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Computer Fundamentals - I

Description: A Test to Check the Computers Fundamentals of Students to appear in Various Competitive Exams
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The first Computer made available for commercial use was

  1. Mark-I

  2. ENIAC

  3. EDSAC

  4. UNIVAC


Correct Option: D

If a microcomputer has a 64 K memory, what are the hexadecimal notations for the first and last memory location?

  1. 0000, EEEE

  2. 0, 64

  3. 0000, FFFF

  4. 0000, 9999


Correct Option: C

Who is called the “grandfather” of the computer?

  1. Blaise Pascal

  2. Charles Babbage

  3. Joseph Jacquard

  4. Dr. Herman Hollerith


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Charles Babbage

A microprocessor has memory locations from 0000 to 3FFF. Each memory location stores 1 byte. How many bytes can be stored? Express in kilobytes.

  1. 4095, 4K

  2. 16384, 16 K

  3. 32740, 32 K

  4. 46040, 46 K


Correct Option: B

Which Device can produce the final product of machine processing in to a form understood by humans?

  1. Storage

  2. Input Device.

  3. Output Device.

  4. Control


Correct Option: C

An Integrated Circuit is

  1. fabricated on a tiny silicon Chip.

  2. a Complicated circuit.

  3. much costlier than a single transistor.

  4. an Integrating device.


Correct Option: A

The usual expected life of any Processor Architecture is

  1. 5 years.

  2. 7 years.

  3. 9 years.

  4. 16 years.


Correct Option: B

Express 8192 in K units.

  1. 8 x 103 K

  2. 8.192 K

  3. 8K

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: C

The largest of the four conceptual areas of storage is likely to be the

  1. program area.

  2. output area.

  3. working area.

  4. input area.


Correct Option: A

What is the size of the diskettes used by IBM's newer PS/2 personal Computers?

  1. 5 ½ �

  2. 8 �

  3. 3 ½ �

  4. 2 ½ �


Correct Option: C

What was the nickname of the computer used by Americans in 1952 for their H-bomb Project?

  1. ENIAC

  2. EDSAC

  3. MANIAC

  4. UNIVAC


Correct Option: C

What is the name given to the molecular scale Computer?

  1. Femtocomputer

  2. Nanocomputer

  3. Supercomputer

  4. Microcomputer


Correct Option: B

Where is silicon chips manufactured in India?

  1. Chandigarh

  2. H.P

  3. U.P

  4. Tamilnadu


Correct Option: A

Which of the following Indian companies designs and manufactures Super-Computer?

  1. C-DOT

  2. C-DAC

  3. CMC

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: B

Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiply, divide and find Sq. roots?

  1. Napier

  2. Babbage

  3. Pascal

  4. Leibnitz


Correct Option: D

A billionth of a second is defined as a

  1. millisecond

  2. microsecond

  3. nanosecond

  4. picosecond


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is a portable computer boasting of two CPU chips?

  1. HCL ZX81

  2. IBM Spectrum

  3. Tandy TRS-80

  4. Epson HX-20


Correct Option: D

Who was the father of Punched card processing?

  1. J Presper Eckert.

  2. Charles Babbage.

  3. Dr. Herman Hollerith.

  4. Blaise Pascal.


Correct Option: C

How many symbols exist in Baudot Code?

  1. 42

  2. 116

  3. 58

  4. 76


Correct Option: C

A transaction file is of type of

  1. master file.

  2. data file.

  3. access method.

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: A

The Personal Computer Industry was started by

  1. IBM

  2. Apple

  3. Compaq

  4. HCL


Correct Option: B

Which Computer company invented RAM Chip?

  1. Motorola

  2. Intel

  3. Toshiba

  4. IBM


Correct Option: B

The First Large Scale electronic computer which became operational in 1946 and contained approximately 18000 vacuum tubes and could perform 300 multiplications per second was known as

  1. ILLIAC

  2. ENIAC

  3. JOHNIAC

  4. EDSAC


Correct Option: B

Which of the following terms is the most closely related to main memory?

  1. Non volatile.

  2. Permanent

  3. Control unit.

  4. Temporary


Correct Option: D

The unit of speed used for super computer is

  1. KFLOPS

  2. MFLOPS

  3. GFLOPS

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: C

A Byte comprises of

  1. 4 Bits

  2. 2 Nibble

  3. 6 bits

  4. None of the above.


Correct Option: B

The Digital Computer was developed primarily in

  1. USSR

  2. Japan

  3. USA

  4. UK


Correct Option: C

How many units in a single bus structure Communicate at a Time?

