R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Computer FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTERS MCQs PART 3

Modern Computer are very reliable but they are not

1. Fast
2. Powerful
3. nfallible
4. Cheap

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the name of the display feature that highlights are of the screen which requires operator attention?

1. Pixel
2. Reverse video
3. Touch screen
4. Cursor

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Personal computers use a number of chips mounted on a main circuit board. What is the common name for such boards?

1. Daughter board
2. Motherboard
3. Father board
4. Breadboard

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In most IBM PCs, the CPU, the device drives, memory expansion slots and active components are mounted on a single board. What is the name of this board?

1. Motherboard
2. Breadboard
3. Daughter board
4. Grandmother board

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is meant by a dedicated computer?

1. Which is used by one person only
2. Which is assigned one and only one task
3. Which uses one kind of software
4. Which is meant for application software

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The system unit of a personal computer typically contains all of the following except:

1. Microprocessor
2. Disk controller
3. Serial interface
4. Modem

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A computer program that converts an entire program into machine language is called a/an

1. Interpreter
2. Simulator
3. Compiler
4. Commander

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A computer program that translates one program instructions at a time into machine language is called a/an

1. Interpreter
2. CPU
3. Compiler
4. Simulator

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A small or intelligent device is so called because it contains within it a

1. Computer
2. Microcomputer
3. Programmable
4. . Sensor

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A fault in a computer program which prevents it from working correctly is known as

1. Boot
2. Bug
3. Biff
4. Strap

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A self replicating program, similar to a virus which was taken from a 1970s science fiction novel by John Bruner entitled the Shockwave Rider is

1. Bug
2. Vice
3. Lice
4. Worm

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A state. is a bi-stable electronic circuit that has

1. Multivibrator
2. Flip-flop
3. Logic gates
4. Laten

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Unwanted repetitious messages, such as unsolicited bulk e-mail is known as

1. Spam
2. Trash
3. Calibri
4. Courier

✅ Correct Answer: 1

DOS stands for

1. Disk Operating System
2. Disk operating session
3. Digital Operating System
4. Digital Open system

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who is the chief of Microsoft

1. Babbage
2. Bill Gates
3. Bill Clinton
4. none of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following are input devices?

1. Keyboard
2. Mouse
3. Card reader
4. Any of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Examples of output devices are

1. Screen
2. Printer
3. Speaker
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is also known as brain of computer

1. Control unit
2. Central Processing unit
3. Arithmetic and language unit
4. Monitor

✅ Correct Answer: 2

IBM stands for

1. Internal Business Management
2. International Business Management
3. International Business Machines
4. Internal Business Machines

✅ Correct Answer: 3

translates and executes program at run time line by line

1. Compiler
2. Interpreter
3. Linker
4. Loader

✅ Correct Answer: 2

is an OOP principle

1. Structured programming
2. Procedural programming
3. Inheritance
4. Linking

✅ Correct Answer: 3

COBOL is widely used in applications

1. Commercial
2. Scientific
3. Space
4. Mathematical

✅ Correct Answer: 1

RAM stands for

1. Random origin money
2. Random only memory
3. Read only memory
4. Random access memory

✅ Correct Answer: 4

1 Byte =?

1. 8 bits
2. 4 bits
3. 2 bits
4. 9 bits

✅ Correct Answer: 1

SMPS stands for

1. Switched mode Power Supply
2. Start mode power supply
3. Store mode power supply
4. Single mode power supply

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The device used to carry digital data on analogue lines is called as

1. Modem
2. Multiplexer
3. Modulator
4. Demodulator

✅ Correct Answer: 1

VDU is also called

1. Screen
2. Monitor
3. Both 1 & 2 d
4. printer

✅ Correct Answer: 3

BIOS stands for

1. Basic Input Output system
2. Binary Input output system
3. Basic Input Off system
4. all the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Father of C programming language

1. Dennis Ritchie
2. Prof John Keenly
3. Thomas Kurtz
4. Bill Gates

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The instructions that tell a computer how to carry out the processing tasks are referred to as computer

1. programs
2. processors
3. input devices
4. memory modules

✅ Correct Answer: 1