Deck 4: Computer Technology and History: Part B

Question 1

Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device?

A)bits
B)bytes
C)hertz
D)clock cycles

Answer 1

bytes

Question 2

The personal computer industry was started by

A)ibm
B)apple
C)compaq
D)hcl

Answer 2

ibm

Question 3

What is meant by a dedicated computer?

A)which is used by one person only
B)which is assigned one and only one task
C)which uses one kind of software
D)which is meant for application software

Answer 3

which is assigned one and only one task

Question 4

Which programming languages are classified as low level languages?

A)basic, cobol, fortran
B)prolog 2, expert systems
C)knowledge based systems
D)assembly languages

Question 5

Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as

A)pc
B)memory address registers
C)general purpose register
D)flags

Question 6

Which is not a comptuer of first generation?

A)eniac
B)univac
C)ibm 360
D)ibm 1401

Question 7

Registers which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional codes (bits set by the CPU hardware as the result of operations), are known as

A)pc
B)flags
C)memory address registers
D)general purpose registers

Question 8

Who invented vacuum tubes?

A)john bardeen
B)william shockley
C)lee de forest
D)all of above

Question 9

An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is

A)on-line thesaurus
B)multiprogramming
C)over lapped processing
D)outline processor

Question 10

Who suggested Stored Program Concept

A)john mauchley
B)j.p. eckert
C)john neumann
D)joseph jacquard

Question 11

The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed in

A)first generation
B)second generation
C)third generation
D)fourth generation

Question 12

Which is the highest form?

A)data
B)information
C)knowledge
D)all of above

Question 13

Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine?

A)pascal
B)hollerith
C)babbage
D)jacquard

Question 14

What is an interpreter?

A)an interpreter does the conversion line by line as the program is run
B)an interpreter is the representation of the system being designed
C)an interpreter is a general purpose language providing very efficient execution
D)none of the above

Question 15

Which is a semi conductor memory?

A)dynamic
B)static
C)bubble
D)both a & b

Question 16

RJ45 UTP cable has ________ Cables.

A)2 pair
B)3 pair
C)4 pair
D)5 pair

Question 17

Which of the following is not a valid size of a Floppy Disk?

A)8
B)5 ¼
C)3 ½
D)5 ½

Question 18

The earliest calculating devices are

A)abacus
B)clock
C)difference engine
D)none of these

Question 19

Word length of a Personal Computer is ___

A)4 bits
B)8 bits
C)16 bits
D)64 bits

Question 20

What was the first computer to perform all calculation using electronics rather than wheels, ratchets, or mechanical switches?

A)mark i
B)abc
C)z3
D)none of above

Question 21

A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a __ resident package

A)cpu
B)memory
C)buffer
D)alu

Question 22

Which unit converts computer data into human readable form?

A)input unit
B)output unit
C)alu
D)control unit

Question 23

The full form of ALU is

A)arithmetic logic unit
B)array logic unit
C)application logic unit
D)none of above

Question 24

What produces useful information out of data?

A)computer
B)processing
C)programming
D)none of above

Question 25

Which of the following device was not invented by Babbage?

A)pascaline
B)difference engine
C)analytical engine
D)none of above