Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine?
Pascal
Hollerith
Babbage
Jacquard
Correct Answer :
D. Jacquard
Related Questions
Which of the following is the most quickly accessible storage?
RAM
Registers
Disks
Pen Drive
Which of the following is machine independence program?
High level language
Low level language
Assembly language
Machine language
The complete picture of data stored in database is known as
Record
Schema
System flowchart
DBMS
Artificial Intelligence is associated with which generation?
First Generation
Second Generation
Fifth Generation
Sixth Generation
Chief component of first generation computer was
Transistors
Vacuum Tubes and Valves
Integrated Circuits
None of above
What is the first stage in software development?
Specification and design
Testing
System Analysis
Maintenance
Which of the following is NOT one of the four major data processing functions of a computer?
gathering data
processing data into information
analysing the data or information
storing the data or information
Which is the highest form?
Data
Information
Knowledge
All of above
Storage capacity of magnetic disk depends on
tracks per inch of surface
bits per inch of tracks
disk pack in disk surface
All of above
1 nibble equals to
1 bits
2 bits
4 bits
8 bits
The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed in
First generation
Second generation
Third generation
Fourth generation
ENIAC uses
Decimal Numbering System
Octal Numbering System
Binary Numbering System
Hexadecial Numbering System
ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand for?
American Stable Code for International Interchange
American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
American Standard Code for Interchange Information
Any method for controlling access to or use of memory is known
Memory map
Memory protection
Memory management
Memory instruction
________ refers to electronic trespassing or criminal hacking.
Cracking
Jacking
Spoofing
Smarming
A set of flip flops integrated together is called ____
Counter
Adder
Register
None of the above
Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device?
Bits
Bytes
Hertz
Clock cycles
Which of the following memories allows simultaneous read and write operations?
ROM
RAM
EPROM
None of above
Which of the following produces the best quality graphics reproduction?
Laser printer
Ink jet printer
Plotter
Dot matrix printer
When creating a computer program, the ________ designs the structure of the program
End user
System Analyst
Programmer
All of the above
A physical connection between the microprocessor memory and other parts of the microcomputer is known as
Path
Route
Address bus
All of the 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
When was Pascaline invented?
1617
1620
1642
1837
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
ALU is
Arithmetic Logic Unit
Array Logic Unit
Application Logic Unit
None of above
An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for it?
Leech
Squid
Slug
Glitch
The arranging of data in a logical sequence is called
Sorting
Classifying
Reproducing
Summarizing
John Napier invented Logarithm in
1614
1617
1620
None of above
From which generation operating systems were developed?
First
Second
Third
Fourth
The least significant bit of the binary number, which is equivalent to any odd decimal number, is:
0
1
1 or 0
3