a) John Mauchly b) Blaise
Pascal c) Joseph Marie Jacquard d) Howard Aiken
2. Punched cards were 1st introduced by
a) Powers b) Pascal c) Jacquard d) Hollerith
3. The 1st machine which would be called prototype of the modern computer was
a) Automatic loom b) Difference engine c) Analytic
engine d) Slide rule
4. Computers built before the 1st generation
of computers were
a) electricals b) electro-mechanical c) mechanical d) none of the above
5. First generation computers used
a) transistors b) vacuum tubes c)
wires d) integrated circuits
6. VLSI was first used with the computers of
a) third generation b) fourth
generation c) second generation d) none of the above
7. Second generation computers started appearing
in
a) 1960 b) 1955 c) 1950 d) 1970
8. Word size of a home computer is
a) 64 bits b) 32 bits c) 8 bits d)
16 bits
9. Size of the primary memory of a Personal Computer ranges
between
a) 8 KB and 64KB b) 64 KB and 256 KB c) 256
KB and 640 KB d) none of the above
10. CPU speed of a personal computer (PC) is
a) 32 kilo instruction per second b) one million instructions per second c) 100 kilo instruction per second)
none of the above
11. VAX-11 from DEC is a
a) mini-computer b) super mini-computer c)
mainframe computer d) none Of the above
12. At present, a super computer has the
computing capability of
a) 4,00OPCs b) 40,OOOPCs c) 4.
million PCs d) none of the above
13. Cursor is a
a) thin blinking line b)
pointing device c) pixel d) none of the above
14. Backspace key is a
a) control key b) function key
c) character key d) none of the above
15. In a high resolution mode, the number of
dots in a line is
a) 320 b) 760 c) 640 d) 900
16. Programs stored in ROM are called
a) hardware b) firmware c)
software d) none of the above
17. The unit "kilo instruction per
second" is used to measure the speed of
a) processor b) printer c) tape drive d) disk drive
18. A binary system has
a) two symbols (a) and (b) b) two
symbols 0 and 1 c) at least two symbols d) none of the above
19. The nine's complement of a decimal number is
obtained by
a) adding each digit of the number to 9 b) multiplying
the given number by 9 c) subtracting each digit of the number from 9 d) dividing the given number by 9
20. A compiler
a) translates a
high-level language into machine language b) is a part of software c) is a
computer program d) none of the above
21. Computer software includes
a) application programs b) operating system programs c) packaged programs d) all the above
22. Machine language
a) differs from one type of computer to another
b) is the language in which programs were first written c) is the only language
understood by the computer d) all the above
23. 1K IS equivalent to
a) 26 b) 28
c) 210 d) none of the above
24. Binary Coded Decimal numbers express-each
decimal digit as
a) bits b) bytes c) word d)
none of the above
25. The basic operations performed by a computer
is
a) storage and retrieval
operations b) arithmetic operations c) logical operations d) all the above
26. The earliest calculating device is
a) abacus b)
difference engine c) clock d) none of the above
27. Assembly language
a) is the easiest language to write programs b)
need not be translated into machine language c) uses
alphabetic codes in place of binary numbers used in machine language d) none of
the above
28. A source program is
a) a program written in a machine Language b) a
program to be translated into machine language c) a machine language
translation of a program written in a high-level language d) none of the above
29. Stand-alone programs refer to
a) object programs b) source program c) executable
programs d) none of the above
30. Algorithm and flowchart help us to
a)
direct the output to a printer b) know the memory capacity c) identify the base of a number system d) specify
the problem completely and clearly
31. The steps in an algorithm
a) must follow a
prescribed order b) will follow a prescribed order
sometimes c) need not follow any order d) will follow a random order
32. Input/Output serves as
a) an interface between input and memory b) an
interface between user and machine c) an interface between input and CPU d) an interface between data and program
33. The major advantage of the flowchart is
a) Reduce error and
omissions in the program b) Reduce logic c) Reduce
programming steps d) Reduce the error
34. An algorithm is said to be deterministic.
Since algorithm has
a) One alternative b) Two
alternatives c) Three alternatives d) More than three alternatives
35. Find the product of 1001 and 1101
a) 1110111 b) 1110100 c) 1110101 d) 1001010
36. Evaluate 10l 11/10
a) 1010, with remainder 1 b) 1110, with
remainder 1 c) 1100, with remainder 1 d) 1011, with remainder
1
37. The number of bits in single word is known
as
a) Word length b) Bytes c) Buffer
d) Word count
38. A floppy disk has. 80 tracks; each track is
subdivided into 9 sectors. Each sector can store 512 bytes. What is the
capacity of the disk in K bytes?
a) 512K bytes b) 1024Kbytes c) 364K bytes d) none of the above
39. Which is the single user Operating System
a) NOVELL NETWARE b) DOS c) UNIX d) none of the above
40. Which is the correct multi-user system
a) UNIX b) NOVELL NETWARE c)WINDOWS NT d) An
the above
41. Which the correct single user operating
system
a) MS-DOS b) CP/M c) WINDOWS 95 d) All
the above
42 State which is not an exactly an operating
system
a) MS-DOS b) Widows 3.1 c) Windows
95 d) None of the above
43. The External commands generally come with
the extension
a) .COM b) .BAT c) .EXE d) All
the above
44. State the valid resident commands
a) REN b) DIR c) VER d) All
the above
45. State the valid DOS command types
a) Internal or Resident commands b) External or
Transient commands c) Both (a) and (b) d) None of the above
46. MS-DOS operating system consists of
a) MSDOS.SYS b) IO.SYS c) COMMAND.COM & set of utilities d) All the above
47. State the correct External command
a) ATTRIB.EXE b) BACKUP.EXE c) RESTORE.EXE d) CHKDSK.EXE e) all the above
48. In formatting, floppy is divided into
a) sectors b) both
(a) and (b) c) tracks d) none of the above
49. The DIR command is generally used to display
a) File name b) Size of
the files c) date and time d) File name extension e) All the above
50. Nearly all the Windows applications share a
common set of commands
a) New b) Open c) Save d) Print e) all the above
Answers: 1-b, 2-d, 3-c, 4-b, 5-b, 6-b, 7-b, 8-c, 9-c, 10-c, 11-b, 12-b, 13-a, 14-a, 15-c, 16-b, 17-a, 18-b, 19-c, 20-a, 21-d, 22-d, 23-c, 24-a, 25-d, 26-a, 27-c, 28-b, 29-c, 30-d, 31-a, 32-b, 33-a, 34-b, 35-c, 36-d, 37-c, 38-a, 39-b, 40-d, 41-d, 42-c, 43-d, 44-d, 45-c, 46-d, 47-e, 48-b, 49-e, 50-e
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