1. UNIVAC is 11. EBCDIC stands for a. Universal Automatic Computer a. Extended Binary Coded Decimal b. Universal Array Computer Interchange Code c. Unique Automatic Computer b. Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange d. Unvalued Automatic Computer Code 2. CD-ROM stands for c. Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange a. Compactable Read Only Memory Code b. Compact Data Read Only Memory d. Extended Binary Case Decimal c. Compactable Disk Read Only Memory Interchange Code d. Compact Disk Read Only Memory 12. BCD is 3. ALU is a. Binary Coded Decimal a. Arithmetic Logic Unit b. Bit Coded Decimal b. Array Logic Unit c. Binary Coded Digit c. Application Logic Unit d. Bit Coded Digit d. None of above 13. ASCII stands for 4. VGA is a. American Stable Code for International a. Video Graphics Array Interchange b. Visual Graphics Array b. American Standard Case for Institutional c. Volatile Graphics Array Interchange d. Video Graphics Adapter c. American Standard Code for Information 5. IBM 1401 is Interchange a. First Generation Computer d. American Standard Code for Interchange b. Second Generation Computer Information c. Third Generation Computer 14. Which of the following is first d. Fourth Generation Computer generation of computer 6. MSI stands for a. EDSAC a. Medium Scale Integrated Circuits b. IBM-1401 b. Medium System Integrated Circuits c. CDC-1604 c. Medium Scale Intelligent Circuit d. ICL-2900 d. Medium System Intelligent Circuit 15. Chief component of first generation 7. The capacity of 3.5 inch floppy disk is computer was a. 1.40 MB a. Transistors b. 1.44 GB b. Vacuum Tubes and Valves c. 1.40 GB c. Integrated Circuits d. 1.44 MB d. None of above 8. The first computer introduced in Nepal 16. FORTRAN is was a. File Translation a. IBM 1400 b. Format Translation b. IBM 1401 c. Formula Translation c. IBM 1402 d. Floppy Translation d. IBM1402 17. EEPROM stand for 9. WAN stands for a. Electrically Erasable Programmable Read a. Wap Area Network Only Memory b. Wide Area Network b. Easily Erasable Programmable Read c. Wide Array Net Only Memory d. Wireless Area Network c. Electronic Erasable Programmable Read 10. MICR stands for Only Memory a. Magnetic Ink Character Reader d. None of the above b. Magnetic Ink Code Reader c. Magnetic Ink Cases Reader d. None 18. Second Generation computers were b. Arithmetic Logic Unit developed during c. Central Processing Unit a. 1949 to 1955 d. Storage Unit b. 1956 to 1965 27. Pick the one that is used for logical c. 1965 to 1970 operations or comparisons such as less d. 1970 to 1990 than equal to or greater than. 19. The computer size was very large in a. Arithmetic and Logic Unit a. First Generation b. Control Unit b. Second Generation c. Both of above c. Third Generation d. None of above d. Fourth Generation 28. Analog computer works on the 20. Microprocessors as switching supply of devices are for which generation a. Continuous electrical pulses computers b. Electrical pulses but not continuous a. First Generation c. Magnetic strength b. Second Generation d. None of the above c. Third Generation 29. Digital devices are d. Fourth Generation a. Digital Clock 21. Which generation of computer is still b. Automobile speed meter under development c. Clock with a dial and two hands a. Fourth Generation d. All of them b. Fifth Generation 30. The computer that process both c. Sixth Generation analog and digital is called d. Seventh Generation a. Analog computer 22. Artificial Intelligence is associated b. Digital computer with which generation? c. Hybrid computer a. First Generation d. Mainframe computer b. Second Generation 31. Which statement is valid about c. Fifth Generation magnetic tape? d. Sixth Generation a. It is a plastic ribbon 23. Which operation is not performed by b. It is coated on both sides with iron oxide computer c. It can be erased and reused a. Inputting d. All of above b. Processing 32. The data recording format in most of c. Controlling the modern magnetic tape is d. Understanding a. 7-bit ASCII 24. Fifth generation computer is also b. 7-bit EBCDIC known as c. 8-bit ASCII a. Knowledge information processing d. 8-bit EBCDIC system 33. Which of the following is associated b. Very large scale integration (VLSI) with error detector? c. Both of above a. Odd parity bit d. None of above b. Even parity bit 25. Central Processing Unit is c. Both of the above combination of d. None of above a. Control and storage 34. Tape speed is measured in b. Control and output unit a. Feet per second c. Arithmetic logic and input unit b. Inch per second d. Arithmetic logic and control unit c. Meter per second 26. The brain of