Computer Fundamental MCQ

Dates of Fundamental of Computer

1. When did John Napier developed logarithm? 1614
2. When did IBM introduced the 80286 based PC/AT?1984
3. In which year was chip used inside the computer for the first time?1975
4. First Minicomputer was built in 1962.
5. In 1980 UK’s premier computing event called "which Computer" started.
6. Apple Macintosh was introduced in 1983.
7. In 1830, Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytical Engine which he showed at the Pars Exhibition in which year was its exhibition? 1855.
8. When did IBM introduce the 2086 based PC/AT?1984
9. When was the X windows system born?1984
10. When the first IBM microcomputer was called IBM PPC with 16-bit microprocessor?1981.
11.  How many cycle are allowed in EEPROM? 1000.
12. The circuit switch network operating phase is 3.
13. How many bits are required to form a character in the computer system? 8 bit.
14. Because of their size and cost are relatively rare. Super Computer
15. Which of the following is not true Operating system? Windows 3x.
16. Data transfer rate is called throughput.
17. Game controller generally fall into the categories of joystick.
18. On the basis of size there is 4 types of computer..
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Numeric Value of Fundamental of Computer.

1. Which of the following device could store maximum amount of data? Hard Disk.
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3. Zip disk can hold data 100-250MB.
4. AT keyboard has 84 keys.
5. 8-bit word length computer is very high-speed CPU and 64 MB main memory. Micro computer
6. Which of the following topology is not of  broad casting type? Ring.
7. The video display adapter supports 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit.
8. The latest 16 bit Unicode can represent 65536 symbol.
9. An electronic circuit with almost 20 transistors fabricated on a silicon chip is known as SSI.
10. Which of the following is not an Advantages of magnetic disk are: The access time of magnetic disk is much less than that of magnetic tape, Disk Storage is longer lasting than magnetic tape, Disk storage is less expensive than tape storage, None of above.
11. Category of CO-axial cable are RG-11, RG-58, RG-59.
12. SIMM have 32 to 72 Pins.
13. One Sector can hold up to 512 bytes.
14. Which IRQ does COM1 Commonly use?4
15. What is the speed of dot matrix printer?100 to 600CPS
16. The first electronic general purpose digital computer built by Mauchly and Eckert is called ENIAC did not work on the stored program principal. How many numbers could it store in its internal memory? 20 
17. 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? AX3/33.
18. The number of sectors per track in high density floppy disk is 18.
19. The maximum capacity of 2HD 3(1/2) floppy disk is 1.44 MB
20. How many memory locations can 14 address bits access? 16,384
21. A standard keyboard used in personal computer has 101 Keys.
22. How many types of graphics card are there?3 Types.
23. Which of the following print head of dot matrix printer provides best quality print out? 24 Pin
24. The printing speed of laser printer for microcomputer is about 4 to 32 page per minute
25. How many types of plotters are there?4 Types.
26. The capacity of 3.5-inch floppy disk is 1.44MB
27. First computer introduced in Nepal was IBM 1401
28. Valid size of floppy disk is 8,5(1/4),3(1/2)
29. Word length of a personal computer is 8 bits
30. The width of a processor's data path is measured in bits. Which of the following are common data paths?8 bit
31. Size of the primary memory of a PC range between 256 KB to 640KB
32. CPU speed of a personal computer is 100 KIPS.
33. How many address lines are needed to address each memory location in a 2048x4 Memory chip?11 (A 2048=2^11.2048 = 2^ {11}2048=211 memory chip has 2048 memory locations, and each location stores 4 bits.)
