MCQ Quiz for Fundamentals of Computer.

  MCQ Quiz for Fundamentals of Computer.

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1. Floppy disks which are made from flexible plastic material are also called?

• Hard disks
• High-density disks
• Diskettes
• Templates

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2. EBCDIC can code up to how many different characters?

• 256
• 16
• 32
• 64

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3. Latency time is

• Time to spin the needed data under head
• Time to spin the needed data under track
• Time to spin data under sector
• All of above

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4. The commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called

• ASCII
• EBCDIC
• BCD
• All of above

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5. What is a light pen?

• Mechanical Input device
• Optical input device
• Electronic input device
• Optical output device

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6. Which of the following is associated with error detector?

• Odd parity bit
• Even parity bit
• Both of the above
• None of above

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7. What do you call the translator which takes assembly language program as input & produce machine language code as output?

• Compiler
• Interpreter
• Debugger
• Assembler

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8. Memory is made up of

• Set of wires
• Set of circuits
• Large number of cells
• All of these

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9. A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a __ resident package

• CPU
• Memory
• Buffer
• ALU

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10. Where as a computer mouse moves over the table surface, the trackball is

• Stationary
• Difficult to move
• Dragged
• Moved in small steps

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11. Main storage is also called

• Accumulator
• Control Unit
• Register Unit
• Memory

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12. Which access method is used to access cassette tape?

• Direct
• Sequential
• Both of the above
• None of the above

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13. Which is the first electronic digital computer?

• ENIAC
• MARK I
• Z3
• ABC

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14. _______ computers are also called personal computers

• Mainframe Computer
• Mini Computers
• Micro Computers
• Super Computers

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15. Slide Rules was invented in

• 1614
• 1617
• 1620
• None of above

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16. Which of the following is not an input device?

• OCR
• Optical scanners
• Voice recognition device
• COM (Computer Output to Microfilm)

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17. Artificial Intelligence is associated with which generation?

• First Generation
• Second Generation
• Fifth Generation
• Sixth Generation

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18. ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does EBCDIC stand for?

• Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• Extended Bit Code Decimal Interchange Code
• Extended Bit Case Decimal Interchange Code
• Extended Binary Case Decimal Interchange Code

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19. Which of the following is a class of computers based on model?

• Digital Computer
• Hybrid Computers
• Analog Computers
• AT Computers

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20. Which unit converts computer data into human readable form?

• Input unit
• Output unit
• ALU
• Control Unit

ANSWER:>>1.C      2.A     3.A    4.D     5.B      6.C      7.D       8.C    9.B      10.A       11.D     12.B      13.D     14.C    15.C        16.D      17.C    18.A     19.D    20.B

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MCQ PROGAMING QUIZ

            QUIZ TEST  PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Question 1: Electronic spreadsheets are most useful in a situation where relatively .... data must be input but ...... calculations are requied.

• a. little; simple
• b. large; simple
• c. large; complex
• d. little; complex

Question 2: The two basic types of record access methods are

• a. sequential and randon
• b. direct and immediate
• c. sequential and indexed
• d. on-line and real-time
• e. none of above

Question 3:Which file organization is allowed by a direct access storage device?

• a. direct only
• b. sequential and direct only
• c. indexed and direct only
• d. sequential, indexed and direct
• e. none of above

Question 4:Sequential file organization is most appropriate for which of following applications?

• a. Grocery store checkout
• b. bank checking account
• c. payroll
• d. airline reservations
• e. none of above

Question 5:Which of the following file organization is most effieient for a file with a high degree of file activity?

• a. sequential
• b. ISAM
• c. VSAM
• d. B-Tree
• e. All of above

Question 6:One disadvantage of a direct access file is:

• a. the delay in computiong the storage address
• b. duplication of address locations
• c. unsued, but available, storage locations
• d. all of above

Question 7:All computers execute

• a. BASIC programs
• b. COBOL programs
• c. Machine language program
• d. FORTRAN programs
• e. PL/1 programs

Question 8:Which of the following is most oriented to scientific programming?

• a. FORTRAN
• b. COBOL
• c. BASIC
• d. PL/1
• e. RPG

Question 9:All of the following are disadvantage of RPG except:

• a. it is a very machine dependent language
• b. it is very limited in scope
• c. is not suited for complex problems requiring extensive programming logic
• d. it has larger storage requierments
• e. all of the above are disadvantages

Question 10:Which of the following is not one of the process that a high level language program msut go through before it is ready to be executed?

• a. translation
• b. controlling
• c. lading
• d. linking
• e. all of the above are necessary process

Answers:
1. d     2. a     3. d     4. c     5. a     6. a     7. c   8. a     9. b.     10.a

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