COMPUTER AWARENESS - BASICS MCQS SET 27

COMPUTER AWARENESS - BASICS MCQS SET 27

1. What was the main disadvantage of vacuum tubes?
A) They were larger in size                

B) They consumed a lot of electricity
C) They produced heat and often burned out        

D) The operation cost was high

2. Registers, which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional, are known as
A) PC        B) Memory address registers        C) General purpose register        D) Flags

3. Which is not a comptuer of first generation?
A) ENIAC        B) UNIVAC        C) IBM 360        D) IBM 1401

4. Registers which are partially visible to users and used to hold conditional codes (bits set by the CPU hardware as the result of operations), are known as
A) PC        B) Flags        C) Memory Address Registers    

D) General Purpose Registers

5. Who invented vacuum tubes?
A) John Bardeen    B) William Shockley        C) Lee de Forest        

D) All of above

6. An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is
A) On-line thesaurus    B) Multiprogramming    C) Over lapped processing    

D) Outline processor

7. Who suggested Stored Program Concept
A) John Mauchley    B) J.P. Eckert        C) John Neumann        

D) Joseph Jacquard

8. The central processing unit (CPU) consists of
A) Input, output and processing           
B) Control unit, primary storage, and secondary storage
C) Control unit, arithmetic-logic unit and primary storage
D) Control unit, processing, and primary storage

9. The notable features like keyboards, monitors, GUI were developed in
A) First generation    B) Second generation    C) Third generation    

D) Fourth generation

10. UNIVAC is
A) Universal Automatic Computer    

B) Universal Array Computer    

C) Unique Automatic Computer
D) Unvalued Automatic Computer
 

ANSWER: 

1.C
2.D
3.D
4.B
5.C
6.C
7.C
8.C
9.C
10.A