1. UNIVAC is
B) Second Generation
A) Universal Automatic
Computer C) Third Generation
character
A) Memory
7. The brain of any computer B) Buffer
system is
C) Accumulator
A) ALU
D) Address
B) Memory
C) CPU
11. Computer is free from
D) Control unit tiresome and boardroom.
We call it
A) Accuracy B) Reliability C)
8. Storage capacity of Diligence D) Versatility
magnetic disk depends on
13. CD-ROM is a
17. Chief component of first
A) Semiconductor memory generation computer was
C) Mainframe computers
C) 1000th of a seconds
20. Which of the following IC
was used in third D) 10000th of a seconds
generation of computers?
A) SSI
24. The output quality of a
B) MSI C) LSI printer is measured by
C) Route
27. Which of the
D) All of the above
following storage
devices can store
maximum amount of
30. High density
data?
double sided
A) Floppy Disk
floppy disks could
B) Hard Disk
store of data A)
C) Compact Disk
1.40 MB B) 1.44 GB
D) Magneto Optic Disk
C) 1.40 GB D) 1.44
MB
28. Which computer
was considered the
first electronic
31. A high quality CAD
computer until 1973
system uses the following
when court invalidated
for printing drawing and
the patent?
graphs
A) ENIAC B) MARK I C) Z3
A) Dot matrix printer
D) ABC
B) Digital plotter
C) Line printer
29. A physical
D) All of the above
connection between
the microprocessor
memory and other
32. Which of the following is
parts of the
not an input device?
A) OCR
B) Optical scanners
D) Queue management a
A) It is an output device a
B) It is an input device c
C) It is a peripheral device u
D) It is hardware item u
v
40. W e
h n
e t
n e
d
? computers C) PS/2 computer D)
None of above
A
43. An application suitable for
) sequential processing is
A) Processing of grades
1 B) Payroll processing
9 C) Both a and b
0 D) All of above
0
C) calculating
41. Which of D) gathering
the following
produces the
best quality
45. The digital computer was
graphics developed primarily in
reproduction?
A) USSR B) Japan C) USA D)
A) Laser printer B) Ink jet UK
printer C) Plotter
A) Bus
54. The terminal
B) Control unit
device that
functions as a cash C) Semiconductors
register, computer
D) A and b only
terminal, and OCR
reader is the:
C) 5
55. A set of flip flops
integrated together is D) 7
called
A) Counter
B) Adder
59. The first computer
C) Register introduced in Nepal was
B) IBM 1401
A) Control Unit
60. Mnemonic a memory trick
is used in which of the
following language?
64. Which was the most
A) Machine language B) popular first generation
Assembly language C) High computer?
level language D)
A) IBM 650
None of above
B) IBM 360
C) IBM 1130
61. Instruction in computer
languages consists of D) IBM 2700
A) OPCODE B) OPERAND
B) Fifth Generation
66. A set of information
C) Sixth Generation that defines the status of
resources allocated to a
D) Seventh Generation
process is
A) Process control
63. A register organized
B) ALU
to allow to move left or
right operations is called C) Register Unit
a
D) Process description
A) Counter B) Loader C) Adder
D) Shift register
67. Each set of Napier’s bones
consisted of operating
rods.
systems were
developed?
A) 5
A) First
B) 9
B) Second
C) 11
C) Third
D) 13
D) Fourth
68. BCD is
A) Binary Coded Decimal 71. The first
firm to mass-
B) Bit Coded Decimal C) Binary market a
Coded Digit D) Bit Coded
microcomputer
Digit
as a personal
computer was
69. When was A) IBM
the world’s first B) Super UNIVAC C) Radio
Shaks
laptop computer
D) Data General Corporation
introduced in the
72. How many
market and by address lines are
needed to address
whom?
each machine
A) Hewlett-Packard, 1980 location in a 2048
x 4 memory chip?
B) Epson, 1981
A) 10
C) Laplink Traveling Software
Inc, 1982 B) 11
D) Tandy Model-200, 1985 C) 8
D) 12
n
75. Why are vacuum tubes
t
also called valves?
e
A) Because they can amplify
the weak signals and make d
them strong
h
m microprocessor to
regulate traffic on the bus,
in order to prevent two
i devices from trying to use
it at the same time?
n
A) Bus control
B) Interrupts
A
C) Bus arbitration
)
D) Status
1
79. Where as a
6
computer mouse
1 moves over the
table surface, the
4
trackball is
B) 1617 A) Stationary
C) 1620 B) Difficult to move
D) None of above C) Dragged
77. An integrated circuit is D) Moved in small steps
A) A complicated circuit
C) Floppy
78. What type of control D) All of above
pins are needed in a
A) Editing
81. Multi user systems B) Writing
provided cost savings for
small business because C) Formatting
they use a single D) All of above
processing unit to link
several
B) second generation
87. The i
difference
n
between memory
and storage is that e
memory is and
storage is
i
A) Temporary, permanent B)
Permanent, temporary C) Slow, n
fast
v
D) All of above
e
n
88. W
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n
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A
a
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s
1
P
6
a
1
s
7
c
B) 1620
C) 1642 time?
