1. Which of the following is not a primary storage device?
A) Magnetic tape
B) Magnetic disk
D) All of these
E) None of these
ANS-D
2. Who invented Analytical engine?
A) Blaise Pascal
B) George Bool
C) Charles Babbage
D) Dr. Herman Hollerith
E) None of these
ANS-C
3. CPU speed of a personal computer is
A) 32 KIPS
B) 100 KIPS
C) 1 MIPS
D) None of these
E) All of these
ANS-B
4. Circular division of disks to store and retrieve data are known as
A) tracks
B) sectors
C) cycles
D) rings
E) None of these
ANS-A
5. Which statement is valid?
A) 1KB = 1024 bytes
B) 1 MB=2048 bytes
C) 1 MB = 1000 kilobytes
D) 1 KB = 1000 bytes
E) None of these
ANS-A
6. The least significant bit of the binary number, which is equivalent to any odd decimal number, is:
A) 0
B) 1
C) 1 or 0
D) 3
E) None of these
ANS-A
7. The latest PC keyboards use a circuit that senses the movement by the change in its capacitance,
A) Capacitance keyboard
B) Mechanical keyboard
C) Qwerty keyboard
D) Dvorak keyboard
E) None of these
ANS-A
8. The Stepped Reckoner was invented by
A) John Napier
B) William Oughtred
C) Gottfried Leibnitz
D) Blaise Pascal
E) None of these
ANS-C
9. A term used to describe interconnected computer configuration is
A) Multiprogramming
B) Modulation
C) Multiprocessing
D) Micro program sequence
E) None of these
ANS-A
10. While inserting a diskette into the diskette drive of a PC, the diskette’s label side should face
A) East
B) North
C) South
D) Up
E) None of these
ANS-D
