1.
UNIVAC is
A) Universal Automatic Computer
B) Universal Array Computer
C) Unique Automatic Computer
D) Unvalued Automatic Computer
2. The basic operations performed by a
computer are
A) Arithmetic operation
B) Logical operation
C) Storage and relative
D) All the above
3. The two major types of computer chips are
A) External memory chip B) Primary memory
chip C) Microprocessor chip D) Both b and c
4. Microprocessors as switching devices
are for which generation computers
A) First Generation
B) Second Generation
C) Third Generation
D) Fourth Generation
5. What is the main difference between a
mainframe and a super computer?
A) Super computer is much larger than
mainframe computers
B) Super computers are much smaller than
mainframe computers C) Supercomputers are
focused to execute few programs as fast as
possible while mainframe uses its power to
execute as many
programs concurrently
D) Supercomputers are focused to execute as
many programs as possible while mainframe
uses its power to execute few programs as fast
as possible.
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
7. The brain of any computer system is
A) ALU
B) Memory
C) CPU
D) Control unit
8. Storage capacity of magnetic disk depends
on
A) tracks per inch of surface
B) bits per inch of tracks
C) disk pack in disk surface
D) All of above
9. The two kinds of main memory are:
A) Primary and secondary B) Random and
sequential C) ROM and RAM
D) All of above
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
11. Computer is free from tiresome and
boardroom. We call it
A) Accuracy B) Reliability C) Diligence D)
Versatility
12. Integrated Circuits (ICs) are related to
which generation of computers?
A) First generation
B) Second generation D) Laser printer
C) Third generation
D) Fourth generation 19. What are the stages in the compilation
process?
13. CD-ROM is a A) Feasibility study, system design and testing
A) Semiconductor memory B) Implementation and documentation
B) Memory register C) Magnetic memory D) C) Lexical Analysis, syntax analysis, and code
None of above generation
D) None of the above
14. A hybrid computer
A) Resembles digital computer 20. Which of the following IC was used in third
B) Resembles analogue computer generation of computers?
C) Resembles both a digital and analogue A) SSI
computer B) MSI C) LSI
D) None of the above D) Both a and b

15. Which type of computers uses the 8-bit 21. The main electronic component used in
code called EBCDIC? first generation computers was
A) Minicomputers A) Transistors
B) Microcomputers B) Vacuum Tubes and Valves
C) Mainframe computers C) Integrated Circuits
D) Super computer D) None of above

16. The ALU of a computer responds to the 22. A dumb terminal has
commands coming from A) an embedded microprocessor
A) Primary memory B) extensive memory
B) Control section C) independent processing capability
C) External memory D) a keyboard and screen
D) Cache memory
23. One millisecond is
17. Chief component of first generation A) 1 second
computer was B) 10th of a seconds
A) Transistors C) 1000th of a seconds
B) Vacuum Tubes and Valves D) 10000th of a seconds
C) Integrated Circuits
D) None of above 24. The output quality of a printer is measured
by
18. To produce high quality graphics A) Dot per sq. inch
(hardcopy) in color, you would want to use a/n B) Dot per inch
A) RGB monitor C) Dots printed per unit time
B) Plotter D) All of the above
C) Ink-jet printer
25. Which of the following was a special D) All of the above
purpose computer?
A) ABC 32. Which of the following is not an input
B) ENIAC C) EDVAC device?
D) All of the above A) OCR
B) Optical scanners
26. What was the computer invented by C) Voice recognition device
Attanasoff and Clifford? D) COM (Computer Output to Microfilm)
A) Mark I B) ABC
C) Z3 33. The accuracy of the floating-point
D) None of above numbers representable in two 16-bit words of a
computer is approximately
27. Which of the following storage devices can A) 16 digits B) 6 digits C) 9 digits
store maximum amount of data? D) All of above
A) Floppy Disk
B) Hard Disk 34. In most of the IBM PCs, the CPU, the
C) Compact Disk device drivers, memory, expansion slots and
D) Magneto Optic Disk active components are mounted on a single
board. What is the name of the board?
28. Which computer was considered the first A) Motherboard
electronic computer until 1973 when court B) Daughterboard
invalidated the patent? C) Bredboard
A) ENIAC B) MARK I C) Z3 D) Fatherboard
D) ABC

29. A physical connection between the 35. In most IBM PCs, the CPU, the device
microprocessor memory and other parts of the drives, memory expansion slots and active
microcomputer is known as components are mounted on a single board.
A) Path What is the name of this board?
B) Address bus A) Motherboard
C) Route B) Breadboard
D) All of the above C) Daughter board
D) Grandmother board
30. High density double sided floppy disks
could store of data 36. Magnetic disks are the most popular
A) 1.40 MB B) 1.44 GB C) 1.40 GB D) 1.44 MB medium for
A) Direct access
31. A high quality CAD system uses the B) Sequential access
following for printing drawing and graphs C) Both of above
A) Dot matrix printer D) None of above
B) Digital plotter
C) Line printer
37. A technique used by codes to convert an C) Both a and b
analog signal into a digital bit stream is known D) All of above
as
A) Pulse code modulation 44. Which of the following is not processing?
B) Pulse stretcher A) arranging
C) Query processing B) manipulating
D) Queue management C) calculating
D) gathering
38. Regarding a VDU, Which statement is
more correct? 45. The digital computer was developed
A) It is an output device primarily in
B) It is an input device A) USSR B) Japan C) USA D) UK
C) It is a peripheral device
D) It is hardware item 46. Software in computer
A) Enhances the capabilities of the hardware
39. A modern electronic computer is a machine
machine that is meant for B) Increase the speed of central processing unit
A) Doing quick mathematical calculations C) Both of above
B) Input, storage, manipulation and outputting D) None of above
of data
C) Electronic data processing 47. Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier
D) Performing repetitive tasks accurately known by different name which was changes in
1924. What was that name?
40. When was vacuum tube invented? A) Tabulator Machine Co.
A) 1900 B) Computing Tabulating Recording Co. C) The
B) 1906 Tabulator Ltd.
C) 1910 D) International Computer Ltd.
D) 1880
48. Before a disk drive can access any sector
41. Which of the following produces the best record, a computer program has to provide the
quality graphics reproduction? record’s disk address. What information does
A) Laser printer B) Ink jet printer C) Plotter this address specify?
D) Dot matrix printer A) Track number
B) Sector number C) Surface number D) All of
42. Computers with 80286 microprocessor is above
A) XT computer B) AT computers C) PS/2
computer D) None of above 49. The arranging of data in a logical sequence
is called
43. An application suitable for sequential A) Sorting
processing is B) Classifying
A) Processing of grades C) Reproducing
B) Payroll processing D) Summarizing
 56. People often call as the brain of
50. What is the responsibility of the logical computer system
unit in the CPU of a computer? A) Control Unit
A) To produce result B) Arithmetic Logic Unit
B) To compare numbers C) Central Processing Unit
C) To control flow of information D) Storage Unit
D) To do math’s works
57. Which is used for manufacturing chips?
51. Abacus was the first A) electronic A) Bus
computer B) mechanical computer C) electronic B) Control unit
calculator D) mechanical calculator C) Semiconductors
D) A and b only
52. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to
specify address in a RAM, the number of 58. The value of each bead in heaven is
addresses will be A) 1
A) 216 B) 3
B) 65,536 C) 5
C) 64K D) 7
D) Any of the above

53. Instructions and memory address are 59. The first computer introduced in Nepal
represented by was
A) Character code A) IBM 1400
B) Binary codes B) IBM 1401
C) Binary word C) IBM 1402
D) Parity bit D) IBM1402

54. The terminal device that functions as a 60. Mnemonic a memory trick is used in which
cash register, computer terminal, and OCR of the following language?
reader is the: A) Machine language B) Assembly language C)
A) Data collection terminal High level language D) None of above
B) OCR register terminal C) Video Display
terminal D) POS terminal 61. Instruction in computer languages consists
of
55. A set of flip flops integrated together is A) OPCODE B) OPERAND
called C) Both of above
A) Counter D) None of above
B) Adder
C) Register 62. Which generation of computer is still
D) None of the above under development
A) Fourth Generation
B) Fifth Generation
C) Sixth Generation 69. When was the world’s first laptop
D) Seventh Generation computer introduced in the
market and by whom?
63. A register organized to allow to move left A) Hewlett-Packard, 1980
or right operations is called a B) Epson, 1981
A) Counter B) Loader C) Adder C) Laplink Traveling Software Inc, 1982
D) Shift register D) Tandy Model-200, 1985

64. Which was the most popular first 70. From which generation operating systems
generation computer? were developed?
A) IBM 650 A) First
B) IBM 360 B) Second
C) IBM 1130 C) Third
D) IBM 2700 D) Fourth

65. Which is considered a direct entry input 71. The first firm to mass-market a
device? microcomputer as a personal computer was
A) Optical scanner A) IBM
B) Mouse and digitizer B) Super UNIVAC C) Radio Shaks
C) Light pen D) Data General Corporation
D) All of the above
72. How many address lines are needed to
66. A set of information that defines the address each machine location in a 2048 x 4
status of resources allocated to a process is memory chip?
A) Process control A) 10
B) ALU B) 11
C) Register Unit C) 8
D) Process description D) 12

