COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE #40
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Which
statement is valid about interpreter?
(a) It translates one instruction at a time
(b) Object code is saved for future use
(c) Repeated interpretation is not necessary
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(b)
2. Which
of the following is easily reloctable language?
(a) Machine language
(b) Assembly language
(c) High level language
(d) Medium level language
Answer:
(b)
3. Which
of the following memories needs refresh?
(a) SRAM
(b) DRAM
(c) ROM
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(b)
4. Through
which device the main components of the computer communicate with each other?
(a) Keyboard
(b) System Bus
(c) Monitor
(d) Memory
Answer:
(b)
5. What
type of device is computer keyboard?
(a) Memory
(b) Output
(c) Storage
(d) Input
Answer:
(d)
6. Which
is the limitation of high level language?
(a) Lower efficiency
(b) Machine dependence
(c) Machine level coding
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(a)
7.
Which of the following can be an example of a digital device?
(a) Digital clock
(b) Automobile speed meter
(c) Clock with a dial and two hands
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(a)
8. Which
of the following is not true?
(a) Transistors are much smaller
(b) Transistors produce low heat
(c) Transistors were less reliable
(d) Transistors were used in radios and other electronic
devices
Answer:
(c)
9.
Which of the following is a characteristic of card systems?
(a) Slowness in processing data
(b) Using cards as records of transactions
(c) Needing a larger DP staff
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d)
10. What
is the full form of EEPROM?
(a) Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
(b) Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
(c) Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(a)
11. The
original ASCII code used ………. bits of each byte, reserving that last bit for
error checking.
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 8
Answer:
(c)
12. A
computer programmer ...............
(a) does all the thinking for a computer
(b) can enter input data quickly
(c) can operate all types of computer equipments
(d) can draw only flowchart
Answer:
(a)
13. Fifth
generation computer is also known as ……………
(a) knowledge information processing system
(b) very large scale integration (VLSI)
(c) Both of the above
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(a)
14. What
is called the commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical,
numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system?
(a) ASCII
(b) EBCDIC
(c) BCD
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d)
15. Which
of the following have low failure rate?
(a) Mechanical devices
(b) Electronic devices
(c) Electro-mechanical devices
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(b)
16. A
typical personal computer used for business purposes would have ………… of RAM.
(a) 4 KB
(b) 16 K
(c) 64 K
(d) 256 K
Answer:
(d)
17. The
ALU of a computer normally contains a number of high speed storage element
called ……………
(a) Semiconductor memory
(b) Registers
(c) Hard disks
(d) Magnetic disk
Answer:
(b)
18. Which
was the computer conceived by Babbage?
(a) Analytical Engine
(b) Arithmetic Machine
(c) Donald Kunth
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(a)
19. The
processing speed of first generation computers was ……………
(a) milliseconds
(b) microseconds
(c) nanoseconds
(d) picoseconds
Answer:
(a)
20. Model
5100 was …………… in 1957.
(a) the first PC built by IBM
(b) the first PC built by Apple
(c) the first PC built by Motorola
(d) the first PC built by Intel
Answer:
(a)
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