Practice Test: Question Set - 30
1. The essential features of a number system are
- (A) Radix
- (B) Set
of distinct counting digits
- (C) Bits
- (D) Both (a)
& (b)
2. 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
on kind of software
- (D) Which is
meant for application software only
3. Name of the first guided weapon in the world which used a programmable digital computer:
- (A) Sting Ray
Torpedo
- (B) Mk 46
Torpedo
- (C) Air-Launched
Cruise Missile (ALCM)
- (D) Tomahawk
Missile
4. When an input electrical signal A=10100 is applied to a NOT gate, its output signal is
- (A) 01011
- (B) 10001
- (C) 10101
- (D) 00101
5. Those microcomputers which have the same operating characteristics as the IBM microcomputers are called IBM
- (A) Duplicates
- (B) Clones
- (C) Copies
- (D) None of the
above
6. Which of the following is used as "Input device" for the computer?
- (A) Printer
- (B) VDU
- (C) TV
- (D) Light pen
7. What is the storage capacity of a Hollerith card which is organized into nibbles?
- (A) 32
- (B) 64
- (C) 128
- (D) 240
8. In which area of the primary storage section are the intermediate processing results held temporarily?
- (A) Input
storage area
- (B) Program
storage area
- (C) Output
storage area
- (D) Working
storage space
9. A hand-held device for optically reading bar codes on goods, labels & shelves is
- (A) Wand
- (B) Touch tablet
- (C) Mouse
- (D) Light pen
10. Which of the following is considered a direct-entry input device?
- (A) Optical
scanner
- (B) Mouse
- (C) Light pen
- (D) All of the
above
11. Which of the following registers hold the information before it goes to the decoder
- (A) Control
register
- (B) Data
register
- (C) Accumulator
- (D) Address
register
12. The minimum number of MOS transistors required to make a dynamic RAM cell is
- (A) 1
- (B) 2
- (C) 3
- (D) 4
13. In which mode, each user has a local input/output device.
- (A) Interactive
- (B) Time sharing
mode
- (C) Batch
processing mode
- (D) None
of the above
14. Which of the following term is used in connection with the organisation of files in ALGOL 68
- (A) Blow
- (B) Machine
- (C) Book
- (D) None of the
above
15. The register which holds the address of the location to or from which data are to be transferred is known as
- (A) Index
register
- (B) Instruction
register
- (C) Memory
address register
- (D) Memory data
register
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