67. Each set of Napier’s bones consisted of 73. Properly arranged data is called
rods. A) Field
A) 5 B) Words
B) 9 C) Information
C) 11 D) File
D) 13
74. A computer consists of A) A central
68. BCD is processing unit B) A memory
A) Binary Coded Decimal C) Input and output unit
B) Bit Coded Decimal C) Binary Coded Digit D) D) All of the above
Bit Coded Digit
75. Why are vacuum tubes also called valves?
A) Because they can amplify the weak signals 81. Multi user systems provided cost savings
and make them strong for small business because they use a single
B) Because they can stop or allow the flow of processing unit to link several
current A) Personal computers
C) Both of above B) Workstations
D) None of above C) Dumb terminals
D) Mainframes
76. John Napier invented Logarithm in
A) 1614 82. What are the three decisions making
B) 1617 operations performed by the ALU of a
C) 1620 computer?
D) None of above A) Grater than
B) Less than
77. An integrated circuit is C) Equal to
A) A complicated circuit D) All of the above
B) An integrating device
C) Much costlier than a single transistor
D) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip 83. The word processing task associated with
changing the appearance of a document is
78. What type of control pins are needed in a A) Editing
microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in B) Writing
order to prevent two devices from trying to use C) Formatting
it at the same time? D) All of above
A) Bus control
B) Interrupts 84. Nepal brought a computer for census of
C) Bus arbitration 2028 BS. This computer was of
D) Status A) first generation
B) second generation
79. Where as a computer mouse moves over C) third generation
the table surface, the trackball is D) fourth generation
A) Stationary
B) Difficult to move 85. Algorithm and Flow chart help us to
C) Dragged A) Know the memory capacity
D) Moved in small steps B) Identify the base of a number system
C) Direct the output to a printer
80. Which of the following is used as a primary D) Specify the problem completely and clearly
storage device?
A) Magnetic drum 86. Which statement is valid about computer
B) Hard Disks program?
C) Floppy A) It is understood by a computer B) It is
D) All of above understood by programmer C) It is understood
user
D) Both a & b A) 1024 bytes
B) 1024 kilobytes
87. The difference between memory and C) 1024 megabytes
storage is that memory is and storage is D) 1024 gigabyte
A) Temporary, permanent B) Permanent,
temporary C) Slow, fast 94. in which year was UK’s premier computing
D) All of above event started?
A) 1980
88. When was Pascaline invented? B) 1985
A) 1617 C) 1986
B) 1620 D) 1987
C) 1642
D) 1837 95. Once you load the suitable program and
provide required data, computer does not need
89. Which of the following statement is valid? human intervention. This feature is known as
A) Lady Augusta is the first programmer A) Accuracy B) Reliability C) Versatility D)
B) Ada is the daughter of Lord Byron, a famous Automatic
English poet C) ADA is a programming language
developed by US Defense D) All of above 96. What is a brand?
A) The name of companies that made
90. A compiler is a translating program which computers
A) Translates instruction of a high level B) The name of product a company gives to
language into machine language identify its product in market
B) Translates entire source program into C) A name of class to indicate all similar
machine language program products from different companies
C) It is not involved in program’s execution D) All of above
D) All of above
97. Machine language is A) Machine
91. What is required when more than one dependent B) Difficult to program C) Error
person uses a central computer at the same prone
time? D) All of above
A) Light pen
B) Mouse C) Digitizer D) Terminal 98. A byte consists of
A) One bit B) Four bits C) Eight bits
92. Which of the following is the first D) Sixteen bits
computer to use Stored
Program Concept? 99. Modern Computers are very reliable but
A) UNIVAC B) ENIAC they are not
C) EDSAC A) Fast
D) None of above B) Powerful C) Infallible D) Cheap

93. The term gigabyte refers to

100. What is the date when Babbage conceived
Analytical engine
A) 1642 106. Which of the following is not anti-viruses
B) 1837 software?
C) 1880 A) NAV
D) 1850 B) F-Prot C) Oracle D) McAfee

101. What was the expected feature of fifth
generation computers when Japan started
FGCS?
A) Operating Systems B) Parallel Processing C)
ULSI
D) None of above
102. Which of the following memory medium is
not used as main memory system?
A) Magnetic core B) Semiconductor C) Magnetic
tape
D) Both semiconductor and magnetic tape
103. The storage subsystem in a microcomputer
consists mainly of
or media with varying capacities
A) Memory or video
B) Magnetic or optical C) Optical or memory D)
Video or magnetic
107. What is a compiler?
A) A compiler does a conversion line by line as
the program is run
B) A compiler converts the whole of a higher
level program code into machine code in one
step
C) A compiler is a general purpose language
providing very efficient execution
D) None of the above
108. computers are also called personal
computers
A) Mainframe Computer
B) Mini Computers C) Micro Computers D)
Super Computers
109. Which of the following is not input unit
device?
A) scanner B) camera C) plotter D) digitizer

104. Programs designed to perform specific 110. Identify the correct statement A) IBM PCs
tasks is known as used RISC CPU designs B) Macintosh used CISC
A) system software CPU design C) IBM used CISC CPU design
B) application software D) None of above is true
C) utility programs
D) operating system 111. Which of the following statement is false?
A) Mechanical analog computers have existed
105. Computer operators for thousands of years
A) writes computer programs for specific B) There are mechanical analog computers and
problems electronic analog computers.
B) operate the device which input and output C) All electronic computers are digital
data from the computer computers
C) normally require a college degree in D) All of above are false
computer science
D) all of the above
112. Which of the following require large C) Magnetic strength
computers memory? D) None of the above
A) Imaging B) Graphics C) Voice
D) All of Above 120. An error in software or hardware is called a
bug. What is the alternative computer jargon
113. Which of the following is machine for it?
independence program? A) Leech B) Squid C) Slug D) Glitch
A) High level language B) Low level language C)
Assembly language D) Machine language 121. The advantage of COM are its and
A) Compact size; speed readability
114. When was the first electro-mechanical B) Compact size, speed
computer developed? C) Readability; speed
A) 1880 D) Low cost; readability
B) 1990
C) 1944 122. The BIOS is the abbreviation of .
D) None of above A) Basic Input Output System B) Best Input
Output System C) Basic Input Output Symbol D)
115. The first machine to successfully perform a Base Input Output System
long series of arithmetic and logical operations
was: 123. Which printer is very commonly used for
A) ENIAC B) Mark-I desktop publishing?
C) Analytic Engine A) Laser printer
D) UNIVAC-1 B) Inkjet printer
C) Daisywheel printer
116. Which one is the largest space? D) Dot matrix printer
A) kilobyte B) petabyte C) terabyte D) gigabyte
124. IBM 1401 is
117. FORTRAN programming language is more A) First Generation Computer
suitable for B) Second Generation Computer
A) Business Applications C) Third Generation Computer
B) Marketing Applications C) Scientific D) Fourth Generation Computer
Applications D) None of the above
125. Most of the first generation computers
118. The brain of any computer system is were
A) Control Unit A) Special purpose computers B) General
B) Arithmetic Logic Unit purpose computers C) Both of above
C) Central Processing Unit D) None of above
D) Storage Unit
126. Floppy disks typically in diameter
119. Analog computer works on the supply of A) 3
A) Continuous electrical pulses B) 5.25
B) Electrical pulses but not continuous C) 8
D) All of above 134. Which of the following is not an electronic
computer?
127. The output quality of a printer is measured A) ENIAC B) ABC
by C) UNIVAC
A) Dot per inch D) EDVAC
B) Dot per sq. inch
C) Dots printed per unit time 135. What is the name of the display feature
D) All of above that highlights are of the screen which requires
operator attention?
128. On a PC, how much memory is available to A) Pixel
application software? B) Reverse video C) Touch screen D) Cursor
A) 1024 KB B) 760 KB C) 640 KB D) 560 KB
136. Which is the largest computer?
129. In a computer is capable to store A) Mainframe Computer
single binary bit. B) Mini Computers C) Micro Computers D)
A) Capacitor B) Flip flop C) Register D) Inductor Super Computers

137. Which of the following are the best units of

130. What does DMA stand for? data on an external storage device?
A) Distinct Memory Access B) Direct Memory A) Bits
Access C) Direct Module Access B) Bytes
D) Direct Memory Allocation C) Hertz
D) Clock cycles
131. Who invented Integrated Circuits?
A) Jack Kilby 138. The personal computer industry was
B) Robert Noyce C) Both of above D) None of started by
above A) IBM
B) Apple
132. Operating system, editors, and debuggers C) Compaq
comes under? D) HCL
A) System Software
B) Application Software 139. What is meant by a dedicated computer?
C) Utilities A) Which is used by one person only
D) None of the above B) Which is assigned one and only one task
C) Which uses one kind of software
133. One computer that is not considered a D) Which is meant for application software
portable is
A) Minicomputer 140. Which programming languages are
B) Laptop computer classified as low level languages?
C) Notebook computer A) Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN B) Prolog 2, Expert
D) All of above Systems
C) Knowledge based Systems
D) Assembly Languages C) Over lapped processing
D) Outline processor
141. What was the main disadvantage of
vacuum tubes? 147. Who suggested Stored Program Concept
A) They were larger in size A) John Mauchley
B) They consumed a lot of electricity B) J.P. Eckert
C) They produced heat and often burned out C) John Neumann
D) The operation cost was high D) Joseph Jacquard

142. Registers, which are partially visible to 148. The central processing unit (CPU) consists
users and used to hold conditional, are known of
as A) Input, output and processing
A) PC B) Control unit, primary storage, and secondary
B) Memory address registers C) General storage C) Control unit, arithmetic-logic unit
purpose register D) Flags and primary storage D) Control unit, processing,
and primary storage
143. Which is not a computer of first
generation? 149. The notable features like keyboards,
A) ENIAC monitors, GUI were developed in
B) UNIVAC A) First generation
C) IBM 360 B) Second generation
D) IBM 1401 C) Third generation
D) Fourth generation
144. Registers which are partially visible to
users and used to hold conditional codes (bits 150. UNIVAC is
set by the CPU hardware as the result of A) Universal Automatic Computer
operations), are known as B) Universal Array Computer
A) PC C) Unique Automatic Computer
B) Flags D) Unvalued Automatic Computer
C) Memory Address Registers
D) General Purpose Registers 151. Which is the highest form?
A) Data
145. Who invented vacuum tubes? B) Information C) Knowledge D) All of above
A) John Bardeen
B) William Shockley 152. Who is credited with the idea of using
C) Lee de Forest punch cards to control patterns in a waving
D) All of above machine?
A) Pascal
146. An approach that permits the computer to B) Hollerith
work on several programs instead of one is C) Babbage
A) On-line thesaurus D) Jacquard
B) Multiprogramming 153. What is an interpreter?
A) An interpreter does the conversion line by B) ABC C) Z3
line as the program is D) None of above
run
B) An interpreter is the representation of the 160. A directly accessible appointment calendar
system being designed is feature of a
C) An interpreter is a general purpose language resident package
providing very efficient execution A) CPU
D) None of the above B) Memory
C) Buffer
D) ALU

