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subject:computer science
Answer the following question:

1. QUESTION: The digital computer was developed primarily in

A. USSR

B. Japan

C. USA

D. UK

CORRECT ANSWER IS: USA

2. QUESTION: The memory which is programmed at the time it is manufactured

A. POM

B. RAM

C. PROM

D. EPROM

CORRECT ANSWER IS: POM

3. QUESTION: The first firm to mass-market a microcomputer as a personal

computer was

A. IBM

B. super UNIVAC

C. Radio Shaks

D. Data General Corporation

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Radio Shaks

4. QUESTION: ASCII stands for

A. American Stable Code for International Interchange

B. American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange

C. American Standard Code for Information Interchange

D. American Standard Code for Interchange Information

CORRECT ANSWER IS: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

5. QUESTION: When did arch rivals IBM and Apple Computers In C. decide to join
hands?

A. 1978

B. 1984

C. 1990

D. 1991

CORRECT ANSWER IS: 1991

6. QUESTION: The subject of cybernetics deals with the science of

A. genetics

B. control and communications

C. molecular biology

D. biochemistry

CORRECT ANSWER IS: control and communications

7. QUESTION: Which of the following memory medium is not used as main

memory system?
A. magnetic core

B. semiconductor

C. magnetic tape

D. both a and b

CORRECT ANSWER IS: magnetic tape

8. QUESTION: A digital computer did not score over, an analog computer in terms
of

A. speed

B. accuracy

C. reliability

D. cost

CORRECT ANSWER IS: accuracy

9. QUESTION: Which of the following is first generation of computer?

A. EDSAC

B. IBM-1401

C. CDC-1604

D. ICL-2900

CORRECT ANSWER IS: EDSAC

10. QUESTION: Human beings are referred to as Homosapinens, which device is

called Silicon Sapiens?

A. monitor

B. hardware
C. robot

D. computer

CORRECT ANSWER IS: computer

11. QUESTION: Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control
patterns of a weaving machine?

A. Pascal

B. Hollerith

C. Jacquard

D. Babbage

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Jacquard

12. QUESTION: Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold
conditional, are known as.

A. PC

B. memory address register

C. general purpose register

D. flags

CORRECT ANSWER IS: general purpose register

13. QUESTION: In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a machine called analytical

engine, which he showed at the parts exhibition. In which year was it exhibited?

A. 1860

B. 1820

C. 1855

D. 1970
CORRECT ANSWER IS: 1855

14. QUESTION: Chief component of first generation computer was

A. transistors

B. vacuum tubes and valves

C. integrated circuits

D. none of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: vacuum tubes and valves

15. QUESTION: An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the

alternative computer jargon for it?

A. leech

B. sued

C. slug

D. glitch

CORRECT ANSWER IS: glitch

16. QUESTION: FoxPro is

A. a medicine

B. a disease

C. a computer language

D. an animal

CORRECT ANSWER IS: a computer language

17. QUESTION: Most of the inexpensive personal computer does not have any
disk or diskette drive. What is the name of such computers.
A. home computers

B. diskless computers

C. dedicated computers

D. general computers

CORRECT ANSWER IS: home computers

18. QUESTION: One of the main feature that distinguish microprocessors from
micro-computers is

A. words are usually larger in microprocessors

B. words are shorter in microprocessors

C. microprocessors does not contain I/O devices

D. exactly the same as the machine cycle time

CORRECT ANSWER IS: microprocessors does not contain I/O devices

19. QUESTION: Which was the world's first minicomputer and when was it
introduced?

A. PDP-I, 1958

B. IBM System/36, 1960

C. PDP-II, 1961

D. VAX 11/780, 1962

CORRECT ANSWER IS: PDP-I, 1958

20. QUESTION: FORTRAN is

A. File Translation

B. Format Translation
C. Formula Translation

D. Floppy Translation

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Formula Translation

21. QUESTION: Modern Computer are very reliable but they are not

A. fast

B. powerful

C. infallible

D. cheap

CORRECT ANSWER IS: infallible

22. QUESTION: Which of the following required large computer memory?

A. imaging

B. graphics

C. voice

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: all of them

23. QUESTION: The least significant bit of the binary number, which is equivalent
to any odd decimal number, is

A. 0

B. 1

C. 1 or 0

D. 3

CORRECT ANSWER IS: 0

24. QUESTION: UNIVAC is

A. Universal Automatic Computer

B. Universal Array Computer

C. Unique Automatic Computer

D. Unvalued Automatic Computer

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Universal Automatic Computer

