Computer Knowledge #7 MCQ

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE #7 MCQComputer Knowledge : Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) : Assam Jobs Guide

1. A disk’s content that is recorded at the time of manufacture and that cannot be changed or erased by the user is which of the following?

(a) Once - only

(b) Memory - only

(c) Write - only

(d) Read - only

Answer: (d)

2. Human beings are referred to as Homo Sapiens. Which device is called Silico Sapiens?

(a) Hardware

(b) Robot

(c) Monitor

(d) Computer

Answer: (d)

3. An error in software is called a Bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for it?

(a) Squid

(b) Slug

(c) Leech

(d) Glitch

Answer: (d)

4. What is called a piece of computer hardware that is physically placed between two devices each of which manages data in a different way?

(a) Cluge

(b) Interface

(c) Data base

(d) Modern

Answer: (b)

5. All the keys on the IBMPC keyboard repeat as long as we hold them down. Such types of keys are known as which of the following?

(a) Typematic

(b) Automatic

(c) Alphabetical

(d) Functional

Answer: (a)

6. Where does a computer add and compare data?

(a) Floppy disk

(b) Memory chip

(c) CPU chip

(d) Hard disk

Answer: (c)

7. In computer jargon, wetware means which of the following?

(a) Any organic intelligence

(b) High intelligence

(c) Artificial intelligence

(d) Human intelligence

Answer: (b)

8. What is called the language that the computer can understand and execute?

(a) Machine language

(b) System software

(c) Application software

(d) All of the above

Answer: (a)

9. Which of the following devices can be used to directly input printed text?

(a) OCR

(b) MICR

(c) OMR

(d) None of the above

Answer: (a)

10. A high quality CAD system uses which of the following for printing drawing and graphs?

(a) Machine

(b) Digital plotter

(c) Cot matrix printer

(d) Line printer

Answer: (b)

11. What is called the piece of hardware that converts your computer’s digital signal to an analogue signal that can travel over telephone lines?

(a) Blue cord

(b) Tower

(c) Red wire

(d) Modem

Answer: (d)

12. What hardware was used by first generation computers?

(a) CLSI

(b) Valves

(c) ICs

(d) Transistors

Answer: (b)

13. Which of the following is a part of central processing unit?

(a) Keyboard

(b) Mouse

(c) Printer

(d) Arithmetic Logic Unit

Answer: (d)

14. Which one is the secondary memory device?

(a) ALU

(b) Mouse

(c) Floppy disk

(d) CPU

Answer: (c)

15. What are the two kind of main memory?

(a) Direct and sequential

(b) Floppy disk and hard disk

(c) Primary and secondary

(d) ROM

Answer: (c)

16. What are called the software instructions intended to satisfy a user’s specific processing needs?

(a) Micro computer

(b) Documentation

(c) System software

(d) Application software

Answer: (d)

17. Which of the following is not a form of Biometrics?

(a) Breath scan

(b) Password

(c) Fingerprint

(d) Retina scan

Answer: (b)

18. A typical modern computer uses which of the following?

(a) LSI chips

(b) Valves

(c) Vacuum tubes

(d) None of the above

Answer: (a)

19. Which of the following statements best describes the batch method of input?

(a) Data is collected into form of source documents, place into groups and then input to the computer

(b) Data is processed as soon as it is input

(c) Source documents aren’t used

(d) Data is input at the time it is collected

Answer: (c)

20. What does a compiler do?

(a) Translates two statements at a time as the programme executes

(b) Translates machine language into a high level language

(c) Translates one statement at a time as the programme executes

(d) Produces object code

Answer: (d)

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