154. Which is a semi conductor memory? 161. Which unit converts computer data into
A) Dynamic human readable form?
B) Static A) Input unit
C) Bubble B) Output unit
D) Both a & b C) ALU
D) Control Unit
155. RJ45 UTP cable has Cables.
A) 2 pair B) 3 pair C) 4 pair D) 5 pair 162. The full form of ALU is
A) Arithmetic Logic Unit
156. Which of the following is not a valid size of B) Array Logic Unit
a Floppy Disk? C) Application Logic Unit
A) 8? D) None of above
B) 5 ¼?
C) 3 ½? D) 5 ½? 163. What produces useful information out of
data?
157. The earliest calculating devices are A) Computer
A) Abacus B) Processing
B) Clock C) Programming
C) Difference Engine D) none of above
D) None of these
164. Which of the following device was not
158. Word length of a Personal Computer is invented by Babbage?
A) 4 bits A) Pascaline
B) 8 bits B) Difference Engine
C) 16 bits C) Analytical Engine
D) 64 bits D) None of above

159. What was the first computer to perform all 165. A digital computer did not score over an
calculation using electronics rather than wheels, analog computer in terms of
ratchets, or mechanical switches? A) Speed
A) Mark I B) Accuracy
C) Reliability B) Control unit
D) Cost C) ALU
D) Modem
166. Which number system is usually followed
in a typical 32-bit computer? 172. ABC is a
A) Binary A) Special purpose computer
B) Decimal B) General purpose computer
C) Hexadecimal C) All Purpose Computer
D) Octal D) None of above

167. A computer has very low failure rate 173. The computer code for the interchange of
because it uses electronic components. It information between terminals is
produces very consistent results. This is A) ASCII
highlighted by which of the feature of B) BCD
computer? C) EBCDIC
A) Accuracy D) All of above
B) Reliability C) Versatility D) Automatic
174. When was the X window system born?
168. A paper printout of a document is known A) 1984
as B) 1989
A) Softcopy output C) 1988
B) Hardcopy output D) 1990
C) Permanent Output
D) All of above 175. What is the first stage in software
development?
169. Which electronic component was made A) Specification and design
out of semiconductor material? B) Testing
A) Vacuum tubes C) System Analysis
B) Transistors D) Maintenance
C) ICs
D) All of above 176. Which of the following is valid statement?
A) Data in itself is useless unless it is processed
170. The act of retrieving existing data from B) The data that is processed is called a program
memory is called C) The data which is not yet processed is
A) Read-out information
B) Read from D) Information is processed by computer to
C) Read generate data.
D) All of above
177. The Second Generation Computer was
171. Which part of the computer is used for based on .
calculating and comparing? A) Vacuum Tube B) Silicon Chips C) Transistor
A) Disk unit D) Bio Chips
 B) Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only
Memory
178. EBCDIC stands for C) Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only
A) Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Memory
Code D) None of the above
B) Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange Code
C) Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange Code 185. Regarding data, computers are very good
D) Extended Binary Case Decimal Interchange at
Code A) store
B) Processing
179. Personnel who design, program, operates C) retrieve
and maintains computer equipment refers to D) All of above
A) Console-operator
B) Programmer 186. Bit map terminal
C) Peopleware A) support display containing multiple windows
D) System Analyst B) require considerable amount of video RAM
C) requires tremendous amount of copying and
180. IBM System/360 is hence low performance
A) Mainframe Computer D) all of above
B) Mini Computers C) Micro Computers D) None
of above 187. First generation computers used
for memory
181. A system is A) vacuum tubes
A) an integration of different units so as to B) silicon chips
achieve an objective C) magnetic drum
B) input unit D) RAM
C) input and output unit
D) input, output and storage units 188. Which of the following memories allows
simultaneous read and write operations?
182. Which of the following programming A) ROM B) RAM
language started from second generation? C) EPROM
A) Cobol B) BASIC C) C D) None of above
D) LISP
189. EPROM can be used for
183. The translator program used in assembly A) Erasing the contents of ROM
language is called B) Reconstructing the contents of ROM
A) Compiler C) Erasing and reconstructing the contents of
B) Interpreter C) Assembler D) Translator ROM D) Duplicating ROM

184. EEPROM stands for 190. ENIAC uses

A) Electrically Erasable Programmable Read A) Decimal Numbering System
Only Memory B) Octal Numbering System
C) Binary Numbering System B) Output device
D) Hexadecimal Numbering System C) Memory
D) Microprocessor
191. A term associated with the comparison of
processing speeds of different computer system 199. Which of the following is a read only
is: memory storage device?
A) EFTS A) Floppy Disk
B) MPG B) CD-ROM
C) MIPS D) CPS C) Hard Disk
D) None of these
192. which of the following is problem oriented
language? 200. Symbolic logic was discovered by
A) High level language A) George Boole
B) Machine language C) Assembly language D) B) Herman Hollerith
Low level language C) Van Neumann
D) Basic Pascal
193. A 32 bit microprocessor has the word
length equal to 201. Which of the following is not valid
A) 2 byte B) 32 byte C) 4 byte D) 8 byte statement?
A) Hard is referred to mean something
194. The term GIGO is related to temporary
A) Accuracy B) Hard is used to mean something tangible
B) Reliability C) Versatility D) Automatic C) Soft is used to mean something permanent
D) Soft is used to mean something tangible
195. Web cam is an 202. Digital devices are
A) input unit device B) output unit device C) A) Digital Clock
processing device B) Automobile speed meter
D) Input and Output device C) Clock with a dial and two hands
D) All of them
196. Bit stands for A) Binary digits B) bit of
system C) a part of byte D) All of above
203. Primary memory stores
197. Access time is A) Data alone
A) seek time + latency time B) Programs alone
B) seek time C) Results alone
C) seek time ? latency time D) All of these
D) latency time
204. After copying the content how many times
198. Which device can understand difference can you paste?
between data & A) 1
programs? B) 16
A) Input device C) 32
D) Many 212. It was in 2028 BS the was brought
in to calculate census data.
205. WAN stands for A) IBM 1400
A) Wap Area Network B) Wide Area Network C) B) IBM 1401
Wide Array Net C) ICL 2950
D) Wireless Area Network D) None of above

206. An error in computer data is called 213. Who is the inventor of ABC Computer?
A) Chip B) Bug C) CPU A) John v. Atanasoff
D) Storage device B) Clifford Berry C) Both of above D) None of
above
207. The instructions for starting the computer
are house on 214. Which of the following is the largest unit?
A) Random access memory A) data
B) CD-Rom B) field
C) Read only memory chip C) record
D) All of above D) database file

208. 1 nibble equals to 215. Find out who is not the inventor of
A) 1 bits B) 2 bits C) 4 bits D) 8 bits transistors among following names
A) John Burdeen
209. Perforated paper used as input of output B) William Shockley C) Walter Brattain D) Lee de
media is known as Forest
A) paper tapes
B) magnetic tape 216. Which of the following is not true for a
C) punched papers tape magnetic disk?
D) card punch A) It is expensive relative to magnetic tape
B) It provides only sequential access to stored
210. The secondary storage devices can only data
store data but they cannot perform C) Users can easily update records by writing
A) Arithmetic Operation over the old data
B) Logic operation D) All of above
C) Fetch operations
D) Either of the above 217. A disadvantage of the laser printer is
A) It is quieter than an impact printer
211. Which American computer company is B) It is very slow
called Big Blue? C) The output is of a lower quality
A) Microsoft D) None of the above
B) Compaq Corp
C) IBM 218. The most commonly used standard data
D) Tandy Svenson code to represent alphabetical, numerical and
punctuation characters used in electronic data A) High level language
processing system is called B) Medium level language
A) ASCII C) Low level language
B) EBCDIC C) BCD D) All of the above
D) All of above
225. Reading data is performed in magnetic disk
219. Which access method is used to access by
cassette tape? A) Read/write leads
A) Direct B) Sectors
B) Sequential C) Track
C) Both of the above D) Lower surface
D) None of the above
226. IBM 7000 digital computer A) Belongs to
220. A Compiler is second generation B) Uses VLSI
A) a combination of computer hardware C) Employs semiconductor memory
B) a program which translates from one high- D) Has modular constructions
level language to another
C) a program which translates from one high-
level to a machine level language 227. Which of the following is not electro-
D) None of these mechanical computer?
A) Mark I B) ABC
221. Which unit holds data temporarily? C) Zuse
A) Input unit D) UNIVAC
B) Secondary storage unit
C) Output Unit 228. The term ‘computer’ is derived from
D) Primary Memory Unit A) Greek language
B) Sanskrit language
222. The computer size was very large in C) Latin language
A) First Generation D) German language
B) Second Generation
C) Third Generation 229. Which statement is valid about magnetic
D) Fourth Generation tape?
A) It is a plastic ribbon
223. A name or number used to identify storage B) It is coated on both sides with iron oxide
location devices? C) It can be erased and reused
A) A byte D) All of above
B) A record
C) An address 230. Which of the following is first generation
D) All of above computer?
A) EDSAC
224. Which of the following is not computer B) IBM 1401
language? C) CDC 1604
D) ICL 2950 B) com
C) computa
231. A hard copy would be prepared on a D) computar
A) Line printer
B) Dot matrix Printer 238. An input /output device at which data
C) Typewriter terminal enters or leaves a computer system is
D) All of the above A) Keyboard B) Terminal C) Printer
D) Plotter
232. The term GIGO is relate to which
characteristics of computers? 239. Which of the following is first generation of
A) Speed computer
B) Automatic C) Accuracy D) Reliability A) EDSAC
B) IBM-1401
233. Which of the following programming C) CDC-1604
language were used in first generation D) ICL-2900
computers?
A) Machine language B) Assembly language C) 240. A name or number used to identify a
Both of above storage location is called
D) None of above A) A byte
B) A record
234. To locate a data item for storage is C) An address
A) Field D) All of above
B) Feed
C) Database 241. Computer professionals working in a
D) Fetch computer centre are
A) Software B) Firmware C) Hardware
235. Who used punched cards practically for D) Humanware
the first time in the history of computers?
A) Charles Babbage 242. The first general purpose electronic
B) Dr. Herman Hollerith computer in the world was
C) Howard Aikin A) UNIVAC B) EDVAC C) ENIAC
D) Joseph Jacquard D) All of above

236. Hard disk is coated in both sides with
A) Magnetic metallic oxide
B) Optical metallic oxide
C) Carbon layer
D) All of the above
243. The contents of information are stored in
A) Memory data register
B) Memory address register
C) Memory arithmetic registers
D) Memory access register

