1 Ans, Ans. Ans. Ans. Ans. Ans. Ans. Exam Practice Acomputer is free from tiredness, monotony, etc., reflects which characteristic? {a) High speed (b) Versatile (c) Accuracy (a) Ditigence (2) Unlike human beings, a computer is free from monotony, ticedness, lack of concenteation ete, and ‘can work for hours without creating any errors. This characteristic of computer is known as diligence, It is responsible for all numerical and logical calculations. (a) CPU (b) CU {c) MU (d) ALU (d) ALU is digital creuit in which numerical and logical operations are defined. Which of the following does not represent an V/O device? (a) Speaker (b) Plotter (c) Joystick (cu (d) CU is used to coordinate the input and the output devices of a computer system, Control unit is called the. computer system. (a) heart (b) nerve centre (c) primary memory (a) All of these (0) Nerve centre because it controls the overall processing, of a computer system, The first computer mouse was invented by (a) Christopher Sholes (b) CB. Mirick (6) Douglas Engelbart (a) Russell A Kirsch (0) The first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart at Stanford Research Centre in 1960s. Out of the following, whom do you think is the most probable user of a light pen? {a) Computer Programmer (b) Graphic Designer (c) Journalist (a) Scientist (6) Light pen is useful for graphic designer as it is useful for identifying a parcicular location on the screen. Input device is used to make a digital copy of ofa a photograph, . (a) Graphics Tablet (b) Scanner (c) MICR (d) OMR (J) Scanner is an input device that is used to make a digital copy off a photogeaph, It converts the image or text into a digital file Aus. Ans. e scanner Which has 5 a medium siz 8. ‘an your documents, al to sean YON) Handheld ler {c) Flatbed {d) Rol Ans, (a) Drum 9 Large amount of cheques are Processed by using , (b) MICR 8 oar (a) All of these 1c amount of cheques are processed by the (0 Sabre (magnetic Ink Character Recognition) gy vind characters that are printed using a speci tagactic ink, [eis mostly used in banks 10 What does OCR stand for? {a) Optical Character Reader (b) Optical Character Recognition () Operational Character Reader (a) Only Character Reader (8) OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition ud ean inpuc device in a computer system, 11 Input device used in evaluating answer sheets by a teacher (a) OCR (&) OMR {c) MICR (a) Barcode ‘Ans, (b) OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) is the process of capturing human marked data from document frm such as surveys and (est 12 Which type of monitor works in the same way as a television? (a) CRT (b) LCD () LED (a) 3D Ans. (a) CRT monitor works in the same way asa television 13 Dot matrix is a type of (a) Tape (b) Disk Aus. (&) Dot matrix isa type of impact princer that pring done character at a time, (c) Printer (a) Bus 14 Output device is used to generate the long map of building and shopping malls (a) Dot-matnix (b) Inkjet (c) Plotter (d) Deskjet Ans. (2) Plower isa computer hardware device similar 102 printer that uses a pen, pencil, marker o¢ other writing tools to make a design15 Out of these which one is a volatile memory? ()ROM = (b)RAM_— (©) Floppy (d) DVD. Vs. (8) RAM is a volatile memory chat means data remains stored in RAM only when power supply is there and computer is switched ON but as soon as the compacer is tuned OFF, the contents of RAM get 16 Which of the following is an example of non-volatile memory? (a) ROM (by RAM) LSI (a) VLSI Vis (a) Among given options, ROM is the memory that Fecains its contents even after the interruption of power s0, isa non-volatile memory 7 memory 1s used to store large amount of information permanently. (a) RAM (b) ROM (c) Secondary (d) Primary Ais. (@) Secondary memory is used to store large amount of information permanently 18 Which of the following statement is false? (a) Secondary storage 1s faster (b) Primary storage is both volatile and non-volatile in nature (c) When the computer is turned OFF, data and instructions stored in RAM are erased (a) None of the above As. (2) Secondary memory is the slowest and cheapest form, ‘of memory. It cannot be processed directly by the CPU and i¢ must be first copied ino RAM 19 The concentric circles on the floppy disks are further divided into (b) sectors (4) None of these (a) tracks (c) cylinders Wns. (B) The concentric circles on the floppy disks are known as cracks, These cracks are further divided into pie-shaped sections known as sector. 