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This section includes 1088 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Technical Programming knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 151. |
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 L |
| Answer» C. International Computer L | |
| 152. |
Each set of Napier’s bones consisted of ______ rods. |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 9 |
| C. | 11 |
| D. | 13 |
| Answer» D. 13 | |
| 153. |
Which is an item of storage medium in the form of circular plate? |
| A. | Disk |
| B. | CPU |
| C. | Printer |
| D. | ALU |
| Answer» B. CPU | |
| 154. |
Personal computers used a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards? |
| A. | Daughterboard |
| B. | Motherboard |
| C. | Father board |
| D. | Childboard |
| Answer» C. Father board | |
| 155. |
A Pixel is _________ |
| A. | A computer program that draws picture |
| B. | A picture stored in secondary memory |
| C. | The smallest resolvable part of a picture |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 156. |
What was the first computer brought in Nepal? |
| A. | ICL/2950 |
| B. | ENIAC |
| C. | IBM 1401 |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» D. None of above | |
| 157. |
Which of the following memories need refresh? |
| A. | SRAM |
| B. | DRAM |
| C. | ROM |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. ROM | |
| 158. |
Which of the following file organization is most efficient for a file with a high degree of file activity? |
| A. | Sequential |
| B. | ISAM |
| C. | VSAM |
| D. | B-Tree Index |
| Answer» B. ISAM | |
| 159. |
A/n _____ Device is any device that provides information, which is sent to the CPU |
| A. | Input |
| B. | Output |
| C. | CPU |
| D. | Memory |
| Answer» B. Output | |
| 160. |
Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiple, divide and find square roots? |
| A. | Napier |
| B. | Babbage |
| C. | Pascal |
| D. | Leibniz |
| Answer» E. | |
| 161. |
Why ABC computer is called so? |
| A. | Because it was developed by Atanasoff and Berry |
| B. | Because it was thought to be the first computer so named with first alphabets of English |
| C. | Both of above are the reason to name the computer ABC |
| D. | None of above are true |
| Answer» C. Both of above are the reason to name the computer ABC | |
| 162. |
Apple company used chips from ______ for its computers |
| A. | Intel |
| B. | Motorola |
| C. | Both of above |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» C. Both of above | |
| 163. |
For which of the following computers can’t be used? |
| A. | gathering data |
| B. | calculating data |
| C. | comparing data |
| D. | Arranging data |
| Answer» B. calculating data | |
| 164. |
Networking such as LAN, MAN started from |
| A. | First generation |
| B. | Second generation |
| C. | Third generation |
| D. | Fourth generation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 165. |
The computer that can input analog signals and return result in digital form |
| A. | Analog Computers |
| B. | Digital Computers |
| C. | Hybrid Computers |
| D. | Mainframe Computers |
| Answer» D. Mainframe Computers | |
| 166. |
Current SIMMs have either __ or __ connectors (pins) |
| A. | 9 or 32 |
| B. | 30 or 70 |
| C. | 28 or 72 |
| D. | 30 or 72 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 167. |
Which 8-bit chip was used in many of today’s TRS-80 computers? |
| A. | Z-8000 |
| B. | Motorola 6809 |
| C. | Z-8808 |
| D. | Z-80 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 168. |
Which of the following have low failure rate? |
| A. | mechanical devices |
| B. | electronic devices |
| C. | electro-mechanical devices |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» C. electro-mechanical devices | |
| 169. |
Circular division of disks to store and retrieve data are known as |
| A. | tracks |
| B. | sectors |
| C. | cycles |
| D. | rings |
| Answer» B. sectors | |
| 170. |
Easily reloctable language is |
| A. | Machine language |
| B. | Assembly language |
| C. | High level language |
| D. | Medium level language |
| Answer» C. High level language | |
| 171. |
The first electronic general purpose digital computer built by Eckert and Mauchly called ENIAC did not work on the stored program concept. How many numbers could it store in its internal memory? |
| A. | 100 |
| B. | 20 |
| C. | 40 |
| D. | 80 |
| Answer» C. 40 | |
| 172. |
Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changes in 1924. What was that name? |
| A. | tabulator machine co. |
| B. | computing tabulating recording co. |
| C. | the tabulator ltd. |
| D. | international computer ltd. |
| Answer» C. the tabulator ltd. | |
| 173. |
Which of the following is not a third generation computer? |
| A. | IBM 360 |
| B. | IBM 1401 |
| C. | PDP-8 |
| D. | HP2115 |
| Answer» C. PDP-8 | |
| 174. |
Which of the following code used in present day computing was developed by IBM Corporation? |
| A. | ASCII |
| B. | Hollerith Code |
| C. | Baudot Code |
| D. | EBCDIC Code |
| Answer» E. | |
| 175. |
Which was the world’s first minicomputer and when was it introduced? |
| A. | PDP-I, 1958 |
| B. | IBM System/36, 1960 |
| C. | PDP-II, 1961 |
| D. | VAX 11/780, 1962 |
| Answer» B. IBM System/36, 1960 | |
| 176. |
A Compiler is ____ |
| A. | a combination of computer hardware |
| B. | a program which translates from one high-level language to another |
