COBOL is an acronym for________
Common Business Oriented Language
Computer Business Oriented Language
Common Business Operated Language
Common Business Organized Language
Correct Answer :
A. Common Business Oriented Language
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When was Pascaline invented?
1617
1620
1642
1837
MICR stands for
Magnetic Ink Character Reader
Magnetic Ink Code Reader
Magnetic Ink Case Reader
None of the above
Dot-matrix is a type of
Tape
Printer
Disk
Bus
RAM stands for
Random origin money
Random only memory
Read only memory
Random access memory
Computer memory consists of
RAM
ROM
PROM
All of the above
What do you call the programs that are used to find out possible faults and their causes?
operating system extensions
cookies
diagnostic software
boot diskettes
What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip?
Intel 308
Intel 33
Intel 4004
Motorola 639
Which of the following have the fastest access time?
Semiconductor Memories
Magnetic Disks
Magnetic Tapes
Compact Disks
Which of the following is not purely output device?
Screen
Printer
Speaker
Plotter
ASCII stands for
American standard code for information interchange
All purpose scientific code for information interchange
American security code for information interchange
American Scientific code for information interchange
A normal CD- ROM usually can store up to _________ _data?
680 KB
680 Bytes
680 MB
680 GB
Any type of storage that is used for holding information between steps in its processing is
CPU
Primary storage
Intermediate storage
Internal storage
What is an interpreter?
An interpreter does the conversion line by line as the program is run
An interpreter is the representation of the system being designed
An interpreter is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution
None of the above
The data recording format in most of the modern magnetic tape is
7-bit ASCII
7-bit EBCDIC
8-bit ASCII
8-bit EBCDIC
ENIAC uses
Decimal Numbering System
Octal Numbering System
Binary Numbering System
Hexadecimal Numbering System
Who is the chief of Microsoft
Babbage
Bill Gates
Bill Clinton
none of these
The first Macintosh computer was from
First generation
Second generation
Third generation
Fourth generation
ASCII is a coding system that provides
256 different characters
512 different characters
1024 different characters
128 different characters
Touch Screen is________
Input device
Output device
Both a & b above
None of these
Regarding a VDU, Which statement is more correct?
It is an output device
It is an input device
It is a peripheral device
It is hardware item
Which is not a basic function of a computer?
Store data
Accept input
Process data
Copy text
What is a light pen?
A Mechanical Input device
Optical input device
Electronic input device
Optical output device
Which of the following is not a primary storage device?
Magnetic tape
Magnetic disk
Optical disk
All of above
Computer instructions written with the use of English words instead of binary machine code is called
Mnemonics
Symbolic code
Gray codes
Opcode
Charles Babbage is considered the father of modern computers because
of his difference engine
of his analytical engine
his concept of input, mill and output
All of above
Todays computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changes in 1924. What was that name?
Tabulator Machine Co.
The Tabulator Ltd.
Computing Tabulating Recording Co.
International Computer Ltd.
The difference between people with access to computers and the Internet and those without this access is known as the :
digital divide
Internet divide
Web divide
E-illiteracy
The difference between memory and storage is that memory is _____ and storage is __
Temporary, permanent
Permanent, temporary
Slow, fast
All of above
Computer operators
writes computer programs for specific problems
operate the device which input and output data from the computer
normally require a college degree in computer science
all of the above
The two kinds of main memory are:
Primary and secondary
Random and sequential
ROM and RAM
All of above