Question # 1

Which of the following terms is the most closely related to main memory.

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Non volatile

Permanent

Control unit

Temporary

Which of the following is not a primary storage device.

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Magnetic tape

Magnetic disk

Optical disk

None of above

Reading data is performed in magnetic disk by

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Read

Sectors

Track

Lower surface

Which of the following memories has the shortest access times.

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Cache memory

Magnetic bubble memory

magnetic core memory

RAM

Which is considered a direct entry input device.

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Optical scanner

Mouse and digitizer

Light pen

All of the above

ASCII stand for.

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American stable code for international interchange

American standard case for institutional interchange

American Standard code for information Interchange

American Standard Code for interchange information

Fox Pro is

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A medicine

A disease

A computer language

A animal

The first digital computer built with IC chips was known as.

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IBM 709

Apple -1

IBM system 7360

VAX -10

Which is used for manufactruring chips

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Bus

control unit

Semiconductors

A and b only

Who designed the first electronics computer -ENIAC.

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Ven Neumann

Joseph M jacuard

J presper Echert and John W Mauchly

All of above

Which of the following is a secondary memory device.

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Key board

Disk

ALU

All of above

Multi user system provided cost saving for small business because they use a single processing unit to link several

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Personal computers

Workstations

Dumb terminals

Main frames

Which is the following is first generation of computer.

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EDSAC

IBM -1401

CDC-1604

ICL -2900

Which of the following produces the best quality graphics reproduction.

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Laser printer

Ink jet printer

Plotter

Dot matrix printer

Extended SACII uses

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8 bits for coding

9 bits for coding

10 bits for coding

11 bits for coding

A compared to diskettes the hard disks are.

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More expensive

More portable

Less rigid

Slowly accessed

Plotter accuracy is measured in term of repeatability and

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Buffer size

Resolution

Vertical dimensions

Intelligence

In which language a source program written.

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English

Symbolic

High level

Temporary

Where as a computer moues moves over the table surface the trackball is.

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Stationary

Difficult to move

Dragged

Moved in small stems

UNIVAC is

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Universal Automatic computer

Universal Array computer

Uniue Atomic computer

Unvalued Automatic computer

When did arch rivals IBM and Apple computers in c decide to join hands.

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1978

1984

1990

1991

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