34. RJ45 UTP cable has 4 Pairs
35. Which 8-bit chip was used in many of today's TRS-80 computers? Z-80.
36. The first electronic general purpose digital computer builds by motley and accretes called ENIAC did not work on the number store in its internal memory? 20
37. The original ASCII code used 7 bits for error checking.
38. A typical personal computer used for business purposes would have 256 K of RAM.
39. On PC how much memory is available to application software? 640 KB.
40. A 32-bit microprocessor has the word length equal to 4 bytes.
41. What was the name of the first commercially available microprocessor chip? Intel 4004
42. The current SIMM have either 30 or 72 Connector Pins.
43. EBCDIC can code up to 256 Different characters
44. The number of read-write head in the drive for a 9-track magnetic tape is 9.
45. IBM 7000 has modular construction.
46. The data recording format in most of the modern magnetic tape is 8bit EBCDIC.
47. Floppy disk typically in diameter 3",5.25",8"
48. The maximum size of a memory address by 12 bit is 4K bytes.
49. First Microprocessor commercially available was Intel 4004
50. MAC Address is 48 bits.
51. The amount of data stored on a CDROM disk is 650 M
52. Word size (8,16,32 and 64) refers to the number of Bits that can be processed a one time.
53. Data holding capacity of magnetic tape is 60MB to 5 GB
54. First Mini Computer is PDP-I,1958
55. The first floppy disk was developed in 1970.
56. A floppy disk can contain approximately 1,440,000 byte
57. The high data transfer rate of USB is 12 Mbps.
58. ASCII code of 0 is 30H or 48D
59. ASCII code of A is 41H or 65D
60. ASCII code of a is 61H or 97D

Registers

1. Which of the following register is used to keep track of address of the memory location where the next instruction is located? Program Counter.
2. Which of the following register is loaded with the content of memory location pointed by the PC? Instruction Register
3. Which of the following contain the address of next instruction to be executed? Program Counter
4. What is the fundamental unit of storage in digital computer? Bit
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Logic Gates

1. A set of matched track is called Cylinder.
2. The forth generation language mostly uses Database language.
3. Barcode consist of Large Lines
4. Inventor of vacuum tubes Alan Turing.
5. Who is the father of disk drive? Reynold Johnson.
6. The AND gate produces output high when all inputs are HIGH
7.  The output of a 2-input OR gate is 0 only when Both inputs are 0. 
8. an X-OR gate produces an output only when its two inputs are Different.
9. When an input electrical signal A=10100 is applied to a NOT gate, it's output Signal is 01011
10. A NOR gate is ON only when all its inputs are Off
11. If input x=1001 what will be the output of NOT gate? 0110
12. The AND gate produces output high only when all inputs are HIGH
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MCQ of Computer Fundamental

1. J.H. Van Tassel invented the super computer.
2. Which one of the following is the share ware program? Live Ware
3. which one of the following is the shareware program? Antivirus program
4. The largest of the four conceptual area of storage is likely to be the Program area.
5. Input data for electrostatic plotter must be A raster to vector format
6. PDA is the Personal Computer.
7. A home page is part of an Website.
8. The software freely available to the people is called freeware.
9. Cache memory is implemented using Static RAM
10. CD Drive, Disk drive & MODEM are input/output device.
11. The amount of data the CPU transmit at a time to maintain memory and to input output device is called BUS WIDTH
12. Which of the following printer prints one line at a time? Band Printer.
13. Sequential access, Random access, direct access are the data accessing method from the computer system.
14. Rotate instructions in microprocessor belongs to Logical Group.
15. PDA is Personal Computer.
16. A small amount of memory included in processor for high speed access is called Cache.
17. Which one is not a programming language? XENIX
18. Dot matrix printer has pins Depend upon printer
19. Which of the following device could stores maximum amount of data? Hard Disk
20. Fiber Optic cable connector are SC, ST, MT-RJ connector.
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22. The protocol for downloading files over the internet carries the abbreviation HTTP.
23. Twisted Pair is the medium that is least susceptible to noise.
24. The Token Ring network control access to the network using Token passing.
25. The arrangement in which most of the processing is done by the server is known as A Client/server relationship.
26. A Router provides a connection between similar networks.
27. Signals produced by a computer to be sent over standard phone lines must be Digital Signal
28. Graphics and other paperwork can be transmitted directly by using CSMA/CD.
29. Which of the following is an electromechanically input output device? Floppy Disk, Hard Disk , Supper Disk
30. Device that send and receive satellite signals are called MODEM.
31. Transmission permitting data to move both directions but only one way at a time is called Half Duplex
32. Things are made of Mylar with a thin coating of magnetic material is Floppy Disk.
33. OCR-A is a Barcode
34. Some POS terminal are similar to UPCs.
35. An Wand Reader is a device that is used for optical character Recognition
36. Data and instructions are put into primary storage by The ALU.
37. Ink Jet printer is an example of Non Impact printer.
38. The primary storage unit is also known as Internal memory
39. Software that is written especially for a single type of business is called Shareware.
40. Software that allows the production of professional newsletters and reports is called Spreadsheet.
41. The type of software that can store update manipulate, and retrieve data is called Spreadsheet.
42. The technique where by part of the program is stored on disk and is brought into memory for execution as needed is called Memory allocation.