20 Which of the following storage device can be used for storing large backup data? (a) Floppy disk () Hard disk c) Magnetic tape (a) None of tiese Sete) Magee ae sued wth ages computes sch pune dats kept the mainframe, where huge a stored for longer penod of ime 2) The offers more than five limes the storage capacity of traditional DVDs (a) Compact disc (b) Pen drive (c) Blu-ray dise (a) ExEDVD Ws (@) Bla a single layer DVD. yore data than. ay disc can hold almost 5 umes 22 Pen drive is also known as. (a) Flash drive (b) Data stick (6) Thumb dave (4) AlLof the above Ws (d) AUSB Mash de Jaca stick, thumb drive of pen computer's USB port 23 The largest unit of memory 1s {a) Terabyte (hy Petabyte (b) Exabyte (a) Geopbyte Vs. (d) Geopbyte is the highest memory measurement unit Wis equal to 1024 Beontobye Fill in the Blanks 1 1s an electronic device that manipulates information or data according to the set of instructions called program Computer 2 is the meaningful content that is extracted {rom the data after processing. A Information 3 The first chip was made by Intel in 1971 scientist Ted Holf and engineer Frederico Faggin Ans Intel 4004 4 is used for playing video games Ans. Joystick that allows a user to file 5 Scanner is a devic convert an image inte digical 6 is the light sensitive pointing device Light pen 7 Touch screen is an electronic display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area Visual 8 is used to translate scanned images of handwritten, type written or special type of font printed on a conventional paper OCRAll‘ n2N€ Computer Applications Class yy, — 9 Examination papers are checked by 7 OMR 10 reads the bar code information * Barcode reader 1) The printed information on the paper is called hardcopy 12 The ed el e speed of printer 1s rated by ww Ws cps or ppm 3 The pnnts its output on special heat sensitive paper Me cheemal printer 4 pnnters are based on electro: photography technology to print the data w Laser 15 Computer memory is divided into and memory Ins 16 primary, secondary memory is a special memory used for speeding up the transfer of data and instructions in CPU "Cache Vv memory does not deal directly with the cpu ws disks are portable but have less stora capacity Floppy 7 is an example of secondary memory Wi Magnetic tape 20 stands for Compact Disc Read Only Memory Wns. CD-ROM 2 is the latest optical disc secondary storage device Wis. Blu-ray Disc (BD) 224 is a thumb sized gadget that can be used to read, write or erase data as many times pen drive 23 memory stick was introduced by Sony in 1994 as a copy-protection technology vs. We MagicGate 1 A computer is a mechanical machine, which is used only for record keeping ' False Computer isan electronic device that has the ably ve store, retrieve and process daa 2 4 computer follows the rule of IPO (Input Process Output) cycle. © True Computer first takes the input via inpuc devices, process it with the help of the CPU and gives the output through output devices 3 In CPU, control unit performs the actual processing on the data False In CPU, control unit does not perfor actual processing instead it controls and guides the operations like a supervisor. 4 There are 12 function keys on the keyboard, shed “FU t0°FI2 MS. True The keys at the top of a keyboard. ae function keys. 5 4 mouse is a pointing device. ANS. True Because it allows the user co control and provide the dai to the computer system using physical gestures point click and drag. © The sensors of touchpad can only react toa fingertip. Wis. True The sensors of rouchpad can only react co a fingertip t not a pencil or other object. 7 The MICR coding system contains 14 characters. MS True MICR’s coding system contains 14 characters (4 special symbols and 10 decimal digits). NTC‘‘Computer System Organisation 3 Wasp is an example of OMR software. Wis Fals@ Software lke Wasp, Barcode Pro are used for scanning and Printing barcodes. cis an example of barcode reader Barcode reader is an input device to play sound. (> False A barcode reader (or barcode scanner) san electronic device for reading printed barcodes !0An LCD monitor allows the user to input information by touching the icons on the screen. (False Because most of the LCD monitors do not come with touch facty where information is provided by touching | Mnkjet is a non-impact printer. Vs