MCQ in Computer Fundamentals Part 13 | ECE Board Exam

This is the Multiple Choice Questions Part 13 of the Series in Computer Fundamentals as one of the Electronics Engineering topic. In Preparation for the ECE Board Exam make sure to expose yourself and familiarize in each and every questions compiled here taken from various sources including but not limited to past Board Exam Questions in Electronics Engineering field, Electronics Books, Journals and other Electronics References.

MCQ Topic Outline included in ECE Board Exam Syllabi

• MCQ in analog and Digital System
• MCQ in Binary Number System
• MCQ in Boolean Algebra
• MCQ in Mathematical Logic and Switching Networks
• MCQ in Basic digital Circuits (logic gates, flip-flops, multivibrators, etc)
• MCQ in Static and dynamic Memory Devices
• MCQ in Programming and Machine Languages
• MCQ in Information and Acquisition Processing
• MCQ in Analog / Digital Conversion
• MCQ in Computer Networking

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⇐ MCQ in Computer Fundamentals Part 12 | ECE Board Exam

Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

601. CPU speed of a personal computer is

A. 32 KIPS

B. 100 KIPS

C. 1 MIPS

D. None of these

602. Circular division of disks to store and retrieve data are known as

A. tracks

B. sectors

C. cycles

D. rings

603. Which statement is valid?

A. 1KB = 1024 bytes

B. 1 MB=2048 bytes

C. 1 MB = 1000 kilobytes

D. 1 KB = 1000 bytes

604. 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

605. The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the movement by the change in its capacitance,

A. Capacitance keyboard

B. Mechanical keyboard

C. Qwerty keyboard

D. Dvorak keyboard

606. The Stepped Reckoner was invented by

A. John Napier

B. William Oughtred

C. Gottfried Leibnitz

D. Blaise Pascal

607. A term used to describe interconnected computer configuration is

A. Multiprogramming

B. Modulation

C. Multiprocessing

D. Micro program sequence

608. While inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette’s label side should face

A. East

B. North

C. South

D. Up

609. Most of the inexpensive personal computers do not have any disk or diskette drive. What is the name of such computes?

A. Home computers

B. Diskless computers

C. Dedicated computers

D. General purpose computers

610. What is a light pen?

A. Mechanical Input device

B. Optical input device

C. Electronic input device

D. Optical output device

611. Which of the following class of computers cannot support multiple users simultaneously?

A. Mainframe Computer

B. Minicomputers

C. Micro Computers

D. All of them can support

612. Which of the following is considered first computer in the world?

A. Z3

B. ABC

C. Mark I

D. None of above

613. When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke into the corresponding bits?

A. ANSI

B. ASCII

C. EBCDIC

D. ISO

614. In order to play and hear sound on a computer, one needs:

A. a sound card and speakers

B. a microphone

C. all of them required

D. none of them required

615. Which of the following devices can be sued to directly image printed text?

A. OCR

B. OMR

C. MICR

D. All of above

616. For which of the following computers can’t be used?

A. gathering data

B. calculating data

C. comparing data

D. Arranging data

617. Which of the following is called low level languages?

A. Machine language

B. Assembly language

C. Both of the above

D. None of above

618. A factor which would strongly influence a businessperson to adopt a computer is its

A. Accuracy

B. Reliability

C. Speed

D. All of above

619. Who invented punched cards?

A. Charles Babbage

B. Dr. Herman Hollerith

C. Howard Aikin

D. Joseph Jacquard

620. Each model of a computer has a unique

A. Assembly of a computer

B. Machine language

C. High level language

D. All of the above

621. Which of the following is not a primary storage device?

A. Magnetic tape

B. Magnetic disk

C. Optical disk

D. All of the above

622. In a punched card system, data is processed by a

A. Keypunch machine, sorter and posting machine

B. Accounting machine, posting machine, and billing machine

C. Sorter, posting machine, and billing machine

D. Accounting machine, keypunch machine and sorter

623. Which device is required for the Internet connection?

A. Joystick

B. Modem

C. CD Drive

D. NIC Card

624. 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

625. 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

626. the unit of information transferred between items in memory hierarchy is

A. bit

B. cache

C. block

D. none of the above

627. burning the PROM means

A. erasing the prom

B. programming the prom

C. reading the prom

D. none of the above

628. which of the following is called hyper page mode DRAM?

A. edodram

B. bedodram

C. fpmdram

D. none of the above

629. which one of the following runs synchronously to the system clock?

A. dram

B. fpmdram

C. sdram

D. none of the above

630. which one of the following can be erased using UV light?

A. eprom

B. prom

C. eeprom

D. none of the above

631. which one of the following can be erased using electricity

A. eprom

B. prom

C. eeprom

D. none of the above

632. which one of the following is not a flexible disk?

A. floppy disk

B. zipdisk

C. superdisk

D. winchester disk

633. DDS stands for

A. discrete data systems

B. direct data storage

C. digital data storage

D. none of the above

634. Which company defined DDS standard?

A. 3m and sun

B. sony and 3m

C. sony and hp

D. none of the above

635. Magnetic Disks are often called

A. dds

B. dasd

C. dat

D. none of the above

636. QIC was introduced by the

A. sony

B. hp

C. seagate

D. 3m

637. which one of the following is an optical disk?

A. cd

B. dvd

C. worm

D. all of the above

638. Storage medium from which the data is read and to which it is written using laser

A. magnetic disk

B. zip disk

C. floppy disk

D. optical disk

639. The capacity of a super disk is

A. 120mb

B. 32mb

C. 700mb

D. none of the above

640. The time it takes an access arm to get into position over a particular track

A. data transfer time

B. rotational delay time

C. head switching time

D. none of the above

641. The time it takes for the particular record to be positioned under the read/write Head

A. data transfer time

B. rotational delay time

C. seek time

D. head switching time

642. what refers to sets of electronic instructions that tell the hardware what to do

A. hardware

B. software

C. data

D. users

643. The technology used in watches and calculators

A. lcd

B. crt

C. led

D. none of the above

644. VGA stands for

A. video graphics accelerator

B. video generator adapter

C. video graphics array

D. none of the above

645. which one of the following is not a characteristics of a monitor

A. resolution

B. convergence

C. bandwidth

D. none of the above

646. Monochrome monitors display ____ colours

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. none of the above

647. Pixel is a short form for

A. picture cell

B. picture element

C. picture electric

D. none of the above

648. _____ is a single point in graphics image

A. trackpoint

B. cell

C. pixel

D. none of the above

649. an 8bit color monitor can display _____ colors

A. 128

B. 32

C. 256

D. 1024

650. true color monitors use _____ bits per pixel

A. 24

B. 32

C. 128

D. none of the above

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