any computer system is d. Centimeter per second a. Control Unit 35. Magnetic disks are the most popular d. All of the above medium for 44. Binary circuit elements have a. Direct access a. One stable state b. Sequential access b. Two stable state c. Both of above c. Three stable state d. None of above d. None of above 36. Storage capacity of magnetic disk 45. Which statement is valid? depends on a. 1KB = 1024 bytes a. tracks per inch of surface b. 1 MB=2048 bytes b. bits per inch of tracks c. 1 MB = 1000 kilobytes c. disk pack in disk surface d. 1 KB = 1000 bytes d. All of above 46. Which statement is valid about 37. Reading data is performed in computer program? magnetic disk by a. It is understood by a computer a. Read/write leads b. It is understood by programmer b. Sectors c. It is understood user c. Track d. Both of above d. Lower surface 47. Software in computer 38. Access time is a. Enhances the capabilities of the a. seek time + latency time hardware machine b. seek time b. Increase the speed of central processing c. seek time – latency time unit d. latency time c. Both of above 39. Seek time is d. None of above a. time to position the head over proper 48. Which of the following is not track computer language? b. time to position the head over proper a. High level language sector b. Medium level language c. time to position the head over proper c. Low level language cylinder d. All of the above d. none of above 49. Which language is directly 40. Latency time is understood by the computer without a. Time to spin the needed data under head translation program? b. Time to spin the needed data under track a. Machine language c. Time to spin data under sector b. Assembly language d. All of above c. High level language 41. Floppy disks are available in d. None of above a. Single side single density 50. Instruction in computer languages b. Single side double density consists of c. Both of above a. OPCODE d. None of above b. OPERAND 42. Floppy disks typically in diameter c. Both of above a. 3” d. None of above b. 5.25” 51. Machine language is c. 8” a. Machine dependent d. All of above b. Difficult to program 43. Hard disk is coated in both side c. Error prone above d. All of above a. Magnetic metallic oxide b. Optical metallic oxide c. Carbon layer 52. Mnemonic a memory trick is used in a. Lower efficiency which of the following language? b. Machine dependence a. Machine language c. machine level coding b. Assembly language d. None of above c. High level language 61. High level language is also called d. None of above a. Problem oriented language 53. The translator program used in b. Business oriented language assembly language is called c. Mathematically oriented language a. Compiler d. All of the above b. Interpreter 62. A computer programmer c. Assembler a. Does all the thinking for a computer d. Translator b. Can enter input data quickly 54. Easily reloctable language is c. Can operate all types of computer a. Machine language equipments b. Assembly language d. Can draw only flowchart c. High level language 63. CD-ROM is a d. Medium level language a. Semiconductor memory 55. Which of the following is called low b. Memory register level languages? c. Magnetic memory a. Machine language d. None of above b. Assembly language 64. Which of the following is not a c. Both of the above primary storage device? d. None of above a. Magnetic tape 56. which of the following is problem b. Magnetic disk oriented language? c. Optical disk a. High level language d. None of above b. Machine language 65. A name or number used to identify c. Assembly language storage location devices? d. Low level language a. A byte 57. A compiler is a translating program b. A record which c. An address a. Translates instruction of a high level d. All of above language into machine language 66. Which of the following is a secondary b. Translates entire source program into memory device? machine language program a. Keyboard c. It is not involved in program’s execution b. Disk d. All of above c. ALU 58. Which of the following is machine d. All of the above independence program? 67. The difference between memory and a. High level language storage is that memory is … and storage b. Low level language is … c. Assembly language a. Temporary, permanent d. Machine language b. Permanent, temporary 59. Which statement is valid about c. Slow, fast interpreter? d. All of above a. It translates one instruction at a time 68. A floppy disk contains b. Object code is saved for future use a. Circular tracks only c. Repeated interpretation is not necessary b. Sectors only d. All of above c. Both circular tracks and sectors 60. Which is the limitation of high level d. All of the above language? 