Computer Awareness Questions
MCQ Study Materials
(For Various Competitive Exams)
Q.1.Which was the world’s first minicomputer and when was it introduced?- PDP-I, 1958
- IBM System/36, 1960
- PDP-II, 1961
- VAX 11/780, 1962
Q.2.How many address lines are needed to address each memory location in a 2048 x 4 memory chip?
- 10
- 11
- 8
- 12
Q.3.Which American Computer Company is called big blue?
- Microsoft
- Compaq Corp
- IBM
- Tandy Sevenson
Q.4.When did IBM introduced the 80286 based PC/AT?
- 1982
- 1984
- 1985
- 1989
Q.5.The first electronic general purpose digital computer built by Motley and Accrete called ENIAC did not work on the stored program concept. How many number s could it store in its internal memory?
- 100
- 20
- 40
- 80
Q.6.The digital computer was developed primarily in
- USSR
- Japan
- USA
- UK
Q.7.The subject of cybernetics deals with the science of
- Genetics
- Control and communications
- Molecular biology
- Biochemistry
Q.8.who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns of a weaving machine?
- Pascal
- Hollerith
- Babbage
- Jacquard
Q.9.Most of the inexpensive personal computer does not have any disk or diskette drive. What is the name of such computes?
- Home computers
- Diskless computers
- Dedicated computer
- General computer
Q.10.Which of the following required large computer memory?
- Imaging
- Graphics
- Voice
- All of above
Q.11.A term associated with the comparison of processing speeds of different computer system is:
- EFTS
- MPG
- MIPS
- CFPS
Q.12.The processes of starting or restarting a computer system by loading instructions from a secondary storage device into the completer memory is called
- Duping
- Booting
- Padding
- All of above
Q.13.Who invented the microprocessor?
- Marcian E Huff
- Herman H Goldstein
- Joseph Jacquard
- All of above
Q.14.One computer that is not considered a portable computer is
- Minicomputer
- A laptop computer
- Mini computer
- All of the above
- 16 digits
- 6 digits
- 9 digits
- All of above
- An embedded microprocessor
- Extensive memory
- Independent processing
- A keyboard and screen
- Buffer size
- Resolution
- Vertical dimensions
- Intelligence
- Matrix primer
- Impact printer
- Laser printer
- Manual printer
- Block definition
- Record contain clause
- Blocking factor
- Record per block factor
- Data consists of numbers
- Short access time is required
- Each stored word is processed differently
- Data naturally needs to flow in and out in a serial form