Basic Computer Questions With Ansers

01. What was the main disadvantage of vacuum tubes?
A) They were larger in size
B) They consumed a lot of electricity
C) They produced heat and often burned out
D) The operation cost was high
02. 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
03. Which is not a comptuer of first generation?
A) ENIAC
B) UNIVAC
C) IBM 360
D) IBM 001
04. 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
05. Who invented vacuum tubes?
A) John Bardeen
B) William Shockley
C) Lee de Forest
D) All of above
06. 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
07. Who suggested Stored Program Concept
A) John Mauchley
B) J.P. Eckert
C) John Neumann
D) Joseph Jacquard
08. The central processing unit (CPU) consists of
A) Input, output and processing
B) Control unit, primary storage, and secondary storage
C) Control unit, arithmetic-logic unit and primary storage
D) Control unit, processing, and primary storage
09. The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed in
A) First generation
B) Second generation
C) Third generation
D) Fourth generation
10. UNIVAC is
A) Universal Automatic Computer
B) Universal Array Computer
C) Unique Automatic Computer
D) Unvalued Automatic Computer
11. Which is the highest form?
A) Data
B) Information
C) Knowledge
D) All of above
12. 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
13. 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
14. Which is a semi conductor memory?
A) Dynamic
B) Static
C) Bubble
D) Both a & b
1. RJ45 UTP cable has ________ Cables.
A) 2 pair
B) 3 pair
C) 4 pair
D) 5 pair
16. Which of the following is not a valid size of a Floppy Disk?
A) 8?
B) 5 ¼?
C) 3 ½?
D) 5 ½?
17. The earliest calculating devices are
A) Abacus
B) Clock
C) Difference Engine
D) None of these
18. Word length of a Personal Computer is ___
A) 4 bits
B) 8 bits
C) 16 bits
D) 64 bits
19. 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
20. A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a __ resident package
A) CPU
B) Memory
C) Buffer
D) ALU