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In 1830 Charles Babbage designed a machine called the analytical engine which he showed at the Paris Exhibition in whihc year was is exhibition.

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1920

1855

1960

1970

Which of the following produces the best quality graphics reproduction.

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Laser printer

Ink jet printer

Plotter

Dot matrix printer

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

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Magnetic core memory

Magnetic tape memory

Magnetic disk memory

Magnetic bubble memory

Which of the following is used as a primary storage device.

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Magnetic drum

Prom

Floppy

All of above

The difference between memory and storage is that memory is and storage is.

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Temporary permanent

Permanent temporary

Slow ,fast

All of above

What type of memory is not directly addressable by the CPU and requires special software called EMS specification.

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Extended

Expanded

Base

Conventional

An approach that permits the computer to work on several program instead of one is.

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On line thesaurus

Multiprogramming

Over lapped processing

Outline processor

EBCDIC can code up to how many different charcters.

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256

16

32

64

Another word for a daisy wheel printer

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Petal printer

Golf ball printer

Laser printer

Line printer

IBM 7000 digital computer.

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Belongs to second generation

Uses VLSI

Employs semiconductor memory

Has modular constructions

Which of the following is a secondary memory device.

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Key board

Disk

ALU

All of above

Second Generation computers were developed during.

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1949 to 1955

156 to 1965

1965 to 1970

1970 to 1990

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

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Typematic keys

Functional keys

Automatic keys

Alphabetic keys

A 32 bit micro processor has the word length equal to.

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2 byte

32 byte

4 byte

8 byte

The subdivision of fields.

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Always done to give the programmer greater flexibility

Dependent on programming language used.

Never accomplished on fields containing numeric data

All above

The item BDMS is referred to.

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Data Base Management system.

The software used for the management maintenance and retrieval of the data stored in a data base.

A and B both true

None

Which was the computer conceived by Babbage.

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Analytical engine

Arithmetic Machine

Donald Kunth

All of above

The data recording format in most of the modern magnetic tape is

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7-bit ASCII

7-bIt EBCDIC

8-bit ASCII

8-bit EBCDIC

Which of the following printers are you sure will not be use if your objective is to print on multi carbon forms.

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Daisy wheel

Dot matrix

Laser

Thimble

The most commonly used standard dta code to represent alphabetical numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called.

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ASCII

BCD

EBCDIC

All of above

What are the three decisions making operations performed by the ALU of the computer.

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Grater then

Less than

Eual to

All of the above

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