COMPUTER BASIC INFORMATION QUIZ

The software tools that enable a user to interact with a computer for specific purposes are known as .......

Applications

None of these

Hardware

Shareware

Network Software

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Who was the father of Punched Card Processing?

None of these

Dr. Herman Hollerith

Charles Babbage

Blaise Pascal

J Presper Eckert

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In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed

Both sequentially an parallely

None of these

Parallely only

All of these

Sequentially only

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A temporary storage area, attached to the CPU, for I/O operations is a:

chip

None of these

buffer

core

register

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The time required for the fetching and execution of one simple machine instruction is

Real time

CPU cycle

None of these

Seek time

Delay time

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Standardization of Microsoft programs and the Windows operating system has made the spread of viruses:

More difficult

More complicated

Slower

Easier

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Continuous line drawing are produced using

Chain printers

None of these

Thermal devices

Plotters

Daisy wheel printers

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Which of the following memories contains a thin film of magnetic material sandwitched between two permanent bias magnets?

ROM

Core memory

Bubble memory

None of these

Magnetic disk

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Window's settings are recorded in

WIN.INI

WINDOWS.INI

GROUP.INI

SYSTEM.INI

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The process used to set up a programs once the system is operational is

Black bon

Utility

None of these

Operating system

Boot strap

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