Practice Test: Question Set - 46
1. In a PC, how much memory is available to application software?
- (A) 1024 KB
- (B) 760 KB
- (C) 640 KB
- (D) 560 KB
2. Name the two persons who were the first to develop a model of the microprocessor chip.
- (A) Marcian Ted
Hoff
- (B) Victor Poor
- (C) Harry pyle
- (D) Both (b) and
(c)
3. The shifting of a program from one of the memory addresses to another is
- (A) Data
transmission
- (B) Data
collection
- (C) Relocation
- (D) Database
4. A factor which would strongly influence a businessperson to adopt a computer is its:
- (A) Accuracy
- (B) Reliability
- (C) Speed
- (D) All
of the above
5. The first mechanical calculating machine was made by
- (A) William
Oughtred
- (B) Gottfried
Leibnitz
- (C) Blaise
Pascal
- (D) Charles
Babbage
6. Third generation computers
- (A) Were
the first to use built-in error detecting devices
- (B) Used
transistors instead of vacuum tubes
- (C) Were
the first to use neural network
- (D) None of the
above
7. If, in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify addresses in a RAM, the number of addresses will be
- (A) 216
- (B) 65,536
- (C) 64 K
- (D) Any
of the above
8. In analog computer
- (A) Input
is first converted to digital form
- (B) Input is
never converted to digital form
- (C) Output
is displayed in digital form
- (D) All of the
above
9. Can you tell what passes into and out from the computer via its ports?
- (A) Data
- (B) Bytes
- (C) Graphics
- (D) Pictures
10. A special type of device which uses an ordinary telephone with a computer is
- (A) Light pen
- (B) Mouse
- (C) Acoustic
couple
- (D) Touch panel
11. What is required when more than one person uses a central computer at the same time?
- (A) Light pen
- (B) Mouse
- (C) Digitizer
- (D) Terminal
12. Which of the following is not true of a magnetic disk?
- (A) It is
expensive relative to magnetic tape
- (B) It provides
only sequential access to stored data
- (C) Users can
easily update records by writing over the old data
- (D) It does not
provide an automatic audit trail
13. One nibble is equal to
- (A) 4 bits
- (B) 6 bits
- (C) 8 bits
- (D) 16 bits
14. The input and output devices are located away from the central computer facility in which particular type of processing.
- (A) Time sharing
- (B) Batch
processing
- (C) Interactive
mode
- (D) Real
time processing
15. Which is a swapping device is used to hold the images of pages in main memory.
- (A) Paging drum
- (B) Card punch
- (C) Optical mark
reader
- (D) None of the
above
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