1. UNIVAC is 12.

Integrated Circuits (ICs) are related to which generation of

A) Universal Automatic Computer computers?
B) Universal Array Computer A) First generation
C) Unique Automatic Computer B) Second generation
D) Unvalued Automatic Computer C) Third generation
D) Fourth generation
2. The basic operations performed by a computer are
A) Arithmetic operation 13. CD-ROM is a
A) Semiconductor memory
B) Logical operation
B) Memory register
C) Storage and relative
C) Magnetic memory
D) All the above
D) None of above
3. The two major types of computer chips are 14. A hybrid computer
A) External memory chip A) Resembles digital computer
B) Primary memory chip B) Resembles analogue computer
C) Microprocessor chip C) Resembles both a digital and analogue computer
D) Both b and c D) None of the above

4. Microprocessors as switching devices are for which 15. Which type of computers uses the 8-bit code called EBCDIC?
generation computers A) Minicomputers
A) First Generation B) Microcomputers
B) Second Generation C) Mainframe computers
C) Third Generation D) Super computer
D) Fourth Generation
16. The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming
5. What is the main difference between a mainframe and a from
super computer? A) Primary memory
A) Super computer is much larger than mainframe computers B) Control section
B) Super computers are much smaller than mainframe computers C) External memory
C) Supercomputers are focused to execute few programs as fast as D) Cache memory
possible while mainframe uses its power to execute as many
programs concurrently 17. Chief component of first generation computer was
D) Supercomputers are focused to execute as many programs as A) Transistors
possible while mainframe uses its power to execute few programs B) Vacuum Tubes and Valves
as fast as possible. C) Integrated Circuits
D) None of above
6. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems.
What does EBCDIC stand for? 18. To produce high quality graphics (hardcopy) in color, you
A) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code would want to use a/n
A) RGB monitor
B) Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange Code
B) Plotter
C) Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange Code
C) Ink-jet printer
D) Extended Binary Case Decimal Interchange Code
D) Laser printer

7. The brain of any computer system is 19. What are the stages in the compilation process?
A) ALU A) Feasibility study, system design and testing
B) Memory B) Implementation and documentation
C) CPU C) Lexical Analysis, syntax analysis, and code generation
D) Control unit D) None of the above

8. Storage capacity of magnetic disk depends on 20. Which of the following IC was used in third generation of
A) tracks per inch of surface computers?
B) bits per inch of tracks A) SSI
C) disk pack in disk surface B) MSI
D) All of above C) LSI
D) Both a and b
9. The two kinds of main memory are:
A) Primary and secondary 21. The main electronic component used in first generation
B) Random and sequential computers was
A) Transistors
C) ROM and RAM
B) Vacuum Tubes and Valves
D) All of above
C) Integrated Circuits
D) None of above
10. A storage area used to store data to a compensate for the
difference in speed at which the different units can handle
22. A dumb terminal has
data is
A) an embedded microprocessor
A) Memory
B) extensive memory
B) Buffer
C) independent processing capability
C) Accumulator D) a keyboard and screen
D) Address
23. One millisecond is
11. Computer is free from tiresome and boardroom. We call it A) 1 second
A) Accuracy B) 10th of a seconds
B) Reliability C) 1000th of a seconds
C) Diligence D) 10000th of a seconds
D) Versatility