  1. One

  2. Two

  3. Three

  4. Four


Correct Option: B

The team at Intel that built the First Microprocessor was headed by

  1. Seymour Cray.

  2. Victor Poor.

  3. Stan Mazor.

  4. Marcian E (Ted) Hoff.


Correct Option: B

Who is the creator of PASCAL Language?

  1. Dijkstra

  2. Niklaus Writh.

  3. D.Knuth

  4. Aho


Correct Option: B

Which was world's first Minicomputer and when was it introduced?

  1. PDP-1, 1958.

  2. IBM System/36, 1960.

  3. PDP-II, 1961.

  4. VAX 11/780,1962.


Correct Option: A

Which of the following belongs to first generation computers?

  1. ENIAC

  2. IBM 1401

  3. IBM 8090

  4. UNIVAC


Correct Option: D

First integrated circuit chip was developed by

  1. C. Babbage.

  2. W.H.Britain.

  3. J.S. Kilby.

  4. Robert Noyce.


Correct Option: C

Which of the following Processor is based on RISC Concept?

  1. Intel 80486.

  2. Intel 80586.

  3. Intel P6.

  4. None of the above.


Correct Option: C

The person who contributed to the idea of Stored Program was

  1. Pascal

  2. Howered Aiken.

  3. Charles Babbage.

  4. John Von Neumann.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

John Von Neuman was the man who came up with the idea of storing the data, after Charles Babbage invented a mechanical calculating machine, called Computer.  

Which was the world's first microcomputer that used Intel 80586 Microprocessor Chip?

  1. IBM PS/2

  2. HP-9830

  3. Deskpro-386

  4. IBM 360


Correct Option: C

The Punched card used in IBM System/3 Contains

  1. 60 Columns.

  2. 80 Columns.

  3. 100 Columns.

  4. 120 Columns.


Correct Option: B

A Computer first Sold in the Kit Form was the

  1. Altair

  2. APPLE II.

  3. TRS- 80 Model I.

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: A

Who Proposed the stored program concept?

  1. T.J. Watson, Sr.

  2. Charles Babbage.

  3. John Von Neumann.

  4. Bill gates.


Correct Option: C

CP/M

  1. Is used to control a keyboard, CRT Screen, and disks.

  2. Became the Standard Programming Language for personal computers.

  3. Was initially designed to be used by non-programmers.

  4. Both (1) and (2).


Correct Option: A

The ENIAC

  1. Was Totally Electronic.

  2. Was the size of a personal computer.

  3. Was programmed by punched cards.

  4. Both (1) and (3).


Correct Option: A

A person credited with inventing the first electronic computer is

  1. Konred Zuse.

  2. John Atanasoff.

  3. John Mauchly.

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: D

The difference engine was to be

  1. an electronic digital computer.

  2. an electromechanical device.

  3. powered by steam.

  4. None of the above.


Correct Option: C

The first minicomputer were developed and built in 1965 by

  1. IBM

  2. DEC

  3. Intel

  4. HP


Correct Option: A

A Fourth Generation chip contains

  1. a single transistor.

  2. less than 100 transistors.

  3. thousands of transistors.

  4. billions of transistors.


Correct Option: C

Herman Hollerith designed machines

  1. That could create astronomical tables.

  2. That were capable of performing any computation.

  3. That could sort and tabulate punched cards.

  4. None of the above.


Correct Option: C

The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and logical operation was

  1. EDSAC

  2. UNIVAC-I

  3. Mark-I

  4. ENIAC


Correct Option: C

The man who built the first mechanical calculator was

  1. Joseph Marie Jacquard.

  2. John Mauchly.

  3. Blaise Pascal.

  4. Harward Ailken.


Correct Option: C

Which was the first computer to use transistor instead of Vacuum Tubes?

  1. IBM-1401.

  2. Datamatic-1000.

  3. Intel-650.

  4. Burroughs E-101.


Correct Option: A

Computers built before the First Generation of computers were

  1. Mechanical

  2. Electro-mechanical.

  3. Electrical

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
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