R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Computer FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTERS MCQs PART 2

What is a light pen?

1. Mechanical Input device
2. Optical input device
3. Electronic input device
4. Optical output device

✅ Correct Answer: 2

BCD is

1. Binary Coded Decimal
2. Binary Coded Decimal
3. Binary Coded Digit
4. Bit Coded Digit

✅ Correct Answer: 1

ASCII stands for

1. American Stable Code for International Interchange
2. American Standard Case for Institutional Interchange
3. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
4. American Standard Code for Interchange Information

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is first generation of computer?

1. EDSAC
2. IBM-1401
3. CDC-1604
4. ICL-2900

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Chief component of first generation computer was

1. Transistors
2. Vacuum Tubes and Valves
3. Integrated Circuits
4. None of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

FORTRAN is

1. File Translation
2. Format Translation
3. Formula Translation
4. Floppy Translation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

EEPROM stands for

1. Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
2. Easily Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
3. Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Second Generation computers were developed during

1. 1949 to 1955
2. 1949 to 1955
3. 1965 to 1970
4. 1970 to 1990

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The computer size was very large in

1. First Generation
2. Second Generation
3. Third Generation
4. Fourth Generation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Microprocessors as switching devices are for which generation computers

1. First Generation
2. Second Generation
3. Third Generation
4. Fourth Generation

✅ Correct Answer: 4

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

1. OCR
2. OMR
3. MICR
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The output quality of a printer is measured by

1. Dot per inch
2. Dot per sq. inch
3. Dots printed per unit time
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In analogue computer

1. Input is first converted to digital form
2. Input is never converted to digital form
3. Output is displayed in digital form
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In latest generation computers the instructions are executed

1. Parallel only
2. Sequentially only
3. Both sequentially and parallel
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who designed the first electronics computer ? ENIAC?

1. Van-Neumann
2. Joseph M. Jacquard
3. J. Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who invented the high level language C?

1. Dennis M. Ritchie
2. Niklaus Writh
3. Seymour Papert
4. Donald Kunth

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Personnel who design program operate and maintain computer equipment refers to

1. Console-operator
2. Programmer
3. Peopleware
4. System Analyst

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When did arch rivals IBM and Apple Computers Inc. decide to join hands?

1. 1978
2. 1984
3. 1990
4. 1991

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Human beings are referred to as Homosapinens which device is called Sillico Sapiens?

1. Monitor
2. Hardware
3. Robot
4. Computer

✅ Correct Answer: 4

An error in software or hardware is called a bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for it?

1. Leech
2. Squid
3. Slug
4. Glitch

✅ Correct Answer: 4