25. QUESTION: EEPROM stands for

A. Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

B. Easily Erasable Programmable Real Only Memory

C. Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

D. none of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

26. QUESTION: What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the
screen. Which requires imperator attention?

A. pixel

B. reverse video

C. touch screen

D. cursor

CORRECT ANSWER IS: reverse video

27. QUESTION: Super Computer was invented by

A. J.H. Van Tassel

B. J.C Perrier
C. W.L. Judson

D. A.J. Garnering

CORRECT ANSWER IS: J.H. Van Tassel

28. QUESTION: A term associated with the comparison of processing speeds of

different computer system is

A. EFTS

B. MPG

C. MIPS

D. CFPS

CORRECT ANSWER IS: MIPS

29. QUESTION: 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 use it at
the same time?

A. bus control

B. interrupts

C. bus arbitration

D. status

CORRECT ANSWER IS: bus arbitration

30. QUESTION: CD-ROM stands for

A. Compactable Read Only Memory

B. Compact Data Read Only Memory

C. Compactable Disk Read Only Memory

D. Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Compact Disk Read Only Memory

31. QUESTION: Second Generations computers were developed during

A. 1949 to 1955

B. 1956 to 1965

C. 1965 to 1970

D. 1970 to 1990

CORRECT ANSWER IS: 1956 to 1965

32. QUESTION: IBM launched its first personal computer called IBM-PC in 1981. It
has chips from Intel, disk drives from Tendon, operating system from Microsoft,
the printer from Epson and the application software from everywhere. Can you
name the country which contributed the video display?

A. India

B. China

C. Germany

D. Taiwan

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Taiwan

33. QUESTION: Which of the following terms is not associated with computers?

A. Frank land reaction

B. data base

C. binary

D. windows

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Frank land reaction

34. QUESTION: Which of the following code used in present day computing was
developed by IBM Corporation?

A. ASCII

B. Hollerith Code

C. Baudot Code

D. EBCDIC Code

CORRECT ANSWER IS: EBCDIC Code

35. QUESTION: The processes of starting or restarting a computer system by

loading instructions from a secondary storage device into the completer memory
is called

A. duping

B. booting

C. padding

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: booting

36. QUESTION: When was the world's first laptop computer introduced in the
market and by whom?

A. Hewlett-Packard

B. Epson, 1981

C. Tandy model - 2002, 1985

D. Laplink traveling software in 1982

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Epson, 1981

37. QUESTION: ALU is

A. Arithmetic Logic Unit

B. Array Logic Unit

C. Application Logic Unit

D. none of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Arithmetic Logic Unit

38. QUESTION: The computer size was very large in

A. First Generation

B. Second Generation

C. Third Generation

D. Fourth Generation

CORRECT ANSWER IS: First Generation

39. QUESTION: Personal computers use a number of chips mounted on a main

circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?

A. daughter board

B. motherboard

C. father board

D. breadboard

CORRECT ANSWER IS: motherboard

40. QUESTION: The special files of DOS are

A. COM

B. EXE

C. BATCH
D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: all of them

41. QUESTION: Who invented the microprocessor?

A. Marcian E Huff

B. Herman H Goldstein

C. Joseph Jacquard

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Marcian E Huff

42. QUESTION: The first microprocessor built by the Intel Corporation was called

A. 8008

B. 8080

C. 4004

D. 8800

CORRECT ANSWER IS: 4004

43. QUESTION: VGA is

A. Video Graphics Array

B. Visual Graphics Array

C. Volatile Graphics Array

D. Video Graphics Adapter

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Video Graphics Array

44. QUESTION: Microprocessors as switching devices are for which generation

computers
A. First Generation

B. Second Generation

C. Third Generation

D. Fourth Generation

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Fourth Generation

45. QUESTION: In most IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drives, memory expansion
slots and active components are mounted on a single board. What is the name of
this board?