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24. The output quality of a printer is measured by 35. In most IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drives, memory
A) Dot per sq. inch expansion slots and active components are mounted on a
B) Dot per inch single board. What is the name of this board?
C) Dots printed per unit time A) Motherboard
D) All of the above B) Breadboard
C) Daughter board
D) Grandmother board
25. Which of the following was a special purpose computer?
A) ABC
36. Magnetic disks are the most popular medium for
B) ENIAC
A) Direct access
C) EDVAC
B) Sequential access
D) All of the above C) Both of above
D) None of above
26. What was the computer invented by Attanasoff and Clifford?
A) Mark I 37. A technique used by codes to convert an analog signal into a
B) ABC digital bit stream is known as
C) Z3 A) Pulse code modulation
D) None of above B) Pulse stretcher
C) Query processing
27. Which of the following storage devices can store maximum D) Queue management
amount of data?
A) Floppy Disk 38. Regarding a VDU, Which statement is more correct?
B) Hard Disk A) It is an output device
C) Compact Disk B) It is an input device
D) Magneto Optic Disk C) It is a peripheral device
D) It is hardware item
28. Which computer was considered the first electronic computer
until 1973 when court invalidated the patent? 39. A modern electronic computer is a machine that is meant for
A) ENIAC A) Doing quick mathematical calculations
B) MARK I B) Input, storage, manipulation and outputting of data
C) Z3 C) Electronic data processing
D) Performing repetitive tasks accurately
D) ABC
40. When was vacuum tube invented?
29. A physical connection between the microprocessor memory
A) 1900
and other parts of the microcomputer is known as
B) 1906
A) Path
C) 1910
B) Address bus
D) 1880
C) Route
D) All of the above 41. Which of the following produces the best quality graphics
reproduction?
30. High density double sided floppy disks could store _____ of data A) Laser printer
A) 1.40 MB B) Ink jet printer
B) 1.44 GB C) Plotter
C) 1.40 GB D) Dot matrix printer
D) 1.44 MB
42. Computers with 80286 microprocessor is
31. A high quality CAD system uses the following for printing A) XT computer
drawing and graphs B) AT computers
A) Dot matrix printer C) PS/2 computer
B) Digital plotter D) None of above
C) Line printer
D) All of the above 43. An application suitable for sequential processing is
A) Processing of grades
32. Which of the following is not an input device? B) Payroll processing
A) OCR C) Both a and b
B) Optical scanners D) All of above
C) Voice recognition device
44. Which of the following is not processing?
D) COM (Computer Output to Microfilm)
A) arranging
B) manipulating
33. The accuracy of the floating-point numbers representable in C) calculating
two 16-bit words of a computer is approximately
D) gathering
A) 16 digits
B) 6 digits 45. The digital computer was developed primarily in
C) 9 digits A) USSR
D) All of above B) Japan
C) USA
34. In most of the IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drivers, memory, D) UK
expansion slots and active components are mounted on a
single board. What is the name of the board? 46. Software in computer
A) Motherboard A) Enhances the capabilities of the hardware machine
B) Daughterboard B) Increase the speed of central processing unit
C) Bredboard C) Both of above
D) Fatherboard D) None of above

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47. Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier known by different 59. The first computer introduced in Nepal was
name which was changes in 1924. What was that name? A) IBM 1400
A) Tabulator Machine Co. B) IBM 1401
B) Computing Tabulating Recording Co. C) IBM 1402
C) The Tabulator Ltd. D) IBM1402
D) International Computer Ltd.
60. Mnemonic a memory trick is used in which of the following
48. Before a disk drive can access any sector record, a computer language?
program has to provide the record’s disk address. What A) Machine language
information does this address specify? B) Assembly language
A) Track number C) High level language
B) Sector number D) None of above
C) Surface number
D) All of above 61. Instruction in computer languages consists of
A) OPCODE
49. The arranging of data in a logical sequence is called
B) OPERAND
A) Sorting
C) Both of above
B) Classifying
D) None of above
C) Reproducing
D) Summarizing
62. Which generation of computer is still under development
A) Fourth Generation
50. What is the responsibility of the logical unit in the CPU of a
computer? B) Fifth Generation
A) To produce result C) Sixth Generation
B) To compare numbers D) Seventh Generation
C) To control flow of information
D) To do math’s works 63. A register organized to allow to move left or right operations
is called a ____
51. Abacus was the first A) Counter
A) electronic computer B) Loader
B) mechanical computer C) Adder
C) electronic calculator D) Shift register
D) mechanical calculator
64. Which was the most popular first generation computer?
52. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, A) IBM 650
the number of addresses will be B) IBM 360
A) 216 C) IBM 1130
B) 65,536 D) IBM 2700
C) 64K
D) Any of the above 65. Which is considered a direct entry input device?
A) Optical scanner
53. Instructions and memory address are represented by B) Mouse and digitizer
A) Character code C) Light pen
B) Binary codes D) All of the above
C) Binary word
D) Parity bit 66. A set of information that defines the status of resources
allocated to a process is
54. The terminal device that functions as a cash register, A) Process control
computer terminal, and OCR reader is the: B) ALU
A) Data collection terminal C) Register Unit
B) OCR register terminal D) Process description
C) Video Display terminal
D) POS terminal 67. Each set of Napier’s bones consisted of ______ rods.
A) 5
55. A set of flip flops integrated together is called ____ B) 9
A) Counter
C) 11
B) Adder
D) 13
C) Register
D) None of the above
68. BCD is
A) Binary Coded Decimal
56. People often call ______ as the brain of computer system
B) Bit Coded Decimal
A) Control Unit
C) Binary Coded Digit
B) Arithmetic Logic Unit
C) Central Processing Unit D) Bit Coded Digit
D) Storage Unit
69. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the
57. Which is used for manufacturing chips? market and by whom?
A) Bus A) Hewlett-Packard, 1980
B) Control unit B) Epson, 1981
C) Semiconductors C) Laplink Traveling Software Inc, 1982
D) A and b only D) Tandy Model-200, 1985