B) Mouse C) Digitizer D)
Terminal
89. Which of the following
statement is valid?
C) 1024 megabytes
91. What is required
D) 1024 gigabyte
when more than one
94. in which
person uses a central
computer at the same year was UK’s
premier similar
products from
computing
different
event companies
1980
D) All of above
A) Fast
B) 1837 capacities
D) operating system
microcomputer
consists mainly
D) Storage Unit
C) 8
123. Which printer is very
commonly used for D) All of above
desktop publishing?
A) Laser printer
127. The output quality of a
printer is measured by
A) Dot per inch
much memory is
132. Operating system, editors,
available to and debuggers comes
under?
application
A) System Software
software? A) 1024
B) Application Software
KB B) 760 KB C) 640
C) Utilities
KB D) 560 KB
D) None of the above
129. In a computer is
capable to store single
binary bit.
133. One computer that is not
A) Capacitor B) Flip flop C) considered a portable is
Register D) Inductor
A) Minicomputer
B) Laptop computer
C) Notebook computer
130. What does DMA stand for? D) All of above
A) Distinct Memory
Access B) Direct
Memory Access C) 134. Which of the following is
not an electronic
Direct Module computer?
Access
A) ENIAC B) ABC
D) Direct Memory Allocation
C) UNIVAC
D) EDVAC 138. The personal computer
industry was started by
A) IBM
135. What is the
name of the display B) Apple
feature that C) Compaq
highlights are of the
screen which D) HCL
requires operator
attention?
139. What is meant by a
A) Pixel dedicated computer?
B) Reverse video C) Touch A) Which is used by one person
screen D) Cursor only
D) Clock cycles
141. What was the main
disadvantage of vacuum
tubes? to hold
conditional
A) They were larger in size
codes (bits set
B) They consumed a lot of
by the CPU
electricity
hardware as the
C) They produced heat and result of
often burned out operations), are
D) The operation cost was high known as
A) PC
145. Registers,
143. Which is not a computer of which are
first generation? partially visible to
users and used to
A) ENIAC
hold conditional,
B) UNIVAC are known as
C) IBM 360 C) PC
H) IBM 1401
E) PC B) Information C) Knowledge D)
All of above
F) Flags
C) Babbage
148. The notable features like
keyboards, monitors, GUI D) Jacquard
were developed in
152. What is an interpreter?
A) An interpreter 155. Which of the following is
not a valid size of a Floppy
does the Disk?
conversion line by A) 8?
line as the B) 5 ¼?
program is run C) 3 ½? D) 5 ½?
B) An interpreter is the
representation of the system
being designed 156. The earliest calculating
devices are
C) An interpreter is a
general purpose A) Abacus
language providing
B) Clock
very efficient
execution C) Difference Engine
A) 4 bits
153. Which is a semi conductor
memory? B) 8 bits
A) Dynamic C) 16 bits
B) Static D) 64 bits
C) Bubble
accessible
162. What produces useful
appointment information out of data?
calendar is A) Computer
B) Processing
feature of a
C) Programming
resident
D) none of above
package
A) CPU
163. Which of the following
B) Memory device was not invented by
Babbage?
C) Buffer
A) Pascaline
D) ALU
B) Difference Engine
C) Analytical Engine
160. Which unit converts
computer data into human D) None of above
readable form?
A) Input unit
164. A digital computer did not
B) Output unit score over an analog
computer in terms of A) Softcopy output
D) Cost
A) Accuracy
170. Which part of the
B) Reliability C) Versatility D) computer is used for
Automatic
calculating and comparing?
A) Disk unit
167. A paper printout of a B) Control unit
document is known as
C) ALU
D) Modem
174. What is the first stage in
software development?