A. daughter board

B. motherboard

C. father board

D. breadboard

CORRECT ANSWER IS: motherboard

46. QUESTION: "Binary Codes" as used in computer sciences are codes made up
of which of the following two numbers?

A. 0 and 9

B. 1 and 3

C. 0 and 1

D. 9 and 1

CORRECT ANSWER IS: 0 and 1

47. QUESTION: What is the latest write-once optical storage media?

A. digital paper

B. magneto-optical disk
C. WORM disk

D. CD-ROM disk

CORRECT ANSWER IS: CD-ROM disk

48. QUESTION: One computer that is not considered a portable computer is

A. minicomputer

B. a laptop computer

C. both a and b

D. none of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: minicomputer

49. QUESTION: Who built the world's first electronic calculator using telephone
relays, light bulbs and batteries

A. Claude Shannon

B. Konrard Zeus

C. George Stibits

D. Howard H. Aiken

CORRECT ANSWER IS: George Stibits

50. QUESTION: IBM 1401 is

A. First Generation computer

B. Second Generation computer

C. Third Generation computer

D. Fourth Generation computer

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Second Generation computer

51. QUESTION: Which of the devices can be used to directly image printed text?

A. OCR

B. OMR

C. MICR

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: OCR

52. QUESTION: What is meant by a dedicated computer?

A. which is used by one person only

B. which is assigned one and only task

C. which uses one kind of software

D. which is meant for application software

CORRECT ANSWER IS: which is assigned one and only task

53. QUESTION: Bill Gates is more well-known as

A. the CEO of apple Macintosh

B. the CEO of IBM

C. the owner of Microsoft Corporation

D. the inventor of the personal computer

CORRECT ANSWER IS: the owner of Microsoft Corporation

54. QUESTION: The most important advantage of a video disk is

A. compactness

B. potential capacity

C. durability
D. cost effectiveness

CORRECT ANSWER IS: potential capacity

55. QUESTION: The accuracy of the floating-point number representable in two

16-bit words of a computer is

approximately

A. 16 digits

B. 6 digits

C. 9 digits

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: 6 digits

56. QUESTION: Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that
could add, subtract, multiple, divide and find square roots?

A. Napier

B. Babbage

C. Pascal

D. Leibniz

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Leibniz

57. QUESTION: MSI stands for

A. Medium Scale Integrated Circuits

B. Medium System Integrated Circuits

C. Medium Scale Intelligent Circuit

D. Medium System Intelligent Circuit

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Medium Scale Integrated Circuits

58. QUESTION: The output quality of a printer is measured my

A. dot per inch

B. dot per s. inch

C. dots printed per unit time

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: dot per s. inch

59. QUESTION: The system unit of a personal computer typically contains all of
the following except

A. microprocessor

B. disk controller

C. serial interface

D. modem

CORRECT ANSWER IS: modem

60. QUESTION: Which of the following is the unit to express the memory of a
computer?

A. complier

B. bus

C. byte

D. clone

CORRECT ANSWER IS: byte

61. QUESTION: What is the number of read-write heads in the drive for a 9-trac
magnetic tape?
A. 9

B. 16

C. 18

D. 27

CORRECT ANSWER IS: 9

62. QUESTION: A dumb terminal has

A. an embedded microcomputer

B. extensive memory

C. independent processing

D. a keyboard and screen

CORRECT ANSWER IS: a keyboard and screen

63. QUESTION: IBM 7000 digital computer

A. belongs to second generation

B. uses VLSI

C. employs semi conductor memory

D. has modular constructions

CORRECT ANSWER IS: has modular constructions

64. QUESTION: The capacity of 3.5 inch floppy disk is

A. 1.40 MB

B. 1.44 GB

C. 1.40 GB

D. 1.44 MB
CORRECT ANSWER IS: 1.44 MB

65. QUESTION: In analog computer

A. input is first converted to digital form

B. input is never converted to digital form

C. output is displayed in digital form

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: input is never converted to digital form

66. QUESTION: A computer program that converts an entire program into

machine language is called a/an

A. interpreter

B. simulator

C. compiler

D. commander

CORRECT ANSWER IS: compiler

67. QUESTION: Which one of the following characteristics is absent in a computer,

however sophisticated it may be?

A. high speed

B. intelligence

C. accuracy

D. perfect memory

CORRECT ANSWER IS: intelligence

68. QUESTION: 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?

A. track number

B. sector number

C. surface number

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: all of them

69. QUESTION: Plotter accuracy is measured in terms of repeatable and

A. buffer size

B. resolution

C. vertical dimensions

D. intelligence

CORRECT ANSWER IS: resolution

70. QUESTION: As integrated circuit is

A. a complicated circuit

B. an integrating device

C. much costlier than a single transistor

D. fabricated on a tiny silicon chip

CORRECT ANSWER IS: fabricated on a tiny silicon chip

71. QUESTION: The first computer introduced in Nepal was

A. IBM 1400
B. IBM 1401

C. IBM 1402

D. IBM 1403

CORRECT ANSWER IS: IBM 1401

72. QUESTION: In latest generation computers the instructions are executed

A. parallel only

B. sequentially only

C. both sequentially and parallel

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: both sequentially and parallel