True Because there is no physical contact berwcen the print heads and the paper 121n Random Access Memory, if current will be interrupted, data will not lost vis False Random Access Memory (RAM) isa volatile memory. if current is interrupted, data will lost 13ROM stands for Random Operation Memory. Vs False ROM stands for Read Only Memory ‘14Secondary storage is also called auxiliary storage. Js True Because secondary storage i 1 part of external memory. It is used t0 store a large amount of data at les cost per byte than primary memory ‘15 The secondary or magnetic memory is a volatile memory. Ans False ‘The secondary or magnetic memory is 2 non-volatile memory 16 The hard disk is hard to format on different systems. Ans. Fals@ Hard disk sa secondary storage device ‘which can be formatted on another system using boot sector format option V7 The data on a CD-ROM is written at the time of its manufacture Ans. False CD-ROM isa blank storage device which can be writen when wser wants 18 The Compact Disc (CD) is a digital storage device Ans True Because CD is used t0 tore audio, video, graphical and textual data 19A magnetic tape is a direct access storage device. Ans. False tesa non-volatile memory hence. itis not dircily accesible by the CPU 20Gigabyte is actually 2'° bytes. nis. True Because i is actually 2" bytes or 1 GB 024 bytes. Very Short Answer (vSA) Type Questions ‘|Name the most commonly used input device. 1's Keyboard is the most commonly used input device, which can also be used to type commands directing the computer (0 perform certain actions. 2 Explain the main advantage and disadvantage of an OCR {ns The main advantage of an OCR is the ability o sean the characters accurately ‘The disadvantage of an OCR is limited number of characters offered by it 3Why do we use webcam? v's A webcam is basically used for capturing a scrics of dighal images that are eransferred by the computer to a scrver and then displayed to the hosting, page 4Name the memory (Primary/Secondary)with the following features a) If current is interrupted, data is lost (b) Before a program is ready to run, the program is loaded into this memory which allows the CPU directly access the program Ans RAM because it has above given features SWnite any one advantage of cache memory, ‘The main advantage of cache memory is that if needed data is found in cache, then CPU does not have to use motherboard's system bus for data transicr and processing gets Fast which disc is created using laser beam? Wis CD-ROM disc is created using laser beam, 7Give one difference between pnmary memory and secondary memory \nsThe primary memory is volatile and has limited storage capacity, whereas secondary memory is non-volatile and can store huge amount of dacaEXAM PRACTICE eee SS ( 8 Arrange the following memory units in ascending order of their storage capacities: Kilobyte, Byte, Terabyte, Megabyte, Geopbyte ‘Ans, The ascending order of memory units is Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Terabyte, Geopbyte 9 What do you understand by DuO as variety of memory stick? Short Answer (SA) Type Ouestions Distinguish between input unit and output unit, Ans, Differences berween input unit and output unic areas follows Output Unit Input Unit accepts the data and instructions from outside. it accepis the result which produced by the computer It converts the results, which are in a coded form To human readable form, It supplies the converted results to the user converts the accepted instructions and data in ‘computer acceptable form supplies the converted instructions and data to the ‘computer system for futher processing, 2 Differentiate between OCR and OMR Ans, OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is used to read characters of special type font that are printed on conventional paper with conventional ink. (On the other hand, OMR stands for Optical Mark Recognition which is used co transcribe marks that are marked with a dark pencil or ink on a special pre-printed form (eg. answer sheet of a multiple choice question paper where a choice of answer can be reflected by shading the appropriate box). 