43. For the transmission of internet signals, which of the following  is not necessary? PSNT,VSAT, ROM,MODEM
44. Which of the following is the smallest and fastest computer imitating brain working? Quantum Computer.
45. The IC chip used in computer is made of SILICA.
46. The term operating system o f a computer A set of programs which controls computer working.
47. The signal converter is used in most of the output device is Encoder.
48. The perforated paper used as input or output media is known as Paper Tape.
49. A software used to convert source program instruction to object instruction is known as Compiler
50. The two main classification of application software are Word processing and spreadsheet.
51. An area of secondary memory where data/information is permanently stores is called File.
52. A Computer with CPU speed around 100 million instruction per second and with the word length of around 64 bits is known as Super Computer
53. XEROX PARC is important because it leads to the development of GUIs.
54. Alan Turing Commit Suicide, Have speech impairment, work on cracking secret German Codes.
55. In which generation did magnetic disk stated being used for storage? Second Generation 
56. First IBM PC did not have any Disk Drive.
57. Among minicomputer, microcomputer, mini processor, and microprocessor, microprocessor is smallest.
58. One of the first all-electronic computers, the ENIAC was developed by Eckert and Mauchly.
59. The first commercial computers ever marketed were built In the US y Remington Rand.
60. The problem with using transistors in computer They led to massive wiring snarls.
61. Home Computer is least expensive computer.
62. The first digital computer contained Electronic Valve, Vacuum Tubes, Transistors, Semiconductor memory.
63. The first computer made available for commercial use was MARK I.
64. In which computer, computation is carried out with the physical quantities? Analog Computer.
65. Many database management system packages support 4GLS, A 4GL is a software tool which is written possibly in some third-generation language.
66. Which one of the following is essential peripheral? Printer, Keyboard, Mouse, all of above.
67. Which of the following terms is related to printer? Screen, Monochrome monitor, TGB Monitors, Video Display.
68. Network layer concern with Packet.
69. Antivirus is Shareware.
70. Data is stored in diskette is magnetism
71. First generation computer used Vacuum Tubes for circuitry and Magnetic Drum for memory.
72. Motherboard is the Circuit board that contain a CPU and other chip.
73. What is usually used for displaying information at public place? Touch screen kiosks.
74. Digital devices are (Digital clock, Automobile speed meter, clock with a dial and two hand.)
75. Magnetic disks are the most popular medium for Direct access and sequential access.
76. Storage Capacity of magnetic disk depends on Track per inch of surface, bits per inch of tracks, disk pack in disk surface.
77. Latency time is Time to spin the needed data under Track
78. Seek time is Time to position the head over proper track's
79. Which of the following file organization is most effective for a file with a high degree of file activity? Sequential.
80. Twisted Pair Cable inhibits crosstalk.
81. High Level Language is machine independence program.
82. A CD-RW has a speed rating of 12x 10x 32x what does the three number refer to in order? Write, Rewrite, read.
83. A program that runs in the background on your computer, sending information about your browsing habits to the company that installed it on your computer is called as Greyware.
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85. The word processing task associated with changing the appearance of a document is Formatting.
86. What does the disk drive of a computer do? Read the disk.
87. A datum that indicates some important state in the content of input or output is Sentinel.
88. The first firm to mass market a microcomputer as a personal computer was Radio Shack.
89. The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and logical operation was Mark I.
90. In third Generation, computer Online, Real time system first becomes popular
91. Most important advantage of an IC is its Extremely high reliability
92. In a punched card system, data is processed by an accounting machine, Keypunch machine and sorter.
93. Among Clerical and law, accounting, medical is the professions has not been affected by personal computer.
94. The primary advantage of key to tape data entry system is the key is reuseable.
95. Capacitance Keyboard is the latest PC keyboard use a circuit that sense the movement by the change in its capacitance.
