computer fundamentals questions and answers multiple choice part17

Q1. When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke into the corresponding bits?
(A) ANSI
(B) ASCII
(C) EBCDIC
(D) None of these

Q2. To locate the hardware address of a local device, which protocol is used?
(A) PING
(B) FTP
(C) ARP
(D) HTML

Q3. Which of the following devices is not rewritable?
(A) Floppy Disk
(B) Hard Disk
(C) Tape Drive
(D) CDROM

Q4. Daisy wheel printer is a type of
(A) Matrix printer
(B) Impact printer
(C) Laser printer
(D) None of these

Q5. Who built the world’s first electronic calculator using telephone relays, light bulbs and batteries?
(A) Claude Shannon
(B) Jack Kilby
(C) George Stibits
(D) Charles Babbage

Q6. The primary advantage of key-to-tape data entry system is
(A) Editing can be performed at the time of data entry
(B) Key verification can easily performed
(C) The tape is reusable
(D) Keying errors can be detected as they occur.

Q7. By default the documents printed in which mode
(A) Portrait
(B) Landscape
(C) Print View
(D) None of these

Q8. Which of the following memories has the shortest access times?
(A) Cache memory
(B) Magnetic bubble memory
(C) ROM
(D) RAM

Q9. Internet comes under which type of network
(A) Star
(B) Mesh
(C) Bus
(D) Hybrid

Q10. The operating speed of third generation computer was
(A) Milliseconds
(B) Microseconds
(C) Nanoseconds
(D) Seconds

Q11. Which device is used as the standard pointing device in a Graphical User Environment?
(A) Keyboard
(B) Mouse
(C) Joystick
(D) Track ball

Q12. Programs are executed on the basis of a priority number in a
(A) Batch processing system
(B) Multiprogramming
(C) Time sharing
(D) None of these

Q13. A number system that has sixteen different symbols to represent any quantity is known as
(A) Binary
(B) Octal
(C) Decimal
(D) Hexadecimal

Q14. What is a light pen?
(A) Mechanical Input device
(B) Optical input device
(C) Electronic output device
(D) Optical output device

Q15. In mail box, which folder retains the copies of messages that you have created but are not yet sent
(A) Inbox
(B) Outbox
(C) Sent Items
(D) Drafts

Q16. Which one of the following input device is user-programmable?
(A) Keyboard
(B) Scanner
(C) VDT
(D) Intelligent terminal

Q17. Artificial Intelligence is associated with which generation?
(A) First Generation
(B) Second Generation
(C) Fifth Generation
(D) Sixth Generation

Q18. Which of the following commands is given to reboot the windows computer?
(A) Ctrl + Alt + Delete
(B) Shift + Alt + Delete
(C) Shift + Ctrl + Delete
(D) Shift + Alt + Ctrl

Q19. What is System Analysis?
(A) System analysis defines the output of the system
(B) System analysis defines the type of data the program will use
(C) System Analysis involves creating formal model of the problem to be solved
(D) None of these

Q20. The first computer graphics used movie is
(A) Tron
(B) Troy
(C) Avatar
(D) Jungle book

Q21. While inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette’s label side should face
(A) Down
(B) Up
(C) Any of these
(D) None of these

Q22. One of the main feature that distinguish microprocessors from micro-computer is
(A) Words are usually large in microprocessors
(B) Words are shorter in microprocessors
(C) Microprocessor does not contain I/O device
(D) None of these

Q23. Offline device is a device which
(A) is not connected to CPU
(B) is connected to CPU
(C) is a direct access storage device
(D) is an input device

Q24. A data-entry system consisting of several keyboards connected to a central controlling unit, typically a minicomputer, which collects information from each keyboard and then directs it to a magnetic tape is called
(A) key-to-tape system
(B) key-to-disk system
(C) key hard disk
(D) magnetic disk

Q25. The generation of computers is classified by?
(A) the device used in memory & processor
(B) the speed of computer
(C) the size of computer
(D) the accuracy of computer