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
Correct Answer :
B. Booting
Related Questions
A number system that has eight different symbols to represent any quantity is known as
Binary
Octal
Decimal
Hexadecimal
Snowbol is an/a________
Operating system
HLL
Software
Search engine
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
A compiler is a translating program which
Translates instruction of a high level language into machine language
Translates entire source program into machine language program
It is not involved in program's execution
All of above
Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as
PC
Memory address registers
General purpose register
Flags
Examples of output devices are
Screen
Printer
Speaker
All of these
Which language is directly understood by the computer without translation program?
Machine language
Assembly language
High level language
None of 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
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
Who invented the high level language C?
Dennis M. Ritchie
Niklaus Writh
Seymour Papert
Donald Kunth
IBM 1401 is
First Generation Computer
Second Generation Computer
Third Generation Computer
Fourth Generation Computer
Hardware or software designed to guard against unauthorized access to a computer network is known as a(n):
Hacker-proof program.
Firewall.
Hacker-resistant server.
Encryption safe wall.
A program that converts computer data into some code system other than the normal one is known as
Encoder
Simulation
Emulator
Coding
Large transaction processing systems in automated organisations use
Online processing
Batch Processing
Once-a-day Processing
End-of-day processing
Primary memory stores
Data alone
Programs alone
Results alone
All of these
Which of the following memory medium is not used as main memory system?
Magnetic core
Semiconductor
Magnetic tape
Both semiconductor and magnetic tape
Which of the following require large computers memory?
Imaging
Graphics
Voice
All of Above
The computer size was very large in
First Generation
Second Generation
Third Generation
Fourth Generation
Any device that performs signal conversion is
Modulator
Modem
Keyboard
Plotter
A storage area used to store data to a compensate for the difference in speed at which the different units can handle data is
Memory
Buffer
Accumulator
Address
What is an interpreter?
An interpreter does the conversion line by line as the program is run
An interpreter is the representation of the system being designed
An interpreter is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution
None of the above
The difference between memory and storage is that memory is _____ and storage is __
Temporary, permanent
Permanent, temporary
Slow, fast
All of above
Which method is used to connect a remote computer?
Device
Dialup
Diagnostic
Logic circuit
Most of the inexpensive personal computers do not have any disk or diskette drive. What is the name of such computes?
Home computers
Diskless computers
Dedicated computers
General purpose computers
When was the X window system born?
1984
1989
1988
1990
An integrated circuit is
A complicated circuit
An integrating device
Much costlier than a single transistor
Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
Which is the limitation of high level language?
Lower efficiency
Machine dependence
Machine level coding
none of above
The two major types of computer chips are
External memory chip
Primary memory chip
Microprocessor chip
Both b and c
Which is used for manufacturing chips?
Bus
Control unit
Semiconductors
A and b only
IBM System/360 is
Mainframe Computer
Mini Computers
Micro Computers
None of above