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This section includes 224 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Current Affairs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 101. |
Cache memory is |
| A. | Smaller and faster than main storage |
| B. | Bigger and slower then main storage |
| C. | Smaller but slower than main memory |
| D. | Bigger and faster than main memory |
| Answer» B. Bigger and slower then main storage | |
| 102. |
The overall design, construction, organiza- tion and interconnecting of the various components of a computer system is referred as |
| A. | Computer Architecture |
| B. | Computer Flow chart |
| C. | Computer Algorithm |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Computer Flow chart | |
| 103. |
A program that translates mnemonicstatements into executable instructions is referred as |
| A. | Software |
| B. | Assembler |
| C. | Translator |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Translator | |
| 104. |
Automatic execution of high-priority computer programs that have been designed to pre- empt the use of computer resources is referred as |
| A. | Foreground processing |
| B. | background processing |
| C. | black processing |
| D. | white processing |
| Answer» B. background processing | |
| 105. |
The time required to complete a single, continuous execution of an object program is called |
| A. | Run time |
| B. | Access time |
| C. | Random time |
| D. | Response time |
| Answer» B. Access time | |
| 106. |
A branch of computer science that deals with computers that possess reasoning, learning and thinking capabilities that resemble those of human beings is recognized as? |
| A. | Software engineering |
| B. | Artificial intelligence |
| C. | Hardware engineering |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Hardware engineering | |
| 107. |
Digitizer is an input device |
| A. | Used to convert graphic and pictorial data into binary inputs for a digital computer |
| B. | Used to convert graphic and pictorial data into analog inputs for a digital computer. |
| C. | Used for debugging |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Used to convert graphic and pictorial data into analog inputs for a digital computer. | |
| 108. |
Programs developed by an outside supplierand provided to the user in a machine readable form is known as |
| A. | Canned Programs |
| B. | Beta program |
| C. | Alpha program |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Beta program | |
| 109. |
Document reader is |
| A. | An optical input device used to read documents |
| B. | A device that arrange the documents |
| C. | A device that is used to edit document |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. A device that arrange the documents | |
| 110. |
The term DBMS is referred to |
| A. | Data Base Management system |
| B. | The software used for the management, maintenance and retrieval of the data stored in a data base |
| C. | Both A & B are true |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 111. |
Auxiliary storage is |
| A. | Secondary storage |
| B. | Primary storage |
| C. | Processing device |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Primary storage | |
| 112. |
Software that manages data in more than one file at a time and these files are treated as tables with rows and columns rather than as lists of records is |
| A. | Relational Data Base Management Package |
| B. | Data Base Management Package |
| C. | Documentation Package |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Data Base Management Package | |
| 113. |
Bandwidth is |
| A. | The range of frequencies available for data transmission |
| B. | Data transmission rate |
| C. | Alternate for rubber band |
| D. | None is true |
| Answer» B. Data transmission rate | |
| 114. |
The advantages of COM are its and . |
| A. | compact size; readability |
| B. | compact size; speed |
| C. | readability; speed |
| D. | compact size; low cost |
| Answer» C. readability; speed | |
| 115. |
SNOBOL is |
| A. | string oriented symbolic language |
| B. | high-level language |
| C. | both A & B |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 116. |
A network geometric arrangement in which a single connecting line is shared by a number of nodes is called |
| A. | Car Topology |
| B. | Bus Topology |
| C. | Truck Topology |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Truck Topology | |
| 117. |
An operation in which data is moved to a different location is referred as |
| A. | Block move |
| B. | Street move |
| C. | Delete |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Street move | |
| 118. |
The overall design, construction, organization and interconnecting of the various compo- nents of a computer system is referred as |
| A. | Computer Architecture |
| B. | Computer Flow chart |
| C. | Computer Algorithm |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Computer Flow chart | |
| 119. |
A program that remains in the memory while other programs are executing |
| A. | Resident Program |
| B. | Non-Resident Program |
| C. | Permanent Program |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Non-Resident Program | |
| 120. |
A term used for diskette is |
| A. | disk cartridge |
| B. | disk pack |
| C. | floppy disk |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 121. |
Computer network is a |
| A. | A distributed data processing system |
| B. | Multiple computers are linked together for the purpose of data communication and resource sharing |
| C. | Both A & B are false |
| D. | Both A & B are true |
| Answer» E. | |
| 122. |
An advantage of the laser printer respect to impact printer is |
| A. | it is quieter/ faster |
| B. | output is of a high quality |
| C. | support wide range of type fonts |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 123. |
Computer output which is displayed on the screen of a terminal without a permanent copy is called |
| A. | Soft copy |
| B. | Hard copy |
| C. | Hardware |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Hard copy | |
| 124. |
Following is true for Bubble Memory |
| A. | A compact data storage device made of thin wafers of garnet (a semiconductor material) in a magnetic field. |
| B. | Nonvolatile memory |
| C. | Data contained in them is not lost when the power turned off |
| D. | All are true |
| Answer» E. | |
| 125. |
BLOB is |
| A. | Binary Large Object |
| B. | A long bit string representing complex data |
| C. | Object oriented language |
