COMPUTER BASIC INFORMATION QUIZ

The size of commonly used floppy disk is

3.25"

3.5"

4.5"

5.5"

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What Does BIOS Stand For?

None of these

Battery Integrated Operating Setup

Basic Input Output System

Better Integrated Operating System

Backup Input Output System

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An advantage of overlapped processing activities is:

more effective use of the CPU

None of these

better coordination of I/O activities

All listed here

increased processing activities for the entire system

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Which access method is used for obtaining a record from a cassette tape

random

sequential

None of these

All of these

direct

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Microprocessor was introduced in which generation of computer?

Second Generation

Both (A) and (B)

Third Generation

Allof these

Fourth Generation

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Super computers are primarily useful for

None of these

Mathematical-intensive scientific applications

Data-retrieval operations

Input-output intensive processing

All of these

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In computer terminology a compiler means

key punch operator

the same thing as a programmer

a person who computes source programs

None of these

a program which translates source program into object program

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The first IBM PC did not have any

ROM

Disk drive

None of these

RAM

Port

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The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and logical operations was:

None of these

UNIVAC-I

Mark I

ENIAC

Analytic engine

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To what temporary area can you store text and other data, and later paste them to another location?

CD-ROM

None of these

The hard disk

The clipboard

ROM

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