Magnetic disk is an example of
Secondary memory
Primary memory
Main memory
Both (1) and (2)
Correct Answer :
A. Secondary memory
Related Questions
Which of the following is the largest manufacturer of Hard Disk Drives?
IBM
Seagate
Microsoft
3M
High density double sided floppy disks could store _____ of data
1.40 GB
1.44 MB
1.40 MB
1.44 GB
EBCDIC can code up to how many different characters?
256
16
32
64
Which of the following is not true for a magnetic disk?
It is expensive relative to magnetic tape
It provides only sequential access to stored data
Users can easily update records by writing over the old data
All of above
Snowbol is an/a________
Operating system
HLL
Software
Search engine
First page of Website is termed as-
Homepage
Index
JAVA script
Bookmark
Which converts the user data into machine readable form?
Input unit, output unit, control unit
Central processing unit
Output unit
Decoder unit
Fifth generation computer is also known as
Knowledge information processing system
Very large scale integration
Both of above
None of above
Software in computer
Enhances the capabilities of the hardware machine
Increase the speed of central processing unit
Both of above
None of above
Example of non-numeric data is
Employee address
Examination score
Bank balance
All of these
The system unit of a personal computer typically contains all of the following except:
Microprocessor
Disk controller
Serial interface
Modem
Another word for a daisy wheel printer
Petal printer
Golf ball printer
Laser printer
Line printer
Which language is directly understood by the computer without translation program?
Machine language
Assembly language
High level language
None of above
A hard copy would be prepared on a
Line printer
Dot matrix Printer
Typewriter terminal
All of the above
Which of the following is used as a primary storage device?
Magnetic drum
Hard Disks
Floppy
All of above
Who invented the high level language C?
Dennis M. Ritchie
Niklaus Writh
Seymour Papert
Donald Kunth
_________ translates and executes program at run time line by line
Compiler
Interpreter
Linker
Loader
Which of the items below are considered removable storage media?
Removable hard disk cartridges
(Magneto-optical) disk
Flexible disks cartridges
All of the above
Symbolic logic was discovered by
George Boole
Herman Hollerith
Van Neumann
Basic Pascal
Which type of computers uses the 8-bit code called EBCDIC?
Minicomputers
Mainframe computers
Super computer
Microcomputers
A computer program that translates one program instructions at a time into machine language is called a/an
Interpreter
CPU
Compiler
Simulator
Which of the following are input devices?
Keyboard
Mouse
Card reader
Any of these
A pen shaped device which can sense light, and is used to point at spots on a video screen.
Mouse
Light pen
Joystick
Plotter
The contribution of Konrad Zuse was long ignored because
He made the computers secretly
His computers were very complicated and it took time for the people to recognize its power
Of political reasons. He was German.
All of the above
EBCDIC stands for
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange Code
Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange Code
Extended Binary Case Decimal Interchange Code
A paper printout of a document is known as
Softcopy output
Hardcopy output
Permanent Output
All of above
Which of the following was a special purpose computer?
All of the above
ENIAC
EDVAC
ABC
Punched cards were first introduced by
Powers
Pascal
Jacquard
Herman Hollerith
Identify the correct statement
IBM PCs used RISC CPU designs
Macintosh used CISC CPU design
IBM used CISC CPU design
None of above is true
The thing that eventually terminates a worm virus is a lack of:
Memory or disk space.
Time.
CD drives space.
CD-RW.