| D. | Only A & B are true |
| Answer» E. | |
| 126. |
ASCII-8 is |
| A. | An extended version of ASCIl-7 |
| B. | Is a 8-bit code |
| C. | Both A & B are true |
| D. | Both A & B are false |
| Answer» B. Is a 8-bit code | |
| 127. |
In Nonvolatile memory device |
| A. | Data contained in them is not lost when the power turned off |
| B. | Data contained in them is lost when the power turned off. |
| C. | data contained in them is permanent and not be rewrite |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Data contained in them is lost when the power turned off. | |
| 128. |
A storage devices where the access time iseffectively independent of the location of the data is referred as |
| A. | Direct access |
| B. | Secondary storage |
| C. | Primary storag |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Secondary storage | |
| 129. |
The following typically happens in the output phase of a computer based information system |
| A. | Data is put into the computer for processing |
| B. | Information is produced in hardcopy / softcopy form |
| C. | Mathematical calculations are performed |
| D. | All of the above. |
| Answer» C. Mathematical calculations are performed | |
| 130. |
A storage device or medium where the access time is dependent upon the location of the data is called |
| A. | Serial access |
| B. | Parallel access |
| C. | Null access |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Parallel access | |
| 131. |
Technique of using disk space to make programs believe that the system contains more random access memory (RAM) than is actually available is called |
| A. | Virtual memory |
| B. | Secondary memory |
| C. | Primary memory |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Secondary memory | |
| 132. |
A unit for measuring data transmission speed that describes the capacity of a carrier is referred as |
| A. | Baud |
| B. | Bit |
| C. | Bond |
| D. | Batch |
| Answer» B. Bit | |
| 133. |
Digital Computer is a computer |
| A. | that works with discrete quantities |
| B. | that works with analog quantities |
| C. | Both A & B |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. that works with analog quantities | |
| 134. |
A data transmission medium made of tiny threads of glass or plastic that can transmit huge amount of information at the speed of light is |
| A. | Fiber optic cable |
| B. | Copper cable |
| C. | Twisted wire cable |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Copper cable | |
| 135. |
EFF sites allows anonymous FTP that |
| A. | Do not require a password or access |
| B. | Requires password or access |
| C. | Is a none access file |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Requires password or access | |
| 136. |
The speed at which data is transferred from the main memory to another medium on which data are recorded is referred as |
| A. | Data transfer rate |
| B. | Byte |
| C. | Buds |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Byte | |
| 137. |
An automatic machine that is made to perform routine human tasks is |
| A. | Computer |
| B. | Robot |
| C. | Tanker |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Tanker | |
| 138. |
Buffer is device/ storage area |
| A. | Where data are temporarily stored |
| B. | Where data is permanently stored |
| C. | Where data error occurs |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Where data is permanently stored | |
| 139. |
Following is not true for magnetic tape |
| A. | low cost |
| B. | direct-access storage medium |
| C. | compact and portable |
| D. | highly reliable |
| Answer» C. compact and portable | |
| 140. |
The primary memory of a personal computer consists |
| A. | ROM only |
| B. | RAM only |
| C. | Both ROM and RAM |
| D. | Memory module |
| Answer» D. Memory module | |
| 141. |
Advantage of a multiprogramming system is |
| A. | simultaneous execution of program instructions from two applications |
| B. | concurrent processing of two or more programs |
| C. | single processing at a time |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. single processing at a time | |
| 142. |
An adder in which the bits of the operands are added one after another is called |
| A. | Serial adder |
| B. | Parallel adder |
| C. | Full adder |
| D. | Half adder |
| Answer» B. Parallel adder | |
| 143. |
A device that is used to transmit data from one location to another is referred as |
| A. | Storage |
| B. | Memory |
| C. | Carrier |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Memory | |
| 144. |
A CPU designed specifically to handle the communications processing task with main purpose is to off-load communications processing task from the host computer so that the host computer can be dedicated for applications and data processing jobs. |
| A. | Backend processor |
| B. | Front-end processor |
| C. | Node processor |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Node processor | |
| 145. |
The following device allows the user to addexternal components to a computer system |
| A. | Storage devices |
| B. | Keyboards |
| C. | Ports/ system boards |
| D. | Diskettes |
| Answer» D. Diskettes | |
| 146. |
The word size of a microprocessor refers to: |
| A. | the number of machine operations performed/ second |
| B. | the amount of information that can be stored / cycle |
| C. | the amount of information that can be stored in bytes |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. the amount of information that can be stored in bytes | |
| 147. |
Archive is |
| A. | Backup storage |
| B. | Forward operation |
| C. | Primary storage |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Forward operation | |
| 148. |
Following is not true for Backup files |
| A. | These are the files which are generated automatically in when one saves a document. |
| B. | These files help in protecting the document due to out of order of the computer or power failure. |
| C. | These files delete as soon as computer is turned off |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 149. |
A symbol to indicate beginning (START), ending (STOP) and pauses (HALT) in program logic flow are referred as |
| A. | Terminal symbol |
| B. | Decision symbol |
| C. | Processing symbol |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Decision symbol | |
| 150. |
BIOS is an abbreviation for |
| A. | Binary Input/Binary Output |
| B. | Binary synchronous |
| C. | Binary digit |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Binary synchronous | |