MCQ COMPUTER QUESTIONS #2

MCQ COMPUTER QUESTIONS 

MCQ COMPUTER QUESTIONS

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1. An application suitable for sequential processing is

Processing of grades
Payroll processing
Both Processing of grades and Payroll processing
All of above

2. Which of the following is not an input device?

OCR
Optical scanners
Voice recognition device
COM (Computer Output to Microfilm)

3. Which of the following is not processing?

arranging
manipulating
calculating
gathering

4. The accuracy of the floating-point numbers representable in two 16-bit words of a computer is approximately

16 digits
6 digits
9 digits
All of above

5. The digital computer was developed primarily in

USSR
Japan
USA
UK

6. Which of the following storage devices can store maximum amount of data?

Floppy Disk
Hard Disk
Compact Disk
Magneto Optic Disk

7. The first computer introduced in Nepal was

IBM 1400
IBM 1401
IBM 1402
IBM1402

8. Today’s computer giant IBM was earlier known by different name which was changes in 1924. What was that name?

Tabulator Machine Co.
Computing Tabulating Recording Co.
The Tabulator Ltd.
International Computer Ltd.

9. The arranging of data in a logical sequence is called

Sorting
Classifying
Reproducing
Summarizing

10. Before a disk drive can access any sector record, a computer program has to provide the record’s disk address. What information does this address specify?

Track number
Sector number
Surface number
All of above

11.Instruction in computer languages consists of

OPCODE
OPERAND
Both of above
None of above

12. Mnemonic a memory trick is used in which of the following language?

Machine language
Assembly language
High level language
None of above

13. What is the responsibility of the logical unit in the CPU of a computer?

To produce result
To compare numbers
To control flow of information
To do math’s works

14. Abacus was the first

electronic computer
mechanical computer
electronic calculator
mechanical calculator

15. Which generation of computer is still under development

Fourth Generation
Fifth Generation
Sixth Generation
Seventh Generation

16. A register organized to allow to move left or right operations is called a

Counter
Loader
Adder
Shift register

17. Which was the most popular first generation computer?

IBM 650
IBM 360
IBM 1130
IBM 2700

18. Abacus was the first

electronic computer
mechanical computer
electronic calculator
mechanical calculator

19. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number of addresses will be

216
65,536
64K
Any of the above

20. Which is considered a direct entry input device?

Optical scanner
Mouse and digitizer
Light pen
All of the above

21. Instructions and memory address are represented by

Character code
Binary codes
Binary word
Parity bit

22. A set of flip flops integrated together is called ____

Counter
Adder
Register
None of the above

23. Each set of Napier’s bones consisted of ______ rods.?

5
9
11
13

24. BCD is

Binary Coded Decimal
Bit Coded Decimal
Binary Coded Digit
Bit Coded Digit

25. People often call ______ as the brain of computer system

Control Unit
Arithmetic Logic Unit
Central Processing Unit
Storage Unit

26. Which is used for manufacturing chips?

Bus
Control unit
Semiconductors
A and b only

27. The value of each bead in heaven is

1
3
5
7

28. When was the world’s first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?

Hewlett-Packard, 1980
Epson, 1981
Laplink Traveling Software Inc, 1982
Tandy Model-200, 1985

29. From which generation operating systems were developed?

First
Second
Third
Fourth

30.The first firm to mass-market a microcomputer as a personal computer was

IBM
Super UNIVAC
Radio Shaks
Data General Corporation

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