237. Which of the following term means to 244. Which of the following is correct full form
reckon? of BCD?
A) putare A) Binary Coded Decimal
B) Bit Coded Decimal C) Binary Coded Digit D) B) Digital systems
Bit Coded Digit C) Calculators
D) All of the above
245. Which was the world’s first microcomputer
that used Intel 252. Which statement is valid about computer
80386 microprocessor chip? program?
A) IBM PS/2 A) High level languages must be converted into
B) HP-9830 machine language to execute
C) DeskPro-386 B) High level language programs are more
D) IBM-360 efficient and faster to execute
C) It is more difficult to identify errors in high
246. The qualitative or quantitative attribute of level language program than in low level
a variable or set of variables is termed as programs
A) data D) All of above
B) information
C) both of above 253. By programmable machine we mean
D) none of above A) computers
B) modern television
247. Main storage is also called C) washing machines
A) Accumulator B) Control Unit C) Register Unit D) anything that can be set to perform different
D) Memory tasks with suitable programs

248. Which of the following are (is) considered 254. Which of the following is a secondary
to be video component? memory device?
A) Resolution B) Color depth C) Refresh rate A) Keyboard
D) All of the alcove B) Disk
C) ALU
249. For what Antikyathera was used? D) All of the above
A) For counting
B) For Calculating tax collection 255. The memory which is programmed at the
C) For calculating astronomical positions time it is manufactured
D) For calculating firing weapons A) ROM B) RAM C) PROM
D) EPROM
250. Memory unit is one part of
A) Input device 256. One of the popular mass storage device is
B) Control unit CD ROM. What does
C) Output device CD ROM stand for?
D) Central Processing Unit A) Compactable Read Only Memory
B) Compact Data Read Only Memory
C) Compactable Disk Read Only Memory
251. Microprocessors can be used to make D) Compact Disk Read Only Memory
A) Computer
257. Identify the true statement 263. In mode, the communication
A) Computers are 100% accurate but it can channel is used in both directions at the same
suffer from GIGO time?
B) Computers are reliable because they use A) Full-duplex
electronic component which have very low B) Simplex
failure rate C) Half-duplex
C) Computer is never tired and does not suffer D) None of the above
from boredom
D) All of above 264. Who invented Slide Rules?
A) John Napier
258. FORTRAN is B) William Oughtred C) Gottfried Leibnitz D)
A) File Translation Blaise Pascal
B) Format Translation C) Formula Translation D)
Floppy Translation 265. The proper definition of a modern digital
computer is
259. The programs which are as permanent as A) An electronic automated machine that can
hardware and stored in ROM is known as solve problems involving words and numbers
A) Hardware B) Software C) Firmware D) ROM B) A more sophistic and modified electronic
ware pocket calculator
C) Any machine that can perform mathematical
260. Which of the following memories must be operations
refreshed many times per second? D) A machine that works on binary code
A) Static RAM
B) Dynamic RAM C) EPROM 266. Memory is made up of
D) ROM A) Set of wires
B) Set of circuits
261. What do you call the translator which C) Large number of cells
takes assembly language program as input & D) All of these
produce machine language code as output?
A) Compiler 267. Which of the following is the most
B) Interpreter C) Debugger D) Assembler powerful computers?
A) Mainframe Computer
262. Serial access memories are useful in B) Mini Computers C) Micro Computers D)
applications where Super Computers
A) Data consists of numbers
B) Short access time is required 268. Which of the printers used in conjunction
C) Each stored word is processed differently with computers uses dry ink powder?
D) Data naturally needs to flow in and out in A) Daisy wheel printer
serial form B) Line printer
C) Laser printer
D) Thermal printer
269. What is the path from which data flow in a C) Carbon layer
computer system is known as D) All of the above
A) Car
B) Bus 276. ASCII stands for
C) Truck A) American Stable Code for International
D) Road Interchange
B) American Standard Case for Institutional
270. Which term is used to describe RAM? Interchange
A) Dynamic RAM (DRAM) B) Static RAM (SRAM) C) American Standard Code for Information
C) Video RAM (VRAM) D) All of the above Interchange
D) American Standard Code for Interchange
271. In which year was chip used inside the Information
computer for the first time?
A) 1964 277. Raw facts and figures about any particular
B) 1975 topic are
C) 1999 A) Information
D) 1944 B) facts
C) data
272. Assembly language started to be used from D) none of above
A) first generation computers
B) second generation computers 278. A computer can solve more than one kind
C) third generation computers of problem. This is related to which of the
D) fourth generation computers following characteristics?
A) Accuracy
273. Which technology is more reliable? B) Reliability
A) Mechanical C) Versatility
B) Electro-Mechanical D) Automatic
C) Electronic
D) For reliability it does not matter. So all of 279. From which generation computers the
above are reliable printers were used?
A) first
B) second
274. Which of the following is not an XT C) third
microprocessor? D) fourth
A) 8006
B) 8086 280. How many symbols exist in Baudot code?
C) 8088 A) 32
D) None of above B) 116
C) 58
275. Hard disk is coated in both side with D) 76
A) Magnetic metallic oxide
B) Optical metallic oxide
281. Following IC chip integrates 100 thousands C) 1975
electronic components per chip D) None of above
A) SSI B) MSI
C) LSI D) VLSI 288. Which of the following storage device can
store the largest amount of data?
282. An application program that helps the user A) Hard Disks
to change any number and immediately see the B) Flash Disks
result of that change is C) Blu-Ray Disks
A) Desktop publishing program D) DVDs
B) Database
C) Spreadsheet 289. Who invented Mark I?
D) All of above A) Howard Aikin
B) J. P. Eckert
283. In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a C) John Mauchley
machine called the Analytical Engine which he D) John v. Atanasoff
showed at the Paris Exhibition. In which year
was it exhibition? 290. ALU is
A) 1820 A) Arithmetic Logic Unit
B) 1860 B) Array Logic Unit
C) 1855 C) Application Logic Unit
D) 1870 D) None of above

284. What is the name of the new color laptop 291. A computer program that converts an
computer which is powered by a 386 processor entire program into machine language at one
at 33 MHz and is built by Epson? A) AX3/33 time is called a/an
B) NEC-20 A) Interpreter
C) Magnum 2000 B) CPU
D) HCL-3000 C) Compiler
D) Simulator
285. In analog computer
A) Input is first converted to digital form 292. When did arch rivals IBM and Apple
B) Input is never converted to digital form Computers Inc. decide to join hands?
C) Output is displayed in digital form A) 1978
D) All of the above B) 1984
C) 1990
286. Which of the following computer is not D) 1991
invented by J.P. Eckert and John Mauchly?
A) ENIAC B) EDVAC C) UNIVAC D) EDSAC 293. The purpose of vacuum tube was to NOT
act like
287. When was the company named IBM? A) an amplifier
A) 1914 B) a switch
B) 1924 C) a router
D) None of above 300. Mostly which of the following device is
used to carry user files?
294. As compared to diskettes, the hard disks A) Floppy Disk
are B) Hard Disk
A) More expensive B) More portable C) Less C) RAM
rigid D) CDROM
D) Slowly accessed
301. Which of the following computer
295. Which of the following is the most quickly implemented binary numbers, perform
accessible storage? calculations using electronics and implemented
A) RAM separate computation and memory for the first
B) Registers time?
C) Disks A) Mark I B) ABC
D) Pen Drive C) Z3
D) None of above
296. The octal equivalence of 111010 is
A) 81 302. FORTRAN is a programming language.
B) 72 What does FORTRAN
C) 71 stand for?
D) None of above A) File Translation
B) Format Translation C) Formula Translation D)
297. Excessive parallel processing is related to Floppy Translation
A) First generation
B) Fourth generation C) Fifth Generation D) 303. Which of the following memories needs
Third generation refreshing?
A) SRAM B) DRAM C) ROM
D) All of above
298. Second generation computers were
developed during 304. Can you tell what passes into and out from
A) 1949 to 1955 the computer via its ports?
B) 1956 to 1965 A) Data
C) 1965 to 1970 B) Bytes
D) 1970 to 1990 C) Graphics
D) Pictures
299. What do you call a single point on a
computer screen? 305. An output device that uses words or
A) Cell messages recorded on a magnetic medium to
B) Element produce audio response is
C) Pixel A) Magnetic tape
D) Bit B) Voice response unit
C) Voice recognition unit
D) Voice band
 B) Accepts input data from keyboard C)
306. Which of the items below are considered Performs arithmetic/logic function D) None of
removable storage media? above
A) Removable hard disk cartridges
B) (Magneto-optical) disk C) Flexible disks 313. Which of the following is internal memory?
cartridges D) All of the above A) Disks
B) Pen Drives
307. Which of the following is not purely output C) RAM D) CDs
device?
A) Screen B) Printer C) Speaker D) Plotter 314. Which operation is not performed by
computer
308. Who developed a mechanical device in A) Inputting B) Processing C) Controlling
the D) Understanding
17th century that could add, subtract, multiple,
divide and find square roots? 315. Floppy disks which are made from flexible
A) Napier plastic material are also called?
B) Babbage A) Hard disks
C) Pascal B) High-density disks
D) Leibniz C) Diskettes
D) Templates
309. The first Macintosh computer was from
A) First generation 316. The magnetic storage chip used to provide
B) Second generation non-volatile direct access storage of data and
C) Third generation that have no moving parts are known as
D) Fourth generation A) Magnetic core memory
B) Magnetic tape memory
310. Which of the following is not a form of C) Magnetic disk memory
data? D) Magnetic bubble memory
A) numbers and characters
B) images 317. A collection of related instructions
C) sound organized for a common purpose is referred to
D) none of above as
A) File
311. Which is not a computer classification? B) Database
A) mainframe C) Program
B) maxframe D) None of above
C) mini
D) notebook 318. Plotter accuracy is measured in terms of
repeatability and
312. The control unit of a microprocessor A) Buffer size
A) Stores data in the memory B) Resolution
C) Vertical dimensions
D) Intelligence
325. The subject of cybernetics deals with the
319. Computer instructions written with the use science of
of English words instead of binary machine code A) Genetics
is called B) Control and communication
A) Mnemonics C) Molecular biology
B) Symbolic code D) Biochemistry
C) Gray codes
D) Opcode 326. Why ABC is considered electro-mechanical
computer?
320. Which language is directly understood by A) Because it was invented before electronic
the computer without translation program? computers were developed
A) Machine language B) Because there are wheels, drums, bars to
B) Assembly language rotate and move to produce result
C) High level language C) Because they use the flow of electrons in
D) None of above different component
D) None of above

