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1000+ Computer Fundamental Multiple Choice Question Answer [Solved]

Thursday 9th of March 2023

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1. The value of each bead in heaven is
A. 1
B. 3
C. 5
D. 7
Answer : C
2. Operating system, editors, and debuggers comes under?
A. System Software
B. Application Software
C. Utilities
D. None of the above
Answer : A
3. Central Processing Unit is combination of
A. Control and storage
B. Control and output unit
C. Arithmetic logic and input unit
D. Arithmetic logic and control unit
Answer : D
4. You use a(n) ________, such as a keyboard or mouse, to input information
A. output device
B. input device
C. storage device
D. processing device
Answer : B
5. How many symbols exist in Baudot code?
A. 32
B. 116
C. 58
D. 76
Answer : A
6. An index register that is automatically incremented or decremented with each use is
A. Auto index
B. Asynchronous
C. Assembler
D. Compiler
Answer : A
7. IMB launched its first personal computer called IBM-PC in 1981. It had chips from Intel, disk drives from Tandon, operating system from Microsoft, the printer from Epson and the application software from everywhere. Can you name the country which contribu
A. India
B. China
C. Germany
D. Taiwan
Answer : D
8. Who invented Slide Rules?
A. John Napier
B. William Oughtred
C. Gottfried Leibnitz
D. Blaise Pascal
Answer : B
9. A physical connection between the microprocessor memory and other parts of the microcomputer is known as
A. Path
B. Route
C. Address bus
D. All of the above
Answer : C
10. People often call as the brain of computer system
A. Control Unit
B. Arithmetic Logic Unit
C. Central Processing Unit
D. Storage Unit
Answer : C
11. What type of device is computer keyboard?
A. Memory
B. Output
C. Storage
D. Input
Answer : D
12. Examples of output devices are
A. Screen
B. Printer
C. Speaker
D. All of these
Answer : D
13. Which is not a computer classification?
A. mainframe
B. maxframe
C. mini
D. notebook
Answer : B
14. Find out who is not the inventor of transistors among following names
A. John Burdeen
B. William Shockley
C. Walter Brattain
D. Lee de Forest
Answer : D
15. Charles Babbage was awarded by Royal Society for his
A. Difference Engine
B. Analytic Engine
C. Binary System in Analytic Engine
D. His concept of input, mill, output and storage
Answer : A
16. How many types of storage loops exists in magnetic bubble memory
A. 8
B. 4
C. 16
D. 2
Answer : D
17. _________ translates and executes program at run time line by line
A. Compiler
B. Interpreter
C. Linker
D. Loader
Answer : B
18. A computer assisted method for the recording and analyzing of existing or hypothetical systems is
A. Data transmission
B. Data flow
C. Data capture
D. Data processing
Answer : B
19. 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
Answer : B
20. A 32 bit microprocessor has the word length equal to
A. 2 byte
B. 32 byte
C. 4 byte
D. 8 byte
Answer : C
21. Todays computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changes in 1924. What was that name?
A. Tabulator Machine Co.
B. The Tabulator Ltd.
C. Computing Tabulating Recording Co.
D. International Computer Ltd.
Answer : C
22. Offline device is
A. A device which is not connected to CPU
B. A device which is connected to CPU
C. A direct access storage device
D. An I/O device
Answer : A
23. Which of the following is not a binary number?
A. 1
B. 101
C. 202
D. 110
Answer : C
24. From which generation operating systems were developed?
A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
Answer : C
25. An operating system intended for use on microprocessor based systems that support a single user is
A. PC-DO
B. MS-DOS
C. UNIX
D. CP/M
Answer : D
26. FORTRAN programming language is more suitable for
A. Business Applications
B. Marketing Applications
C. Scientific Applications
D. None of the above
Answer : C
27. Which of the following is intended to be used in all applications runs on mainframe computers.
A. LOGO
B. APL
C. PL/1
D. OCCAM
Answer : C
28. Properly arranged data is called
A. Field
B. Words
C. Information
D. File
Answer : C
29. Malicious software is known as:
A. Bad ware.
B. Malware.
C. Malicious ware.
D. Illegal ware.
Answer : B
30. CPU speed of a personal computer is
A. 32 KIPS
B. 100 KIPS
C. 1 MIPS
D. None of these
Answer : B
31. The octal equivalence of 111010 is
A. 81
B. 72
C. 71
D. None of above
Answer : B
32. When was the world's first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?
A. Hewlett-Packard, 1980
B. Epson, 1981
C. Laplink Traveling Software Inc, 1982
D. Tandy Model-200, 1985
Answer : B
33. The earliest calculating devices are
A. Abacus
B. Clock
C. Difference Engine
D. None of these
Answer : A
34. Which of the following memories allows simultaneous read and write operations?
A. ROM
B. RAM
C. EPROM
D. None of above
Answer : B
35. A program that is employed in the development, repair or enhancement of other programs is known as
A. System software
B. Software tool
C. Applications program
D. Utility program
Answer : B
36. Which part of the computer is directly involved in executing the instructions of the computer program?
A. The scanner
B. The main storage
C. The secondary storage
D. The processor
Answer : D
37. What is the first stage in software development?
A. Specification and design
B. Testing
C. System Analysis
D. Maintenance
Answer : C
38. Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiple, divide and find square roots?
A. Napier
B. Babbage
C. Pascal
D. Leibniz
Answer : D
39. UNIVAC was a first generation computer. What is its full form?
A. Universal Automatic Computer
B. Universal Array Computer
C. Unique Automatic Computer
D. Unvalued Automatic Computer
Answer : A
40. which of the following is problem oriented language?
A. High level language
B. Machine language
C. Assembly language
D. Low level language
Answer : A
41. Father of "C" programming language
A. Dennis Ritchie
B. Prof John Keenly
C. Thomas Kurtz
D. Bill Gates
Answer : A
42. The capacity of 3.5 inch floppy disk is
A. 1.40 MB
B. 1.44 GB
C. 1.40 GB
D. 1.44 MB
Answer : D
43. In most IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drives, memory expansion slots and active components are mounted on a single board. What is the name of this board?
A. Motherboard
B. Breadboard
C. Daughter board
D. Grandmother board
Answer : A
44. Which one is the largest space?
A. kilobyte
B. petabyte
C. terabyte
D. gigabyte
Answer : B
45. 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
Answer : B
46. Multi user systems provided cost savings for small business because they use a single processing unit to link several
A. Personal computers
B. Workstations
C. Dumb terminals
D. Mainframes
Answer : C
47. ________ computers operate essentially by counting
A. Portable computer
B. Hybrid computer
C. Analog computer
D. Digital computer
Answer : D
48. RJ45 UTP cable has ________ Cables.
A. 2 pair
B. 3 pair
C. 4 pair
D. 5 pair
Answer : C
49. Where does most data go first with in a computer memory hierarchy?
A. RAM
B. ROM
C. BIOS
D. CACHE
Answer : A
50. What is embedded system?
A. The programme which arrives by being wrapped in box.
B. The programme which is the permanent part of the computer
C. The computer which is the part of a big computer
D. The computer and software system that control the machine
Answer : D

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