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(a) disk
(b) disk
array
(c) bunch of disks
(d) disk pack
(e) spanned
drive.
1598. The storage subsystem in a micro computer
consists mainly of .......... or ..........
media, with varying capacities (a)
memory (b) magnetic
(a) 60 nano
seconds (b) 70nano seconds
(c) 80 nano
seconds (d) 90nano seconds
(e) none of the
above.
1601. Which of the following statement is false?
(a) Generally,
computers don't make
mistakes
(b) Computers eliminate jobs (c)
Computers-can think
(d) Maths is
necessary to understand
compute. s
(e) None of the above.
1602. Computers are incapable of emotional
feelings. However, some people attribute
human like emotions to inanimate objects
including computers. What is it called?
(c)
Anthropolatory
(d) Cybernetics
(e) None of the
above.
1603. When did the EISA consortium
'Gang of Nine' come into being in USA?
(a) George
Tate
(b) Kenneth H. Olsen
(c) Seymour Cray (d)
Basic Pascal
there
) Claus
Christmas
(d
it is full of large grain sand
)
none of the above.
(e
Arthur C. Clarke
(d)
Duncan Campbell (e)
None of the above.
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(a) control
unit
(b) primary memory
(c) control unit and primary memory (d) all of
the above
(e) none of the above.
1611. A visual display unit or terminal (a) is, a
dumb terminal
(c) Citibank,
1970
(d) Hongkong Bank,
1972 (e) None of the
above.
1626. The first mini computers were developed
and built in 1965 by
(a)
IBM
(b)
Intel
(c) Digital equipment corporation (DEC)
(d) Hewlett Packard (e)
none of the above.
1627. Name the two persons who were the first
to develop a model of the microprocessor
chip
(c)
Agnimissile
(d) Fighteraircraft
(e) None of the
above.
1643. What was the total number of UNIVAC-I
sold eventually and by which company?
(a)
30, British Tabulating Machine Co.
(BTM)
(b)
40, International Business Machines
(IBM)
(c) 48, Remington Rand
(d) 40, International Computer Ltd.
(ICL)
(e) None of the
above.
1644. Very small and cheap computer built in to
many home devices is called .........
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screen printing
(d) hybrid
(e) none of the
above.
1646. The person contributing the idea of the
stored program was
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(a) plotter
I
(a) receipt
card (b)
document card
(c) stub card
(d) acknowledgement card (e) none
of the above.
t I 1
1664. PARAM is a
(b)
Crossbar
(c) Pie
graph
(d) All of theabove (e) None
of the above.
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1669. Network topology, consisting of nodes attached
in a ring, without a host computer, is known as
service
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(b)
Structural
(c) Network
(d) All of the above (e)
1676. The larger the RAM of a computer, the
faster its processing speed is, since i
eliminates t
(a)
By using matching peripherals
(b)
With the help of buffer memory
By using interrupt line
(c)
(d)
By using parallel input/output
(e)
ports
None of the above.
(a
control unit
(b)
ALU registers
(c)
(d)
secondary memory
(e)
none of the above.
1684. Often computer users have information in two
different files which they want to combine in one
common file. When the two files are combined
one after the other and end to end it is called (a)
sorting (b) merging
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(a) Print spooling (b) Cycle stealing (a) 100 to 250 (b) 250 to 500
(c) Looping (d) Multiplexing (c) 500 to 1000 (d) 25 to 100
(e) None of the above. (e) None of the above.
(a) By satellite
(b) By direct cables (c)
By telephone lines (d)
Either of the above (e)
None of the above.
1689. Which of the following is not an example of
time shared real time processing?
(a) Preparing of
mailing labels (b)
Processing payroll
cheques
(c)
Accounting for credit card
purchases
(d) Inventory
control (e) None
instruction series of
(b
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(b) High-density
disks (c) Diskettes
(d) Templates
(e) None of the above.
1702. Which part
of the diskette should never be
touched?
(a) stationary
(b) difficult to move (c)
dragged
(d) moved in small steps (e)
none of the above.
1726. Which one of the following, input device is user-
programmable?
1729.
Point out the odd item amongst the
following:
(a) MICR
(b) OCR
(c) Mark-sensing device (d)
ATM
(e) None of the above.
1732. Character readers are those devices which read
the characters printed on the source documents
and then convert them directly into computer-
usable input. Which of the following is not a
character reader?
(c) 640 x 1024 (d) either (b) or (c) (a) Gallium arsenide (GaAs)
(e) None of the above.
1735. If in a computer, 16-bits are used to
specify addresses in a RAM, the num-
ber of addresses will be?
(b) Metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS)
(c) Silicon
(d) Germanium
(e) None of the above.
(a) 216 (b) 65,536 1742. Which one is used for serial access
(c) 64 K (d) any of the above stora g
(e) None of the above.
1736. How many bits can be stored in 8 K
(a) RAM (b) Magnetic tape
(c) Magnetic disk (d) Core memory
RAM? '(e) None of the above.
(a) 8000 (b) 8192(c) 4000 (d) 4096
1743. Which one is not an alternative
name
for primary memory?
(e) None of the above.
1737. A computer has a 1024 k memory.
What does the letter k stand for?
(a) Kilometre (b) Thousand
(c) 1024 (d) MB
(a) Main memory
(b) Primary storage
(c) Internal storage
(d) Mass storage
(e) None of the above.
(e) None of the above.
1738. Storage locations in internal storage of
1744. What do the present-day digital com-
puters use for their interal memory?
a CPU are called
(a) contents (b) addresses
(c) locations (d) mask
(e) None of the above.