96. Laser Printer is commonly used for desktop publishing.
97. Computer terminal which gives paper output is known as Hardcopy Terminal.
98. The most important advantage of a video disk is Potential Capacity.
99. EBCDIC code is used in present day computing was developed by IBM corporation.
100. The act of retrieving existing data from memory is called Read-out, read from, Read anything.
101. The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from Control Section.
102. The computer code for the interchange of information between terminal is ASCII. 
103. There are 3 types of language processor.
104. A translator used in low level language is (compiler, interpreter, assembler, all of above).
105. The Number of sectors per track in high density floppy disk is18.
106. Modem is connected with Com Port. 
107. The Capacity of the compact disk is 640 MB
108. Whichever you are not directly entry input device? - Keyboard (Primary input device)
109. Who was the first to conceptualize and design a fully programmable mechanical computer analytical engine? -Charles Babbage.
110. Storage capacity of hard disk is measured in Gigabye.
111. Which one is Odd? (Monitor, Console, Screen, Printer)
112. Which one is not Valid floppy disk capacity? (1.24,1.44,360,720)
113. In case of microcomputer hard disk drive is known as (removeable disk, portable disk, Fixed Disk, All of above)
114. Which computer falls on the basic model? (Microcomputer, Analog computer, IBM compatible, XT computer.)// suppose to be IBM Compatible 
115. How many memory locations can 14 address bit access? 2¹⁴=16384
116. The system diagnostic program stored on ROM is called firmware.
117. Set of code that used in writing a program is Statement.
118. Whatever it is the true statement is Computer is A machine developed by a human.
119. Who developed the first computer that could store data and instructions? John Von Neumann
120. Microcomputer are further classified as (PC, PC-XT, PC-AT, none of above) The correct answer is None of above. Because microcomputers are classified as PC, PC-XT, and PC-AT—so not just one of them.
121. Which of the following is not used as inter connector? (Cable, Ports, CD-ROM Drives, Computer Buses)
122. A Bar-code Scanner records character by sliding it along a line of text.
123. Which of the following refers to a special type of video camera used for broadcasting image on the internet? Webcam.
124. A Digital Notepad records the movements of the user's pen over a piece of paper.
125. A network terminal is also known as a dumb terminal.
126. A Standard microcomputer with a network connection would be called Thin Client.
127. Which of the following is not a network device? (MODEM, Port, Bridge, Router).
128. A standard keyboard used in personal computer has 101 keys.
129. Which of the following input device is not a pointing device? (joystick, Light Pen, Digitizing Tablet, Scanner)
130. How many types of graphics cards? 3 types. Integrated graphics card, Dedicated/Discrete graphics card External graphics card (pup)
131. The monitor having the VGA has resolution 320x200pixel
132. XGA card supports 16.7 million Color
133. Which of the following is not an impact Printer? (Dot matrix printer, Thermal Printer, Daisy Wheel Printer, Line Printer)
134. Which of the following printer is slower than dot matrix pry ter but better in quality? (Line printer, Daisy Wheel Printer, Laser Printer, Inkjet printer)
135. A multiplexer is known as Data Selector.
136. The printing speed of laser printer for microcomputer is about 4 to 32 pages per minute
137.  Which of the following task is not related to preliminary investigation? (System identification, System analysis, System scope, Feasibility study)
138. Planning, Requirement Analysis, Design, Development (Coding), Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance are the steps of SDLC.
139. Which of the following is not a category of computer hardware components? (Input components devices, Processors, Secondary storage device.)
140. What difference does the 5th generation computer have from other generation computer (Technological advancement, Scientific Code, OOP, all of above) “All of the above” isn’t correct because Scientific Code and OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) are not unique defining features of fifth-generation computers.
