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The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from

A. Control section

B. Primary memory

C. External memory

D. Cache memory

Correct Answer :

A. Control section


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Word length of a Personal Computer is

A. 4 bits

B. 8 bits

C. 16 bits

D. 64 bits

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A computer can solve more than one kind of problem. This is related to which of the following characteristics?

A. Accuracy

B. Reliability

C. Versatility

D. Automatic

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IMB launched its first personal computer called IBM-PC in 1981. It had chips from Intel, disk drives from Tandon, operating system from Microsoft, the printer from Epson and the application software from everywhere. Can you name the country which contribu

A. India

B. China

C. Germany

D. Taiwan

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Which unit holds data permanently?

A. Input unit

B. Secondary storage unit

C. Output Unit

D. Primary Memory Unit

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Which of the following is first generation of computer?

A. EDSAC

B. IBM-1401

C. CDC-1604

D. ICL-2900

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A register organized to allow to move left or right operations is called a

A. Counter

B. Loader

C. Adder

D. Shift register

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Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?

A. Random access memory

B. Action method

C. Transfer method

D. Density method

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What is meant by a dedicated computer?

A. Which is used by one person only

B. Which is assigned one and only one task

C. Which uses one kind of software

D. Which is meant for application software

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Who built the world's first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?

A. Claude Shannon

B. Konrard Zues

C. George Stibits

D. Howard H. Aiken

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First generation computers used_____ for memory

A. vacuum tubes

B. silicon chips

C. magnetic drum

D. RAM

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The first microprocessor built by the Intel corporation was called

A. 8008

B. 8080

C. 4004

D. 8800

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Which of the following processors use RISC technology?

A. 486dx

B. Power PC

C. 486sx

D. 6340

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________ represents raw facts, where-as________ is data made meaningful.

A. Information, reporting

B. Data, information

C. Information, bits

D. Records, bytes

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Computers process data into information by working exclusively with :

A. multimedia

B. word

C. numbers

D. characters

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UNIVAC is

A. Universal Automatic Computer

B. Universal Array Computer

C. Unique Automatic Computer

D. Unvalued Automatic Computer

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Which of the following is intended to be used in all applications runs on mainframe computers.

A. LOGO

B. APL

C. PL/1

D. OCCAM

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Which of the following computer implemented binary numbers, perform calculations using electronics and implemented separate computation and memory for the first time?

A. Mark I

B. ABC

C. Z3

D. None of above

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Com in Latin is

A. intensifying prefix

B. intensifying suffix

C. a term that means to reckon

D. None of above

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Which of the following was a special purpose computer?

A. All of the above

B. ENIAC

C. EDVAC

D. ABC

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Which of the following is valid statement?

A. Data in itself is useless unless it is processed

B. The data that is processed is called a program

C. The data which is not yet processed is information

D. Information is processed by computer to generate datA.

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When was the world's first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?

A. Hewlett-Packard

B. Epson, 1981

C. Laplink traveling software In1982

D. Tandy model-2000, 1985

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What type of control pins are needed in a microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent two devices from trying to use it at the same time?

A. Bus control

B. Interrupts

C. Bus arbitration

D. Status

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Which of the following printing devices an output composed of a series of data?

A. Wire matrix printer

B. Band printer

C. Wang image printer

D. Both a and c

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Punched cards were first introduced by

A. Powers

B. Pascal

C. Jacquard

D. Herman Hollerith

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Which of the following is an example of fifth generation computer?

A. PIM/m

B. ICL 2950

C. IBM 1401

D. None of above

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Microprocessors as switching devices are for which generation computers

A. Second Generation

B. Fourth Generation

C. Third Generation

D. First Generation

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What is a compiler?

A. A compiler does a conversion line by line as the program is run

B. A compiler converts the whole of a higher level program code into machine code in one step

C. A compiler is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution

D. None of the above

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The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called

A. ASCII

B. EBCDIC

C. BCD

D. All of above

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When did John Napier develop logarithm?

A. 1416

B. 1614

C. 1641

D. 1804

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Magnetic disk is an example of

A. Secondary memory

B. Primary memory

C. Main memory

D. Both (1) and (2)