Who is the inventor of Difference Engine�?
Allen Turing
Charles Babbage
Simur Cray
Augusta Adaming
Correct Answer :
B. Charles Babbage
Related Questions
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?
Bus control
Interrupts
Bus arbitration
Status
Which electronic component was made out of semiconductor material?
Vacuum tubes
Transistors
Ics
All of above
MSI stands for
Medium Scale Integrated Circuits
Medium System Integrated Circuits
Medium Scale Intelligent Circuit
Medium System Intelligent Circuit
When was the company named IBM?
1914
1924
1975
None of above
Magnetic disk is an example of
Secondary memory
Primary memory
Main memory
Both (1) and (2)
The earliest calculating devices are
Abacus
Clock
Difference Engine
None of these
Basic is _____ language.
a procedural
an object oriented
both A and B
none of the above
Which programming languages are classified as low level languages?
Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN
Prolog 2, Expert Systems
Knowledge based Systems
Assembly Languages
The computer size was very large in
First Generation
Second Generation
Third Generation
Fourth Generation
Which of the following is a feature of fifth generation computers?
Use of natural language
artificial intelligence
bio-chips
All of above
Which of the following printers are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multi carbon forms?
Daisy wheel
Dot matrix
Laser
Thimble
FORTRAN is
File Translation
Format Translation
Formula Translation
Floppy Translation
EEPROM stands for
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
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
Which of the following memories needs refresh?
SRAM
DRAM
ROM
All of above
Bit map terminal
support display containing multiple window
require considerable amount of video RAM
requires tremendous amount of copying and hence low performance
all of above
The proper definition of a modern digital computer is
An electronic automated machine that can solve problems involving words and numbers
A more sophistic and modified electronic pocket calculator
Any machine that can perform mathematical operations
A machine that works on binary code
ASCII stands 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
What type of computers are client computers (most of the time) in a client-server system?
Mainframe
Mini-computer
Microcomputer
PDA
When creating a computer program, the ________ designs the structure of the program
End user
System Analyst
Programmer
All of the above
On a PC, how much memory is available to application software?
1024 KB
760 KB
640 KB
560 KB
Why ABC computer is called so?
Because it was developed by Atanasoff and Berry
Because it was thought to be the first computer so named with first alphabets of English
Both of above are the reason to name the computer ABC
None of above are true
The main electronic component used in first generation computers was
Transistors
Vacuum Tubes and Valves
Integrated Circuits
None of above
High density double sided floppy disks could store _____ of data
1.40 GB
1.44 MB
1.40 MB
1.44 GB
When we look at the cost, which of the following computer is most expensive?
Mainframe Computer
Mini Computers
Micro Computers
Super Computers
What is the main difference between a mainframe and a super computer?
Super computer is much larger than mainframe computers
Super computers are much smaller than mainframe computers
Supercomputers are focused to execute as many programs as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute few programs as fast as possible.
Supercomputers are focused to execute few programs as fast as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute as many programs concurrently
RAM is also called as
Read / Write Memory
Long Memory
Permanent Memory
Primary Memory
Each model of a computer has a unique
Assembly of a computer
Machine language
High level language
All of the above
A technique used by codes to convert an analog signal into a digital bit stream is known as
Pulse code modulation
Pulse stretcher
Query processing
Queue management
Reusable optical storage will typically have the acronym-
CD
DVD
ROM
RW