141. Typical utility program performs services like Repairing damage files & Translating files.
142. VGA is Video Graphics Array
143. Fortran is Scientific Application.
144. In order to play and hear sound on computer we need, A sound card and speaker.
145.  In a computer Flip Flop is capable to store single BIT.
146. The process of communicating with a file from terminal is Interrogation.
147. EPROM can be sed for Erasing and reconstructing the content of ROM
148. When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke in to the corresponding bits? ANSI
149. Size of the primary memory of a PC ranges 256 KB & 640 KB
150. Programs are executed on the basis of a priority number in a Multiprogramming
151. Assembly Languages are classified as low-level language.
152. Which of the following is used as primary storage device? (Magnetic drum, PROM, floppy disk, all of above)
153. In analog computer -Input is never converted to digital form.
154. Modern Computers are very reliable but they are not Infallible.
155. I Which of the following connect existing network form an internet? Router.
156. Which computer memory is used for storing programs and data currently being processed by the CPU? Intelligent terminal.
157. Which one of the following input devices is user programmable? Intelligent terminal.
158. Computer instructions written with the use of English word instead of binary machine code is Symbolic Code.
159. Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC? Instructional Register
160. What type of memory is not directly addressable by the CPU and requires special software called EMS (Expanded memory specification.) Expanded.
161.  Which of the following connect existing network form an internet? Router. (A router connects different networks together and can connect existing networks to form an internet (inter-network). Bridge → connects similar network segments Repeater → regenerates/boosts signals Switch → connects devices within the same network Answer: Router)
162. A typical personal computer used for business purpose would have 256 K of Ram.
163. Symbol logic was discovered by George Boole.
164. What was the nick name of the computer used by Americans in 1952 for Their H-bomb project? MANIAC
165. Repeater is layer 1 device.
166. A term used to describe interconnected computer configuration is Multiprogramming.
167. A group of magnetic tapes, videos or terminal usually under the control of one master is Cluster.
168. On a PC, how much memory is available to application software? 640KB
169. A memory that is capable of determining whether a given datum is contained in one of its addresses is CAM.
170. A method of implementing a memory management system is Bridge ware
171. The use of suppler program and or Memory hardware allows personal computer operator to do the processing work at same time a printing operation in progress.
172. Which most popular input device is used today for interactive processing and for the online entry of data for batch processing (Mouse, Magnetic disk, Visual display terminal, Card Punch)
173. User programmable terminals that combine VDT hardware with building microprocessor is Intelligent Terminal.
174. Magnetic tape can serve as Secondary storage media, Output Media & Input media. 
175. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM the number of addresses will be 65536.
176. IBM 1650 was the most popular first-generation computer.
177. Which of the following produces the best quality graphics reproduction? (Plotter, laser printer, ink jet printer, Dot matrix printer)
178. A 32-Bit Microprocessor Rhas the Word length equal to 4 bytes.
179. Any method for controlling access to or use memory is known as Memory Protection.
180. The magnetic storage chip used to provide non- volatile direct access storage of data and that have no moving parts are known as Magnetic tape memory.
181. First digital computer build with IC chip was known as IBM System/360
182. To locate a data for storage is Fetch.
183. The storage subsystem in a microcomputer consists mainly of magnetic or optical media with varying capacities.
184. The basic architecture of computer was developed by John von Neumann.
185. Voice Response unit is using dot record message or a magnetic medium to produce audio response.
186. When date is entered into a memory location it will erase the previous content.
187. The output quality of printer is measured on Dot per Sq. Inch.
188. The memory allocation scheme subject to external fragmentation is Segmentation.
189. C lang was developed by Dennis M. Ritchie.
190. Personnel who design, program, operate and maintain computer equipment refers to Peopleware.
191. Human being are referred to s Homoserines, which device is called Silioco sapiens? Computer.
192. An error in software or hardware is called buy. what alternative computer jargon for? Glitch.
193. Reverse video is displaying feature that highlights area of the screen which require operator attention.
194. Modern computer is very reliable but they are not Infallible
195. A computer program that convers an entire program into machine language is called Compiler.
196. A computer program that translates one program instant of time is called Interpreter.
197. Scheduler is a technique of temporarily removing inactive programs for the memory of computer system.
198. Magnetic disk is expensive related to magnetic tape; user can easily update record by writing over the old data.
199.