MCQ 1
MCQ 1
a) James Gosling
b) Charles Babbage
c) Dennis Ritchie
d) Bjarne Stroustrup
Ans: b
2) Which of the following is the correct abbreviation of COMPUTER?
a) Commonly Occupied Machines Used in Technical and Educational Research
b) Commonly Operated Machines Used in Technical and Environmental
Research
c) Commonly Oriented Machines Used in Technical and Educational Research
d) Commonly Operated Machines Used in Technical and Educational Research
Ans: d
Ans: d
Ans: c
Answer: c
Answer: d
10) Which of the following unit is responsible for converting the data received
from the user into a computer understandable format?
a) Output Unit
b) Input Unit
c) Memory Unit
d) Arithmetic & Logic Unit
Answer: b
11) Which of the following monitor looks like a television and are normally used
with non-portable computer systems?
a) LED
b) LCD
c) CRT
d) Flat Panel Monitors
Answer: c
13) Which of the following part of a processor contains the hardware necessary
to perform all the operations required by a computer?
a) Controller
b) Registers
c) Cache
d) Data path
Answer: d
15) Which of the following device use positional notation to represent a decimal
number?
a) Pascaline
b) Abacus
c) Computer
d) Calculator
Answer: b
18)Which of the following defines the assigned ordering among the characters
used by the computer?
a) Accumulation
b) Sorting
c) Collating Sequence
d) Unicode
Answer: c
19)Which of the following storage is a system where a robotic arm will connect
or disconnect off-line mass storage media according to the computer operating
system demands?
a) Magnetic
b) Secondary
c) Virtual
d) Tertiary
Answer: d
20) Which of the following is known as the interval between the instant a
computer makes a request for the transfer of data from a disk system to the
primary storage and the instance the operation is completed?
a) Disk utilization time
b) Drive utilization time
c) Disk access time
d) Disk arrival time
Answer: c
22)Which of the following are the input devices that enable direct data entry
into a computer system from source documents?
a) System Access devices
b) Data acquiring devices
c) Data retrieving devices
d) Data Scanning devices
Answer: d
23) Which of the following is the device used for converting maps, pictures, and
drawings into digital form for storage in computers?
a) Image Scanner
b) Digitizer
c) MICR
d) Scanner
Answer: b
28) Which of the following is a type of technique in which dumb terminals are
connected to a central computer system?
a) Time Sharing
b) Message passing
c) Batch environment
d) User environment
Answer: a
29) Which of the following is created when a user opens an account in the
computer system?
a) SFD
b) MFD
c) Subdirectory
d) RFD
Answer: c
30) Which of the following service allows a user to log in to another computer
somewhere on the Internet?
a) e-mail
b) UseNet
c) Telnet
d) FTP
Answer: c
31. Which of the following is not a type of computer on the basis of operation?
a) Digital
b) Analog
c) Hybrid
d) Remote
Answer: d
32) Which of the following type of computer is mostly used for automatic
operations?
a) analog
b) digital
c) hybrid
d) remote
Answer: c
33. Which of the following invention gave birth to the much cheaper
microcomputers?
a) PDAs
b) Microprocessors
c) Microcomputers
d) Mainframes
Answer: b
34) Which of the following computers are lower than mainframe computers in
terms of speed and storage capacity?
a) Mainframes
b) Hybrid
c) Mini
d) Super
Answer: c
35. Which of the following is the first neural network computer?
a) AN
b) AM
c) RFD
d) SNARC
Answer: d
40) ______ generation of computer started with using vacuum tubes as the
basic components.
a) 1st
b) 2nd
c) 3rd
d) 4th
Answer: a
47) Which of the following is not a type of computer on the basis of operation?
a) Remote
b) Hybrid
c) Analog
d) Digital
Answer: a