters embossed on it in a set of
(a) ADA (b) PROLOG (a) 24 lines of 80 characters each
(c) FORTRAN (d) Machine Language (b) 48 lines of 120 characters each
10. What type of operating system was used with Second (c) 96 lines of 132 characters each
Generation Computers ? (d) 52 lines of 96 characters each
(a) IBM 7000 (b) Pentium 23. A memory unit in which the access time of any memory
location is independent of the physical location is called
(c) UNIX (d) SUNSPARC
(a) RAM (b) ROM (c) MAR (d) MDR
11. Which of the following High Level Languages was used
24. The memory unit which can perform only Read operation
on the Second Generation Computers?
is
(a) ADA (b) PROLOG (a) RAM (b) ROM
(c) ALGOL (d) C (c) Both RAM & ROM (d) Neither, RAM nor ROM

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25. In memory, the address of a word is stored in a register (c) UNIX (d) MS-WINDOWS
called : 39. The operating system UNIX is written in the language
(a) MDR (b) MAR (c) ROM (d) PROM (a) C (b) C++ (b) ADA (d) PROLOG
26. The sine table stored in a system is an example of 40. Which of the following is not a function of the operating
(a) RAM (b) ROm (c) MAR (d) MDR system :
27. The Latency time of a hard disk is the time taken by the (a) it provides programs tu control input / output devices
disk for (b) it provides programs to select appropri ate transla-
(a) half a rotation (b) one rotation tors required by the user
(c) quarter rotation (d) two rotations (c) it provides allocation of resources of a
28. The inter-block gap in a magnetic tape is about computer
(a) 0.4 inches (h) 0.6 inches (d) it provides the often required data such as trigono-
(c) 1.2 inches (c) 1.4 inches metric tables
29. In CDROM the information is written by 41. The chip used to transfer data from a peripheral device
(a) pressing the keys of a QWERTY key-board to the memory without using CPU resources is
(b) creating pits on the disk surface by shining a laser (a) DMA (b) UART
beam (c) BUS (d) None of these
(c) exposing the disk surface with ultraviolet light result- 42. A high level language popular to implement special
ing in the release of requisite electrons control alogrithms for a microcomputer is
(d) transfering information from a floppy disk (a) BASIC (b) PASCAL
30. The diameter of a compact disk is (c) PL / M (d) ADA
(a) 1.25 inches (b) 3.25 inches 43. Which of the following is not error in thc given BASIC
(c) 5.25 inches (d) 6.75 inches statement 40 C+D = 4(H1+J) +– 2 * F
31. Out of the nine tracks on a magnetic tape,eight are used (a) The left side of an assignment statement must have
to record a byte of data and the ninth track is used to a single identifier and not a calculation as C +D
record (b) The expression 4(H1 + J) is missing a multiplication
(a) Memory address (b) ‘+’ or ‘-’ sign sign i.e. it must be 4*(H1+J)
(c) Parity bit (d) a blank space (c) The identifier name H1 is not permitted in Basic
(d) Two consecutive operations (i.e. + -2) are not
32. (11011 .001)2  (1010111)2 is equal to : acceptable
(a) (102)8 (b) (82)16 (c) ( 402 )8 (d) ( 42)16 44. In BASIC the statement used to comment on the
nature of the program is
33. The high level language which is easy to learn and useful (a) COM (b) STAT (c) REM (d) MARK
to the beginners is 45. Which of the following cannot be used as a n u m e r i c
(a) BASIC (b) COBOL variable in BASIC ?
(c) PASCAL (d) FORTRAN (a) X 1 (b) XY (c) G11 (d) H
34. The hexadecimal number (19B.CC)16 is equivalent : 46. Which of the following expressions denotes

(a) (417.79687 5)10 (b) (411.6875)10 17  62  48  2

in BASIC ?
(2.13  8.9)2
(c) (110011011 .110011) 2 (d) (110011001 .110011) 2
(a) (17.6)  2  48.2 /((2.1)  3  8.9  2
35. Find the sum (111101111 .1101)2  (10110111 .1001)2
(b) 17 .6  2  48 .2 / 2.1  3  8.9  2
(a) (1010100111 .011)2 (b) (1010101011 .011)2
(c) (17.6  2  48.2) /(2.1  3  8.9)  2
(c) (100100111 .10101)2 (d) (1110010101 .1011)2
(d) 17.6  2  48.2 / (2.1  3  8.9)  2
36. A non-procedural language that concentrates on
precisely defining specifications rather than using 47. Which of the following is a valid string variable in
detailed procedures is BASIC?
(a) C (b) PASCAL (c) ADA (d) PROLOG (a) 5B$ (b) “X3” (c) P1$ (d) “Hello”
48. Which of the following is not a Pascal Reserved Word?
37. The number (110110110 .1010101) 2 is equivalent to : (a) SET (b) CASE (c) COM (d) TYPE
(a) (666.551)8 (b) (438.60625 )10 49. Which of the following is not a standard identifier used
(c) (1B6.AA)16 (d) none of these in Pascal?
(a) SINE (b) NEW (c) CHAR (d) CHR
38. The operating system that provides a Graphical User
Interface (GUI) is 50. Which of the following is a valid real number in Pascal?
(a) MS-DOS (b) BIOS (a) 150 (b) 1,000.0 (c) .3333 (d) 0.0

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11. (c) 12. (b) 13. (d) 14. (c) 15. (b) 16. (d) 17. (b) 18. (b) 19. (c) 20. (a)
21. (c) 22. (c) 23. (a) 24. (b) 25. (b) 26. (b) 27. (a) 28. (b) 29. (b) 30. (c)
31. (c) 32. (b) 33. (a) 34. (c) 35. (a) 36. (d) 37. (c) 38. (d) 39. (a) 40. (d)
41. (a) 42. (c) 43. (c) 44. (c) 45. (b) 46. (c) 47. (c) 48. (c) 49. (a) 50. (d)

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