41. Which of the following is used for manufacturing chips?
(a)Control bus
(b) Control unit
(c) Parity unit
(d) Semiconductor
42. Micro Processing is made for?
(a) Computer
(b) Digital system
(c) Calculator
(d) Electronic goods
43. Group of instructions to direct the functioning of a computer is called?
(a)Storage
(b) Memory
(c) Program
(d) Byte
44. The main component of first generation computer was?
(a) Transistors
(b) Vacuum tubes and valves
(c) Integrated circuits
(d) None of the above
45. FORTRAN is the acronym for
(a) File translation
(b) Format translation
(c) Formula translation
(d) Floppy translation
46. Which of the following statements is not correct?
(a) Computer is capable of processing only digital signal.
(b) Computer is capable of analysing both quantitative and qualitative data.
(c) Appropriate software is required for processing the data.
(d) Computer is capable of processing digital as well as analogue signals.
47. Which of the following is not the characteristic of a computer?
(a) Computer is an electrical machine.
(b) Computer cannot think on its own.
(c) Computer processes an information error free
(d) Computer can hold data for any length of time.
48. In analogue computer
(a) Input is first converted to digital form
(b) Input is never converted to digital form
(c) Output is displayed in digital form
(d) All of the above
49. A hybrid computer
(a) Resembles a digital computer
(b) Resembles an analogue computer
(c) Resembles both a digital and analogue computer
(d) None of the above
50. In the latest generation computers, the instructions are executed
(a) Parallely only
(b) Sequentially only
(c) Both sequentially and parallely
(d) All of the above
51. Who designed the first electronics computer—ENIAC?
(a)Van-Neumann
(b)Joseph M. Jacquard
(c) J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly
(d) None of the above
52. The hexadecimal number system consists of the symbols
(a) 0–7
(b) 0–9, A–F
(c) 0–7, A–F
(d) None of the above
53. The binary equivalent of (-15)10 is (two’s complement system is used)
(a) 11110001
(b) 11110000
(c) 10001111
(d) None of the above
55. All computers—big, medium, or small must have
(a) ALU
(b) Control unit
(c) Primary storage
(d) All of the above
56. A byte consists of
(a) One bit
(b) Four bits
(c) Eight bits
(d) Sixteen bits
57. Which of the following is/are example/s of operating systems?
I. Unix/BSD
II. GNU/Linux
III. Windows
IV. Mac OS: Mac OS X
(a) I, II, and III
(b) II, III, and IV
(c) I, III, and IV
(d) All of the above
58. System software designed to help in analyzing; monitoring, configuring, optimizing settings, and maintaining the computer are called as?
(a) Application software
(b) Utility software
(c) Groupware
(d) None of the above
59. The general term used for the software that can be copied and used without payment to the author(s), although there may be some restrictions on distribution is
(a) Spyware
(b) Freeware
(c) Malware
(d) None of the above
60. The silicon chips used for data processing are called
(a) RAM chips
(b) ROM chips
(c) Microprocessors
(d) PROM chips