Personal computers use a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?
Daughter board
Motherboard
Father board
Breadboard
Correct Answer :
B. Motherboard
Related Questions
The brain of any computer system is
CPU
Memory
ALU
Control unit
In most of the IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drivers, memory, expansion slots and active components are mounted on a single board. What is the name of the board?
Motherboard
Daughterboard
Bredboard
Fatherboard
Dot-matrix is a type of
Tape
Printer
Disk
Bus
Registers which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional codes (bits set by the CPU hardware as the result of operations), are known as
PC
Flags
Memory Address Registers
General Purpose Registers
What is the path from which data flow in a computer system is known as
Car
Bus
Truck
Road
Integrated Circuits (ICs) are related to which generation of computers?
First generation
Second generation
Third generation
Fourth generation
Binary numbers need more places for counting because
They are always big numbers
Any no. of 0's can be added in front of them
Binary base is small
0's and l's have to be properly spaced apart
A stand-alone system which produces one page of printed output at a time is
Page printer
Line printer
Laser printer
Dot matrix printer
Hard disk is coated in both sides with
Magnetic metallic oxide
Optical metallic oxide
Carbon layer
All of the above
To access properties of an object, the mouse technique to use is-
Dragging
dropping
right-clicking
shift-clicking
ABC is a
Special purpose computer
General purpose computer
All Purpose Computer
None of above
________ is the key we use to run the selected command.
SHIFT
TAB
ENTER
CTRL
The ________ is the amount of data that a storage device can move from the storage medium to the Computer per second
data migration rate
data digitizing rate
data transfer rate
data access rate
John Napier invented Logarithm in
1614
1617
1620
None of above
Which of the following is true?
Mark I was 8 feet long
Mark I was 2 feet long
Mark I was 40 feet long
None of above
What was the expected feature of fifth generation computers when Japan started FGCS?
Operating Systems
Parallel Processing
ULSI
None of above
A modern electronic computer is a machine that is meant for
Doing quick mathematical calculations
Input, storage, manipulation and outputting of data
Electronic data processing
Performing repetitive tasks accurately
Which of the following is not a third generation computer?
IBM 360
IBM 1401
PDP-8
HP2115
The tracks on a disk which can be accessed without repositioning the R/W heads is
Surface
Cylinder
Cluster
All of the above
EPROM can be used for
Erasing the contents of ROM
Reconstructing the contents of ROM
Erasing and reconstructing the contents of ROM
Duplicating ROM
An integrated circuit is
A complicated circuit
An integrating device
Much costlier than a single transistor
Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
Which of the following storage device can store the largest amount of data?
Hard Disks
Flash Disks
Blu-Ray Disks
DVDs
What is a brand?
The name of companies that made computers
The name of product a company gives to identify its product in market
A name of class to indicate all similar products from different companies
All of above
Which of the following device was not invented by Babbage?
Pascaline
Difference Engine
Analytical Engine
None of above
What are the computers called that performs calculations and comparisons usually in the binary numbering system?
Analog Computers
Digital Computers
Hybrid Computers
None of above
A high quality CAD system uses the following for printing drawing and graphs
Dot matrix printer
Digital plotter
Line printer
All of the above
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 most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called
ASCII
EBCDIC
BCD
All of above
Model 5100 was_____ in 1957.
The first PC built by IBM
The first PC built by Apple
The first PC built by Motorola
The first PC built by Intel
Which statement is valid about computer program?
It is understood by a computer
It is understood by programmer
It is understood user
Both a & b