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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

A. PC

B. Flags

C. Memory Address Registers

D. General Purpose Registers

Correct Answer :

B. Flags


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Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC?

A. Memory address registers

B. Memory data registers

C. Instruction register

D. Program counter

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Which company is the biggest player in the microprocessor industry?

A. Motorola

B. IBM

C. Intel

D. AMD

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A compiler means

A. A person who compiles source programs

B. The same thing as a programmer

C. Keypunch operator

D. A program which translates source program into object program

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The binary system uses powers of

A. 2

B. 10

C. 8

D. 16

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When did arch rivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to join hands?

A. 1978

B. 1984

C. 1990

D. 1991

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A number system that has eight different symbols to represent any quantity is known as

A. Binary

B. Octal

C. Decimal

D. Hexadecimal

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The first electronic general purpose digital computer built by Eckert and Mauchly called ENIAC did not work on the stored program concept. How many numbers could it store in its internal memory?

A. 100

B. 20

C. 40

D. 80

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The brain of any computer system is

A. ALU

B. Memory

C. CPU

D. Control unit

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A Pixel is

A. A computer program that draws picture

B. A picture stored in secondary memory

C. The smallest resolvable part of a picture

D. None of these

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_________ translates and executes program at run time line by line

A. Compiler

B. Interpreter

C. Linker

D. Loader

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The advantage of COM are its and

A. Compact size; speed readability

B. Compact size, speed

C. Readability; speed

D. Low cost; readability

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Raw facts and figures about any particular topic are

A. Information

B. facts

C. data

D. none of above

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The personal computer industry was started by

A. IBM

B. Apple

C. Compaq

D. HCL

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Which of the following required large computer memory?

A. Imaging

B. Graphics

C. Voice

D. All of above

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Assembly language started to be used from

A. first generation computers

B. second generation computers

C. third generation computers

D. fourth generation computers

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Who designed the first electronics computer ? ENIAC/

A. Von Neumann

B. Joseph M Jacquard

C. J. P. Eckert and J. W. Mauchly

D. All of above

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Following IC chip integrates 100 thousands electronic components per chip

A. SSI

B. MSI

C. LSI

D. VLSI

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Which of the following printers are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multi carbon forms?

A. Daisy wheel

B. Dot matrix

C. Laser

D. Thimble

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The difference between memory and storage is that memory is ______ and storage is

A. Temporary, permanent

B. Permanent, temporary

C. Slow, fast

D. All of above

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four major data processing functions of a computer?

A. gathering data

B. processing data into information

C. analysing the data or information

D. storing the data or information

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Which of the following is not an output device?

A. Scanner

B. Printer

C. Flat Screen

D. Touch Screen

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If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number of addresses will be

A. 216

B. 65536

C. 64K

D. Any of the above

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Which technology is used in Compact disks?

A. Mechanical

B. Electrical

C. Electro Magnetic

D. Laser

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BCD is

A. Binary Coded Decimal

B. Bit Coded Decimal

C. Binary Coded Digit

D. Bit Coded Digit

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One of a class of storage device devices that can access storage locations in any order is

A. DTE

B. DASD

C. DDE

D. DDE

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A ________ is a microprocessor -based computing device.

A. personal computer

B. mainframe

C. workstation

D. server

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The computer code for the interchange of information between terminals is

A. ASCII

B. BCD

C. EBCDIC

D. All of above

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Any storage device added to a computer beyond the immediately usable main storage is known as

A. Floppy disk

B. Hard disk

C. Backing store

D. Punched card

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Machine language is

A. Machine dependent

B. Difficult to program

C. Error prone

D. All of above

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Which access method is used to access cassette tape?

A. Direct

B. Sequential

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above