computer fundamentals questions and answers multiple choice part13

Q1. Which technology is used in DVD?
(A) Laser
(B) Mechanical
(C) Electrical
(D) Electro Magnetic

Q2. A kind of serial dot-matrix printer that forms characters with magnetically-charged ink sprayed dots is known as
(A) Laser printer
(B) Ink-jet printer
(C) Drum printer
(D) Character printer

Q3. Which of the following is not a character reader?
(A) MICR
(B) OMR
(C) OCR
(D) LCD

Q4. Speed of a computer processor is represented in
(A) MIPS
(B) Hertz
(C) Ampere
(D) None of these

Q5. IBM System/360 is
(A) Mainframe Computer
(B) Mini Computers
(C) Micro Computers
(D) Laptop

Q6. Which of the following devices have low failure rate?
(A) Mechanical
(B) Electronic
(C) Electro-mechanical
(D) None of above

Q7. Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by program counter?
(A) Memory address Register
(B) Memory data Registers
(C) Instruction Register
(D) Program counter

Q8. All arithmetic operations are performed by ALU with the help of which of the following type of registers
(A) Memory address Register
(B) Accumulator
(C) Instruction Register
(D) Program counter

Q9. The processing speed of first generation computers was
(A) Milliseconds
(B) Microseconds
(C) Nanoseconds
(D) Seconds

Q10. The act of retrieving program from memory is called
(A) Opting
(B) Fetching
(C) Sorting
(D) All of these

Q11. In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed
(A) Parallel only
(B) Sequentially only
(C) Both sequentially and parallel
(D) Continuously

Q12. Which of the computer hardware device is functionally opposite of a Key-board?
(A) Printer
(B) Joystick
(C) Mouse
(D) Trackball

Q13. The ALU of a computer contains a number of high speed storage elements called
(A) Semiconductor memory
(B) Registers
(C) Hard disks
(D) Floppy disk

Q14. Which peripheral port provides the FASTEST throughput to laser printers?
(A) Serial
(B) Parallel
(C) RS-232
(D) None of these

Q15. What is RS 232?
(A) Serial port
(B) Parallel port
(C) Both of these
(D) None of these

Q16. A paper printout of a document is known as
(A) Softcopy
(B) Hardcopy
(C) Permanent Output
(D) All of above

Q17. What is the first stage in software development?
(A) Specification and design
(B) Testing
(C) System Analysis
(D) Maintenance

Q18. In a Relational database, which of the following is a data structure that organizes the information about a single topic into rows and columns?
(A) block
(B) record
(C) table
(D) tuple

Q19. Disk units that use irremovable platters are called
(A) hard disks
(B) high-density-disks
(C) irremovable disks
(D) None of these

Q20. A program that monitors, analyzes network traffic and detecting bottlenecks?
(A) plug scanner
(B) loop backs
(C) sniffer
(D) None of these

Q21. Two or more cells that Excel treats as a single unit is called a
(A) series
(B) area
(C) range
(D) merge

Q22. Bit map terminal
(A) support display containing multiple windows
(B) has low performance
(C) requires tremendous amount of copying
(D) all are correct

Q23. The function of CPU is
(A) to provide a paper copy
(B) to communicate with the user
(C) to read, interpret and process the information
(D) to provide external storage of text

Q24. The memory used in first generation computer is
(A) vacuum tubes
(B) silicon chips
(C) magnetic drum
(D) RAM

Q25. The tool used by the computer to communicate with the user is:
(A) word processor
(B) software
(C) peripheral
(D) applet