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
Correct Answer :
B. Motherboard
Related Questions
Microprocessors as switching devices are for which generation computers
Second Generation
Fourth Generation
Third Generation
First Generation
Personnel who design, program, operates and maintains computer equipment refers to
Console-operator
Programmer
Peopleware
System Analyst
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
ASCII stands for
American Stable Code for International Interchange
American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
American Standard Code for Interchange Information
ASCII stands for
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
American Scientific Code for International Interchange
American Standard Code for Intelligence Interchange
American Scientific Code for Information Interchange
Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as
PC
Memory address registers
General purpose register
Flags
Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiple, divide and find square roots?
Napier
Babbage
Pascal
Leibniz
What do you call a single point on a computer screen?
Cell
Element
Pixel
Bit
Which device is used to backup the data?
Floppy Disk
Tape
Network Drive
All of the above
Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?
Control Unit and Registers
Registers and Main Memory
Control unit and ALU
ALU and bus
An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for it?
Leech
Squid
Slug
Glitch
The personal computer industry was started by
IBM
Apple
Compaq
HCL
Which of the following is not valid statement?
Hard is referred to mean something temporary
Hard is used to mean something tangible
Soft is used to mean something permanent
Soft is used to mean something tangible
When was Pascaline invented?
1617
1620
1642
1837
Which is not a computer classification?
mainframe
maxframe
mini
notebook
Which programming languages are classified as low level languages?
Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN
Prolog 2, Expert Systems
Knowledge based Systems
Assembly Languages
Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory system?
Magnetic core
Semiconductor
Magnetic tape
Both semiconductor and magnetic tape
What is the most common tool used to restrict access to a computer system?
User logins
Passwords
Computer keys
Access-control software
The least significant bit of the binary number, which is equivalent to any odd decimal number, is:
0
1
1 or 0
3
The amount of vertical space between lines of text in a document is called
double-space
line spacing
single space
vertical spacing
A computer system that is old and perhaps not satisfactory is referred to as a(n)
Ancient system
Historical system
Age old system
Legacy system
The process of starting a or restarting a computer system by loading instructions from a secondary storage device into the computer memory is called
Duping
Booting
Padding
CPS
Integrated Circuits (Ics) are related to which generation of computers?
First generation
Second generation
Fourth generation
Third generation
Which is a machine-oriented high-level language for the GEC 4080 series machines.
LOGO
SNOBOL
Babbage
ALGOL
Which is the limitation of high level language?
Lower efficiency
Machine dependence
Machine level coding
none of above
Which of the following is the largest manufacturer of Hard Disk Drives?
IBM
Seagate
Microsoft
3M
BCD is
Binary Coded Decimal
Bit Coded Decimal
Binary Coded Digit
Bit Coded Digit
Who invented punched cards?
Charles Babbage
Dr. Herman Hollerith
Howard Aikin
Joseph Jacquard
The proper definition of a modern digital computer is
An electronic automated machine that can solve problems involving words and numbers
A more sophistic and modified electronic pocket calculator
Any machine that can perform mathematical operations
A machine that works on binary code
The translator program used in assembly language is called
Compiler
Interpreter
Assembler
Translator