1739. Which chips can be reprogrammed
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Magnetic cores
Integrated circuits (IC)
Electrical switches
Magnetic disks
None of the above.
with special electric pulses as given be-
low?
1745. Which
computer company invented
p
(a) EPROM (b) PROM
(c) ROM (d) EEPROM
(e) None of the above.
(a)
(c)
(e)
Motorola (b) Intel
Toshiba (d) IBM
None of the above.
1740. Which type of memory chips are
likely
to be used in the primary storage of the
1746. What are the alternative names
for in-
ternal storage of a computer? R
(a) Silicon chips
(b) Optical chips
(c) Biochips
(a)
(b)
(c)
storage
ea
Primary memory
Main memory
(d) Gallium arsenide (GaAs) chips (d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) None of the above. (e) None of the above.
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(e
above.
(b)
Biochips
(c) Natural chips (d)
Neural chips
(e) None of the above.
1754. Which 32-bit microprocessor is used in
IBM's PS/2 model-80 computer?
1761.
First microprocessors produced by Intel
Corpn. and Texas Instruments were used
primarily to control small (a) microwave
ovens
(a) Monochip
(b)
Microprocessor
(c) ALU
(d) Control
unit
(e) None of the above.
1763. A small square or rectangular piece of
silica on which several layers of an in
(a)
germanium
(b) gallium-arsenide
()
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(b)
microcomputers
(c) chips
(d) automatic processing
(e) none of the above.
1768. CPU chip used in a computer is partially
made out of
(b)
instructions
(c) both (a) and (b) (d)
either (a) and (b) (e)
none of the above.
1774. Backing storage is so named because it (a)
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(a large (b)
(c)
fast (d)
l (e) none of the above.
preparing
(a) plotter
(b) consols: typewriter
(c) IBM printing subsystem
(d) line printer
(e) none of the
above.
1788. The least expensive OCR units can
read
(a)
descriptive
data (b)
coded data
(c) quantitative data (d)
all of the above (e) none
of the above.
1790. Input bottleneck has been relieved by
means of a
(d) main
storage
(e) none of the above.
1793. Some card readers detect
errors by
(a)
accumulating control totals on
certain data
(b) comparing data with acceptable
limits
(c) reading the card
twice (d) all of the above
(e) none of the above.
1794. In mark sensing, data is read
(a) optically (b) electrically (c)
magnetically (d) mechanically (e)
none of the above.
1795. The Company that pioneered the development
of keydriven input devices,
with output on magnetic tape or disk
rather than punched cards, was
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recorded
magnetic ink, using an in
its
(b)
01011
10001
(c) 10101
(d)
(e) none of the above. 1803.
An AND gate
(a) implements logic addition
(b) is equivalent to a series
switching
circuit
(c) is an any or all gate i
(d) is equivalent to a parallel switching
circuit (e) none of
the above.
is 0
logic decisions
(a) rigidity
(b) direct access
(c) low cost
(d) high packing density (e)
none of the above.
(a)
Polarisation
(b)
Interference
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(a) Laser card (b) Master card (a) megabyte (b) gigabyte
(c) Visa (d) Optical card (c) kilobyte (d) all of the
(e) None of the above. (e) none of the
b
1816. What is the name of the secondary stor-1822. Benefit of using computers are
that (a)
age device which uses a silvery groove-computers are very fast and can
less surface and is encoded by a laser
c of the above.
reality
(c)
molecular I847. Third generation computers are
those which are built with integrated
biology (d)
(a) speed up
card (b)
accelerator
board (c)
replacement
board (d) add
on board
(e) none of the above.
1861. The process of starting or restarting a computer
system by loading instructions from a secondary
storage device into the computer memory is
called (a) duping (b) booting
(a) 11110111101
(b)
111010111101
(c) 101110111101
(d) all of the
1865. The octal equivalent of the number
11010.1011 is
(a) 32.15 (b) 63.51
(c) 32.27 (d) all of these
(e) none of the above.
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realtime processing
batch processing
distributed processing
transaction processing
none of the above.
(a) AX3/33
(b) NEC-20
(c) Magnum 2000
(d) HCL-3000
(e) None of the above.
1889. What does the disk drive of a computer
do?
( the same
(b)
differen
program tobe
(c) depend cn
the
td
(
none of the
e
above
(a) they
have about the
same storage capacity
(b) their storage is non-volatile
(c) their access times are about the
same
(d) stored data is available for reading
over and over again in the same
order
(c)
each stored word is
processed differently
(d) data naturally needs to flow in and out
in serial form
(e) none of the above.
1897. Which of the following storage is volatile?
(b) Wider it is, the more data that can fit into
main memory
if T1 MY mffil~" 01111
(a)
Microprocessors
(b) Registers
(c) ROM chips
(d) Data
buses
(e) None of the above.
1905. Which of the following affects processing power?
(a) Clock
speed
(b) Addressing scheme (c)
Data bus capacity (d) Register
size
(e) All of the above.
1906. Which of the following is used for manufacturing
chips?
(a) ROM
(b) Control unit ('c)
Main memory
(d) Coprocessor
chips (e) None of
the above.
(a) Reliability
(b) Reduction in operational costs
(c) Ability of the computer to operate at
electronic speeds
(d)
Computers' becoming general-
purpose
(e) All of the above are advantages.
1913. Which is not true of immediate pro
cessing?
(a)
It is often used in realtime
applications
(b) It can occur with either sequential
of direct-access files
(c) It can be used in an
airlinereservation
system
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