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| 2551. |
The first microprocessor built by the Intel Corpn. was called |
| A. | 8008 |
| B. | 8080 |
| C. | 4004 |
| D. | 8800 |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. 8800 | |
| 2552. |
What is the name given to the 8-bit unit used for coding data? |
| A. | block of characters |
| B. | byte |
| C. | word |
| D. | K |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. word | |
| 2553. |
What technology is used for flat panel displays? |
| A. | Solid state |
| B. | RBG monitor |
| C. | VLSI |
| D. | Direct view storage tube |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. RBG monitor | |
| 2554. |
What is meant by the term RAM? |
| A. | Memory which can only be read |
| B. | Memory which can be both^read and written to |
| C. | Memory which is used for permanent storage |
| D. | Memory which can only be written to |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Memory which is used for permanent storage | |
| 2555. |
Magnetic tape can serve as : |
| A. | secondary-storage media |
| B. | output media |
| C. | input media |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2556. |
The microelectronics is the technology of |
| A. | microwaves |
| B. | microcomputers |
| C. | chips |
| D. | automatic processing |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. automatic processing | |
| 2557. |
Who developed the first personal computer spreadsheet package called Visicalc? |
| A. | Niklaus Wirth |
| B. | Dan Bricklin |
| C. | Bob Frankston |
| D. | both (b) and (c) |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2558. |
The Santa Clara Valley, California is popularly known as Silicon Valley of America because |
| A. | huge deposits of silicon are found there |
| B. | many silicon chip manufacturing firms are located there |
| C. | Santa Claus visits it every Christmas |
| D. | it is full of large grain sand |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Santa Claus visits it every Christmas | |
| 2559. |
In simplex transmission |
| A. | Data format is simple |
| B. | Data transmission is one way |
| C. | Data can be transmitted to small distances only |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Data can be transmitted to small distances only | |
| 2560. |
Which is considered a direct entry input device? |
| A. | Optical scanner |
| B. | Mouse |
| C. | Light pen |
| D. | Digitizer |
| E. | All of the above |
| Answer» F. | |
| 2561. |
Can you tell what passes into and out from the computer via its ports? |
| A. | Data |
| B. | Bytes |
| C. | Graphics |
| D. | Pictures |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Graphics | |
| 2562. |
Communication ports are found on the back of microcomputers. They are used to connect the computer to _____ |
| A. | printers |
| B. | modems |
| C. | other hardware |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2563. |
What is the general name of the device which produces hardcopy graphics? |
| A. | COM |
| B. | Plotter |
| C. | Printer |
| D. | Microfilm |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Printer | |
| 2564. |
When a disk stack is serviced by a comb-like access mechanism, there is one read/write head for each |
| A. | disk |
| B. | disk surface |
| C. | track |
| D. | cylinder |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. track | |
| 2565. |
In which year was UK's premier computing event called "The Which Computer" started? |
| A. | 1980 |
| B. | 1985 |
| C. | 1986 |
| D. | 1987 |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. 1985 | |
| 2566. |
In comparison to the internal (main) memory, tape or disk memory is |
| A. | slower and more expensive |
| B. | slower and less expensive |
| C. | faster and more expensive |
| D. | faster and less expensive |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. faster and more expensive | |
| 2567. |
Impact printers |
| A. | strike a ribbon against the paper to produce character images |
| B. | include ink-jet and thermal devices |
| C. | are more expensive than Laser printers |
| D. | use optical technology |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. include ink-jet and thermal devices | |
| 2568. |
A typical modern computer uses |
| A. | LSI chips |
| B. | Vacuum tubes |
| C. | Valves |
| D. | All the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Vacuum tubes | |
| 2569. |
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) had huge advantage over Mark I because it used electronic valves in place of the electromagnetic switches. In the beginning, ENIAC was used for calculating the path of artillery shells. For which other was weapon design was it utilized? |
| A. | hydrogen bomb |
| B. | atom bomb |
| C. | agnimissile |
| D. | fighter aircraft |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. atom bomb | |
| 2570. |
Who was the father of Punched Card Processing? |
| A. | J Presper Eckert |
| B. | Charles Babbage |
| C. | Dr. Herman Hollerith |
| D. | Blaise Pascal |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. Blaise Pascal | |
| 2571. |
When did Hewlett-Packard Inc. Introduce its first HP-110 laptop computer? |
| A. | 1984 |
| B. | 1986 |
| C. | 1990 |
| D. | 1995 |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. 1986 | |
| 2572. |
The computer program language which is widely used in computer science and engineering and also in business is |
| A. | COBOL |
| B. | FORTRAN |
| C. | PASCAL |
| D. | LISP |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. LISP | |
| 2573. |
When an input electrical signal A=10100 is applied to a NOT gate, its output signal is |
| A. | 01011 |
| B. | 10001 |
| C. | 10101 |
| D. | 00101 |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. 10001 | |
| 2574. |
The first practical commercial typewriter was invented in 1867 in the United States by |
| A. | Christopher Latham Sholes |
| B. | Carlos Glidden |
| C. | Samuel Soule |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2575. |
What is meant by quad-density (QD) diskette? |
| A. | It is double-sided disk |
| B. | It is double density disk |
| C. | It has double the number of tracks per inch |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2576. |
Large computer system typically uses: |
| A. | Line printers |
| B. | Ink-jet printers |
| C. | Dot-matrix printers |
| D. | Daisy wheel printers |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Ink-jet printers | |
| 2577. |
First generation computers are characterised by |
| A. | Vaccum tubes and magnetic drum |
| B. | Minicomputers |
| C. | Magnetic tape and transistors |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Minicomputers | |
| 2578. |
The errors that can be pointed out by the compiler are |
| A. | Syntax errors |
| B. | Semantic errors |
| C. | Logical errors |
| D. | Internal errors |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Semantic errors | |
| 2579. |
When a computer is first turned on or restarted, a special type of absolute loader is executed, called a |
