Ad Code

Responsive Advertisement

Computer fundamental mcq set 16

 


1. The ALU of a computer responds to the commands coming from

a. Primary memory  

b. control section

c. External memory

d. Cache memory

 

2. The act of retrieving existing data from memory is called

a. Read-out

b. Read from 

c. Read 

d. all of above

 

3. All modern computer operate on

a. Information 

b. Floppies

c. data

d. Word

 

4. instructions and memory address are represented by

a. character code

b. binary codes

c. binary word

d. parity bit

 

5. Which of the following code used in present day computing was developed by IBM Corporation?

a. ASCII

b. Hollerith Code

c. Baudot Code

d. EBCDIC CODE

 

 

6. What is the latest write-once optical storage media?

a. Digital paper

b. Magneto-optical disk

 c. WORM disk

d. cd-rom disk

 

7. the most important advantage of a video disk is

a. compactness

b. potential capacity

c. durability

d. cost effectiveness

 

 

 

8. What is the number of read-write heads in the drive for a 9-trac magnetic tape?

a. 9 

b. 16  

c. 18  

d. 27

 

9. Before a disk drive can access any sector record, a computer program has to provide the record’s disk address. What information does this address specify?

a. Track number

b. Sector number

c. Surface number

d. all of above

 

10. as compared to diskettes, the hard disks are

a. more expensive

b. more portable

c. less rigid

d. slowly accessed

1-B,2-D,3-C,4-B,5-D,6-D,7-B,8-A,9-D,10-A



Post a Comment

0 Comments