Home
Current Affairs January 2024

What is the correct answer?

4

Who invented punched cards?

A. Charles Babbage

B. Dr. Herman Hollerith

C. Howard Aikin

D. Joseph Jacquard

Correct Answer :

D. Joseph Jacquard


Related Questions

What is the correct answer?

4

Which of the following is not a class based on size?

A. Mainframe Computer

B. Micro Computer

C. Mini Computer

D. Digital Computer

What is the correct answer?

4

Instructions and memory address are represented by

A. Character code

B. Binary codes

C. Binary word

D. Parity bit

What is the correct answer?

4

Computer memory consists of

A. RAM

B. ROM

C. PROM

D. All of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed

A. Parallel only

B. Sequentially only

C. Both sequentially and parallel

D. All of above

What is the correct answer?

4

A name applied by Intel corp. to high speed MOS technology is called

A. HDLC

B. LAP

C. HMOS

D. SDLC

What is the correct answer?

4

The brain of any computer system is

A. Control Unit

B. Arithmetic Logic Unit

C. Central Processing Unit

D. Storage Unit

What is the correct answer?

4

Regarding data, computers are very good at

A. store

B. Processing

C. retrieve

D. All of above

What is the correct answer?

4

Chief component of first generation computer was

A. Transistors

B. Vacuum Tubes and Valves

C. Integrated Circuits

D. None of above

What is the correct answer?

4

The Second Generation Computer was based on ________.

A. Vacuum Tube

B. Silicon Chips

C. Transistor

D. Bio Chips

What is the correct answer?

4

Modern Computer are very reliable but they are not

A. Fast

B. Powerful

C. Infallible

D. Cheap

What is the correct answer?

4

Who invented Slide Rules?

A. John Napier

B. William Oughtred

C. Gottfried Leibnitz

D. Blaise Pascal

What is the correct answer?

4

Which of the items below are considered removable storage media?

A. Removable hard disk cartridges

B. (Magneto-optical) disk

C. Flexible disks cartridges

D. All of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

A logic bomb that was created to erupt on Michelangelos birthday is an example of a:

A. Time-related bomb sequence.

B. Virus.

C. Time bomb.

D. Trojan horse.

What is the correct answer?

4

The advantage of COM are its __ and __

A. Compact size; speed readability

B. Compact size, speed

C. Readability; speed

D. Low cost; readability

What is the correct answer?

4

Which programming language is based on Algol 60.

A. PILOT

B. SNOBOL

C. ADA

D. SIMULA

What is the correct answer?

4

What is the main difference between a mainframe and a super computer?

A. Super computer is much larger than mainframe computers

B. Super computers are much smaller than mainframe computers

C. Supercomputers are focused to execute few programs as fast as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute as many

D. Supercomputers are focused to execute as many programs as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute few programs as fast as possible.

What is the correct answer?

4

A dumb terminal has

A. an embedded microprocessor

B. extensive memory

C. independent processing capability

D. a keyboard and screen

What is the correct answer?

4

What is an interpreter?

A. An interpreter does the conversion line by line as the program is run

B. An interpreter is the representation of the system being designed

C. An interpreter is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution

D. None of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

The brain of any computer system is

A. ALU

B. Memory

C. CPU

D. Control unit

What is the correct answer?

4

Which of the following does not affect the resolution of a video display image?

A. Bandwidth

B. Raster scan rage

C. Vertical and horizontal lines of resolution

D. Screen size

What is the correct answer?

4

A computer assisted method for the recording and analyzing of existing or hypothetical systems is

A. Data transmission

B. Data flow

C. Data capture

D. Data processing

What is the correct answer?

4

Access time is

A. seek time + latency time

B. seek time

C. seek time ? latency time

D. latency time

What is the correct answer?

4

A number that is used to control the form of another number is known as

A. Map

B. Mask

C. Mamtossa

D. Marker

What is the correct answer?

4

Compilers and interpreters are themselves

A. High-level language

B. Codes

C. Programs

D. Mnemonics

What is the correct answer?

4

Today's computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changed in 1924. What was that name?

A. Computer Tabulating Recording Co.

B. The Tabulator Ltd.

C. International Computer Ltd.

D. None of above

What is the correct answer?

4

Number crunchier is the informal name for

A. Minicomputer

B. Super computer

C. Microcomputer

D. Mainframe computer

What is the correct answer?

4

Memory is made up of

A. Set of wires

B. Set of circuits

C. Large number of cells

D. All of these

What is the correct answer?

4

Which is not a computer classification?

A. mainframe

B. maxframe

C. mini

D. notebook

What is the correct answer?

4

The output quality of a printer is measured by

A. Dot per sq. inch

B. Dots per inch

C. Dots printed per unit time

D. All of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

Com in Latin is

A. intensifying prefix

B. intensifying suffix

C. a term that means to reckon

D. None of above