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1. ATM stands for?
Automatic Talking Machine
Automatic Teller Machine
Analog Teller Machine
Automatic Ticketing Machine
2. Who is known as Father of Computer Science ?
Charles Babbage
Howard Aiken
Dr.Herman Hollerith
Blaise Pascal
3. One of the first recognized calculating device was?
Abacus
Analytical engine
Difference engine
None of these
4. Pentium II is a __________ generation computer
second
third
fourth
fifth
5. The first computer that used vacuum tubes was?
Mark I
ENIAC
EDVAC
UNIVAC
6. Which of the following is not a pointing device?
Mouse
Joystick
Trackball
None of these
7. The number of read/write heads for a hard disk of four platters are
4
6
8
16
8. Which of the following is a 16-bit code?
BCD
Unicode
ASCII
EBCDIC
9. Boolean algebra is also known as?
Logical algebra
Code algebra
Switching algebra
Digital algebra
10. The command that is not present on edit menu?
Font
GoTo
Find
Ctrl+z
11. First generation language uses?
Pseudo code
Binary code
Mnemonics code
Decimal code
12. In which of the flowchart symbols, the statement IS A > B is placed?
Connector
Rectangular
Parallelogram
Diamond
13. Name the error which you think to exist in the formula C=C*D/C.
Logical
Syntax
Execution
None of these
14. Which of the following statements transfers control unconditionally?
GOTO
FOR NEXT
IF THEN
ON GOTO
15. The statement to reserve memory locations for an array M arranged in 12 columns and 20 rows may be ?
DIM(12,20)
DIMM(20,12)
M(240)
DIMM(12,20)
16. On execution of PRINT FIX(-6.83),the output will be ?
6
6.83
6
7
17. In BASIC LOG function refers to natural logarithm have Base ?
2
10
5
e
18. An 8-bit address bus can address a memory of ?
1 Byte
l8 Bytes
256 bits
256 Bytes
19. The number of colors a CGA monitor displays are ?
4
16
64
256
20. The radix of a computerized version of number (+0.66E4) is ?
4
6
2
8
21. The programs which are permanent and stored in ROM are known as ?
Utility Programs
Firmware
System softwares
None of these
22. UNIVAC stands for ?
Universal Automatic Computer
Universal Array Computer
Unvalued Automatic Computer
Unique Automatic Computer
23. File compression utilities can reduce the file size by ?
10%
60%
80%
100%
24. The NT in Windows NT stands for ?
Not Tested
Network Technology
Network Terminal
New Technology
25. In C language, .exe file is produced by ?
Linker
Loader
Compiler
Interpreter
26. Which of the followings is a valid statement for declaring a Variable In C ?
int marks;
Int a,b,c;
double salary;
All of these
27. The number of Bytes used by char data type in C is?
2
1
3
4
28. The format specifier %u is used for?
integer
unsigned short
unsigned float
unsigned long int
29. Which of the following objects are used to store data in MS Access?
Reports
Queries
Forms
Table
30. Which number system is usually followed in a typical 32-bit computer?
Binary
Decimal
Hexadecimal
Octal
31. Operating system, editors, and debuggers comes under?
System software
Application software
Utilities
None of these
32. When did John Napier develop logarithm?
1416
1614
1641
1804
33. Which of the following tools of MS Word is used to rotate the text?
Word Art
Auto Shape
Text Boxes
None of these
34. Which of the following features of the word processor allows to specify margins of the documents?
Marco
Thesaurus
Merge
Layout
35. Which of the following devices can be used to directly image printed text ?
OCR
OMR
MICR
All of these
36. The popular series of personal computers was Apple series designed in 1976 using __________ microprocessor.
8-bit
16-bit
64-bit
None of these
37. Who designed the first electronic computer-ENIAC?
Van-Neumann
Joseph M.Jacquard
J.Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly
All of these
38. In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed ?
Parallel
Sequentially
Both A and B
Randomly
39. Web pages are linked together using ?
HTTP
Hyperlinks
Interlinks
None of these
40. A CPU with 32-bit Address Bus can address a memory of ?
4 KB
4 GB
8 KB
8 GB
41. In BASIC, LEFT(A$,n) is used to ?
Leave n spaces before the strung A$
Leave n spaces before every character of the strung A$
Leave n left characters of the strung A$
Select n characters of the strung A$
42. In BASIC, RETURN statement passes control back to ?
GOSUB statement
Next to GOSUB statement
Beginning of the program
The statement before GOSUB
43. The number of elements assigned automatically to a two dimensional arrays in BASIC are ?
10
100
110
121
44. Which of the following statements can be used for multiple branching ?
GOTO
IF THEN ELSE
ON GOTO
WHILE-WEND
45. Which of the following statements can be used for unlimited loopiing ?
GOTO
FOR NEXT
IF THEN
ON GOTO
46. Which of the following command is used to exit from BASIC and to return to DOS ?
CLEAR
KILL
SYSTEM
NEW
47. Number of Shutdown options on Windows 2000 professional are ?
2
3
4
5
48. The number of items present on control panel depends upon ?
Items install during Setup
Items contained on Windows CD
Items required by your system
Hardware Items attached with the system
49. The number of actions with two buttons mouse are ?
6
5
4
3
50. Which of the following is a DOS Internal Command ?
DELTREE
ERASE
FORMAT
None of these
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