| A. | "Compile and Go" loader |
| B. | Boot loader |
| C. | Bootstrap loader |
| D. | Relating loader |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. Relating loader | |
| 2580. |
Which, of the following checks, cannot be carried out on the input data to a system? |
| A. | consistency check |
| B. | Syntax check |
| C. | Range check |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Range check | |
| 2581. |
A program that converts a high-level language program to a set of instructions that can run on a computer is called a |
| A. | Compiler |
| B. | Debugger |
| C. | Editor |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Debugger | |
| 2582. |
Which of the following is characteristic of an operating system? |
| A. | resource management |
| B. | error recovery |
| C. | memory management |
| D. | All the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2583. |
Four necessary conditions for deadlock to exist are: mutual exclusion, no-preemption, circular wait and |
| A. | hold and wait |
| B. | deadlock avoidance |
| C. | race around condition |
| D. | buffer overflow |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. deadlock avoidance | |
| 2584. |
If you do not know which version of MS-DOS you are working with, which command will you use after having booted your operating system? |
| A. | FORMAT command |
| B. | DIR command |
| C. | VER command |
| D. | DISK command |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. DISK command | |
| 2585. |
Page-map table is |
| A. | A data file |
| B. | A directory |
| C. | Used for address translation |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 2586. |
The main function of the dispatcher (the portion of the process scheduler) is |
| A. | swapping a process to the disk |
| B. | assigning ready process to the CPU |
| C. | suspending some of the processes when the CPU load is high |
| D. | bring processes from the disk to the main memory |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. suspending some of the processes when the CPU load is high | |
| 2587. |
If you want to execute more than one program at a time, the systems software you are using must be capable of: |
| A. | word processing |
| B. | virtual memory |
| C. | compiling |
| D. | multitasking |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2588. |
In memory systems, boundary registers |
| A. | are used for temporary program variable storage |
| B. | are only necessary with fixed partitions |
| C. | track page boundaries |
| D. | track the beginning and ending of programs |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2589. |
Which of the following is true for machine language. |
| A. | Repeated execution of program segments |
| B. | Depicting flow of data in a system |
| C. | A sequence of instructions which, when followed properly, solves a problem |
| D. | the language which communicates with the computer using only the binary digits 1 and 0. |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2590. |
Which of the following is not applications software? |
| A. | Word processing |
| B. | Spreadsheet |
| C. | UNIX |
| D. | Desktop publishing |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. Desktop publishing | |
| 2591. |
A relocate program form is one which |
| A. | cannot be made to execute in any area of storage other than the one designated for it at the time of its coding or translation. |
| B. | consists of a program and relevant information for its relocation. |
| C. | can itself performs the relocation of its address-sensitive portions. |
| D. | all of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. can itself performs the relocation of its address-sensitive portions. | |
| 2592. |
Scissoring enables |
| A. | a part of data to be displayed |
| B. | entire data to be displayed |
| C. | full data display on full area of screen |
| D. | no data to be displayed |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. entire data to be displayed | |
| 2593. |
The file structure that redefines its first record at a base of zero uses the term: |
| A. | relative organization |
| B. | key fielding |
| C. | dynamic reallocation |
| D. | hashing |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. key fielding | |
| 2594. |
What is the name given to all the programs inside the computer with makes it usable? |
| A. | Application software |
| B. | System software |
| C. | Firm ware |
| D. | Shareware |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Firm ware | |
| 2595. |
Semaphores |
| A. | synchronize critical resources to prevent deadlock |
| B. | synchronize critical resources to prevent contention |
| C. | are used to do I/O |
| D. | are used for memory management |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. synchronize critical resources to prevent contention | |
| 2596. |
The advantage(s) of incorporating the macro processor into pass 1 is(are): |
| A. | many functions do not have to be implemented twice. |
| B. | Functions are combined and it is not necessary to create intermediate files as output from the macros processor and input to the assembler. |
| C. | more flexibility is available to the programmer in that he may use all the features of the assembler in conjunction with macros. |
| D. | all of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2597. |
Which of the following statements is not true about the FORTRAN language? |
| A. | FORTRAN is a high level language |
| B. | A FORTRAN program, written for the IBM-PC, is totally different from a FORTRAN program written for execution on the SUN machine |
| C. | FORTRAN is extensively used to write programs for performing scientific computations |
| D. | All of the above |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. FORTRAN is extensively used to write programs for performing scientific computations | |
| 2598. |
A linker |
| A. | creates a load module |
| B. | is not necessary with variable partitions |
| C. | must be run after the loader |
| D. | is not needed with a good compiler |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. is not necessary with variable partitions | |
| 2599. |
Backups should be done |
| A. | daily for most installations |
| B. | weekly for most installations |
| C. | as several image copies, followed by an incremental |
| D. | as several incrementals, followed by an image copy |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. None of the above | |
| 2600. |
Uniform Symbols Table |
| A. | contains all constants in the program |
| B. | a permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure. |
| C. | consists of a full or partial list of the token's as they appear in the program. Created by Lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation |
| D. | a permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form. |
| E. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. a permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form. | |