MCQ in Computer Fundamentals Part 25 | ECE Board Exam

This is the Multiple Choice Questions Part 25 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 24 | ECE Board Exam

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1201. Who built the first Mechanical Calculator

A. Joseph Marie Jacquard

B. John Mauchly

C. Blaise Pascal

D. Howard Aiken

1202. The most important advantage of a video disk is

A. Compactness

B. Potential capacity

C. Durability

D. Cost effectiveness

1203. Which of the following generation computers had expensive operation cost?

A. First

B. Second

C. Third

D. Fourth

1204. An IBM system/38 represents the computer class of:

A. Small-scale computer

B. Medium-scale computer

C. Large-scale computer

D. Super computer

1205. Another word for a daisy wheel printer

A. Petal printer

B. Golf ball printer

C. Laser printer

D. Line printer

1206. Cursor is a ____

A. Pixel

B. Thin blinking line

C. Pointing device

D. None of these

1207. Which device is used to backup the data?

A. Floppy Disk

B. Tape

C. Network Drive

D. All of the above

1208. Which of the following printers are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multi carbon forms?

A. Daisy wheel

B. Dot matrix

C. Laser

D. Thimble

1209. Which of the following items are examples of storage devices?

A. Floppy / hard disks

B. CD-ROMs

C. Tape devices

D. All of the above

1210. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does ASCII stand for?

A. American Stable Code for International Interchange

B. American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange

C. American Standard Code for Information Interchange

D. American Standard Code for Interchange Information

1211. Which computers are used as servers for any medium sized organizations?

A. Mainframe Computer

B. Mini Computers

C. Micro Computers

D. Super Computers

1212. Slide Rules was invented in

A. 1614

B. 1617

C. 1620

D. None of above

1213. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to __________data?

A. 680 KB

B. 680 Bytes

C. 680 MB

D. 680 GB

1214. Which of the following required large computer memory?

A. Imaging

B. Graphics

C. Voice

D. All of above

1215. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?

A. Analytical engine

B. Arithmetic machine

C. Donald Knuth

D. All of above

1216. The lower deck of an abacus is known as

A. heaven

B. sky

C. earth

D. floor

1217. All modern computer operate on

A. Information

B. Floppies

C. Data

D. Word

1218. The computer that can input analog signals and return result in digital form

A. Analog Computers

B. Digital Computers

C. Hybrid Computers

D. Mainframe Computers

1219. Offline device is

A. A device which is not connected to CPU

B. A device which is connected to CPU

C. A direct access storage device

D. An I/O device

1220. What is the latest write-once optical storage media?

A. Digital paper

B. Magneto-optical disk

C. WORM disk

D. CD-ROM disk

1221. Which of the following programming language started from second generation?

A. LISP

B. C

C. QBASIC

D. FORTRAN

1222. Which one of the following input devices is user-programmable?

A. Dumb terminal

B. Smart terminal

C. VDT

D. Intelligent terminal

1223. Floppy disks typically in diameter

A. 3

B. 5.25

C. 8

D. All of above

1224. Current SIMMs have either ___ or ___ connectors (pins)

A. 9 or 32

B. 30 or 70

C. 28 or 72

D. 30 or 72

1225. Dot-matrix is a type of

A. Tape

B. Printer

C. Disk

D. Bus

1226. Raw facts and figures about any particular topic are

A. Information

B. facts

C. data

D. none of above

1227. A computer can solve more than one kind of problem. This is related to which of the following characteristics?

A. Accuracy

B. Reliability

C. Versatility

D. Automatic

1228. From which generation computers the printers were used?

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

1229. How many symbols exist in Baudot code?

A. 32

B. 116

C. 58

D. 76

1230. Following IC chip integrates 100 thousand electronic components per chip

A. SSI

B. MSI

C. LSI

D. VLSI

1231. An application program that helps the user to change any number and immediately see the result of that change is

A. Desktop publishing program

B. Database

C. Spreadsheet

D. All of above

1232. In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytical Engine which he showed at the Paris Exhibition. In which year was its exhibition?

A. 1820

B. 1860

C. 1855

D. 1870

1233. What is the name of the new color laptop computer which is powered by a 386 processor at 33 MHz and is built by Epson?

A. AX3/33

B. NEC-20

C. Magnum 2000

D. HCL-3000

1234. In analog computer

A. Input is first converted to digital form

B. Input is never converted to digital form

C. Output is displayed in digital form

D. All of the above

1235. Which of the following computer is not invented by J.P. Eckert and John Mauchly?

A. ENIAC

B. EDVAC

C. UNIVAC

D. EDSAC

1236. When was the company named IBM?

A. 1914

B. 1924

C. 1975

D. None of above

1237. Which of the following storage device can store the largest amount of data?

A. Hard Disks

B. Flash Disks

C. Blu-Ray Disks

D. DVDs

1238. Who invented Mark I?

A. Howard Aikin

B. J. P. Eckert

C. John Mauchley

D. John v. Atanasoff

1239. ALU is

A. Arithmetic Logic Unit

B. Array Logic Unit

C. Application Logic Unit

D. None of above

1240. A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language at one time is called a/an

A. Interpreter

B. CPU

C. Compiler

D. Simulator

1241. When did archrivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to join hands?

A. 1978

B. 1984

C. 1990

D. 1991

1242. The purpose of vacuum tube was to NOT act like

A. an amplifier

B. a switch

C. a router

D. None of above

1243. As compared to diskettes, the hard disks are

A. More expensive

B. More portable

C. Less rigid

D. Slowly accessed

1244. Which of the following is the most quickly accessible storage?

A. RAM

B. Registers

C. Disks

D. Pen Drive

1245. The octal equivalence of 111010 is

A. 81

B. 72

C. 71

D. None of above

1246. Excessive parallel processing is related to

A. First generation

B. Fourth generation

C. Fifth Generation

D. Third generation

1247. Second generation computers were developed during

A. 1949 to 1955

B. 1956 to 1965

C. 1965 to 1970

D. 1970 to 1990

1248. What do you call a single point on a computer screen?

A. Cell

B. Element

C. Pixel

D. Bit

1249. Mostly which of the following device is used to carry user files?

A. Floppy Disk

B. Hard Disk

C. RAM

D. CDROM

1250. Which of the following computer implemented binary numbers, perform calculations using electronics and implemented separate computation and memory for the first time?

A. Mark I

B. ABC

C. Z3

D. None of above

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