321. On which aspect the analog computers are 327. Binary circuit elements have
better than digital? A) One stable state B) Two stable state C) Three
A) Speed stable state D) None of above
B) Accuracy C) Reliability D) Automatic
328. Which of the following is used for
322. Which of the following processors use RISC manufacturing chips?
technology? A) Control bus B) Control unit C) Parity unit
A) 486dx D) Semiconductor
B) Power PC C) 486sx
D) 6340 329. Which of the following is not a micro
computer?
323. Which of the following machine was not A) Laptop PCs
invented by Charles B) Tablet PCs
Babbage? C) Desktop PCs
A) Tabulating Machine D) None of above
B) Analytical Engine C) Difference Engine D)
Both C and D 330. The value of each bead in earth is
A) 1
324. How many numbers could ENIAC store in B) 3
its internal memory C) 5
A) 100 D) 7
B) 20
C) 80 331. When did John Napier develop logarithm?
D) 40 A) 1416
B) 1614
C) 1641 338. Before a disk can be used to store data. It
D) 1804 must be
A) Formatted
332. Which of the following terms is the most B) Reformatted
closely related to main memory? C) Addressed
A) Non volatile D) None of the above
B) Permanent C) Control unit D) Temporary
339. Computer system comprises of major units
333. Which was the world’s first minicomputer A) input unit, output unit, control unit
and when was it B) input unit, output unit, control unit and
introduced? storage
A) PDP-I, 1958 C) input unit, output unit, central processing
B) IBM System/36, 1960 unit and storage unit
C) PDP-II, 1961 D) input, output and storage units
D) VAX 11/780, 1962
340. The first general purpose electronic digital
334. A group of magnetic tapes, videos or computer in the world was
terminals usually under the control of one A) UNIVAC B) EDVAC C) ENIAC
master is D) All of above
A) Cylinder B) Surface C) Track
D) Cluster 341. Signals can be analog or digital and a
computer that processes the both type of
335. The word length of a computer is signals is known as
measured in A) Analog computer B) Digital Computer C)
A) Bytes Hybrid Computer
B) Millimeters D) Mainframe Computer
C) Meters
D) Bits 342. High level language is also called
A) Problem oriented language
336. What type of memory is not directly B) Business oriented language
addressable by the CPU and requires special C) Mathematically oriented language
softw3are called EMS (expanded memory D) All of the above
specification)?
A) Extended B) Expanded C) Base 343. Human beings are referred to as
D) Conventional Homosapinens, which device is called Sillico
Sapiens?
337. Which unit holds data permanently? A) Monitor
A) Input unit B) Hardware
B) Secondary storage unit C) Robot
C) Output Unit D) Computer
D) Primary Memory Unit
 B) Magnetic Ink Code Reader C) Magnetic Ink
344. Which of the following file organization is Cases Reader D) None
most efficient for a file with a high degree of file
activity? 351. Number crunchier is the informal name for
A) Sequential A) Mini computer B) Super computer C)
B) ISAM C) VSAM Microcomputer
D) B-Tree Index D) Mainframe computer

345. Which of the following is associated with 352. RATS stand for
error detector? A) Regression Analysis Time Series B)
A) Odd parity bit Regression Analysis Time Sharing C) Real
B) Even parity bit Analysis Series
C) Both of the above D) All of above
D) None of above
353. Which technology is used in Compact
346. Magnetic tape can serve as disks?
A) Secondary storage media A) Mechanical
B) Output media B) Electrical
C) Input media C) Electro Magnetic
D) All of the above D) Laser

347. Which company is the biggest player in the 354. Different components of the motherboard
microprocessor industry? of a PC unit are linked together by sets of
A) Motorola parallel electrical conducting lines. What are
B) IBM C) Intel D) AMD these lines called?
A) Conductors
348. The first digital computer built with IC B) Buses
chips was known as C) Connectors
A) IBM 7090 D) Consecutives
B) Apple ? 1
C) IBM System / 360 355. Which is the first electronic digital
D) VAX-10 computer?
A) ENIAC B) MARK I C) Z3
349. EBCDIC can code up to how many different D) ABC
characters?
A) 256 356. Which of the following is a storage device?
B) 16 A) Tape
C) 32 B) Hard Disk
D) 64 C) Floppy Disk
D) All of the above
350. MICR stands for
A) Magnetic Ink Character Reader
357. The metal disks, which are permanently 363. EEPROM stands for
housed in, sealed and contamination free A) Electrically Erasable Programmable Read
containers are called Only Memory
A) Hard disks B) Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only
B) Floppy disk Memory
C) Winchester disk C) Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only
D) Flexible disk Memory
D) Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only
358. A computer program that converts an Memory
entire program into machine language is called
a/an 364. Which of the following is a class of
A) Interpreter computers based on model?
B) Simulator A) Digital Computer
C) Compiler B) Hybrid Computers C) Analog Computers D)
D) Commander AT Computers

359. Intel corporation produces chips for which 365. What are the computers called that
computers? performs calculations and comparisons usually
A) IBM PCs in the binary numbering system? A) Analog
B) Apple/Macintosh PCs Computers
C) Both of above B) Digital Computers
D) None of above C) Hybrid Computers
D) None of above
360. The first microprocessor built by the Intel
corporation was called 366. ASCII stands for
A) 8008 A) American Standard Code for Information
B) 8080 Interchange
C) 4004 B) American Scientific Code for International
D) 8800 Interchange C) American Standard Code for
Intelligence Interchange D) American Scientific
361. Which of the following is not a class of Code for Information Interchange
computers based on size?
A) Mainframe Computers 367. The data recording format in most of the
B) Mini Computers C) Micro Computers D) modern magnetic tape is
Super Computers A) 7-bit ASCII
B) 7-bit EBCDIC C) 8-bit ASCII
362. Who invented EDSAC? D) 8-bit EBCDIC
A) John v. Neumann
B) J.P. Eckert and John Mauchley
C) Maurice Wilkes 368. Why ABC computer is called so?
D) Howard Aiken A) Because it was developed by Atanasoff and
Berry
B) Because it was thought to be the first D) Control Unit
computer so named with first alphabets of
English 375. Which unit is known as nerve center of
C) Both of above are the reason to name the computer?
computer ABC D) None of above are true A) ALU B) CU
C) Memory
369. Who designed the first electronics D) Registers
computer ? ENIAC/
A) Von Neumann 376. What does the disk drive of a computer
B) Joseph M Jacquard do?
C) J. P. Eckert and J. W. Mauchly A) Rotate the disk
D) All of above B) Read the disk
C) Load a program from the disk into the
370. Central Processing Unit is combination of memory
A) Control and storage D) Both b and c
B) Control and output unit
C) Arithmetic logic and input unit 377. Access time is
D) Arithmetic logic and control unit A) seek time + latency time
B) seek time
371. IBM 1401 computer was C) seek time
A) Mainframe Computer D) latency time
B) Mini Computers C) Micro Computers D) None
of above 378. Who invented the microprocessor?
A) Marcian E Huff
372. Time during which a job is processed by B) Herman H Goldstein
the computer is C) Joseph Jacquard
A) Delay times D) All of above
B) Real time
C) Execution time 379. MICR stands for
D) Down time A) Magnetic Ink Character Reader
B) Magnetic Ink Code Reader C) Magnetic Ink
373. CD-ROM stands for Case Reader D) None of the above
A) Compactable Read Only Memory
B) Compact Data Read Only Memory 380. The Width of a processor’s data path is
C) Compactable Disk Read Only Memory measured in bits.
D) Compact Disk Read Only Memory Which of the following are common data paths?
A) 8 bits
374. Which unit converts user data into B) 12 bits C) 16 bits D) 32 bits
machine readable form?
A) Input unit 381. MSI is the abbreviation of
B) Output unit A) Medium Scale Integrated
C) ALU B) Medium System Integrated
C) Medium Scale Intelligent 387. What type of device is computer
D) Medium System Intelligent keyboard?
A) Memory
382. IMB launched its first personal computer B) Output C) Storage D) Input
called IBM-PC in
1981. It had chips from Intel, disk drives from 388. Which is the limitation of high level
Tandon, operating system from Microsoft, the language?
printer from Epson and the application software A) Lower efficiency
from everywhere. Can you name the country B) Machine dependence
which contribute C) machine level coding
A) India D) None of above
B) China
C) Germany 389. An example of a digital device can be
D) Taiwan A) Digital clock
B) Automobile speed meter
383. Which statement is valid about C) Clock with a dial and two hands
interpreter? D) All of the above
A) It translates one instruction at a time
B) Object code is saved for future use 390. Which of the following is not true?
C) Repeated interpretation is not necessary A) Transistors are much smaller
D) All of above B) Transistors produce low heat
C) Transistors were less reliable
384. Easily reloctable language is D) Transistors were used in radios and other
A) Machine language electronic devices
B) Assembly language
C) High level language 391. A characteristic of card systems is:
D) Medium level language A) Slowness in processing data
B) Using cards as records of transactions
385. Which of the following memories needs C) Needing a larger DP staff
refresh? D) All of the above
A) SRAM B) DRAM C) ROM
D) All of above
392. The full form of EEPROM is
386. Through which device the main A) Electrically Erasable Programmable Read
components of the computer communicate Only Memory
with each other? B) Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only
A) Keyboard Memory
B) System Bus C) Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only
C) Monitor Memory
D) Memory D) None of the above
393. The original ASCII code used__bits of each A) 4 KB B) 16 K C) 64 K D) 256 K
byte, reserving that last bit for error checking
A) 5 400. The ALU of a computer normally contains a
B) 6 number of high speed storage element called
C) 7 A) Semiconductor memory
D) 8 B) Registers
C) Hard disks
394. A computer programmer D) Magnetic disk
A) Does all the thinking for a computer
B) Can enter input data quickly 401. Which was the computer conceived by
C) Can operate all types of computer Babbage?
equipments A) Analytical Engine
D) Can draw only flowchart B) Arithmetic Machine
C) Donald Kunth
395. Fifth generation computer is also known as D) All of above
A) Knowledge information processing system
B) Very large scale integration (VLSI) C) Both of 402. The processing speed of first generation
above computers was
D) None of above A) milliseconds B) microseconds C)
nanoseconds D) picoseconds
396. The commonly used standard data code to
represent alphabetical, numerical and 403. Model 5100 was in 1957.
punctuation characters used in electronic data A) The first PC built by IBM
processing system is called B) The first PC built by Apple
A) ASCII C) The first PC built by Motorola
B) EBCDIC C) BCD D) The first PC built by Intel
D) All of above
404. VGA is
397. Which of the following have low failure A) Video Graphics Array
rate? B) Visual Graphics Array
A) mechanical devices C) Volatile Graphics Array
B) electronic devices D) Video Graphics Adapter
C) electro-mechanical devices
D) None of above 405. A kind of scanner MICR is the short form of
A) Magnetic Ink Character Reader
398. Which of the following memories need B) Magnetic Ink Code Reader
refresh? C) Magnetic Ink Cases Reader
A) SRAM B) DRAM C) ROM D) None
D) All of the above
406. Which of the following is not a class based
399. A typical personal computer used for on size?
business purposes would have of RAM. A) Mainframe Computer
B) Micro Computer
C) Mini Computer 413. An online backing storage system capable
D) Digital Computer of storing larger quantities of data is
A) CPU
407. Which 8-bit chip was used in many of B) Memory
today’s TRS-80 computers? C) Mass storage
A) Z-8000 D) Secondary storage
B) Motorola 6809
C) Z-8808 414. A kind of serial dot-matrix printer that
D) Z-80 forms characters with magnetically-charged ink
sprayed dots is called
408. Which of the following disk is fixed disk? A) Laser printer
A) Hard Disks B) Ink-jet printer C) Drum printer D) Chan
B) Flash Disks printer
C) Blu-Ray Disks
D) DVDs 415. Which of the following does not affect the
resolution of a video display image?
409. Which of the following professions has not A) Bandwidth
been affected by personal computers? B) Raster scan rage
A) Medical C) Vertical and horizontal lines of resolution
B) Clerical and law D) Screen size
C) Accounting
D) None of the above
416. Which of the following printing devices an
410. The word Abacus is derived from Abax, a output composed of a series of data?
word from A) Wire matrix printer
A) Latin language B) Band printer
B) Greek Language C) Sanskrit language D) C) Wang image printer
Ancient Egypt D) Both a and c

