Computer Quiz – 129

Computer Quiz

1. Which of the following printing devices an output composed of a series of data?
a) Wire matrix printer
b) Band printer
c) Wang image printer
d) Both a and c

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Answer d) Both a and c

2. The personal computer industry was started by?
a) IBM
b) Apple
c) Compaq
d) HCL

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Answer a) IBM

3. A 32 bit microprocessor has the word length equal to?
a) 2 byte
b) 32 byte
c) 4 byte
d) 8 byte

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Answer c) 4 byte

4. An error in computer data is called?
a) Chip
b) Bug
c) CPU
d) Storage device

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Answer b) Bug

5. The first firm to mass-market a microcomputer as a personal computer was?
a) IBM
b) Super UNIVAC
c) Radio Shaks
d) Data General Corporation

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Answer c) Radio Shaks

6. Which was the world’s first minicomputer and when was it introduced?
a) PDP-I, 1958
b) IBM System/36, 1960
c) PDP-II, 1961
d) VAX 11/780, 1962

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Answer a) PDP-I, 1958

7. who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns of a weaving machine?
a) Pascal
b) Hollerith
c) Babbage
d) Jacquard

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Answer d) Jacquard

9. Computer instructions written with the use of English words instead of binary machine code is called?
a) Mnemonics
b) Symbolic code
c) Gray codes
d) Opcode

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Answer b) Symbolic code

8. Which of the following required large computer memory?
a) Imaging
b) Graphics
c) Voice
d) All of above

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Answer d) All of above

10. A term associated with the comparison of processing speeds of different computer system is?
a) EFTS
b) MPG
c) MIPS
d) CFPS

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Answer c) MIPS

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