58. The value of each bead in heaven is 70. From which generation operating systems were developed?
A) 1 A) First
B) 3 B) Second
C) 5 C) Third
D) 7 D) Fourth

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71. The first firm to mass-market a microcomputer as a personal 83. The word processing task associated with changing the
computer was appearance of a document is
A) IBM A) Editing
B) Super UNIVAC B) Writing
C) Radio Shaks C) Formatting
D) Data General Corporation D) All of above

72. How many address lines are needed to address each machine 84. Nepal brought a computer for census of 2028 BS. This
location in a 2048 x 4 memory chip? computer was of
A) 10 A) first generation
B) 11 B) second generation
C) 8 C) third generation
D) 12 D) fourth generation

73. Properly arranged data is called 85. Algorithm and Flow chart help us to
A) Field A) Know the memory capacity
B) Words B) Identify the base of a number system
C) Information C) Direct the output to a printer
D) File D) Specify the problem completely and clearly

74. A computer consists of 86. Which statement is valid about computer program?
A) A central processing unit A) It is understood by a computer
B) A memory B) It is understood by programmer
C) Input and output unit C) It is understood user
D) All of the above D) Both a & b

75. Why are vacuum tubes also called valves? 87. The difference between memory and storage is that memory
A) Because they can amplify the weak signals and make them strong is _____ and storage is __
B) Because they can stop or allow the flow of current A) Temporary, permanent
C) Both of above B) Permanent, temporary
D) None of above C) Slow, fast
D) All of above
76. John Napier invented Logarithm in
A) 1614 88. When was Pascaline invented?
B) 1617 A) 1617
C) 1620 B) 1620
D) None of above C) 1642
D) 1837
77. An integrated circuit is
A) A complicated circuit
89. Which of the following statement is valid?
B) An integrating device A) Lady Augusta is the first programmer
C) Much costlier than a single transistor
B) Ada is the daughter of Lord Byron, a famous English poet
D) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
C) ADA is a programming language developed by US Defense
D) All of above
78. What type of control pins are needed in a microprocessor to
regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent two devices
90. A compiler is a translating program which
from trying to use it at the same time?
A) Bus control A) Translates instruction of a high level language into machine
language
B) Interrupts
C) Bus arbitration B) Translates entire source program into machine language program
D) Status C) It is not involved in program’s execution
D) All of above
79. Where as a computer mouse moves over the table surface, the
trackball is 91. What is required when more than one person uses a central
A) Stationary computer at the same time?
B) Difficult to move A) Light pen
C) Dragged B) Mouse
D) Moved in small steps C) Digitizer
D) Terminal
80. Which of the following is used as a primary storage device?
A) Magnetic drum 92. Which of the following is the first computer to use Stored
B) Hard Disks Program Concept?
C) Floppy A) UNIVAC
D) All of above B) ENIAC
C) EDSAC
81. Multi user systems provided cost savings for small business D) None of above
because they use a single processing unit to link several
A) Personal computers 93. The term gigabyte refers to
B) Workstations A) 1024 bytes
C) Dumb terminals B) 1024 kilobytes
D) Mainframes C) 1024 megabytes
D) 1024 gigabyte
82. What are the three decisions making operations performed
by the ALU of a computer? 94. in which year was UK’s premier computing event started?
A) Grater than A) 1980
B) Less than B) 1985
C) Equal to C) 1986
D) All of the above D) 1987

