Computer Fundamental MCQ Solved Paper for ISRO Recruitment

1. The ________ is the amount of data that a storage device can move from the storage medium to the Computer per second
A. data migration rate
B. data digitizing rate
C. data transfer rate
D. data access rate
Answer : C

2. Which of the following term means to reckon?
A. putare
B. com
C. computa
D. computar
Answer : A

3. Which of the following is used as a primary storage device?
A. Magnetic drum
B. Hard Disks
C. All of above
D. Floppy
Answer : A

4. Which of the printers used in conjunction with computers uses dry ink powder?
A. Daisy wheel printer
B. Line printer
C. Laser printer
D. Thermal printer
Answer : C

5. Who invented the high level language C?
A. Dennis M. Ritchie
B. Niklaus Writh
C. Seymour Papert
D. Donald Kunth
Answer : A

6. Software in computer
A. Enhances the capabilities of the hardware machine
B. Increase the speed of central processing unit
C. Both of above
D. None of above
Answer : A

7. A notation used to express clearly on algorithm is known as
A. Algorithmic language
B. Assembly language
C. Machine language
D. High level language
Answer : A

8. Where as a computer mouse moves over the table surface, the trackball is
A. Stationary
B. Difficult to move
C. Dragged
D. Moved in small steps
Answer : A

9. The ________ data mining technique derives rules from real-world case examples.
A. Rule discover
B. Signal processing
C. Neural nets
D. Case-based reasoning
Answer : C

10. Latency time is
A. Time to spin the needed data under head
B. Time to spin the needed data under track
C. Time to spin data under sector
D. All of above
Answer : D

11. The personnel who deals with the computer and its management put together are called
A. Software
B. Human ware
C. Firmware
D. Hardware
Answer : B

12. The purpose of vacuum tube was to NOT act like
A. an amplifier
B. a switch
C. a router
D. None of above
Answer : C

13. Is an OOP principle
A. Structured programming
B. Procedural programming
C. Inheritance
D. Linking
Answer : C

14. Most important advantage of an IC is its
A. Easy replacement in case of circuit failure
B. Extremely high reliability
C. Reduced cost
D. Lower power consumption
Answer : B

15. What is the other name for programmed chip?
A. RAM
B. ROM
C. LSIC
D. PROM
Answer : C

16. WAN is a most used abbreviation in Networking, what is its full form?
A. WAP Area Network
B. Wide Area Network
C. Wide Array of Network
D. Wireless Access Network
Answer : B

17. 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

18. For what Antikyathera was used?
A. For counting
B. For Calculating tax collection
C. For calculating astronomical positions
D. For calculating firing weapons
Answer : C

19. Which generation of computer is still under development
A. Fourth Generation
B. Fifth Generation
C. Sixth Generation
D. Seventh Generation
Answer : B

20. ASCII stands for
A. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
B. American Scientific Code for International Interchange
C. American Standard Code for Intelligence Interchange
D. American Scientific Code for Information Interchange
Answer : A

21. Which of the following programming language started from second generation?
A. COBOl
B. BASIC
C. C
D. LISP
Answer : A

22. The secondary storage devices can only store data but they cannot perform
A. Arithmetic Operation
B. Logic operation
C. Fetch operations
D. Either of the above
Answer : D

23. Raw facts and figures about any particular topic are
A. Information
B. facts
C. data
D. none of above
Answer : C

24. The terminal device that functions as a cash register, computer terminal, and OCR reader is the:
A. Data collection terminal
B. OCR register terminal
C. Video Display terminal
D. POS terminal
Answer : D

25. One of the popular mass storage device is CD ROM. What does CD ROM stand for?
A. Compactable Read Only Memory
B. Compact Data Read Only Memory
C. Compactable Disk Read Only Memory
D. Compact Disk Read Only Memory
Answer : D

26. ________is a combination of hardware and software that facilitates the sharing of information between computing devices.
A. network
B. peripheral
C. expansion board
D. digital device
Answer : A

27. Easily reloctable language is
A. Machine language
B. Assembly language
C. High level language
D. Medium level language
Answer : B

28. Human beings are referred to as Homosapinens, which device is called Sillico Sapiens?
A. Monitor
B. Hardware
C. Robot
D. Computer
Answer : D

29. When did arch rivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to join hands?
A. 1978
B. 1984
C. 1990
D. 1991
Answer : D

30. The value of each bead in earth is
A. 1
B. 3
C. 5
D. 7
Answer : A

31. 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

32. What does the disk drive of a computer do?
A. Rotate the disk
B. Read the disk
C. Load a program from the disk into the memory
D. Both b and c
Answer : D

33. The scrambling of code is known as:
A. Encryption.
B. firewall.
C. Scrambling.
D. Password proofing.
Answer : A

34. EEPROM stands for
A. Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
B. Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
C. Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
D. None of the above
Answer : A

35. ________ are used to identify a user who returns to a Website
A. Cookies
B. Plug-ins
C. Scripts
D. ASPs
Answer : A

36. Chief component of first generation computer was
A. Transistors
B. Vacuum Tubes and Valves
C. Integrated Circuits
D. None of above
Answer : B

37. ________are specific to users' needs
A. System software
B. Application software
C. Assemblers
D. Compilers
Answer : B

38. Seek time is
A. Time to position the head over proper track
B. Time to position the head over proper sector
C. Time to position the head over proper cylinder
D. None of above
Answer : A

39. Personnel who design, program, operates and maintains computer equipment refers to
A. Console-operator
B. Programmer
C. Peopleware
D. System Analyst
Answer : C

40. What type of device is computer keyboard?
A. Memory
B. Output
C. Storage
D. Input
Answer : D

41. Analog computer works on the supply of
A. Continuous electrical pulses
B. Electrical pulses but not continuous
C. Magnetic strength
D. None of the above
Answer : A

42. Which of the following is machine independence program?
A. High level language
B. Low level language
C. Assembly language
D. Machine language
Answer : A

43. A byte consists of
A. One bit
B. Four bits
C. Eight bits
D. Sixteen bits
Answer : C

44. The advantage of COM are its __ and __
A. Compact size; speed readability
B. Compact size, speed
C. Readability; speed
D. Low cost; readability
Answer : A

45. ________ is the key we use to run the selected command.
A. SHIFT
B. TAB
C. ENTER
D. CTRL
Answer : C

46. Modern Computers are very reliable but they are not
A. Fast
B. Powerful
C. Infallible
D. Cheap
Answer : C

47. A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language at one time is called a/an
A. Interpreter
B. CPU
C. Compiler
D. Simulator
Answer : C

48. Which computers used operating systems by Microsoft?
A. IBM PCs
B. Apple/Macintosh PCs
C. IBM Compatibles
D. Both A & C
Answer : D

49. A register organized to allow to move left or right operations is called a
A. Counter
B. Loader
C. Adder
D. Shift register
Answer : D

50. The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called
A. ASCII
B. EBCDIC
C. BCD
D. All of above
Answer : A