69. The octal equivalent of 111010 is d. All of above a. 81 77. how many address lines are needed b. 72 to address each machine location in a c. 71 2048 x 4 memory chip? d. None of above a. 10 70. The first electronic computer in the b. 11 world was c. 8 a. UNIVAC d. 12 b. EDVAC 78. which American computer company c. ENIAC is called Big Blue? d. All of above a. Microsoft 71. The most commonly used standard b. Compaq Corp data code to represent alphabetical, c. IBM numerical and punctuation characters d. Tandy Svenson used in electronic data processing 79. When did IBM introduce the 20286 system is called based PC/AT? a. ASCII a. 1982 b. EBCDIC b. 1984 c. BCD c. 1985 d. All of above d. 1989 72. Which was the computer conceived 80. When was the X window system by Babbage? born? a. Analytical Engine a. 1984 b. Arithmetic Machine b. 1989 c. Donald Kunth c. 1988 d. All of above d. 1990 73. Offline device is 81. Today’s computer giant IBM was a. A device which is not connected to CPU earlier known by different name which b. A device which is connected to CPU was changes in 1924. What was that c. A direct access storage device name? d. An I/O device a. Tabulator Machine Co. 74. Which of the following registers is b. Computer Tabulating Recording Co. loaded with the contents of the memory c. The Tabulator Ltd. location pointed by the PC? d. International Computer Ltd. a. Memory address registers 82. The first electronic general purpose b. Memory data registers digital computer built by Mauchly and c. Instruction register Eckert called ENIA did not work on the d. Program counter stored program principle. How many 75. Which of the following registers is numbers could it store in its internal used to keep track of address of the memory? memory location where the next a. 100 instruction is located? b. 20 a. Memory address register c. 40 b. Memory data register d. 80 c. Instruction register 83. The digital computer was developed d. Program counter primarily in 76. Microprocessors can be used to a. USSR make b. Japan a. Computers c. USA b. Digital systems d. UK c. Calculators 84. The subject of cybernetics deals with b. Laptop computer the science of c. Notebook computer a. Genetics d. All of above b. Control and communication 92. the accuracy of the floating point c. Molecular biology numbers represent able in two 16bit d. Biochemistry words of a computer is approximately 85. Who is credited with the idea of using a. 16 digits punch cards to control patterns in a b. 6 digits waving machine? c. 4 digits a. Pascal d. All of above b. Hollerith 93. a dumb terminal has c. Babbage a. an embedded microprocessor d. Jacquard b. extensive memory 86. Most of the inexpensive personal c. independent processing capability computers do not have any disk or d. a keyboard and screen diskette drive. What is the name of such 94. plotter accuracy is measured in computes? terms of repeatability and a. Home computers a. buffer size b. Diskless computers b. resolution c. Dedicated computers c. vertical dimension d. General purpose computers d. intelligence 87. Which of the following require large 95. bit map terminal computers memory? a. support display containing multiple a. Imaging window b. Graphics b. require considerable amount of video c. Voice RAM d. All of Above c. requires tremendous amount of copying 88. A term associated with the and hence low performance comparison of processing speeds of d. all of above different computer system is: 96. how many symbols exist in Baudot a. EFTS code? b. MPG a. 32 c. MIPS b. 116 d. CPS c. 58 89. The process of starting a or d. 76 restarting a computer system by loading 97. Daisy wheel printer is a type of instructions from a secondary storage a. Matrix printer device into the computer memory is b. Impact printer called c. Laser printer a. Duping d. Manual printer b. Booting 98. The number of records contained c. Padding within a block of data on magnetic tape d. CPS is defined by the 90. Who invented the microprocessor? a. Block definition a. Marcian E Huff b. Record contain clause b. Herman H Goldstein c. Blocking factor c. Joseph Jacquard d. Record per block d. All of above 91. One computer that is not considered a portable is a. Minicomputer 99. Serial access memories are useful in a. Words are usually large in applications where microprocessors a. Data consists of numbers b. Words are shorter in microprocessors b. Short access time is required c. Microprocessor does not contain I/O c. Each stored word is processed differently device d. Data naturally needs to flow in and out in d. Exactly the same as the