| C. | a program which translates from one high-level to a machine level language |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 177. |
Which of the following generation computers had expensive operation cost? |
| A. | First |
| B. | Second |
| C. | Third |
| D. | Fourth |
| Answer» B. Second | |
| 178. |
How many numbers could ENIAC store in its internal memory |
| A. | 100 |
| B. | 20 |
| C. | 80 |
| D. | 40 |
| Answer» C. 80 | |
| 179. |
When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom? |
| A. | hewlett-packard, 1980 |
| B. | epson, 1981 |
| C. | laplink traveling software inc, 1982 |
| D. | tandy model-200, 1985 |
| Answer» C. laplink traveling software inc, 1982 | |
| 180. |
The Width of a processor’s data path is measured in bits. Which of the following are common data paths? |
| A. | 8 bits |
| B. | 12 bits |
| C. | 16 bits |
| D. | 32 bits |
| Answer» B. 12 bits | |
| 181. |
Model 5100 was ______ in 1957. |
| A. | The first PC built by IBM |
| B. | The first PC built by Apple |
| C. | The first PC built by Motorola |
| D. | The first PC built by Intel |
| Answer» B. The first PC built by Apple | |
| 182. |
In the third Generation of computers |
| A. | Distributed data processing first became popular |
| B. | An operating system was first developed |
| C. | High level procedural language were first used |
| D. | Online real time systems first become popular |
| Answer» E. | |
| 183. |
Which of the following is considered first computer in the world? |
| A. | Z3 |
| B. | ABC |
| C. | Mark I |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» D. None of above | |
| 184. |
Who built the world’s first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries? |
| A. | Claude Shannon |
| B. | Konrard Zues |
| C. | George Stibits |
| D. | Howard H. Aiken |
| Answer» D. Howard H. Aiken | |
| 185. |
When was the transistors invented? |
| A. | 1948 |
| B. | 1938 |
| C. | 1958 |
| D. | 1968 |
| Answer» B. 1938 | |
| 186. |
Which of the following is not a feature of first generation computers |
| A. | They used vacuum tubes or valves as main electronic component |
| B. | They consumed lots of electricity and produced excessive heat |
| C. | They used machine language and assembly language to program the machine |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» D. None of above | |
| 187. |
Which of the following is correct acronym of VGA? |
| A. | Video Graphics Array |
| B. | Visual Graphics Array |
| C. | Volatile Graphics Array |
| D. | Video Graphics Adapter |
| Answer» B. Visual Graphics Array | |
| 188. |
The Third Generation Computer was made with ________. |
| A. | Vacuum Tube |
| B. | Discrete Components |
| C. | IC |
| D. | Bio Chips |
| Answer» D. Bio Chips | |
| 189. |
A computer Program that translates one program instruction at a time into machine language is called a/an |
| A. | Interpreter |
| B. | CPU |
| C. | Compiler |
| D. | Simulator |
| Answer» B. CPU | |
| 190. |
While inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette’s label side should face |
| A. | East |
| B. | North |
| C. | South |
| D. | Up |
| Answer» E. | |
| 191. |
Computers built before the First Generation of computers were: |
| A. | Mechanical |
| B. | Electro-mechanical |
| C. | Electrical |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Electrical | |
| 192. |
The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the movement by the change in its capacitance, |
| A. | Capacitance keyboard |
| B. | Mechanical keyboard |
| C. | Qwerty keyboard |
| D. | Dvorak keyboard |
| Answer» B. Mechanical keyboard | |
| 193. |
Before a disk can be used to store data. It must be_______ |
| A. | Formatted |
| B. | Reformatted |
| C. | Addressed |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Reformatted | |
| 194. |
As compared to the secondary memory, the primary memory of a computer is |
| A. | Large |
| B. | Cheap |
| C. | Fast |
| D. | Slow |
| Answer» D. Slow | |
| 195. |
in which year was UK’s premier computing event started? |
| A. | 1980 |
| B. | 1985 |
| C. | 1986 |
| D. | 1987 |
| Answer» B. 1985 | |
| 196. |
Latency time is |
| A. | Time to spin the needed data under head |
| B. | Time to spin the needed data under track |
| C. | Time to spin data under sector |
| D. | All of above |
| Answer» B. Time to spin the needed data under track | |
| 197. |
Charles Babbage was awarded by Royal Society for his |
| A. | Difference Engine |
| B. | Analytic Engine |
| C. | Binary System in Analytic Engine |
| D. | His concept of input, mill, output and storage |
| Answer» B. Analytic Engine | |
| 198. |
Another word for a daisy wheel printer |
| A. | Petal printer |
| B. | Golf ball printer |
| C. | Laser printer |
| D. | Line printer |
| Answer» C. Laser printer | |
| 199. |
Which of the following have the fastest access time? |
| A. | Semiconductor Memories |
| B. | Magnetic Disks |
| C. | Magnetic Tapes |
| D. | Compact Disks |
| Answer» B. Magnetic Disks | |
| 200. |
Why ABC is considered electro-mechanical computer? |
| A. | Because it was invented before electronic computers were developed |
| B. | Because there are wheels, drums, bars to rotate and move to produce result |
| C. | Because they use the flow of electrons in different component |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» C. Because they use the flow of electrons in different component | |