When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke into the corresponding bits?
ANSI
ASCII
EBCDIC
ISO
Correct Answer :
A. ANSI
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A device for converting handwritten impressions into coded characters & positional coordinates for input to a computer is
Touch panel
Mouse
Wand
Writing tablet
What are the stages in the compilation process?
Feasibility study, system design and testing
Implementation and documentation
Lexical Analysis, syntax analysis, and code generation
None of the above
Who is the chief of Microsoft
Babbage
Bill Gates
Bill Clinton
none of these
In what respect human beings are superior to computers?
Diligence
Intelligence
Slavery
Reliability
Which of the following device was not invented by Babbage?
Pascaline
Difference Engine
Analytical Engine
None of above
Which of the following file organization is most efficient for a file with a high degree of file activity?
Sequential
ISAM
VSAM
B-Tree Index
To prevent the loss of data during power failures, use a(n):
Encryption program.
Surge protector.
Firewall.
UPS.
Which of the following is not an input device?
OCR
Optical scanners
COM (Computer Output to Microfilm)
Voice recognition device
What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip?
Intel 308
Intel 33
Intel 4004
Motorola 639
Which of the following have the fastest access time?
Semiconductor Memories
Magnetic Disks
Magnetic Tapes
Compact Disks
What was the first computer to perform all calculation using electronics rather than wheels, ratchets, or mechanical switches?
Mark I
ABC
Z3
None of above
Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to a:
networked
mainframe
supercomputer
client
A paper printout of a document is known as
Softcopy output
Hardcopy output
Permanent Output
All of above
________ is the measurement of things such as fingerprints and retinal scans used for security access.
Biometrics
Bio measurement
Computer security
Smart weapon machinery
Computer is free from tiresome and boardroom. We call it
Accuracy
Reliability
Diligence
Versatility
Computer system comprises of major units
input unit, output unit, control unit
input unit, output unit, control unit and storage
input unit, output unit, central processing unit and storage unit
input, output and storage units
Any storage device added to a computer beyond the immediately usable main storage is known as
Floppy disk
Hard disk
Backing store
Punched card
Which device is used to backup the data?
Floppy Disk
Tape
Network Drive
All of the above
A name or number used to identify storage location devices?
A byte
A record
An address
All of above
If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number of addresses will be
216
65536
64K
Any of the above
Snowbol is an/a________
Operating system
HLL
Software
Search engine
An error in computer data is called
Chip
Bug
CPU
Storage device
Which is not a computer of first generation?
ENIAC
UNIVAC
IBM 360
IBM 1401
The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from
Control section
Primary memory
External memory
Cache memory
The digital computer was developed primarily in
USSR
Japan
USA
UK
Human beings are referred to as Homosapinens, which device is called Sillico Sapiens?
Monitor
Hardware
Robot
Computer
A language which is close to that used within the computer is
High-level language
Assembly language
Low-level language
All of the above
Which of the following is/ are operating systems
Windows
Unix
OS/2
All of these
Fifth generation computer is also known as
Knowledge information processing system
Very large scale integration (VLSI)
Both of above
None of above
Which is the largest computer?
Mainframe Computer
Mini Computers
Micro Computers
Super Computers