1) Section 10 8) The control unit of a microprocessor

2) A factor which would strongly influence a a. A. stores data in the memory

businessperson to adopt a computer is its:
b. B. accepts input data from a
a. A. Accuracy keyboard
b. B. Reliability c. C. Performs arithmetic / logic /
functions
c. C. Speed
d. D. All of the above
d. D. All of the above
e. E. None of the above
3) The most common input device used today
is 9) A flat-bed plotter uses a pen which moves in
two directions across a piece of paper fixed
a. A. Motherboard
on a flat-bed. Can you tell who controls the
b. B. Track ball movements of this pen?
c. C. Scanner a. A. microfilm
d. D. Mouse b. B. microfiche

e. E. Keyboard c. C. film card

d. D. COM
4) What is the name of the temporary data
storage area between a peripheral device 10) What type of magnetic material is normally
and the CPU which compensates for the used in bubble memories?
difference between their speeds?
a. A. Magnetic core
a. A. Backing storage
b. B. Cobalt
b. B. Buffer
c. C. Garnet
c. C. Main storage
d. D. Metallic
d. D. Temporary storage 11) Which of the following printer can be
classified as a page-at-a-time printer?
5) Which of the following is the fastest?
a. A. Laser printer
a. A. CPU
b. B. Dot-matrix printer
b. B. magnetic tapes and disks
c. C. Thermal printer
c. C. video terminal
d. D. Inkjet printer
d. D. sensors, mechanical controllers
12) The CPU of a computer transfers print
6) In which year were chips used inside the output to a temporary disk memory at high
computer for the first time? speed and then gets back to processing
another job without waiting for the output
a. A. 1964
to got to the printer. In this way, the CPU
b. B. 1975 does not remain idle due to its own high
speed as compared to the low speed of the
c. C. 1977 printer. What is the name of this memory?
d. D. 1981 a. A. External memory
7) The invention of the slide rule is attributed b. B. I/O memory
to
c. C. ROM
a. A. Babbage
d. D. Buffer memory
b. B. Oughtred
c. C. Pascal
d. D. Napier
13) Which of the following registers hold the 19) A type of line printer that uses an embossed
information before it goes to the decoder steel band to form the letters printed on the
paper is
a. A. control register
a. A. Golf ball printer
b. B. data register
b. B. Dot-matrix printer
c. C. accumulator
c. C. Laser printer
d. D. address register
d. D. Band printer
14) A modern electronic computer is a machine
that is meant for 20) The terminal device that functions as a cash
register, computer terminal, and OCR
a. A. doing quick mathematical
reader is the:
calculations
a. A. Data collection terminal
b. B. input, storage, manipulation
and outputting of data b. B. OCR register terminal
c. C. electronic data processing c. C. Video display terminal
d. D. performing repetitive tasks d. D. POS terminal
accurately
21) The general range of speed in revolutions
15) Who was the father of Punched Card per minute (rpm) at which floppy disks
Processing? rotate is
a. A. J Presper Eckert a. A. 2400-4700
b. B. Charles Babbage b. B. 390-600
c. C. Dr. Herman Hollerith c. C. 150-250
d. D. Blaise Pascal d. D. 300-600

16) When did Hewlett-Packard Inc. Introduce 22) Which of the following typically uses a
its first HP-110 laptop computer? keyboard for input?
a. A. 1984 a. A. desktop terminal
b. B. 1986 b. B. point-of-sale terminal
c. C. 1990 c. C. financial transaction terminal
d. D. 1995 d. D. executive workstation
e. E. All of the above
17) A 'number crunching' computer is one that
can handle
23) The microelectronics is the technology of
a. A. large spreadsheets
a. A. microwaves
b. B. large alphanumeric data
b. B. microcomputers
c. C. large volume of numbers
c. C. chips
d. D. only numbers
d. D. automatic processing
18) The barcode which is used on all types of
24) Who developed the first personal computer
items, is read by a scanning device directly
spreadsheet package called Visicalc?
into the computer. What is the name of this
scanning device? a. A. Niklaus Wirth
a. A. Laser scanner b. B. Dan Bricklin
b. B. Wand c. C. Bob Frankston
c. C. OCR d. D. Both (B) and (C
d. D. MICR
25) When was the X Window System born? 31) Microfilm reader is a
a. A. 1984 a. A. OCR device
b. B. 1989 b. B. COM device
c. C. 1988 c. C. MICR device
d. D. 1990 d. D. None of the above

26) A double sided magnetic disk pack has six 32) The data recording area between the blank
disks. Can you tell how many surfaces of gaps on magnetic tape is called a/ an:
this pack are normally used?
a. A. Record
a. A. 10
b. B. Block
b. B. 12
c. C. Field
c. C. 6
d. D. Database
d. D. 9
33) A high quality CAD system uses the
27) Which of the following professions has not following for printing drawing and graphs
been affected by personal computers?
a. A. Dot matrix printer
a. A. medical
b. B. Digital plotter
b. B. clerical
c. C. Line printer
c. C. accounting
d. D. All of the above
d. D. law
34) A printed document reader which scans the
e. E. None of the above
characters and then encodes them in a
computer-compatible code for direct
28) What technology is used for flat panel
transmission to the computer is called
displays?
a. A. Optical character reader
a. A. Solid state
b. B. Kurzweil Data Entry
b. B. RBG monitor
Machine (KDEM)
c. C. VLSI
c. C. MICR
d. D. Direct view storage tube
d. D. Laser scanner
29) Magnetic tape can serve as :
35) The equipment with which the computer
a. A. secondary-storage media talks to its users is called a
b. B. output media a. A. word processor
c. C. input media b. B. peripheral
d. D. All of the above c. C. software
d. D. diskette
30) Conversion of hexadecimal number
1D7F16 to a decimal number is
36) In which addressing mode, the effective
a. A. 755110 address of the operand is generated by
b. B. 877110 adding a constant value to the contents of a
register?
c. C. 555710
a. A. Absolute mode
d. D. 778110
b. B. Indirect mode
c. C. Immediate mode
d. D. Index mode
37) EBCDIC can code up to how many 43) Which of the following bus types are used
different characters? by the Apple Macintosh computer?
a. A. 8 a. A. ISA
b. B. 16 b. B. NuBus
c. C. 32 c. C. EISA
d. D. 64 d. D. MCA
e. E. 256 e. E. PCI Bus

38) When did IBM close the last of its punched 44) Group of instructions that directs a
card manufacturing plant? computer is called
a. A. June, 1989 a. A. Storage
b. B. December, 1984 b. B. Memory
c. C. March, 1982 c. C. Logic
d. D. November, 1979 d. D. Program

39) In a punched card system, data is processed 45) A computer-controlled device for training
by a exercises that duplicates the work
environment is a:
a. A. keypunch machine, sorter, and
posting machine a. A. simulator
b. B. accounting machine, posting b. B. duplicator
machine, and billing machine
c. C. trainer
c. C. sorter, posting machine, and
d. D. COM device
billing machine
d. D. accounting machine,
keypunch machine, and sorter

40) What is the highest address possible if 16

bits are used for each address?
a. A. 65536
b. B. 12868
c. C. 16556
d. D. 643897

41) An integrated circuit is

a. A. a complicated circuit
b. B. an integrating device
c. C. much costlier than a single
transistor
d. D. fabricated on a tiny silicon
chip
42) Which of the following memories contains a
thin film of magnetic material sandwitched
between two permanent bias magnets?
a. A. ROM
b. B. Magnetic disk
c. C. Core memory
d. D. Bubble memory
Section 11