COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

1. Q The first minicomputer were developed and built in 1965 by
(a) IBM (b) DEC (c) Intel (d) HP
2. Q Which Was the First computer to use transistor instead of Vacuum Tubes ?
(a) IBM-1401 (b) Datamatic-1000 (c) Intel-650 (d) Burroughs E-101
3. Q The Difference engine was to be
(a) An Electronic Digital Computer (b) An Electromechanical Device
(c) Powered By Steam (d) none of above
4. Q Herman Hollerith Designed machines
(a) That could create astronomical tables (b)That were capable of performing any computation
(c) That could sort and tabulate punched cards (d) None of above
5. Q A person credited with inventing the first electronic computer is
(a) Konred Zuse (b) John Atanasoff (c) John Mauchly (d) All of the above
6. Q The ENIAC
(a) Was Totally Electronic (b) Was the size of a personal computer
(c) Was programmed by punched cards (d) Both (a) & (c) above
7. Q A Fourth Generation chip contains
(a) A Single Transistor (b) Less Than 100 Transistors (c) Thousands of Transistors (d) Billions Of transistors
8. Q CP/M
(a) is used to control a keyboard, CRT Screen, and disks
(b) became the Standard Programming Language for personal computers
(c) was initially designed to be used by non-programmers (d) both (a ) & (b) Above
9. Q A Computer first Sold in the Kit Form was the
(a) Altair (b) APPLE II (c) TRS- 80 Model I (d) All of the above
10 Q Who Proposed the stored program concept
(a) T.J. Watson, Sr. (b) Charles Babbage (c) John Von Neumann (d) Bill gates
11 Q The Punched card used in IBM System/3 Contains
(a) 60 Columns (b) 80 Columns (c) 100 Columns (d) 120 Columns
12. Q Which of the following Processor is based on RISC Concept?
(a) Intel 80486 (b) Intel 80586 (c) Intel P6 (d) None of above
13. Q Which was the world’s first microcomputer that used Intel 80586 Microprocessor Chip.
(a) IBM PS/2 (b) HP-9830 (c) Deskpro-386 (d) IBM 360
14. Q First integrated circuit chip was developed by
(a) C. Babbage (b) W.H.Britain (c) J.S. Kilby (d) Robert Noyce
15. Q The person who contributed to the idea of stored Program was
(a) Pascal (b) Howered Aiken (c) Charles Babbage (d) John Von Neumann
16. Q Which was world’s first Minicomputer and when was it introduced
(a) PDP-1, 1958 (b) IBM System/36,1960 (c) PDP-II 1961 (d) VAX 11/780,1962
17. Q Who is the creator of PASCAL Language
(a) Dijkstra (b) Niklaus Writh (c) D.Knuth (d) Aho
18. Q The team at Intel that built the First Microprocessor was headed by
(a) Seymour Cray (b) Victor Poor (c) Stan Mazor (d) Marcian E (Ted) Hoff
19. Q Which of the following belongs to first generation computers?
(a) ENIAC (b) IBM 1401 (c) IBM 8090 (d) UNIVAC
20. Q A Byte Comprises of
(a) 4 Bits (b) 2 Nibble (c) 6 bits (d) none of above
21. Q A transaction file is of type of
(a) Master file (b) Data File (c) Access method (d) all of above
22. Q How many Units in a single bus structure Communicate at a Time
(a) One (b) two (c) Three (d) Four
23. Q The Digital Computer was developed primarily in
(a) USSR (b) Japan (c) USA (d) UK
24. Q The unit of speed used for super computer is
(a) KFLOPS (b) MFLOPS (c) GFLOPS (d) All of above
25. Q How many symbols Exist in Baudot Code?
(a) 42 (b) 116 (c) 58 (d) 76
26. Q The First Large-scale electronic computer which became operational in 1946 and contained approximately 18000 vacuum tubes and could perform 300 multiplication per second was known as
(a) ILLIAC (b) ENIAC (c) JOHNIAC (d) EDSAC
27. Q Who developed a mechanical device in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiply, divide and Find Sq. roots?
(a) Napier (b) Babbage (c) Pascal (d) Leibnitz
28. Q Which of the following terms is the most closely related to main memory
(a) Non Volatile (b) Permanent (c) Control Unit (d) Temporary
29. Q The Personal Computer Industry was started by
(a) IBM (b) Apple (c) Compaq (d) HCL
30. Q Which of the following Indian companies designs and manufactures Super-Computer?
(a) C-DOT (b) C-DAC (c) CMC (d) All of above
31. Q Where were silicon chips manufactured in India?
(a) Chandigarh (b) Punjab (c) U.P. (d) Tamilnadu
32. Q What is the name given to the molecular scale Computer?
(a) Femtocomputer (b) Nanocomputer (c) Supercomputer (d) Microcomputer
33. Q What was the nickname of the computer used by Americans in 1952 for their H-bomb Project?
(a) ENIAC (b) EDSAC (c) MANIAC (d) UNIVAC

34. Q Which of the following is a portable computer boasting of two CPU chips?
(a) HCL ZX81 (b) IBM Spectrum (c) Tandy TRS-80 (d) Epson HX-20
35. Q What is the size of the diskettes used by IBM’s newer PS/2 personal Computers?
(a) 5 ½ “ (b) 8 “ (c) 3 ½ “ (d) 2 ½ “
36. Q Which Computer company invented RAM Chip?
(a) Motorola (b) Intel (c) Toshiba (d) IBM
37. Q The usual Expected life of any Processor Architecture is
(a) 5 years (b) 7 years (c) 9 years (d) 16 years
38. Q The largest of the four conceptual areas of storage is likely to be the
(a) Program Area (b) Output Area (c) Working Area (d) Input Area
39. Q A billionth of a second is defined as a
(a) Millisecond (b) microsecond (c) nanosecond (d) picosecond
40. Q Which Device can produce the final product of machine processing in to a form usable by humans?
(a) Storage (b) Input Device (c) Output Device (d) Control
41. Q An Integrated Circuit is
(a) Fabricated on a tiny silicon Chip (b) A Complicated circuit
(c) Much costlier than a single transistor (d) An Integrating device
42. Q Express 8192 in K units
(a) 8 x 103 K (b) 8.192 K (c) 8K (d) All of the above
43. Q A microprocessor has memory locations from 0000 to 3FFF. Each memory location stores 1 byte. How many bytes can be stored? Express in kilobytes.
(a) 4095, 4K (b) 16384, 16 K (c) 32740, 32 K (d) 46040, 46 K
44. Q If a microcomputer has a 64 K memory, what are the hexadecimal notations for the first and last memory location?
(a) 0000,EEEE (b) 0,64 (c) 0000,FFFF (d) 0000,9999
45. Q The first Computer made available for commercial use was
(a) Mark-I (b) ENIAC (c) EDSAC (d) UNIVAC
46. Q Who is called the “grand father” of the computer
(a) Blaise Pascal (b) Charles Babbage (c) Joseph Jacquard (d) Dr. Herman Hollerith
47. Q Who was the father of Punched card processing
(a) J Presper Eckert (b) Charles Babbage (c) Dr. Herman Hollerith (d) Blaise Pascal
48. Q The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and logical operation was
(a) EDSAC (b) UNIVAC-I (c) Mark-I (d) ENIAC
49. Q The man who built the first Mechanical Calculator was
(a) Joseph Marie Jacquard (b) John Mauchly (c) Blaise Pascal (d) Harward Ailken
50. Q Computers built before the First Generation of computers were
(a) Mechanical (b) Electro-mechanical (c) Electrical (d) None of these

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