411. In latest generation computers, the 417. Which of the following is an example of
instructions are executed fifth generation computer?
A) Parallel only A) PIM/m
B) Sequentially only B) ICL 2950
C) Both sequentially and parallel C) IBM 1401
D) All of above D) None of above

412. Which of the following memory medium is 418. Magnetic disks are the most popular
not used as main memory system? medium for
A) Magnetic core A) Direct access
B) Semiconductor C) Magnetic tape D) Both a B) Sequential access
and b C) Both of above
D) None of above
425. Which is valid statement
419. Which of the following is not a third A) 1 KB = 1024 Bytes
generation computer? B) 1 MB = 1024 Bytes C) 1 KB = 1000 Bytes D) 1
A) IBM 360 MB = 1000 Bytes
B) IBM 1401
C) PDP-8 426. Latency time is
D) HP2115 A) Time to spin the needed data under head
B) Time to spin the needed data under track
420. The number of records contained within a C) Time to spin data under sector
block of data on magnetic tape is defined by the D) All of above
A) Block definition
B) Record contain clause 427. Who built the first Mechanical Calculator
C) Blocking factor A) Joseph Marie Jacquard
D) Record per block B) John Mauchly
C) Blaise Pascal
421. Mark I is also known as D) Howard Aiken
A) American Sequence Controlled Calculator
B) Automatic Sequence Calculating Controller C) 428. The most important advantage of a video
American Sequence Controlled Computer D) disk is
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator A) Compactness
B) Potential capacity
422. Which of the following registers is loaded C) Durability
with the contents of the memory location D) Cost effectiveness
pointed by the PC?
A) Memory address registers 429. Which of the following generation
B) Memory data registers computers had expensive operation cost?
C) Instruction register A) First
D) Program counter B) Second
C) Third
423. Which of the following are the cheapest D) Fourth
memory devices in terms of Cost/Bit?
A) Semiconductor memories 430. An IBM system/38 represents the
B) Magnetic Disks C) Compact Disks D) Magnetic computer class of:
Tapes A) Small-scale computer
B) Medium-scale computer
424. MIS is designed to provide information C) Large-scale computer
needed for effective decision making by? D) Super computer
A) Consumers
B) Workers 431. Another word for a daisy wheel printer
C) Foremen A) Petal printer
D) Managers B) Golf ball printer
C) Laser printer 438. Slide Rules was invented in
D) Line printer A) 1614
B) 1617
432. Cursor is a C) 1620
A) Pixel D) None of above
B) Thin blinking line C) Pointing device D) None
of these 439. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to
data?
433. Which device is used to backup the data? A) 680 KB
A) Floppy Disk B) 680 Bytes
B) Tape C) 680 MB D) 680 GB
C) Network Drive
D) All of the above
440. Which of the following required large
434. Which of the following printers are you computer memory?
sure will not to use if your objective is to print A) Imaging B) Graphics C) Voice
on multi carbon forms? D) All of above
A) Daisy wheel B) Dot matrix C) Laser
D) Thimble 441. Which was the computer conceived by
Babbage?
435. Which of the following items are examples A) Analytical engine
of storage devices? B) Arithmetic machine
A) Floppy / hard disks C) Donald Knuth
B) CD-ROMs D) All of above
C) Tape devices
D) All of the above 442. The lower deck of an abacus is known as
A) heaven
436. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character B) sky
coding systems. C) earth
What does ASCII stand for? D) floor
A) American Stable Code for International
Interchange B) American Standard Case for 443. All modern computer operate on
Institutional Interchange C) American Standard A) Information
Code for Information Interchange D) American B) Floppies
Standard Code for Interchange Information C) Data
D) Word
437. Which computers are used as servers for
any medium sized organizations? 444. The computer that can input analog signals
A) Mainframe Computer and return result in digital form
B) Mini Computers C) Micro Computers D) A) Analog Computers B) Digital Computers C)
Super Computers Hybrid Computers
D) Mainframe Computers
445. Offline device is 452. Which is not consisted in a processor
A) A device which is not connected to CPU B) A A) ALU
device which is connected to CPU B) CU
C) A direct access storage device C) Memory
D) An I/O device D) Registers

446. What is the latest write-once optical 453. IBM 1401 is the first computer to enter in
storage media? Nepal. It belonged to
A) Digital paper A) First Generation
B) Magneto-optical disk B) Second Generation
C) WORM disk C) Third Generation
D) CD-ROM disk D) Froth Generation

447. Which of the following programming 454. The Third Generation Computer was made
language started from second generation? with .
A) LISP B) C A) Vacuum Tube
C) QBASIC B) Discrete Components
D) FORTRAN C) IC
D) Bio Chips
448. Which one of the following input device is
user- programmable? 455. Which of the following are the two main
A) Dumb terminal B) Smart terminal C) VDT components of the
D) Intelligent terminal CPU?
A) Control Unit and Registers
449. Floppy disks typically in diameter B) Registers and Main Memory
A) 3? C) Control unit and ALU D) ALU and bus
B) 5.25? C) 8?
D) All of above 456. Fifth generation computer is also known as
A) Knowledge information processing system
450. Current SIMMs have either or B) Very large scale integration
connectors (pins) C) Both of above
A) 9 or 32 D) None of above
B) 30 or 70
C) 28 or 72 457. Second Generation computers were
D) 30 or 72 developed during
A) 1949 to 1955
451. Dot-matrix is a type of B) 1956 to 1965
A) Tape C) 1965 to 1970
B) Printer D) 1970 to 1990
C) Disk
D) Bus
458. What is the name of the computer C) Firmware
terminal which gives paper printout? D) Hardware
A) Display screen
B) Soft copy terminal C) Hard copy terminal D)
Plotter 464. Which of the following is input device?
A) scanner B) speaker C) monitor D) projector
459. Programs are executed on the basis of a
priority number in a 465. Which of the following is true?
A) Batch processing system A) Fields are composed of bytes
B) Multiprogramming B) Records are composed of fields
C) Time sharing C) Fields are composed of characters
D) None of these D) All of above

460. When was Apple Macintosh II 466. Who built the world’s first electronic
microcomputer introduced in the market? calculator using
A) 1964 telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?
B) 1970 A) Claude Shannon
C) 1983 B) Konrard Zues
D) 1986 C) George Stibits
D) Howard H. Aiken
461. When was the world’s first laptop
computer introduced in the market and by 467. WAN is a most used abbreviation in
whom? Networking, what is its full form?
A) Hewlett-Packard A) WAP Area Network
B) Epson, 1981 B) Wide Area Network
C) Laplink traveling software In1982 C) Wide Array of Network
D) Tandy model-2000, 1985 D) Wireless Access Network

462. Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier 468. In which language is source program
known by different written?
name which was changed in 1924. What was A) English
that name? B) Symbolic C) High level D) Temporary
A) Computer Tabulating Recording Co.
B) The Tabulator Ltd. 469. Which of the following is correct acronym
C) International Computer Ltd. of VGA?
D) None of above A) Video Graphics Array
B) Visual Graphics Array
463. The personnel who deals with the C) Volatile Graphics Array
computer and its management put together are D) Video Graphics Adapter
called
A) Software 470. A song being played on computer speaker
B) Human ware is
A) hard output C) Binary System in Analytic Engine
B) soft output D) His concept of input, mill, output and
C) both hard and soft output storage
D) neither hard nor soft output
477. A computer which CPU speed around 100
471. In the IBM PC-At, what do the words AT million instruction per second and with the
stand for word length of around 64 bits is known as
A) Additional Terminals B) Advance technology A) Super computer B) Mini computer C) Micro
C) Applied technology computer
D) Advanced terminology D) Macro computer

472. Size of the primary memory of a PC ranges 478. When we look at the cost, which of the
between following computer is most expensive?
A) 2KB to 8KB A) Mainframe Computer
B) 64KB & 256KB C) 256KB & 640KB D) None of B) Mini Computers C) Micro Computers D)
these Super Computers

473. What is the number of read-write heads in 479. Which of the following will happen when
the drive for a 9- trac magnetic tape? data is entered into a memory location?
A) 9 A) It will add to the content of the location
B) 16 B) It will change the address of the memory
C) 18 location
D) 27 C) It will erase the previous content
D) It will not be fruitful if there is already some
474. Apple company used chips from for data at the location
its computers
A) Intel 480. Which device is used as the standard
B) Motorola pointing device in a
C) Both of above Graphical User Environment?
D) None of above A) Keyboard
B) Mouse
475. Which of the following is a feature of fifth C) Joystick
generation computers? D) Track ball
A) Use of natural language
B) artificial intelligence 481. Mini computers and micro computers are
C) bio-chips from which generation of computers?
D) All of above A) First
B) Second
476. Charles Babbage was awarded by Royal C) Third
Society for his D) Fourth
A) Difference Engine
B) Analytic Engine
482. Pick the one that is used for logical 488. The primary advantage of key-to-tape data
operations or comparisons such as less than entry system is
equal to or greater than. A) Arithmetic and A) A large percentage of editing can be
Logic Unit performed at the time of data entry
B) Control Unit B) Key verification is easily performed
C) Both of above C) The tape is reusable
D) None of above D) Keying errors can be detected as they occur.