3. Name the device which is used to read the barcode. Explain in short. Barcode reader isa device which is used co read the printed code (barcode) from the products to be sold. 1 Contains alight sensitive decector which identifies the values of che bars printed on the product and converts them into a numeric code. This barcode reader technology is used in shopping malls o identify produets and generate bills. An Which device is used for recognising physical or behavioural traits of an individual. Also, write one advantage of this device. s nat ash memory and developed fo gy camera cll pi Hate b ye term byte, Differentiate Beye, suring cOmPUCEE STOTEE, Bing hore, There are only 10 bing combination of 8 bits ise, a unit of Me: fed bic in 1, whereas @ sor isa device used for recognising or cal eras of an individual. Thi, ow rendance ‘of employees/students in marking eeretinsticutions. The major advantage of ct te ep eal 5 Explain LCD. Write the features ofan Lep Biometrics ANS” nysical oF behavi umber of colors. Some of the major features of LCD monirors are as follows (9 Reduced radiation (i) Light weight 6 Define the non-impact printers. ‘Ans, Refer to text on Page No. 11. 7 Which technology is used in laser printers Ans, id) Less eyestrain Laser printers are based on photocopy technology» print. They use a laser beam and dry powder ink o produce a high quality dot matrix pattern. They aa print graphic images too ‘They ae ideally used when good quality and largess printing is requice. Ans. 8 What are plotter? State their areas of applicator Ans, Refer to text on Page No. 12. 9 Name the storage device whose contents have to be erased completely everytime wit user wants to change or add some data Ans, CD-RW (Compact Dise-Rewritable) isa storage dv whose contents have co be completely erased ever when a user wants to change or add some data A CD-RW can be written multiple number of times The daa burned on CD-RW cannot be changeitLong Answer (LA) lype Questions 1 What are the characteristics of a computer? Refer to text on Page No. 2 2 What are the functional units of a computer? +. The functional units of a computer are as follows (A Input Unit Computer takes daca from inpuc devices. (i) CPU (Cencral Processing Unit) Ie is the brain of the computer, where most of the calculations takes place. Ic consists of * ALU (Arithmetic and Logic Unit) It performs devhmesel nd logealpercans + CU (Control Unie) Ir extracts instructions from memory. decodes and executes them. (11) Ourput Unit Gives out results or data through ‘output devices, (0) Auxiliary Storage Secondary storage devices are used to store data and instructions permanently. 3. What is an input device? Explain the input device that is used to convert handwritten text into machine readable format. An input device is used to enter data or information into the computer for processing. e.g. keyboard. OCR is an input device used to converc handwritten text into machine readable format. It reads the characters with the help of a light source and photoelectric cells. The cechnology is being developed for greater accurate recognition which is also known as Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) . 4. Define the different types of scanners. Refer to text on Page No. 6. 5 What is MICR? Where is it mostly used? What are the major advantages and disadvantages of MICR as general purpose input medium? MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. It is a character recognition technology that can read human unreadable characters that are printed using a special magnetic ink. It is mostly used in banks to facilitate the processing of cheques. Advantages of MICR are as follows (A Ie decteases the margin of errors. (ii) Provides high security Disadvantages of MICR are as follows (i) Time consuming standards. (i) The number of characters that can be recorded with present techniques is very limiced Wnte two categories of printers. Which type of printers are more speedy and quieter? “The printers can be classified into two categories which are as follows (a. Impact printers In these types of printers, there isa ‘mechanical contact between the paper and the printer Ans. Ans. Ans. 10 Ans. hhead. These can further be clasified as-Line printers (which can princ a line ata time) and Daisy wheel printers (which can print a character at atime) (i Non-impact printers In these types of printers, there is no mechanical contact berween the paper and the printer head. The printing takes place with some electromagnetic thermal or laser techniques. The non-impact printers are more speedy and quieter than impact printers Differentiate between RAM and ROM. Random Access Memory (RAM) is also called the read/write memory