Practice Test: Question Set - 19
1. Integrated Circuits (Ics) are related to which generation of computers?
- (A) First
generation
- (B) Second
generation
- (C) Third
generation
- (D) Fourth
generation
2. Chief component of first generation computer was
- (A) Transistors
- (B) Vacuum
Tubes and Valves
- (C) Integrated
Circuits
- (D) None
of above
3. The main electronic component used in first generation computers was
- (A) Transistors
- (B) Vacuum
Tubes and Valves
- (C) Integrated
Circuits
- (D) None of
above
4. What was the computer invented by Atanasoff and Clifford?
- (A) Mark I
- (B) ABC
- (C) Z3
- (D) None of
above
5. Which of the following is not an input device?
- (A) OCR
- (B) Optical
scanners
- (C) Voice
recognition device
- (D) COM
(Computer Output to Microfilm)
6. Which of the following produces the best quality graphics reproduction?
- (A) Laser
printer
- (B) Ink jet
printer
- (C) Plotter
- (D) Dot
matrix printer
7. The digital computer was developed primarily in
- (A) USSR
- (B) Japan
- (C) USA
- (D) UK
8. Abacus was the first
- (A) Electronic
computer
- (B) Mechanical
computer
- (C) Electronic
calculator
- (D) Mechanical
calculator
9. Mnemonic a memory trick is used in which of the following language?
- (A) Machine
language
- (B) Assembly
language
- (C) High
level language
- (D) None
of above
10. Which is considered a direct entry input device?
- (A) Optical
scanner
- (B) Mouse
and digitizer
- (C) Light pen
- (D) All
of the above
11. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?
- (A) Hewlett-Packard,
1980
- (B) Epson, 1981
- (C) Laplink
Traveling Software Inc, 1982
- (D) Tandy
Model200, 1985
12. Properly arranged data is called
- (A) Field
- (B) Words
- (C) Information
- (D) File
13. What type of control pins are needed in a microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent two devices from trying to the same time?
- (A) Bus
control
- (B) Interrupts
- (C) Bus
arbitration
- (D) Status
14. What are the three decisions making operations performed by the ALU of a computer?
- (A) Grater
than
- (B) Less than
- (C) Equal to
- (D) All of the
above
15. The difference between memory and storage is that memory is _______ and storage is _______.
- (A) Temporary,
permanent
- (B) Permanent,
temporary
- (C) Slow, fast
- (D) All
of above
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