1. John Napier invented Logarithm in
A) 1614
B) 1617
C) 1620
D) None of above
2. An integrated circuit is
A) A complicated circuit
B) An integrating device
C) Much costlier than a single transistor
D) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
3. What type of control pins are needed in
a microprocessor to regulate traffic on the bus, in order to prevent two
devices from trying to use it at the same time?
A) Bus control
B) Interrupts
C) Bus arbitration
D) Status
4. Where as a computer mouse moves over
the table surface, the trackball is
A) Stationary
B) Difficult to move
C) Dragged
D) Moved in small steps
5. Which of the following is used as a
primary storage device?
A) Magnetic drum
B) Hard Disks
C) Floppy
D) All of above
6. Multi user systems provided cost
savings for small business because they use a single processing unit to link
several
A) Personal computers
B) Workstations
C) Dumb terminals
D) Mainframes
7. The word processing task associated
with changing the appearance of a document is
A) Editing
B) Writing
C) Formatting
D) All of above
8. Nepal brought a computer for census of
2028 BS. This computer was of
A) first generation
B) second generation
C) third generation
D) fourth generation
9. Algorithm and Flow chart help us to
A) Know the memory capacity
B) Identify the base of a number system
C) Direct the output to a printer
D) Specify the problem completely and clearly
10. Which statement is valid about
computer program?
A) It is understood by a computer
B) It is understood by programmer
C) It is understood user
D) Both a & b
11. The difference between memory and
storage is that memory is _____ and storage is __
A) Temporary, permanent
B) Permanent, temporary
C) Slow, fast
D) All of above
12. When was Pascaline invented?
A) 1617
B) 1620
C) 1642
D) 1837
13. Which of the following statement is
valid?
A) Lady Augusta is the first programmer
B) Ada is the daughter of Lord Byron, a famous English poet
C) ADA is a programming language developed by US Defense
D) All of above
14. A compiler is a translating program
which
A) Translates instruction of a high level language into machine language
B) Translates entire source program into machine language program
C) It is not involved in program’s execution
D) All of above
15. What is required when more than one
person uses a central computer at the same time?
A) Light pen
B) Mouse
C) Digitizer
D) Terminal
16. Which of the following is the first
computer to use Stored Program Concept?
A) UNIVAC
B) ENIAC
C) EDSAC
D) None of above
17. The term gigabyte refers to
A) 1024 bytes
B) 1024 kilobytes
C) 1024 megabytes
D) 1024 gigabyte
18. in which year was UK’s premier
computing event called ?The which computer? started?
A) 1980
B) 1985
C) 1986
D) 1987
19. Once you load the suitable program and
provide required data, computer does not need human intervention. This feature
is known as
A) Accuracy
B) Reliability
C) Versatility
D) Automatic
20. What is a brand?
A) The name of companies that made computers
B) The name of product a company gives to
identify its product in market
C) A name of class to indicate all
similar products from different companies
D) All of above
21. Machine language is
A) Machine dependent
B) Difficult to program
C) Error prone
D) All of above
22. A byte consists of
A) One bit
B) Four bits
C) Eight bits
D) Sixteen bits
23. Modern Computers are very reliable but
they are not
A) Fast
B) Powerful
C) Infallible
D) Cheap
24. What is the date when Babbage
conceived Analytical engine
A) 1642
B) 1837
C) 1880
D) 1850
25. What are the three decisions making
operations performed by the ALU of a computer?
A) Grater than
B) Less than
C) Equal to
D) All of the above
