COMPUTER AWARENESS MCQS SET 154

COMPUTER AWARENESS MCQS SET 154

1. A set of rods where numbers were carved and used for multiplication and division aids is known as
A) Pascaline
B) Napier’s Bones
C) Stepped Reckoner
D) Slide Rule

2. Seek time is
A) time to position the head over proper track
B) time to position the head over proper sector
C) time to position the head over proper cylinder
D) none of above

3. Tape speed is measured in
A) Feet per second
B) Inch per second
C) Meter per second
D) Centimeter per second

4. Punched cards were first introduced by
A) Powers
B) Pascal
C) Jacquard
D) Herman Hollerith

5. Which computer support co-processors?
A) XT computer
B) AT computers
C) None of these
D) Both of these

6. A floppy disk contains
A) Circular tracks only
B) Sectors only
C) Both circular tracks and sectors
D) None of the above

7. 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

8. The contribution of Konrad Zuse was long ignored because
A) He made the computers secretly
B) his computers were very complicated and it took time for the people to recognize its power
C) of political reasons. He was German.
D) All of the above

9. Any method for controlling access to or use of memory is known
A) Memory map
B) Memory protection
C) Memory management
D) Memory instruction

10. In what respect computers are superior to human beings?
A) Diligence
B) Intelligence
C) Both of above
D) None of above
 

ANSWER: 

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