D) None of above
D) All of above
176. The Second Generation
Computer was based on
D) LISP
178. Personnel who
design, program,
operates and
182. The translator program
maintains computer used in assembly language
equipment refers to is called
A) Console-operator A) Compiler
D) System Analyst
183. EEPROM stands for
A) Electrically Erasable
179. IBM System/360 is Programmable Read Only
Memory
A) Mainframe Computer
B) Easily Erasable
B) Mini Computers C) Micro
Programmable Read Only
Computers D) None of above
Memory
C) Electronic Erasable
180. A system is Programmable Read Only
Memory
A) an integration of different
units so as to achieve an D) None of the above
objective
B) input unit
184. Regarding data, computers
C) input and output unit are very good at
A) store D) None of above
B) Processing
D) Hexadecimal Numbering
186. First generation computers System
used for memory
A) vacuum tubes
190. A term
B) silicon chips associated with the
C) magnetic drum comparison of
processing speeds
D) RAM of different
computer system is:
A) ROM B) RAM
D) latency time
difference
193. The term GIGO is related to
between
A) Accuracy
data &
B) Reliability C) Versatility D)
Automatic programs?
A) Input device
A) Floppy Disk
195. Bit stands for A)
Binary digits B) bit of B) CD-ROM
system C) a part of byte
C) Hard Disk
D) All of above
D) None of these
C) Results alone
199. Symbolic logic was D) All of these
discovered by
A) George Boole
203. After copying the content
B) Herman Hollerith how many times can you
paste?
C) Van Neumann
A) 1
D) Basic Pascal
B) 16
C) 32
200. Which of the following is
not valid statement? D) Many
A) Hard is referred to mean
something temporary
204. WAN stands for
B) Hard is used to mean
something tangible A) Wap Area Network B) Wide
Area Network C) Wide Array
C) Soft is used to mean Net
something permanent
D) Wireless Area Network
D) Soft is used to mean
something tangible
C) ICL 2950
208. Perforated paper used as
input of output media is D) None of above
known as
A) paper tapes
211. Who is the inventor of ABC
B) magnetic tape Computer?
B) Sectors
220. The computer size was
very large in C) Track
C) Employs semiconductor
memory
221. A name or number used to
identify storage location D) Has modular constructions
devices?
A) A byte
B) A record
225. Which of the following is
C) An address not electro-mechanical
computer?
D) All of above
A) Mark I B) ABC
C) Zuse
222. Which of the following is
not computer language? D) UNIVAC
B) Automatic C) Accuracy D)
Reliability
227. Which statement is valid
about magnetic tape?
B) Feed
A) Charles Babbage
230. The term GIGO is relate to
B) Dr. Herman Hollerith
which characteristics of
C) Howard Aikin computer
B) IBM-1401
B) A record
235. Which of the following
term means to reckon? C) An address
B) com
C) computa
239. Computer professionals
D) computar working in a computer
centre are
Software B) Firmware C)
Hardware Humanware
236. An input /output
device at which data
enters or leaves a
240. The first general purpose
computer system is electronic computer in the
world was
A) Keyboard B) Terminal C)
Printer A) UNIVAC B) EDVAC C) ENIAC
D) Plotter D) All of above
C) both of above
Intel 80386
247. For what Antikyathera was
microprocess used?
or chip? A) For counting
A) IBM PS/2 B) For Calculating tax collection
B) HP-9830 C) For calculating astronomical
positions
C) DeskPro-386
D) For calculating firing
D) IBM-360 weapons
level language program
than in low level
248. Memory unit is one part of programs
A) Input device D) All of above
B) Control unit
C) washing machines
249. Microprocessors can be
used to make D) anything that
can be set to
A) Computer perform different
B) Digital systems tasks with
suitable
C) Calculators programs
D) All of the above
A) Mainframe Computer
269. In which year was
B) Mini Computers C) Micro
Computers D) Super chip used inside the
Computers
computer for the first
time? A) 1964
266. Which of the printers
B) 1975
used in conjunction with
computers uses dry ink C) 1999
powder?
D) 1944
A) Daisy wheel printer
B) Line printer
270. Assembly language started
C) Laser printer to be used from
C) Truck A) Mechanical
D) Road B) Electro-Mechanical
C) Electronic
followin
micropr A) Information
ocessor? B) facts
A) 8006 C) data
C) 8088
B) second
C) 1855
279. Following IC chip D) 1870
integrates 100
thousands electronic
components per chip 282. What is the name of
the new color laptop
A) SSI B) MSI
computer which is
C) LSI D) VLSI powered by a 386
processor at 33 MHz and
is built by Epson? A)
280. An application AX3/33
program that helps the
B) NEC-20
user to change any
number and immediately C) Magnum 2000
see the result of that
D) HCL-3000
change is
a
284. Which of the
n
following computer is
not invented by J.P. y
Eckert and John
Mauchly?
