12 Introduction to the Computer (Part 12)
03 Mar 2015
221.Hackers ______
(1) all have the same motive
(2) break into other people's computers
(3) may legally break into computers as long as they do not do any damage
(4) are people who are allergic to computers
(5) None of these
222.In page preview mode ______
(1) You can see all pages of your document
(2) You can only see the page you are currently working
(3) You can only see pages that do not contain graphics
(4) You can only see the title page of your document
(5) None of these
223.What type of compurters are client computers (most of the time) in a client-server system ?
(1) Mainframe
(2) Mini-computer
(3) Microcomputer
(4) PDA
(5) None of these
224.Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtracts, multiply, divide and find square roots?
(1) Napier
(2) Babbage
(3) Pascal
(4) Leibniz
(5) None of them
225.IBM 7000 digital computer
(1) Belongs to second generation
(2) Uses VLSI
(3) Employs semiconductor memory
(4) Has modular constructions
(5) None of them
226.''GUI'' stands for _____
(1) Gnutella Universal Interface
(2) Graphical User Interface
(3) Graphic Uninstall/Install
(4) General Utility Interface
(5) None of these
227.A CPU contains _____
(1) a car reader and a printing device
(2) an analytical engine and a control unit
(3) a control unit and an arithmetic logic unit
(4) an arithmetic logic unit and a card reader
(5) None of these
228.An integrated circuit is
(1) A complicated circuit
(2) An integrating device
(3) Much costlier than a single transistor
(4) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
(5) None of them
229.Junk e-mail is also called ______
(1) spam
(2) spoof
(3) sniffer script
(4) spool
(5) None of these
230.In a punched card system, data is processed by a
(1) Keypunch machine, sorter and posting machine
(2) Accounting machine, posting machine, and billing machine
(3) Sorter, posting machine, and billing machine
(4) Accounting machine, keypunch machine and sorter
(5) None of them
231.The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and logical operations was;
(1) ENIAC
(2) Mark I
(3) Analytic engine
(4) UNIVAC-I
(5) None of them
232.In the third generation of computers:
(1) Distributed data processing first became popular
(2) An operating system was first developed
(3) High-level prcedu7ral languages were firs used
(4) On-line, real time systems first became popular
(5) None of them
233.A characteristic of card systems is:
(1) Slowness in processing data
(2) Using cards as records of transactions
(3) Needing a larger DP staff
(4) All of the above
(5) None of them
234.An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of :
(1) Small-scale computer
(2) Medium-scale computer
(3) Large-scale computer
(4) Super computer
(5) None of them
235.The first firm to mass- market a microcomputer as a personal computer was
(1) IBM
(2) Sperry Univac
(3) Data General corporation
(4) Radio Shack
(5) None of them
236.What type of resource is most likely to be a shared common resource in a computer network ?
(1) printers (2) speakers
(3) floppy disk drives
(4) keyboards
(5) None of these
237.Example of non-numeric data is ____
(1) Employee address
(2) Examination score
(3) Bank balance
(4) All of these
(5) None of these
238.______represents raw facts, whereas _________ is data made meaningful.
(1) Information, reporting
(2) Data, information
(3) Information, bits
(4) Records, bytes
(5) Bits, bytes
239.Where was India’s first computer installed and when?
(1) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1977
(2) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1971
(3) Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., 1968
(4) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 1955
(5) None of them
240.Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?
(1) Control unit and registers
(2) Registers and main memory
(3) Control Unit and ALU
(4) ALU and bus
(5) None of them
Ansers: 221. (2) 222. (2) 223. (3) 224. (4) 225. (3) 226. (2) 227. (3) 228. (4) 229. (1) 230. (4) 231. (2) 232. (4)
233. (4) 234. (1) 235. (3) 236. (1) 237. (1) 238. (2) 239. (4) 240. (3)
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