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(H)/I semester Paper CSAT 101 Computer Science (Computational Skills) Time 3 hrs Maximum Marks 75

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5 a. What is garbage in garbage out? b. Which was the first digital computer used for commercial purposes? c. What is an IC? What is advantage of IC technology over Transistor technology? d. List two characteristics of a computer. Why computer known as data processor? e. Who invented stored program concept? 2. Answer the following: 6 a. What are two components of a CPU? List the role of each component. b. What is a system? Why computer is often referred as a computer system. c. List logical steps taken by computer to transform input to output. 3. Covert the binary number 110110 to base 10, base 16, base 8, base 9. 4 4. Convert 2AC (base 16) to base 2 and base 8. 2 5. Convert 111.01 to base 10. 1 6. Covert 64.46(base 10) to base 2 and base 8. 2 7. a. Subtract 110111 from 101110 using complementary method. 3 Or Subtract 25 from 20 using complementary method. b. Add 1010110 and 1011010. 8. Find the compliment of (2)5. 1 9. Write an advantage of UNICODE scheme. How many different characters are possible in BCD coding scheme? 2 10. A computer uses ASCII. In which order computer will sort the following string? a1B2 1 11. Differentiate between following: 10 a. RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, flash memory b. Word addressable and Character addressable computers. c. CISC and RISC processor d. LAN and WAN e. Router and bridge/switch 12. What is FTP? List the steps involved in FTP. What is an anonymous FTP site? 3 13. What is Hypertext? How it is useful? 1 14. Give an example of LAN and WAN. 1 15. What are WWW, HTML, SGML, HTTP, URL, and Internet? 3 16. You have printed document of 100 pages. Write two different ways in which this textual data can be input to the computer system. 2 17. What is transducer? Give two devices that can be treated as transducer. 2 18. Give the difference between cognitive and generative graphics. Write an application of each. 2 19. Which is Unimedia and which is Multimedia: TV, Radio, Telephone system? 1 20. What is difference between a PC, work station and mainframe system? 2 Or Write short note on Client server architecture. 21 a. What are registers? Name five commonly used registers and their functionality. 5 b. How many bytes will be used to store a word MEMORY in character addressable and in word addressable in computer having word length of 64 bits? 1 c. 1 GB = 2 x. What is value of x? 1

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9 A. What are commonly used ways to represent algorithms? Which of these can be used to solve the corresponding problem on a computer? b. Any program is an algorithm, although reverse is not true. Discuss. C.The three numbers are denoted by the variables A, B, C is supplied as input data. Write an algorithm and draw the flow chart for finding the smallest number. Or Write an algorithm to find factorial of a number. Or Write an algorithm for finding sum of first ten natural numbers. 5 a. What is digitizer? What are its two main components? What are main areas of application? b. What is UPC? Which device is used for inputting data based on UPC? C.Write short note on any of the following: a.Dot Matrix printer b. Inkjet printer c. laser printer d. Plotters e.Scanners f.Point and draw devices.

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