MCQs For COMPUTER PORTION
Exercise: HISTORY AND GENERATION
1. Which among following was used in the first generation of computers?
(A) Vacuum Tubes and Magnetic Drum
(B) Integrated Circuits
(C) Magnetic Tape and Transistors
(D) All of above
2. Which generation of computer is still under development phase?
(A) Fourth Generation
(B) Fifth Generation
(C) Third Generation
(D) Seventh Generation
3. EDVAC stands for_______.
(A) Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
(B) Electronic Discrete Value Automatic Computer
(C) Electronic Device Variable Automatic Computer
(D) Electronic Discrete Variable Advanced Computer
4. Who invented Computer Mouse?
(A) Ada Lovelace
(B) John Mauchly
(C) Charles Babbage
(D) Douglas Engelbart
5. The fourth generation computers use which technology for both CPU and memory that allows millions of transistors on a single chip?
(A) Vacuum Tubes
(B) VLSI Technology
(C) Cloud Computing
(D) None of the above
6. The term ‘Computer’ is derived from..........
(A) Latin
(B) German
(C) French
(D) Arabic
7. A computer that combines the characteristic of analog and digital
computers_________
(A) Hybrid Computer
(B) Digital Computer
(C) Analog Computer
(D) Super Computer
8. CAD stands for
(A) Computer aided design
(B) Computer algorithm for design
(C) Computer application in design
(D) All of the above
9. MSIC stands for
(A) Medium Scale Integrated Circuits
(B) Medium System Integrated Circuits
(C) Medium Scale Intelligent Circuit
(D) Medium System Intelligent Circuit
10. A NAND gate is formed by ________?
(A) An AND gate followed by an OR gate
(B) An NOT gate followed by an AND gate
(C) An AND gate followed by NOT gate
(D) An OR gate followed by an AND gate
11. Which of the following was the computer conceived by Babbage?
(A) Analytical Engine
(B) Arithmetic Machine
(C) Donald Kunth
(D) All of the above
12. Which among the given options is IBM’s Supercomputer?
(A) Tihane-2
(B) SunwayTaihu Light
(C) Watson
(D) Shasra-T
13. China now has more of the world's fastest supercomputers than other countries.
Which among the following is a Chinese super computer?
(A) BlueGene/Q system
(B) Cray XC30
(C) Sunway Taihu Light
(D) Tianhe-2
14. Which among the following is an important circuitry in a computer system that
does the arithmetic and logical processing?
(A) Memory
(B) ALU
(C) Flag Register
(D) CU
15. What is RISC?
(A) Storage Device
(B) Computer Network
(C) Microprocessor
(D) Operating System
16. Transistors are associated with which computer system?
(A) First generation
(B) Fifth generation
(C) Second generation
(D) None of these
17. The technology that stores only the essential instructions on a microprocessorchip and thus enhances its speed is referred to as
(A) CISC
(B) RISC
(C) CD-ROM
(D) Wi-Fi
18.The first electronic and digital computer was developed by
(A) J.V. Attansoff
(B) Bill Gates
(C) Simur Cray
(D) Winton Serf
19. Who was the inventor of mechanical calculator for adding numbers?
(A) Charles Babbage
(B) Peano
(C) Newton
(D) Pascal
20.Charles Babbage invented
(A) ENIAC
(B) Difference engine
(C) Electronic computer
(D) Punched card
Answers:
1 A | 2 B | 3 A | 4 D | 5 B | 6 A | 7 A
| 8 A | 9 A | 10 C | 11 A | 12 C | 13 C | 14 B | 15
C | 16 C | 17 B | 18 A | 19 D | 20 B
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