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95. Once you load the suitable program and provide required 106. Which of the following is not anti-viruses software?
data, computer does not need human intervention. This A) NAV
feature is known as B) F-Prot
A) Accuracy C) Oracle
B) Reliability D) McAfee
C) Versatility
D) Automatic 107. What is a compiler?
A) A compiler does a conversion line by line as the program is run
96. What is a brand? B) A compiler converts the whole of a higher level program code into
A) The name of companies that made computers machine code in one step
B) The name of product a company gives to identify its product in C) A compiler is a general purpose language providing very efficient
market execution
C) A name of class to indicate all similar products from different D) None of the above
companies
D) All of above 108. _______ computers are also called personal computers
A) Mainframe Computer
97. Machine language is B) Mini Computers
A) Machine dependent C) Micro Computers
B) Difficult to program D) Super Computers
C) Error prone
109. Which of the following is not input unit device?
D) All of above
A) scanner
B) camera
98. A byte consists of
C) plotter
A) One bit
D) digitizer
B) Four bits
C) Eight bits
110. Identify the correct statement
D) Sixteen bits A) IBM PCs used RISC CPU designs
B) Macintosh used CISC CPU design
99. Modern Computers are very reliable but they are not C) IBM used CISC CPU design
A) Fast D) None of above is true
B) Powerful
C) Infallible 111. Which of the following statement is false?
D) Cheap A) Mechanical analog computers have existed for thousands of years
B) There are mechanical analog computers and electronic analog
100. What is the date when Babbage conceived Analytical engine computers.
A) 1642 C) All electronic computers are digital computers
B) 1837 D) All of above are false
C) 1880
D) 1850 112. Which of the following require large computers memory?
A) Imaging
101. What was the expected feature of fifth generation computers B) Graphics
when Japan started FGCS? C) Voice
A) Operating Systems D) All of Above
B) Parallel Processing
C) ULSI 113. Which of the following is machine independence program?
D) None of above A) High level language
B) Low level language
102. Which of the following memory medium is not used as main C) Assembly language
memory system? D) Machine language
A) Magnetic core
B) Semiconductor 114. When was the first electro-mechanical computer developed?
C) Magnetic tape A) 1880
D) Both semiconductor and magnetic tape B) 1990
C) 1944
D) None of above
103. The storage subsystem in a microcomputer consists mainly of
__ or __ media with varying capacities
A) Memory or video 115. The first machine to successfully perform a long series of
arithmetic and logical operations was:
B) Magnetic or optical
A) ENIAC
C) Optical or memory
B) Mark-I
D) Video or magnetic
C) Analytic Engine
D) UNIVAC-1
104. Programs designed to perform specific tasks is known as
A) system software 116. Which one is the largest space?
B) application software A) kilobyte
C) utility programs B) petabyte
D) operating system C) terabyte
D) gigabyte
105. Computer operators
A) writes computer programs for specific problems 117. FORTRAN programming language is more suitable for ____
B) operate the device which input and output data from the A) Business Applications
computer B) Marketing Applications
C) normally require a college degree in computer science C) Scientific Applications
D) all of the above D) None of the above