73. QUESTION: A computer program that translates one program instructions at a

time into machine language is called a/an

A. interpreter

B. CPU

C. compiler

D. simulator

CORRECT ANSWER IS: interpreter

74. QUESTION: The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from

A. primary memory

B. control section

C. external memory

D. cache memory
CORRECT ANSWER IS: control section

75. QUESTION: As compared to diskettes, the hard disks are

A. more expensive

B. more portable

C. less rigid

D. slowly accessed

CORRECT ANSWER IS: more expensive

76. QUESTION: Dot-matric is a type of

A. tape

B. printer

C. disk

D. bus

CORRECT ANSWER IS: printer

77. QUESTION: Daisy wheel printer is a type of

A. matrix printer

B. impact printer

C. laser printer

D. manual printer

CORRECT ANSWER IS: impact printer

78. QUESTION: Most important advantages of an IC is its

A. easy replacement in case of circuit failure

B. extremely high reliability

C. reduced cost

D. low powers consumption

CORRECT ANSWER IS: extremely high reliability

79. QUESTION: WAN stands for

A. Wap Area Network

B. Wide Area Network

C. Wide Array Net

D. Wireless Area Network

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Wide Area Network

80. QUESTION: Who designed the first electronics computer - ENIAC?

A. Van-Neumann

B. Joseph M. Jacquard

C. J. Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: J. Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly

81. QUESTION: A small or intelligent device is so called because it contains within

it a

A. computer

B. microcomputer

C. programmable

D. sensor

CORRECT ANSWER IS: sensor

82. QUESTION: The act of retrieving existing data from memory is called

A. read-out

B. read from

C. read

D. all of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: all of them

83. QUESTION: Floppy disks which are made from feasible plastic material are also
called

A. hark disks

B. high-density disks

C. diskettes

D. templates

CORRECT ANSWER IS: diskettes

84. QUESTION: The number of records contained within a block of data on

magnetic tape is defined by the

A. block definition

B. record contain clause

C. blocking factor

D. record per block factor

CORRECT ANSWER IS: blocking factor

85. QUESTION: The first machine to successfully perform a long series of

arithmetic and logical operations was

A. ENIAC
B. Mark-I

C. Analytic Engine

D. UNIVAC-1

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Mark-I

86. QUESTION: MICR stands for

A. Magnetic Ink Character Reader

B. Magnetic Ink Code Reader

C. Magnetic Ink Cases Reader

D. none of them

CORRECT ANSWER IS: none of them

87. QUESTION: Who invented the high level language c?

A. Dennis M. Ritchie

B. Nicklaus Writh

C. Seymour Papert

D. Donald Kunth

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Dennis M. Ritchie

88. QUESTION: Which of the following is not a programming language?

A. basic

B. FORTRAN

C. LASER

D. PASCAL

CORRECT ANSWER IS: LASER

89. QUESTION: All modern computer operate on

A. information

B. floppies

C. data

D. word

CORRECT ANSWER IS: data

90. QUESTION: Regarding a VDU, which statement is more correct?

A. it is an output device

B. it is an input device

C. it is a peripheral device

D. it is hardware item

CORRECT ANSWER IS: it is a peripheral device

91. QUESTION: Serial access memories are useful in applications where

A. data consists of numbers

B. each stored word is processed differently

C. short access time is required

D. data naturally needs to flow in and out in a serial form

CORRECT ANSWER IS: data naturally needs to flow in and out in a serial form

92. QUESTION: In the third Generation of computers

A. distributed data processing first became popular

B. an operating system was first developed

C. high level procedural language were first used

D. online real time systems first become popular

CORRECT ANSWER IS: online real time systems first become popular

93. QUESTION: EBCDIC stands for

A. Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

B. Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange Code

C. Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange Code

D. Extended Binary Case Decimal Interchange Code

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

94. QUESTION: Personnel who design, program, operate and maintain computer
equipment refers to

A. console-operator

B. programmer

C. peopleware

D. system analyst

CORRECT ANSWER IS: peopleware

95. QUESTION: The technical term not related to computer systems

A. virus

B. Winchester disk

C. mouse

D. FIFO system

CORRECT ANSWER IS: FIFO system

96. QUESTION: Instructions and memory address are represented by

A. character code

B. binary codes

C. binary word

D. parity bit

CORRECT ANSWER IS: binary codes

97. QUESTION: What is the name of the computer terminal which gives paper
printout?

A. display screen

B. soft copy terminal

C. hard copy terminal

D. plotter

CORRECT ANSWER IS: hard copy terminal

98. QUESTION: BCD is

A. Binary Coded Decimal

B. Bit Coded Decimal

C. Binary Coded Digit

D. Bit Coded Digit

CORRECT ANSWER IS: Binary Coded Decimal

99. QUESTION: An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of

A. small scale computer

B. medium scale computer

C. large scale computer

D. super computer

CORRECT ANSWER IS: small scale computer

100. QUESTION: Which of the following memories must be refreshed many times
per second?

A. static RAM

B. dynamic RAM

C. EPROM

D. ROM

CORRECT ANSWER IS: dynamic RAM