Example of non-numeric data is
Employee address
Examination score
Bank balance
All of these
Correct Answer :
A. Employee address
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The metal disks, which are permanently housed in, sealed and contamination free containers are called
Hard disks
Floppy disk
Winchester disk
Flexible disk
Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device?
Bits
Bytes
Hertz
Clock cycles
When a logic bomb is activated by a time-related event, it is known as a:
Time-related bomb sequence.
Virus.
Time bom
Trojan horse.
Seek time is
Time to position the head over proper track
Time to position the head over proper sector
Time to position the head over proper cylinder
None of above
In analog computer
Input is first converted to digital form
Input is never converted to digital form
Output is displayed in digital form
All of the above
A computer program that translates one program instructions at a time into machine language is called a/an
Interpreter
CPU
Compiler
Simulator
Which is a machine-oriented high-level language for the GEC 4080 series machines.
LOGO
SNOBOL
Babbage
ALGOL
CD-ROM is a
Semiconductor memory
Memory register
Magnetic memory
None of above
Which company is the biggest player in the microprocessor industry?
Motorola
IBM
Intel
AMD
ALU and Control Unit jointly known as
RAM
ROM
CPU
PC
Computers built before the First Generation of computers were:
Mechanical
Electro-mechanical
Electrical
None of these
Mnemonic a memory trick is used in which of the following language?
Machine language
Assembly language
High level language
None of above
A device for converting handwritten impressions into coded characters & positional coordinates for input to a computer is
Touch panel
Mouse
Wand
Writing tablet
Computers process data into information by working exclusively with :
multimedia
word
numbers
characters
Machine language is
Machine dependent
Difficult to program
Error prone
All of above
A technique used by codes to convert an analog signal into a digital bit stream is known as
Pulse code modulation
Pulse stretcher
Query processing
Queue management
Which of the following items are examples of storage devices?
Floppy / hard disks
CD-ROMs
Tape devices
All of the above
The computer abbreviation KB usually means
Key Block
Kernel Boot
Kilo Byte
Kit Bit
Symbolic logic was discovered by
George Boole
Herman Hollerith
Van Neumann
Basic Pascal
High density double sided floppy disks could store of data
1.40 MB
1.44 GB
1.40 GB
1.44 MB
Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory system?
Magnetic core
Semiconductor
Magnetic tape
Both semiconductor and magnetic tape
When was Pascaline invented?
1617
1620
1642
1837
What is meant by a dedicated computer?
Which is used by one person only?
Which is assigned one and only one task?
Which uses one kind of software?
Which is meant for application software?
The personnel who deals with the computer and its management put together are called
Software
Human ware
Firmware
Hardware
Which is the highest form?
Data
Information
Knowledge
All of above
A compiler is a translating program which
Translates instruction of a high level language into machine language
Translates entire source program into machine language program
It is not involved in programs execution
All of above
How many types of storage loops exists in magnetic bubble memory
8
4
16
2
What is a light pen?
Mechanical Input device
Optical input device
Electronic input device
Optical output device
________ represents raw facts, where-as________ is data made meaningful.
Information, reporting
Data, information
Information, bits
Records, bytes
What was the expected feature of fifth generation computers when Japan started FGCS?
Operating Systems
Parallel Processing
ULSI
None of above