Assignment:
1. Which is the largest computer?
A) Mainframe Computer
B) Mini Computers
C) Micro Computers
D) Super Computers
2. Which of the following are the best units of data on an external storage device?
A) Bits
B) Bytes
C) Hertz
D) Clock cycles
3. The personal computer industry was started by
A) IBM
B) Apple
C) Compaq
D) HCL
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Which is not a computer of first generation?
A) ENIAC
B) UNIVAC
C) IBM 360
D) IBM 1401
9. Which is a semi conductor memory?
A) Dynamic
B) Static
C) Bubble
D) Both a & b
10. RJ45 UTP cable has ________ Cables.
A) 2 pair
B) 3 pair
C) 4 pair
D) 5 pair
11. 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
12. Who invented vacuum tubes?
A) John Bardeen
B) William Shockley
C) Lee de Forest
D) All of above
13. 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
14. Who suggested Stored Program Concept
A) John Mauchley
B) J.P. Eckert
C) John Neumann
D) Joseph Jacquard
15. 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
16. The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed in
A) First generation
B) Second generation
C) Third generation
D) Fourth generation
17. UNIVAC is
A) Universal Automatic Computer
B) Universal Array Computer
C) Unique Automatic Computer
D) Unvalued Automatic Computer