COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE #42
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. MIS
is designed to provide information needed for effective decision making by
……………
(a) consumers
(b) workers
(c) foremen
(d) managers
Answer:
(d)
2. Which
of following is a valid statement?
(a) 1 KB = 1024 Bytes
(b) 1 MB = 1024 Bytes
(c) 1 KB = 1000 Bytes
(d) 1 MB = 1000 Bytes
Answer:
(a)
3. Latency
time is ……………
(a) Time to spin the needed data under head
(b) Time to spin the needed data under track
(c) Time to spin data under sector
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(a)
4. Who
built the first mechanical calculator?
(a) Joseph Marie Jacquard
(b) John Mauchly
(c) Blaise Pascal
(d) Howard Aiken
Answer:
(c)
5. The
most important advantage of a video disk is ……………
(a) compactness
(b) potential capacity
(c) durability
(d) cost effectiveness
Answer:
(b)
6. Which
of the following generation computers had expensive operation cost?
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third
(d) Fourth
Answer:
(a)
7. An
IBM system/38 represents the computer class of ……………
(a) small-scale computer
(b) medium-scale computer
(c) large-scale computer
(d) super computer
Answer:
(a)
8. Which
of the following is another word for a daisy wheel printer?
(a) Petal printer
(b) Golf ball printer
(c) Laser printer
(d) Line printer
Answer:
(b)
9. Cursor
is a ……………
(a) pixel
(b) thin blinking line
(c) pointing device
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(b)
10. Which
device is used to backup the data?
(a) Floppy Disk
(b) Tape
(c) Network Drive
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d)
11. Which
of the following printers are you sure will not to use if your objective is to
print on multi carbon forms?
(a) Daisy wheel
(b) Dot matrix
(c) Laser
(d) Thimble
Answer:
(c)
12. Which
of the following items are examples of storage devices?
(a) Floppy / hard disks
(b) CD-ROMs
(c) Tape devices
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d)
13. ASCII
and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand for?
(a) American Stable Code for International Interchange
(b) American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
(c) American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(d) American Standard Code for Interchange Information
Answer:
(c)
14. Which
computers are used as servers for any medium sized organizations?
(a) Mainframe Computer
(b) Mini Computers
(c) Micro Computers
(d) Super Computers
Answer:
(b)
15. When
was Slide Rules invented?
(a) 1614
(b) 1617
(c) 1620
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(c)
16. A
normal CD-ROM usually can store up to …………… data.
(a) 680 KB
(b) 680 Bytes
(c) 680 MB
(d) 680 GB
Answer:
(c)
17. Which
of the following requires large computer memory?
(a) Imaging
(b) Graphics
(c) Voice
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d)
18. Which
was the computer conceived by Babbage?
(a) Analytical engine
(b) Arithmetic machine
(c) Donald Knuth
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(a)
19. The
lower deck of an abacus is known as ……………
(a) heaven
(b) sky
(c) earth
(d) floor
Answer:
(c)
20. All
modern computer operate on ……………
(a) information
(b) floppies
(c) data
(d) word
Answer:
(c)
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