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Question # 1

What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention.

Question # 2

Which of the following register is used to keep track of address of the memory location where the next instruction is located.

Question # 3

Binary circuit elements have

Question # 4

A term associated with the comparison of processing speeds of different computer system is.

Question # 5

A computer which CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as.

Question # 6

A technique used by codes to convert an analog signal into a detrital bit stream is known as

Question # 7

The storage subsystem in a microcomputer consists mainly of or media with varying capacities.

Question # 8

Which of the following is not a primary storage device.

Question # 9

Data communications involving telegraph lines uses.

Question # 10

An error in computer data is called.

Question # 11

Each model of a computer has a unique.

Question # 12

A high quality CAD system uses the following for printing drawing and graphics

Question # 13

The least significant bit of the binary number which is equivalent to any odd decimal number is.

Question # 14

A byte consists of

Question # 15

Microsoft Excel is.

Question # 16

Computer professionals working in a computer center are.

Question # 17

All modern computer operate on

Question # 18

Which of the following is associated with error detector.

Question # 19

The magnetic storage chip used to provide non volatile direct access storage of data and that have no moving parts are known as.

Question # 20

A name of number used to identify a storage location devieces.

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Sr. # Question Answer
1 Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine.

A. Pascal

B. Jauard

C.Hollerith

D. Babbage

2 A typical personal computer used for business purposes would have of RAM.

A. 4 KB

B. 16 KB

C.256 KB

D. 64 KB

3 Which of the following memories has the shortest access times.

A. Cache memory

B. Magnetic bubble memory

C.magnetic core memory

D. RAM

4 All the keys on the IBM PC keyboard repeat as long as one hold them down these key are knows as.

A. Typematic keys

B. Functional keys

C.Automatic keys

D. Alphabetic keys

5 In which year's was UK's premier computing event called "The which computer started.

A. 1980

B. 1985

C.1986

D. 1987

6 Which statement is valid.

A. 1 KB = 1024 bytes

B. 1 MB = 2048 bytes

C.1 MB =1000 kilobytes

D. 1 KB = 1000 bytes

7 In a punched cant system, data is processed by a

A. Keypunch machine sorter and posting machine

B. Accounting machine posting machine, and billing machine

C.Accounting machine keypunch machine and sorter

D. Sorter posting machine and billing machine

8 In translator program used in assembly language is called.

A. Compiler

B. Interpreter

C.Assembler

D. Transistor

9 The secondary storage device can only store data but they cannot perform

A. Arithmetic Operation

B. Logic operation

C.Fatch operations

D. Either of the above

10 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 powers consumption

11 Write inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette's label side should face

A. East

B. North

C.Up

D. South

12 MSI stands for

A. Medium scale integrated circuits

B. Medium system integrated circuits

C.Medium scale intelligent Circuit.

D. Medium system intelligent circuit

13 Which chips using special external equipment can reprogram

A. ROM

B. PROM

C.SAM

D. RAM

14 The original ASCII code used bits of each byte reserving that last bit for error checking.

A. 5

B. 6

C.7

D. 8

15 Which of the following magazines covers only the IBM PC and its compatibles.

A. Byte

B. PC magazine

C.Personal computing

D. Interface age

16 Which of the following is not true for a magnetic tape

A. It is expensive relative to magnetic tape

B. it provides only sequential access to stored data.

C.Users can easily update records by writing over the old data

D. All of above

17 In most IBM PCs the CPU the device drives memory expansion slots and active components are mounted on a single board What is the name of this board.

A. Mother board

B. Breadboard

C.Daughter board

D. Grandmother board

18 The act of retrieving existing data from memory is called.

A. Read out

B. Read from

C.Read

D. All of above

19 What is the meant by a dedicated computer.

A. Which is used by one person only

B. Which is assigned one and only one task

C.Which uses one kind of software

D. Which is meant for application software

20 A high quality CAD system uses the following for printing drawing and graphics

A. Dot matrix printer

B. Digital Plotter

C.Line printer

D. All of the above

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