Circular division of disks to store and retrieve data are known as
tracks
sectors
cycles
rings
Correct Answer :
A. tracks
Related Questions
Personal computers used a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?
Daughterboard
Motherboard
Father board
Child board
Who is the father of Computer science?
Allen Turing
Charles Babbage
Simur Cray
Augusta Adaming
The first firm to mass-market a microcomputer as a personal computer was
IBM
Super UNIVAC
Radio Sharks
Data General Corporation
Which of the following is the most powerful computers?
Mainframe Computer
Mini Computers
Micro Computers
Super Computers
________ are used to identify a user who returns to a Website
Cookies
Plug-ins
Scripts
ASPs
What is the name of an application program that gathers user information and sends it to someone through the Internet?
A virus
Spy bot
Logic bomb
Security patch
Another word for a daisy wheel printer
Petal printer
Golf ball printer
Laser printer
Line printer
What type of control pins are needed in a microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent two devices from trying to use it at the same time?
Bus control
Interrupts
Bus arbitration
Status
1 Byte =?
8 bits
4 bits
2 bits
9 bits
The brain of any computer system is
ALU
Memory
CPU
Control unit
A device, which is not connected to CPU, is called as ________
land-line device
On-line device
Off-line device
Device
________ is the ability of a device to "jump" directly to the requested data
Sequential access
Random access
Quick access
All of the above
To prevent the loss of data during power failures, use a(n):
Encryption program.
Surge protector.
Firewall.
UPS.
ENIAC uses
Decimal Numbering System
Octal Numbering System
Binary Numbering System
Hexadecial Numbering System
Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine?
Pascal
Hollerith
Babbage
Jacquard
The accuracy of the floating-point numbers representable in two 16-bit words of a computer is approximately
16 digits
6 digits
9 digits
All of above
SMPS stands for
Switched mode Power Supply
Start mode power supply
Store mode power supply
Single mode power supply
Microprocessors as switching devices are for which generation computers?
First Generation
Second Generation
Third Generation
Fourth Generation
A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language at one time is called a/ an
Interpreter
simulator
characters
compiler
Which of the following class of computers cannot support multiple users simultaneously?
Mainframe Computer
Mini Computers
Micro Computers
All of them can support
In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed
Parallel only
Sequentially only
Both sequentially and parallel
All of above
Light pen and joystick are________
Algorithm
Input devices
Output devices
Portals
An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is
On-line thesaurus
Multiprogramming
Over lapped processing
Outline processor
RJ45 UTP cable has ________ Cables.
2 pair
3 pair
4 pair
5 pair
FORTRAN is
File Translation
Format Translation
Formula Translation
Floppy Translation
The process of transferring files from a computer on the Internet to your computer is called
Downloading
uploading
FTP
JPEG
Which of the following is used only for data entry and storage, and never for processing?
Mouse
Dumb terminal
Micro computer
Dedicated data entry system
Who invented Analytical engine?
Blaise Pascal
George Bool
Charles Babbage
Dr. Herman Hollerith
A system is
an integration of different units so as to achieve an objective
input unit
input and output unit
input, output and storage units
EEPROM stands for
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
None of the above