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The arranging of data in a logical service is called |
Sorting
Classifying
Reproducing
Summarizing
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2 |
Which of the following professions has not been affected by personal computer. |
Medical
Clerical and law
Accounting
None of above
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3 |
Which of the following magazines covers only the IBM PC and its compatibles. |
Byte
PC magazine
Personal computing
Interface age
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4 |
Different components on the motherboard of a PC processor unit are linked together by sets or parallel electrical conducting lines What are these lines called. |
Conductors
Buses
Connectors
Connectively
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5 |
The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the movement by the change in its capacitance. |
Capacitance keyboard
Mechanical keyboard
Werty key board
Dvorak keyboard
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6 |
In which year's was UK's premier computing event called "The which computer started. |
1980
1985
1986
1987
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7 |
Write inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette's label side should face |
East
North
Up
South
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8 |
Which of the following does not affect the resolution of a video display image. |
Bandwidth
Raster scan rage
Vertical and horizontal lines of resolution
Screen size
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9 |
The terminal device that functions as a cash register computer terminal and OCR reader is the |
Data collection terminal
OCR register terminal
Video Display terminal
POS terminal
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10 |
The primary advantage of key to tap data entry system is. |
A large percentage of editing can be performed a the time of data entry
Key verification is easily performed
The tape is reusable
Keying errors can be detected as they occur.
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11 |
Which of the following is not true for a magnetic tape |
It is expensive relative to magnetic tape
it provides only sequential access to stored data.
Users can easily update records by writing over the old data
All of above
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12 |
A disadvantage of the laser printer is |
It is uleter than an impact printer
It is very slow
The output is of a lower uality
None of above
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13 |
The advantage of COM are its and |
Compact size speed readability
Compact size speed
Readability speed
Low cost readability
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14 |
The two basic types of record access methods are. |
Seuential and random
Seuential and indexed
Direct and immediate
On-line and real time
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15 |
Which of the following file organization is most efficient for a file with a high degree of file activity. |
Seuential
ISAM
VSAM
B-Tree index
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16 |
Which of the following is true. |
Fields are composed of bytes
Records are composed of fields
Fields are composed of charctrs
All of above
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17 |
Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU. |
Control unit and registers
Registers and main memory
Control unit and ALU
ALU and bus
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18 |
In 1830 Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytical Engine which he showed at the Paris exhibition in which year was it exhibition. |
1820
1855
1870
1860
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19 |
The first firm ot mass market a microcomputer as a personal computer was. |
IBM
Sperry Univac
Data general corporation
Radio shack
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20 |
An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of. |
Small scale computer
Medium scale computer
Large scale computer
Super computer
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21 |
A characteristic of card system is. |
Slowness in processing data
Using cards as record of transactions
Needing a larger DP staff
All of the above
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22 |
In the third generation of computers. |
Distributed data processing first became popular
An operating system was first developed
High level prcedu 7 ral language were firs used.
On line real time system first became popular
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23 |
In a punched cant system, data is processed by a |
Keypunch machine sorter and posting machine
Accounting machine posting machine, and billing machine
Accounting machine keypunch machine and sorter
Sorter posting machine and billing machine
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24 |
A modern electronic computer is a machine that is meant for |
Doing uick mathematical calculations
Input storage manipulation and outputting of data
Electronic data processing
Performing repetitive tasks accurately
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25 |
The proper definition of a modern digital computer is. |
An electronic automated machine that can solve problems involving words and numbers
A more sophistic and modified electronic pocket calculator
Any machine that can perform mathmatics operations
A machine that works on binary code
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26 |
IBM 7000 digital computer. |
Belongs to second generation
Uses VLSI
Employs semiconductor memory
Has modular constructions
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27 |
One computer that is not considered a portable is. |
Minicomputer
laptop computer
Notebook computer
All of above
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28 |
The process of starting a or restarting a computer system by loading instructions form a secondary storage device into the computer memory is called. |
Duping
Booting
Padding
CPS
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29 |
A term associated with the comparison of processing speeds of different computer system is. |
EFTS
MPG
MIPS
CPS
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30 |
Which of the following require large computers memory. |
Imaging
Graphics
Voice
All above
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