as data can be read and write to i Iisa temporary memory. The contents of che RAM are accessible only as long as the computer is ON. Once the computer is turned OFF, the contents of RAM are swiped out. Ie stores operating system routines, application programs and the data in current use are kept temporarily. The types of RAM are SRAM and DRAM. Read Only Memory (ROM) is 2 special ype of memory whose contents can only be read. Ie is a permanent ‘memory, so the contents of the ROM are not lost, ever. when the computer is switched OFF, It is normally used to store the manufacturer's instructions. The types of ROM are PROM, EPROM and EEPROM. Explain secondary memory. Give some examples of secondary memory. Refer to text on Page No. 14-15. Which one of the magnetic storage disks is, also known as diskette? Explain it with its advantages and disadvantages Floppy disk drive is also known as diskette or FDD. For brief description with advantages and disadvantages refers to the text on Page No, 14 Differentiate between a flash drive and a memory card. Differences between a flash drive and a memory card are as follows Memory Card itis small, re-recordable, easily portable and very light weighted Wis commonly used in electronic devices including digital camera, mobile phones etc tis available with storage tis available with storage different capacities upto capacity from 2 MB to 256 GB 128 GB Flash Drive tis a small and portable data storage device Is used to store information and transter Gata from one computer to another 11 Describe the main applications of a computer Ans. Refer to text on Page No. 18. i12. A computer is an electronic device that process data and converts into the information according to the set of instructions. This set of instructions are called as programs. Computer main advantages are Ithas the ability to store, retrieve and process the data Itis used by companies now-a-days to make documents by typing using text editors, one can send and receive E-mails and browse the Internet. In general, computer is the combination of hardware and software. Hardware is a collection of all physical components such as scanner, keyboard, printer, monitor, CPU, etc. While, software comprises the entire set of programs, procedures, and routines associated with the operation of a computer system. There are various characteristics of computers, such as accuracy, diligence, speed, automaticity, etc. The CPU is called as a brain of the computer. It consists with three main components - ALU, MU and CU. Forder ) Ges ne e () Computer has an ability to (a) store data () process data (c) retneve data (a) Allof these (u) Computer is a combination of hardware and. (a) software (c) oweharts (0) instructions (a) keyboard (iii) Which is not a characterisuc of a computer? 8 (a) Accuracy (b) Automaticity 2 (c) Human like bran (a) Speed 5 (iv) The 1s called a5 a brain of the ? compuler a) ALU (b) input (CPU) output 5 (a) ALU (b) inp . (v) Computer main task is to convert into (a) information, data (b) data, information (0) data, process (a) process, data i has the i) (dh Computer main advantages are ability wo store, retrieve and process the data Allynone Computer Applications U1ass 9jh, SSS ————————eeeee es 13. son of hardware and Gi () Computer ihe combi sofeefsce and routes acted wi the operon Guy () Three aches of compte ah ee Pierce aoe. automate Hen Rn mre of 3am MU sed sca Bran f te compuret I ing Fe oe component“ ALU. MU snd CU (v) (b) Computer is the combination of h. ardware and 0 Ot cones tanto informa Drishti, Mohan, Ram, Niti and Harish are Class 9th students and friends. Drishti purchased a new laptop. All friends are axploning her laptop and wants to do the next assignments in her laptop only. They are checking specification of the laptop written on the laptop box. It says it has 1TB hard disk, 4 GB RAM, 2 GHZ processor, keyboard and a screen, Some specification of ROM is also given. Niti is looking for video card and she finds that laptop has no separate RAM for video card. All friends are having various questions in their mind, (i) The laptop has three type of memory. Which type ‘of memory can be used for storing data permanently? (a) RAM {c) Secondary memory (ii) Mohan and Ram are confused with ROM and secondary memory. Ram is asking to Mohan, when ROM can save data permanently, then why do I need to have hard disk? Choose appropriate reason Mohan has specilied (a) Data