483. The operating speed of third generation 489. Basic is language.

computer was A) a procedural
A) Milliseconds B) Microseconds C) B) an object oriented
Nanoseconds D) Picoseconds C) both A and B
D) none of the above
484. Which of the following is true?
A) Mark I was 8 feet long B) Mark I was 2 feet 490. A computer Program that translates one
long C) Mark I was 40 feet long D) None of program instruction at a time into machine
above language is called a/an
A) Interpreter
485. Charles Babbage is considered the father B) CPU
of modern computers because C) Compiler
A) of his difference engine D) Simulator
B) of his analytical engine
C) his concept of input, mill and output 491. Which of the following have the fastest
D) All of above access time?
A) Semiconductor Memories
486. Which of the following is used only for B) Magnetic Disks C) Magnetic Tapes D)
data entry and storage, and never for Compact Disks
processing?
A) Mouse 492. The first electronic general purpose digital
B) Dumb terminal computer built by Eckert and Mauchly called
C) Micro computer ENIAC did not work on the stored program
D) Dedicated data entry system concept. How many numbers could it store in
its internal memory?
A) 100
487. What was the first computer brought in B) 20
Nepal? C) 40
A) ICL/2950 D) 80
B) ENIAC
C) IBM 1401 493. The computer that process both analog
D) None of above and digital is called
A) Analog computer B) Digital computer C)
Hybrid computer
D) Mainframe computer 500. One of the main feature that distinguish
microprocessors from micro-computer is
494. What was the name of the first A) Words are usually large in microprocessors
commercially available microprocessor chip? B) Words are shorter in microprocessors
A) Intel 308 C) Microprocessor does not contain I/O device
B) Intel 33 D) Exactly the same as the machine cycle time
C) Intel 4004
D) Motorola 639 501. Napier’s Bones were invented in
A) 1614
495. Which of the following class of computers B) 1617
can process physical quantities such as speed? C) 1620
A) Analog Computers B) Digital Computers C) D) None of above
Hybrid Computers D) None of above
502. One computer that is not considered a
496. How many types of storage loops exists in portable computer is
magnetic bubble memory A) Minicomputer
A) 8 B) A laptop computer
B) 4 C) Tablet PC
C) 16 D) All of the above
D) 2
503. Computers built before the First
497. When did IBM introduce the 20286 based Generation of computers were:
PC/AT? A) Mechanical
A) 1982 B) Electro-mechanical
B) 1984 C) Electrical
C) 1985 D) None of these
D) 1989
504. Which of the following is a way to access
498. The silicon chips used for data processing secondary memory?
are called A) Random access memory
A) RAM chips B) Action method
B) ROM chips C) Transfer method
C) Micro processors D) Density method
D) PROM chips
505. What is System Analysis?
499. Which computers used operating systems A) The design of the screen the user will see and
by Microsoft? use to enter or display data
A) IBM PCs B) System analysis defines the format and type
B) Apple/Macintosh PCs of data the program will use
C) IBM Compatibles C) System Analysis involves creating formal
D) Both A & C model of the problem to be solved
D) None of the above
 512. One of a class of storage device devices
506. Which of the following devices have a that can access storage locations in any order is
limitation that we can only store information to A) DTE
it but cannot erase or modify it? B) DASD C) DDE D) DDE
A) Floppy Disk
B) Hard Disk C) Tape Drive D) CDROM 513. The actual execution of instructions
happens in
507. Which is an item of storage medium in the A) ALU B) CU
form of circular plate? C) Memory
A) Disk D) None of above
B) CPU
C) Printer 514. Floppy disks are available in
D) ALU A) Single side single density B) Single side
508. Daisy wheel printer is a type of double density C) Both of above
A) Matrix printer D) None of above
B) Impact printer
C) Laser printer 515. Which of the following is not electro-
D) Manual printer mechanical computer?
A) Z3
509. A number system that has eight different B) ABC
symbols to represent any quantity is known as C) mark I D) ENIAC
A) Binary
B) Octal 516. Which of the following is a programming
C) Decimal language?
D) Hexadecimal A) Lotus
B) Pascal
C) MS-Excel
D) Netscape
510. The two basic types of record access
methods are: 517. Which converts the user data into machine
A) Sequential and random B) Sequential and readable form?
indexed C) Direct and immediate D) Online and A) input unit, output unit, control unit
real time B) central processing unit
C) output unit
511. Artificial Intelligence is associated with D) decoder unit
which generation?
A) First Generation 518. In what respect human beings are superior
B) Second Generation to computers?
C) Fifth Generation A) Diligence
D) Sixth Generation B) Intelligence
C) Slavery
D) Reliability
 525. A small or intelligent device is so called
519. As compared to the secondary memory, because it contains within it a
the primary memory of a computer is A) Computer
A) Large B) Cheap C) Fast B) Microcomputer C) Programmable D) Sensor
D) Slow
526. Which of the following is not a primary
520. The language that the computer can storage device?
understand and execute is called A) Magnetic tape
A) Machine language B) Magnetic disk
B) Application software C) Optical disk
C) System program D) All of above
D) All of above
527. Who invented Analytical engine?
521. How was the generation of computer A) Blaise Pascal
classified? B) George Bool
A) by the device used in memory & processor C) Charles Babbage
B) by the speed of computer D) Dr. Herman Hollerith
C) by the model of the computer
D) by the accuracy of computer 528. CPU speed of a personal computer is
A) 32 KIPS
522. Which of the following is not a feature of B) 100 KIPS C) 1 MIPS
first generation computers D) None of these
A) They used vacuum tubes or valves as main
electronic component 529. Circular division of disks to store and
B) They consumed lots of electricity and retrieve data are known as
produced excessive heat A) tracks
C) They used machine language and assembly B) sectors
language to program the machine C) cycles
D) None of above D) rings

523. CAD stands for 530. Which statement is valid?

A) Computer aided design A) 1KB = 1024 bytes
B) Computer algorithm for design C) Computer B) 1 MB=2048 bytes
application in design D) All of the above C) 1 MB = 1000 kilobytes
D) 1 KB = 1000 bytes
524. Which of the following memories has the
shortest access times? 531. The least significant bit of the binary
A) Cache memory number, which is equivalent to any odd decimal
B) Magnetic bubble memory number, is:
C) Magnetic core memory A) 0
D) RAM B) 1
C) 1 or 0
D) 3 538. Which of the following class of computers
can not support multiple users simultaneously?
532. The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that A) Mainframe Computer
senses the movement by the change in its B) Mini Computers
capacitance, C) Micro Computers
A) Capacitance keyboard B) Mechanical D) All of them can support
keyboard C) Qwerty keyboard
D) Dvorak keyboard 539. Which of the following is considered first
computer in the world?
533. The Stepped Reckoner was invented by A) Z3
A) John Napier B) ABC
B) William Oughtred C) Gottfried Leibnitz D) C) Mark I
Blaise Pascal D) None of above

540. When a key is pressed on the keyboard,

534. A term used to describe interconnected which standard is used for converting the
computer configuration is keystroke into the corresponding bits?
A) Multiprogramming A) ANSI B) ASCII
B) Modulation C) EBCDIC D) ISO
C) Multiprocessing
D) Micro program sequence 541. In order to play and hear sound on a
computer, one needs:
535. While inserting a diskette into the diskette A) a sound card and speakers
drive of a PC, the B) a microphone
diskette’s label side should face C) all of them required
A) East D) none of them required
B) North C) South D) Up
542. Which of the following devices can be sued
536. Most of the inexpensive personal to directly image printed text?
computers do not have any disk or diskette A) OCR B) OMR C) MICR
drive. What is the name of such computes? D) All of above
A) Home computers
B) Diskless computers 543. For which of the following computers can’t
C) Dedicated computers be used?
D) General purpose computers A) gathering data B) calculating data C)
comparing data D) Arranging data
537. What is a light pen?
A) Mechanical Input device 544. Which of the following is called low level
B) Optical input device languages?
C) Electronic input device A) Machine language B) Assembly language C)
D) Optical output device Both of the above D) None of above
545. A factor which would strongly influence a B) Napier’s Bones
business person to adopt a computer is its C) Stepped Reckoner
A) Accuracy D) Slide Rule
B) Reliability
C) Speed 552. Seek time is
D) All of above A) time to position the head over proper track
B) time to position the head over proper sector
546. Who invented punched cards? C) time to position the head over proper
A) Charles Babbage cylinder
B) Dr. Herman Hollerith D) none of above
C) Howard Aikin
D) Joseph Jacquard 553. Tape speed is measured in
A) Feet per second
547. Each model of a computer has a unique B) Inch per second
A) Assembly of a computer C) Meter per second
B) Machine language C) High level language D) D) Centimeter per second
All of the above
554. Punched cards were first introduced by
548. Which of the following is not a primary A) Powers
storage device? B) Pascal
A) Magnetic tape B) Magnetic disk C) Optical C) Jacquard
disk D) Herman Hollerith
D) All of the above
555. Which computer support co-processors?
549. In a punched card system, data is A) XT computer
processed by a B) AT computers
A) Keypunch machine, sorter and posting C) None of these
machine D) Both of these
B) Accounting machine, posting machine, and 556. A floppy disk contains
billing machine A) Circular tracks only
C) Sorter, posting machine, and billing machine B) Sectors only
D) Accounting machine, keypunch machine and C) Both circular tracks and sectors
sorter D) None of the above