n
A) ENIAC B) EDVAC C) UNIVAC
D) EDSAC a
m
285. W e
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B
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a ?
s
A
t )
h
1 A) Arithmetic Logic Unit
4 D) None of above
289. A computer
1924
program that converts
C) 1975 an entire program into
machine language at
D) None of above one time is called
a/an
B) Flash Disks
B) J. P. Eckert C) 1990
D) John v. Atanasoff
291. The purpose of vacuum
tube was to NOT act like
288. ALU is
A) an amplifier
B) a switch A) First generation
n
293. Which of the following is
computer
the most quickly
accessible storage? s were
A) RAM develope
B) Registers d during
C) Disks A) 1949
D) Pen Drive to 1955
1956 to 1965
294. The octal equivalence of
111010 is C) 1965 to 1970
A) 81 D) 1970 to 1990
B) 72
297. What do you call a single
C) 71
point on a computer
D) None of above screen?
A) Cell
stand for?
B) Hard Disk
A) Mark I B) ABC
C) Z3 303. An output
device that uses
D) None of above words or
300. FORTRAN is messages
a programming recorded on a
magnetic
medium to l
produce audio
o
response is
p
A) Magnetic tape
e
B) Voice response unit
d
C) Voice recognition unit
a
D) Voice band
304. Which of the items below m
are considered removable
storage media? e
i
305. Which of the following is c
not purely output device?
a
A) Screen B) Printer C) Speaker
D) Plotter l
d
306. W e
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fi C) Third generation
n D) Fourth generation
308. Which of the following is
d
not a form of data?
s
A) numbers and characters
q
B) images
u
C) sound
a
D) none of above
r
e
309. Which is not a computer
r classification?
o A) mainframe
o B) maxframe
t C) mini
s D) notebook
C) RAM D) CDs
315. A collection of
312. Which operation is not
performed by computer related instructions
organized for a common
A) Inputting B) Processing C) purpose is referred to as
Controlling
A) File
D) Understanding
B) Database
C) Program
313. Floppy disks
D) None of above
which are made from
flexible plastic
material are also
316. Plotter accuracy is
called?
measured in terms of
A) Hard disks repeatability and
C) Diskettes B) Resolution
D) Intelligence
C) Gray codes r
D) Opcode
318. Which C
language is directly
understood by the
computer without C
translation
)
program?
A) Machine language
4
B) Assembly language
8
C) High level language
6
D) None of above
319. On which aspect the s
analog computers are
better than digital? x
A) Speed
B) Accuracy C) Reliability D) D
Automatic
)
w 321. Which of
the following
D) 40
326. Which of the following is
used for manufacturing
323. The subject of cybernetics chips?
deals with the science of
A) Genetics A) Control bus B) Control unit
C) Parity unit
B) Control and communication
D) Semiconductor
C) Molecular biology
D) Biochemistry
327. Which of the following is
not a micro computer? h
A) Laptop PCs n
B) Tablet PCs
C) Desktop PCs
N
D) None of above
a
p
328. The value of each bead in
i
earth is
e
A) 1
r
B) 3
C) 5
d
D) 7
e
v
329. W
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a
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o
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t 331. Which was the world’s first
minicomputer and when
h was it
m introduced?
? A) PDP-I, 1958
A C) PDP-II, 1961
1 332. A group of
magnetic tapes,
4 videos or terminals
1 usually under the
control of one
6 master is
B) 1614 A) Cylinder B) Surface C) Track
C) 1641 D) Cluster
D) 1804
C) Addressed
340. High level language is also
D) None of the above called
D) Computer
345. Which company is the
biggest player in the
microprocessor industry?
A) Conductors
349. Number crunchier is the
informal name for B) Buses
D) All of above
354. Which of the following is a
storage device?
A) Tape 357. Intel corporation produces
chips for which computers?
B) Hard Disk
A) IBM PCs
C) Floppy Disk
B) Apple/Macintosh PCs
D) All of the above
355. The metal C) Both of above
disks, which are D) None of above
permanently
housed in, sealed
and 358. The first microprocessor
contamination built by the Intel
free containers corporation was called
are called ) 8008
D) Flexible disk
B) Simulator
360. Who invented EDSAC?
C) Compiler
A) John v. Neumann
D) Commander
B) J.P. Eckert and John
Mauchley
C) Maurice Wilkes
D) Howard Aiken
A) Electrically Erasable
Programmable Read Only
Memory
B) Electronic Erasable
Programmable Read Only
Memory
C) Easily Erasable
Programmable Read Only
Memory
D) Easily Erasable
Programmable Read Only
Memory