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Before a disk drive can access any sector record a computer program has to provide the record's disk address What information does this address specify.

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Track number

Sector number

All of above

Software in computer

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Enhances the capabilities of the hardware machine

Increase the speed of central processing unit

Both of above

None of these

Which of the following is not a programming lanbguage.

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Basic

FORTRAN

LASER

PASCAL

Before a sdisk cna be used to store data it must be.

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Formatted

Reformatted

Addressed

None

A computer program that translate one program instructions at a time into machine language is called a

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Interpreter

CPU

Compiler

Simulator

Which was the most popular first generation computer.

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IBM 1650

1BM 360

IBM 1130

IBM 2700

One of the main feature that distinuish microprocessors from micro computers is.

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Words are usually larger in microprocessors

Words are shorter in microprocessors

Microprocessor does not contain 1/0 devices

Exactly the same as the machine cycle time

Which is the following devices can be sued to directly image printed text.

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OCR

OMR

MICR

All of above

All modern computer operate on

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Information

Floppies

Data

Word

Who invented the high level language c.

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Dennis M Ritchie

Niklaus Writh

Seymour papert

Donald Kunth

Which of the following is secondary memory device.

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Keyboard

Disk

ALU

All of above

The first Electronic computer in the world was

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UNIVAC

EDVAC

ENIAC

All of above

In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed

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Parallel only

Seuentially only

Both Seuentially and Parallel

All of above

An application program that helps the user to change any number and immediately see the result of that change is.

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Desktop publishing program

Database

Spired sheet

All of above

The first microprocessor built by the inter corporation was called.

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8008

8080

4004

8800

IBM 7000 digital computer

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Belongs to second generation

Uses VLSI

Employs memory

Has modular constructions

One of the class of storage device devices that can access storage location in any order is.

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DTE

DASID

DDE

DCD

The most important advantage of a video disk is

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Compactness

Potential capacity

Durability

Cost effectiveness

If in a computer 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number of addresses will be

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216

65.536

64 K

Any above

Which chips using special external equipment can reprogram

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ROM

PROM

SAM

RAM

As compared to the secondary memory the primary memory of a computer is

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Large

Cheap

Fast

Slow

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