550. Which device is required for the Internet 557. The capacity of 3.5 inch floppy disk is
connection? A) 1.40 MB B) 1.44 GB C) 1.40 GB D) 1.44 MB
A) Joystick B) Modem C) CD Drive D) NIC Card

551. A set of rods where numbers were carved

and used for multiplication and division aids is 558. The contribution of Konrad Zuse was long
known as ignored because
A) Pascaline A) He made the computers secretly
B) his computers were very complicated and it
took time for the people to recognize its power 565. MSI stands for
C) of political reasons. He was German. D) All of A) Medium Scale Integrated Circuits
the above B) Medium System Integrated Circuits
C) Medium Scale Intelligent Circuit
559. Any method for controlling access to or D) Medium System Intelligent Circuit
use of memory is known
A) Memory map 566. A Pixel is
B) Memory protection A) A computer program that draws picture
C) Memory management B) A picture stored in secondary memory
D) Memory instruction C) The smallest resolvable part of a picture
D) None of these
560. In what respect computers are superior to
human beings? 567. A/n Device is any device that provides
A) Diligence information, which is sent to the CPU
B) Intelligence A) Input
C) Both of above B) Output
D) None of above C) CPU
D) Memory
561. Com in Latin is
A) intensifying prefix 568. What was the nick name of the computer
B) intensifying suffix used by the
C) a term that means to reckon Americans in 1952 for their H-bomb project?
D) None of above A) ENIAC B) EDSAC
C) MANIAC
562. The system unit of a personal computer D) UNIVAC
typically contains all of the following except:
A) Microprocessor B) Disk controller C) Serial 569. Which is the type of memory for
interface D) Modem information that does not change on your
computer?
563. Which of the following is related to fifth A) RAM B) ROM C) ERAM
generation computers? D) RW / RAM
A) Knowledge information processing system
B) Very large scale integration (VLSI) C) Both of 570. LSI, VLSI & ULSI chips were used in which
above generation?
D) Only b A) First
B) Second
564. The process of starting a or restarting a C) Third
computer system by loading instructions from a D) Fourth
secondary storage device into the computer
memory is called 571. Which of the following is the largest
A) Duping B) Booting C) Padding D) CPS manufacturer of Hard
Disk Drives? 577. Who invented the high level language C?
A) IBM A) Dennis M. Ritchie
B) Seagate B) Niklaus Writh
C) Microsoft C) Seymour Papert
D) 3M D) Donald Kunth

572. Networking such as LAN, MAN started 578. What do you call the programs that are
from used to find out possible faults and their
A) First generation causes?
B) Second generation A) Operating system extensions
C) Third generation B) Cookies
D) Fourth generation C) Diagnostic software
D) Boot diskettes
573. Which characteristic of computer
distinguishes it from electronic calculators?
A) Accuracy 579. Which computer memory is used for
B) Storage storing programs and data currently being
C) Versatility processed by the CPU?
D) Automatic A) Mass memory
B) Internal memory
574. Which of the following registers is used to C) Non-volatile memory
keep track of address of the memory location D) PROM
where the next instruction is located?
A) Memory address register 580. Which of the following code used in
B) Memory data register present day computing was developed by IBM
C) Instruction register Corporation?
D) Program counter A) ASCII
B) Hollerith Code C) Baudot Code D) EBCDIC
575. Which of the following is not the Code
classification of computers based on
application? 581. When was the transistors invented?
A) Electronic Computers A) 1948
B) Analog Computers C) Digital Computers D) B) 1938
Hybrid Computers C) 1958
D) 1968
576. Which of the following is not a type of
Software 582. In the third Generation of computers
A) System Software A) Distributed data processing first became
B) Application Software popular
C) Utility Software B) An operating system was first developed
D) Entertainment Software C) High level procedural language were first
used
D) Online real time systems first become 1-A 2-D 3-D 4-D 5-C 6-A
popular 7-C 8-D 9-C 10-B 11-C 12-C
13-D 14-C 15-C 16-B 17-B 18-B
583. Most important advantage of an IC is its A) 19-C 20-D 21-B 22-D 23-C 24-B
Easy replacement in case of circuit failure B) 25-A 26-B 27-B 28-A 29-B 30-D
Extremely high reliability 31-B 32-D 33-A 34-A 35-A 36-D
C) Reduced cost 37-A 38-C 39-B 40-B 41-C 42-B
D) Lower power consumption 43-C 44-D 45-C 46-A 47-B 48-D
49-A 50-B 51-D 52-B 53-B 54-D
584. Which of the following magazines covers 55-C 56-C 57-C 58-C 59-B 60-B
only the IBM PC and its compatibles? 61-C 62-B 63-D 64-A 65-D 66-D
A) Byte 67-C 68-A 69-B 70-C 71-C 72-B
B) PC Magazine 73-C 74-D 75-B 76-A 77-D 78-C
C) Personal Computing 79-A 80-A 81-C 82-D 83-C 84-B
D) Interface Age 85-D 86-D 87-A 88-C 89-D 90-D
91-D 92-C 93-C 94-A 95-D 96-B
585. UNIVAC was a first generation computer. 97-D 98-C 99-C 100-B 101-B 102-C
What is its full form? 103-B 104-B 105-B 106-C 107-B 108-C
A) Universal Automatic Computer 109-C 110-C 111-C 112-D 113-A 114-C
B) Universal Array Computer 115-B 116-B 117-C 118-C 119-A 120-D
C) Unique Automatic Computer 121-A 122-A 123-A 124-B 125-A 126-D
D) Unvalued Automatic Computer 127-B 128-C 129-B 130-B 131-C 132-A
133-A 134-B 135-B 136-A 137-B 138-A
586. Which of the following is required when 139-B 140-D 141-C 142-C 143-D 144-B
more than one person uses a central computer 145-C 146-C 147-C 148-C 149-C 150-A
at the same time? 151-C 152-D 153-B 154-D 155-C 156-D
A) Terminal B) Light pen C) Digitizer D) Mouse 157-A 158-B 159-B 160-B 161-B 162-A
163-B 164-A 165-B 166-A 167-B 168-B
587. Which of the following is not an output 169-C 170-D 171-C 172-A 173-A 174-A
device? 175-C 176-A 177-C 178-A 179-C 180-A
A) Scanner 181-A 182-A 183-C 184-A 185-D 186-D
B) Printer 187-C 188-B 189-C 190-A 191-C 192-A
C) Flat Screen 193-C 194-A 195-A 196-A 197-A 198-D
D) Touch Screen 199-B 200-A 201-B 202-A 203-D 204-D
205-B 206-B 207-C 208-C 209-A 210-D
588. Personal computers used a number of 211-C 212-B 213-C 214-D 215-D 216-B
chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is 217-D 218-A 219-B 220-C 221-D 222-A
the common name for such boards?
A) Daughterboard
B) Motherboard C) Father board D) Childboard 223-C 224-B 225-A 226-D 227-D 228-C
229-D 230-A 231-D 232-C 233-A 234-D
Answers 235-B 236-A 237-A 238-B 239-A 240-C
241-D 242-C 243-A 244-A 245-C 246-A 475-D 476-A 477-A 478-D 479-C 480-B
247-D 248-D 249-C 250-D 251-D 252-A 481-D 482-A 483-C 484-D 485-C 486-B
253-A 254-B 255-C 256-D 257-D 258-C 487-C 488-C 489-A 490-A 491-A 492-B
259-C 260-B 261-D 262-D 263-A 264-B 493-C 494-C 495-A 496-D 497-B 498-C
265-A 266-C 267-D 268-C 269-B 270-D 499-D 500-C 501-B 502-A 503-B 504-A
271-B 272-B 273-C 274-D 275-A 276-C 505-C 506-D 507-A 508-B 509-B 510-A
277-C 278-C 279-B 280-A 281-C 282-C 511-C 512-B 513-A 514-C 515-D 516-B
283-C 284-A 285-B 286-D 287-B 288-A 517-A 518-B 519-C 520-A 521-A 522-C
289-A 290-A 291-C 292-D 293-C 294-A 523-A 524-A 525-D 526-D 527-C 528-B
295-B 296-B 297-C 298-B 299-C 300-A 529-A 530-A 531-A 532-A 533-C 534-A
301-B 302-C 303-B 304-A 305-B 306-D 535-D 536-B 537-B 538-C 539-C 540-A
307-A 308-D 309-D 310-D 311-B 312-D 541-A 542-A 543-A 544-C 545-D 546-D
313-C 314-D 315-C 316-D 317-C 318-B 547-B 548-D 549-D 550-B 551-B 552-A
319-B 320-A 321-B 322-B 323-A 324-B 553-B 554-D 555-B 556-C 557-D 558-C
325-B 326-B 327-B 328-D 329-D 330-A 559-B 560-A 561-A 562-D 563-A 564-B
331-B 332-D 333-A 334-D 335-D 336-B 565-A 566-C 567-A 568-C 569-B 570-D
337-B 338-A 339-C 340-A 341-C 342-D 571-B 572-D 573-C 574-D 575-A 576-D
343-D 344-A 345-C 346-A 347-C 348-C 577-A 578-C 579-B 580-D 581-A 582-D
349-A 350-A 351-b 352-A 353-D 354-B 583-B 584-B 585-A 586-A 587-D 588-B
355-D 356-D 357-C 358-C 359-A 360-C
361-D 362-C 363-A 364-D 365-B 366-A
367-D 368-B 369-C 370-D 371-A 372-C
373-D 374-A 375-A 376-D 377-A 378-A
379-A 380-A 381-A 382-D 383-B 384-B
385-B 386-B 387-D 388-A 389-A 390-C
391-D 392-A 393-C 394-A 395-A 396-D
397-B 398-B 399-D 400-B 401-A 402-A
403-A 404-A 405-A 406-D 407-D 408-A
409-D 410-A 411-C 412-C 413-C 414-B
415-D 416-D 417-A 418-C 419-B 420-C
421-D 422-C 423-C 424-D 425-A 426-A
427-C 428-B 429-A 430-A 431-B 432-B
433-D 434-C 435-D 436-C 437-B 438-C
439-C 440-D 441-A 442-C 443-C 444-C
445-A 446-D 447-D 448-D 449-D 450-D
451-B 452-C 453-B 454-C 455-C 456-A

457-B 458-C 459-B 460-C 461-B 462-B

463-B 464-A 465-D 466-C 467-B 468-C
469-A 470-B 471-B 472-C 473-A 474-B