on ROM can be written with some specitic techniques only (0) ROM has a limited size (c) ROM data cannot be copied and accessed by users normally {a) All of the above (iii) Disht is asking to teacher “mam I need to purchase a RAM for my video card in computer Can you suggest me which RAM I should purchase" (a) SRAM (b) ROM (a) Primary memory (b) DRAM. (c) SDRAM _(d) Any one Gv) Hansh is confused about the specification 4GB RAM {a) Idetines the size of RAM in Gega Bytes (b) I detines speed of RAM. (0) Hennes the amount of time consumed to access data from RAM (A) Allol the above (¥) Nit asked a question from Drishti, what is the full form of TB (a) Teen Byte (6) Tetea Byte (0) Tera Byte (a) Tara ByteComputer System Organisation 27 Ans. (i) (©) Hard disk can be used to store data permanently As this isa type of secondary memory (ii) (@ Tn ROM, informacion is stored once, and remain Fixed which cannot be changed. But in hard disk we ‘an store information and changed it wherever requited (ii) (@) SRAM (Static RAM) isa computer memory that Fequires a constant power flow in order to hold information, Ie is more expensive which requires tote power, therefore ti commonly wed in exche and vdieo card memory Gi) () GB suse uni o specify ste of the memory. “Therefore, AGB isa storage capacity sie oF RAM (0) The TB isa unico maar the capaci of temory. Ii aed a Teta Byte and 1 TB Application Oriented Questions 1 Suhana is to buy a new computer. She wants to use this system in her home as well as in office too. Suggest her a computer that can fulfil her requirements. ‘Ans, Suhana should buy a laptop as laptops are easily Portable computers and easy to use 2 The usefulness of computers has now become a part of humanity. You cannot imagine life without them, () Do computers have weaknesses also. If yes, then give some examples (ii) Give some use of computers in daily life. Anns. (i) Yes, computers have weaknesses. Some weaknesses of computers are lack of decision-making power, zero IQ and no heuristics (+2) Computers are used to listen to songs, send E-mail etc. in daily life * 3 A computer is used to type documents, send E-mail and browse the Internet. It is very useful to us (i) What aze the basic parts of a computer? (i) Write some characteristics of a computer. Ans, (i) Hardware, sofrwate, data and information (a Accuraey, speed, diligence and reliability 4 Koshin, a class IX student, is learning computers. Yesterday her teacher taught a chapter about input devices and gave an assignment. Help her do so. (i) Which of the following statements are true about input devices? (a) Input device is any software device (b) Input device allows user to interact with computer. (c) Keyboard is an input device. {q) Input devices are not visible (i) Name few input devices Ans, (8 (b) and (¢) statements are rue Gi) Keyboard, mouse, oystihight pen and couch screen 5 Identify inpuVoutput devices from the clues given below: (a) Transfers typed or handwritten texts, graphs, diagrams and photographs into a digital format. (0) Reads the code number, which is encoded as a series of black and white lines on the product. (6) Checks and marks an examination answer sheet that contains multiple choice questions. (d) Processes the cheque number and code. (6) Produces images on paper such as numbers, alphabets and graphics, ( Receives sound in the form of electric current from a sound card and then converts it to the sound format, Ans, (a) Seanner (0) Barcode reader (©) Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) (d) Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) (6 Printer (A) Speaker 6 Sakshi is preparing a lecture on output device like monitor. Discuss, () Give some advantages of the output device ‘monitor Gi) Waite some disadvantages also. Ans. (0. (a) Relatively cheap and reliable (Can display rext and graphies in a wide range of colors (1) (w) No permanent copy to keep the results as ie will disappear when the computer is switched OFE. (8) Unsuitable for users with visual problems. 7 The computer memory relates to many devices and components. () What do you mean by memory? (u) How many types of memory the computer has? Ans. ( Computer memory enables a person to retain the information that is stored on the computer. (i) Computer has basically evo types of memor, as follows: Internal memory Main memory univ. RAM and ROM) and cache memory External memory Secondary memory EY AAA PRACTICE