machine cycle serial form time 100. how many types of storage loops 107. Which was the world’s first exists in magnetic bubble memory microcomputer that used Intel 80386 a. 8 microprocessor chip? b. 4 a. IBM PS/2 c. 16 b. HP-9830 d. 2 c. DeskPro-386 101. which of the following memories d. IBM-360 must be refreshed many times per 108. When was the world’s first laptop second? computer introduced in the market and a. Static RAM by whom? b. Dynamic RAM a. Hewlett-Packard, 1980 c. EPROM b. Epson, 1981 d. ROM c. Laplink Traveling Software Inc, 1982 102. The memory which is programmed d. Tandy Model-200, 1985 at the time it is manufactured 109. The first microprocessor built by the a. ROM Intel corporation was called b. RAM a. 8008 c. PROM b. 8080 d. EPROM c. 4004 103. Which of the following memory d. 8800 medium is not used as main memory 110. Who built the world’s first electronic system? calculator using telephone relays, light a. Magnetic core bulbs and batteries? b. Semiconductor a. Claude Shannon c. Magnetic tape b. Konrard Zues d. Both semiconductor and magnetic tape c. George Stibits 104. The control unit of a d. Howard H. Aiken microprocessor 111. Who developed a mechanical device a. Stores data in the memory in the 17th century that could add, b. Accepts input data from keyboard subtracts, multiply, divide and find c. Performs arithmetic/logic function square roots? d. None of above a. Napier 105. Registers which are partially visible b. Babbage to users and used to hold conditional c. Pascal codes (bits set by the CPU hardware as d. Leibniz the result of operations), are known as 112. IBM 7000 digital computer a. PC a. Belongs to second generation b. Flags b. Uses VLSI c. Memory Address Registers c. Employs semiconductor memory d. General Purpose Registers d. Has modular constructions 106. One of the main feature that distinguish microprocessors from micro- computer is 113. The proper definition of a modern c. High-level prcedu7ral languages were firs digital computer is used a. An electronic automated machine that d. On-line, real time systems first became can solve problems involving words and popular numbers 120. A characteristic of card systems is: b. A more sophistic and modified electronic a. Slowness in processing data pocket calculator b. Using cards as records of transactions c. Any machine that can perform c. Needing a larger DP staff mathematical operations d. All of the above d. A machine that works on binary code 121. An IBM system/38 represents the 114. A modern electronic computer is a computer class of: machine that is meant for a. Small-scale computer a. Doing quick mathematical calculations b. Medium-scale computer b. Input, storage, manipulation and c. Large-scale computer outputting of data d. Super computer c. Electronic data processing 122. The first firm to mass- market a d. Performing repetitive tasks accurately microcomputer as a personal computer 115. An integrated circuit is was a. A complicated circuit a. IBM b. An integrating device b. Sperry Univac c. Much costlier than a single transistor c. Data General corporation d. Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip d. Radio Shack 116. Most important advantage of an IC 123. A digital computer did not score is its over an analog computer in terms of a. Easy replacement in case of circuit failure a. Speed b. Extremely high reliability b. Accuracy c. Reduced cost c. Cost d. Lower power consumption d. Memory 117. In a punched card system, data is 124. In 1830, Charles Babbage designed processed by a a machine called the Analytical Engine a. Keypunch machine, sorter and posting which he showed at the Paris Exhibition. machine In which year was it exhibition? b. Accounting machine, posting machine, a. 1820 and billing machine b. 1860 c. Sorter, posting machine, and billing c. 1855 machine d. 1870 d. Accounting machine, keypunch machine 125. Which was the world’s first and sorter minicomputer and when was it 118. The first machine to successfully introduced? perform a long series of arithmetic and a. PDP-I, 1958 logical operations was; b. IBM System/36, 1960 a. ENIAC c. PDP-II, 1961 b. Mark I d. VAX 11/780, 1962 c. Analytic engine 126. Where was India’s first computer d. UNIVAC-I installed and when? 119. In the third generation of a. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, computers: 1977 a. Distributed data processing first became b. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, popular 1971 b. An operating system was first developed c. Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., 1968 d. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 1955 127. Which of the following are the two d. Keying errors can be detected as they main components of the CPU? occur. a. Control unit and registers 135. The terminal device that functions b. Registers and main memory as a cash register, computer terminal, c. Control Unit and ALU and OCR reader is the: d. ALU and bus a. Data collection terminal 128. Which of the following is true? b. OCR register terminal a. Fields are composed of bytes c. Video Display terminal b. Records are composed of fields d. POS terminal c. Fields are composed of characters 136. Which of the following does not d. All of above affect the resolution of a video display 129. Which of the following file image? organization is most efficient for a file a. Bandwidth with a high degree of file activity? b. Raster scan rage a. Sequential c. Vertical and horizontal lines of resolution b. ISAM d. Screen size c. VSAM 137. While inserting a diskette into the d. B-Tree Index diskette drive of a PC, the diskette’s 130. The two basic types of record- label side should face access methods are a. East a. Sequential and random b. North b. Sequential and indexed c. South c. Direct and immediate d. Up d. On-line and real time 138. in which year was UK’s premier 131. The advantage of COM are its … and computing event called “The which … computer” started? a. Compact size; speed readability a. 1980 b. Compact size, speed b. 1985 c. Readability; speed c. 1986 d. Low cost; readability d. 1987 132. A disadvantage of the laser printer 139. The latest PC keyboards use a is: circuit that senses the movement by the a. It is quieter than an impact printer change in its capacitance, b. It is very slow a. Capacitance keyboard c. The output is of a lower quality b. Mechanical keyboard d. None of above c. Qwerty keyboard 133. Which of the following is not true for d. Dvorak keyboard a magnetic disk? 140. Different components on the a. It is expensive relative to magnetic tape motherboard of a PC processor unit are b. It provides only sequential access to linked together by sets or parallel stored data electrical conducting lines. What are c. Users can easily update records by these lines called? writing over the old data a. Conductors d. All of above b. Buses 134. The primary advantage of key-to- c. Connectors tape data entry system is d. Connectively a. A large percentage of editing can be performed at the time of data entry b. Key verification is easily performed c. The tape is reusable 141. Which of the following magazines b. Payroll processing covers only the IBM PC and its c. Both a and b compatibles? d. All of above a. Byte 149. The word processing task b. PC Magazine associated with changing the c. Personal Computing appearance of a document is d. Interface Age a. Editing 142. Which of the following professions b. Writing has not been affected by personal c. Formatting computers? d. All of above a. Medical 150. Which of the following is used as a b. Clerical and law primary storage device? c. Accounting a. Magnetic drum d. None of the above b. Prom 143. The arranging of data in a logical c. Floppy sequence is called d. All of above a. Sorting 151. Which of the following memories b. Classifying needs refreshing? c. Reproducing a. SRAM d. Summarizing b. DRAM 144. When was Apple Macintosh II c. ROM microcomputer introduced in the d. All of above market? 152. Which of the following devices can a. 1964 be sued to directly image printed text? b. 1970 a. OCR c. 1983 b. OMR d. 1986 c. MICR 145. What is the name of the new color d. All of above laptop computer which is powered by a 153. The output quality of a printer is 386 processor at 33 MHz and is built by measured by Epson? a. Dot per inch a. AX3/33 b. Dot per sq. inch b. NEC-20 c. Dots printed per unit time c. Magnum 2000 d. All of above d. HCL-3000 154. In analog computer 146. What does the disk drive of a a. Input is first converted to digital form computer do? b. Input is never converted to digital form a. Rotate the disk c. Output is displayed in digital form b. Read the disk d. All of above c. Load a program from the disk into the 155. In latest generation computers, the memory instructions are executed d. Both b and c a. Parallel only 147. The language that the computer can b. Sequentially only understand and execute is called c. Both sequentially and parallel a. Machine language d. All of above b. Application software 156. Who designed the first electronics c. System program computer – ENIAC? d. All of above a. Van-Neumann 148. An application suitable for b. Joseph M. Jacquard sequential processing is c. J. Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly a. Processing of grades d. All of above