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This section includes 16 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Common Topics in Competitive and Entrance exams knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
The following device allows the user to add external components to a computer system |
| A. | Storage devices |
| B. | Keyboards |
| C. | Ports/ system boards |
| D. | Diskettes |
| Answer» D. Diskettes | |
| 2. |
A process of collecting, organizing, storing and otherwise maintaining a complete historical record of programs and other documents used or prepared during the different phases of the system is called |
| A. | Documentation |
| B. | Document reader |
| C. | Data process |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Document reader | |
| 3. |
Automated Office refers to the merger of in an office environment. |
| A. | Computers |
| B. | office |
| C. | telecommunications |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
An optical input device that is used to read documents printed in a special type font is known as |
| A. | Document reader |
| B. | Documentation |
| C. | Printer |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Documentation | |
| 5. |
A storage devices where the access time is effectively independent of the location of the data is referred as |
| A. | Direct access |
| B. | Secondary storage |
| C. | Primary storag |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Secondary storage | |
| 6. |
A flat, circular plate coated with a magnetic material on which data can be stored by magnetization of portions of the flat surface is |
| A. | Disk |
| B. | Tape |
| C. | Pen drive |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Tape | |
| 7. |
Following communications lines, best suites to interactive processing applications |
| A. | narrowband channels |
| B. | simplex lines |
| C. | full-duplex lines |
| D. | mixed-band channels |
| Answer» D. mixed-band channels | |
| 8. |
An adder which adds three binary digits and outputs a result bit and a carry bit is referred as |
| A. | Half adder |
| B. | Quarter adder |
| C. | Full adder |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 9. |
Programs developed by an outside supplier and provided to the user in a machine readable form is known as |
| A. | Canned Programs |
| B. | Beta program |
| C. | Alpha program |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Beta program | |
| 10. |
Data entry can be performed with all of the following except |
| A. | OCR / OMR |
| B. | COM |
| C. | Voice-recognition systems |
| D. | MICR |
| Answer» C. Voice-recognition systems | |
| 11. |
The following magazine covers only the IBM PC and its compatibles |
| A. | Byte |
| B. | PC Magazine |
| C. | Personal Computing |
| D. | Interface Age |
| Answer» C. Personal Computing | |
| 12. |
A program that translates mnemonic statements into executable instructions is referred as |
| A. | Software |
| B. | Assembler |
| C. | Translator |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Translator | |
| 13. |
A unit of a computer system that interprets instructions and executes them is known as |
| A. | Processor |
| B. | Storage |
| C. | Peripherals |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Storage | |
| 14. |
A sequential electronic circuit which can be placed in one out of two stable states where each state may be used to represent a binary digit is stated as |
| A. | Integrated circuit |
| B. | Firmware |
| C. | Flip-flop |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 15. |
The following piece of hardware is used as input phase of a computer-based information system |
| A. | Printer |
| B. | Diskette |
| C. | Monitor |
| D. | Keyboard |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Which of the following is not true of a magnetic disk? |
| A. | Users can update records by writing over the old data |
| B. | It provides sequential access to stored data |
| C. | It is slow relative to magnetic tape |
| D. | All of the above are true |
| Answer» C. It is slow relative to magnetic tape | |