Intro To Computer MCQ
Intro To Computer MCQ
1. UNIVAC is
A) Universal Automatic Computer
B) Universal Array Computer
C) Unique Automatic Computer
D) Unvalued Automatic Computer
6. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does
EBCDIC stand for?
A) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
B) Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange Code
C) Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange Code
D) Extended Binary Case Decimal Interchange Code
10. A storage area used to store data to a compensate for the difference in
speed at which the different units can handle data is
A) Memory
B) Buffer
C) Accumulator
D) Address
13. CD-ROM is a
A) Semiconductor memory
B) Memory register
C) Magnetic memory
D) None of above
15. Which type of computers uses the 8-bit code called EBCDIC?
A) Minicomputers
B) Microcomputers
C) Mainframe computers
D) Super computer
18. To produce high quality graphics (hardcopy) in color, you would want to
use a/n
A) RGB monitor
B) Plotter
C) Ink-jet printer
D) Laser printer
21. The main electronic component used in first generation computers was
A) Transistors
B) Vacuum Tubes and Valves
C) Integrated Circuits
D) None of above
27. Which of the following storage devices can store maximum amount of
data?
A) Floppy Disk
B) Hard Disk
C) Compact Disk
D) Magneto Optic Disk
28. Which computer was considered the first electronic computer until 1973
when court invalidated the patent?
A) ENIAC
B) MARK I
C) Z3
D) ABC
30. High density double sided floppy disks could store _____ of data
A) 1.40 MB
B) 1.44 GB
C) 1.40 GB
D) 1.44 MB
31. A high quality CAD system uses the following for printing drawing and
graphs
A) Dot matrix printer
B) Digital plotter
C) Line printer
D) All of the above
34. In most of the IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drivers, memory, expansion
slots and active components are mounted on a single board. What is the
name of the board?
A) Motherboard
B) Daughterboard
C) Bredboard
D) Fatherboard
35. In most IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drives, memory expansion slots and
active components are mounted on a single board. What is the name of this
board?
A) Motherboard
B) Breadboard
C) Daughter board
D) Grandmother board
37. A technique used by codes to convert an analog signal into a digital bit
stream is known as
A) Pulse code modulation
B) Pulse stretcher
C) Query processing
D) Queue management
41. Which of the following produces the best quality graphics reproduction?
A) Laser printer
B) Ink jet printer
C) Plotter
D) Dot matrix printer
A) XT computer
B) AT comptuers
C) PS/2 computer
D) None of above
C) Both of above
D) None of above
47. Todays computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which
was changes in 1924. What was that name?
A) Tabulator Machine Co.
B) Computing Tabulating Recording Co.
C) The Tabulator Ltd.
D) International Computer Ltd.
48. Before a disk drive can access any sector record, a computer program has
to provide the records disk address. What information does this address
specify?
A) Track number
B) Sector number
C) Surface number
D) All of above
50. What is the responsibility of the logical unit in the CPU of a computer?
A) To produce result
B) To compare numbers
52. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number
of addresses will be
A) 216
B) 65,536
C) 64K
D) Any of the above
54. The terminal device that functions as a cash register, computer terminal,
and OCR reader is the:
C) 5
D) 7
68. BCD is
A) Binary Coded Decimal
B) Bit Coded Decimal
C) Binary Coded Digit
D) Bit Coded Digit
69. When was the worlds first laptop computer introduced in the market and
by whom?
A) Hewlett-Packard, 1980
B) Epson, 1981
C) Laplink Traveling Software Inc, 1982
D) Tandy Model-200, 1985
A) IBM
B) Super UNIVAC
C) Radio Shaks
D) Data General Corporation
72. How many address lines are needed to address each machine location in
a 2048 x 4 memory chip?
A) 10
B) 11
C) 8
D) 12
C) Both of above
D) None of above
79. Where as a computer mouse moves over the table surface, the trackball
is
A) Stationary
B) Difficult to move
C) Dragged
D) Moved in small steps
81. Multi user systems provided cost savings for small business because they
use a single processing unit to link several
A) Personal computers
B) Workstations
C) Dumb terminals
D) Mainframes
82. What are the three decisions making operations performed by the ALU of
a computer?
A) Grater than
B) Less than
C) Equal to
D) All of the above
83. The word processing task associated with changing the appearance of a
document is
A) Editing
B) Writing
C) Formatting
D) All of above
84. Nepal brought a computer for census of 2028 BS. This computer was of
A) first generation
B) second generation
C) third generation
D) fourth generation
87. The difference between memory and storage is that memory is _____ and
storage is __
A) Temporary, permanent
B) Permanent, temporary
C) Slow, fast
D) All of above
91. What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at
the same time?
A) Light pen
B) Mouse
C) Digitizer
D) Terminal
92. Which of the following is the first computer to use Stored Program
Concept?
A) UNIVAC
B) ENIAC
C) EDSAC
D) None of above
94. in which year was UKs premier computing event called ?The which
computer? started?
A) 1980
B) 1985
C) 1986
D) 1987
95. Once you load the suitable program and provide required data, computer
does not need human intervention. This feature is known as
A) Accuracy
B) Reliability
C) Versatility
D) Automatic
99. Modern Computers are very reliable but they are not
A) Fast
B) Powerful
C) Infallible
D) Cheap
1-A
2-D
3-D
4-D
5-C
6-A
7-C
8-D
9-C
10-B
11-C 12-C 13-D 14-C 15-C 16-B 17-B 18-B 19-C 20-D
21-B 22-D 23-C 24-A 25-A 26-B 27-B 28-A 29-B 30-D
31-B 32-D 33-B 34-A 35-A 36-D 37-A 38-C 39-B 40-B
41-C 42-B 43-C 44-D 45-C 46-A 47-B 48-D 49-A 50-B
51-D 52-B 53-B 54-D 55-C 56-C 57-C 58-C 59-B 60-B
61-C 62-B 63-D 64-A 65-D 66-D 67-C 68-A 69-B 70-C
71-C 72-B 73-C 74-D 75-B 76-A 77-D 78-C 79-A 80-A
81-C 82-D 83-C 84-B 85-D 86-D 87-A 88-C 89-D 90-D
91-D 92-C 93-C 94-A 95-D 96-B 97-D 98-C 99-C 100-B